An EV charging station bill that received unanimous support from Oklahoma legislators was signed into law this week by Gov. Kevin Stitt. Senate Bill 502 will allow private businesses such as convenience store operators to install their own Electric Vehicle charging stations without having to compete with electric utilities. The bill also prevents utilities …
** Roaring wildfires burning across Canadian territories have delivered the types of poor air quality that some of the world’s largest, and most polluted, cities face on a daily basis. Smoke plumes from fires burning in the forests of eastern Canada have drifted to cities like Washington, D.C., New York and Philadelphia, sending them soaring to the …
ConocoPhillips, Alaska’s top oil producer, announced it plans to develop the Nuna field, a move that will add a predicted 20,000 barrels of oil to the state’s daily production. The company has held the small field since acquiring it in 2019 from Dallas-based Caelus. Drilling at Nuna is set to begin late next year, …
Xcel Energy says it plans to build three solar energy operations in the Permian Basin area of southeast New Mexico and west Texas as the company shifts toward renewables. The company said the solar generating sites will be in Hobbs, New Mexico and Earth, Texas. The projects will augment existing power plants—the Cunningham Generating …
Expect Williams Cos. Inc. to finish two natural gas pipeline projects by the end of 2024 it has underway in New Jersey and Louisiana. It’s what CEO Alan Armstrong told Reuters at the Reuters Global Energy transition conference this week. One of them is the Louisiana Energy Gateway project in Louisiana and Texas which …
Oklahoma City and Tulsa remain under a fourth consecutive ozone alert day. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality indicated the alert is in effect for Thursday, June 8. It comes as harmful conditions exist along the eastern coast of the U.S. New York City was enveloped by a thick haze of yellowish smog, largely …
Wednesday’s trading produced strong results of 5% and 6% gains for some Oklahoma energy stocks while crude oil prices rose 1%. Crude prices gained as Saudi Arabia’s plans for oil production cuts offset worried about rising U.S. fuel stocks as indicated by the Energy Information Administration’s reports on crude stored at the Cushing hub. …
The amount of crude oil in storage at Oklahoma’s Cushing hub increased in the past week, while nationally figures saw a slight decline. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Cushing held 40.6 million barrels of oil as of June 2 of this year, up 1.7 million from the 38.9 million reported on May 26. …
A 3-mile stretch of the Nine Mile Creek near Kremlin in northern Oklahoma was contaminated when nearly 1,000 barrels of oil spilled from a drilling mud disposal site. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission indicated there is no timeline on how long it will take for the cleanup. Nemaha Environmental, based in the Garfield County town …
Conservative Republicans in the House who didn’t like the debt deal Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached with the President exacted some revenge this week when they stalled on two bills aimed against the administration’s targeting of gas stoves. Two bills that were to be voted on Tuesday were stalled when 11 Republicans — most of whom are …