The Southwest Power Pool unveiled a new brand and published a report, Powering Progress Together, highlighting the value it delivers across a 17-state service territory. The report, available at spp.org/value, emphasizes four dimensions of the value SPP provides: reliability, affordability, economic growth, and trust through transparent governance and independent oversight. SPP provides benefits at a …
** President Donald Trump said Thursday he has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines to choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump’s post on social media came shortly after the U.S. military seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil, ratcheting up a standoff with …
Oklahoma Supreme Court justices are being told they got it wrong in ruling against Rep. Tom Gann in his legal challenge of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s approval of the Winter Storm 2021 rate hike given Public Service Company of Oklahoma. He contends the court failed to look at the calendar in its decision against …
Just as the world hoped there would be renewed peace talks between the US and Iran, gunfire at the Strait of Hormuz sent crude oil prices reaching above the $100 a barrel mark on Wednesday. Prices rose by more than $3 after Iran attacked at least three container ships in the Strait. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards …
Gulfport Energy Corporation plans a release of its first quarter 2026 financial results early next month. The financial and operating results will be released on Tuesday, May 5 after the close of markets. The company leaders will gather the next morning, 8 a.m. Central Time, Wednesday, May 6 to discuss the results and answer …
** Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them on Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key waterway a day after U.S. President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an American blockade of Iranian ports. ** “Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli …
New Mexico is facing another attempt to create regulations allowing the use of treated produced water from hydraulic fracturing outside the state’s oil and gas fields. The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission plans another meeting in May to consider a recent petition to allow the treatment, industrial reuse and discharge of the waste. It …
Months after Stillwater’s USA Rare Earth company was in line to get $1 billion in government funding and loans in its push for rate earth mineral development, the proposal has come under close scrutiny in Washington, D.C. The company, with its magnet manufacturing plant in Stillwater, made another major announcement this week in its …
A new study showed Chief Executive Officers of the nation’s investor-owned electric and gas utilities hauled in $626 million total last year and two of them are in Oklahoma. The analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute of recent annual corporate filings revealed the top ten earners received more than $200 million “as customers …
With uncertainty rising faster than a gushing oil well, oil prices gained Tuesday as the world waited to see if peace talks resumed with Iran or whether President Trump would carry out his threats as promised. The president’s cease fire comes to an end this week and while Iran’s military said one thing and its …
