Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said recently that the Boeing Co. is closing in on a fix for one of the biggest issues still vexing the KC-46 tanker. It’s the new tanker that was presented at Altus Air Force base during ceremonies last year featuring Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe. In an interview with Defense News, …
While the average pay for employees of Schlumberger slipped in 2019, the amount of executive compensation rose including for the company leader who retired seven months into the year. The Houston Business Journal explored the pay gap issue and its median employees, including those in the Oklahoma operations. It found Paal Kibsgaard, who gave up his …
Maybe Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and the other Democrats running for President have it all wrong in their call to ban fracking. Instead of cleaning up the environment, their ban would simply help other countries, including Russia and China. It would also hurt most Americans and put some of them out of work including …
When President Trump recently announced a move to free up more water availability for California farmers, Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin and his son were there for the event. And Mullin’s son was honored too. “As many of you know, my son Jim is recovering from a wrestling injury and undergoing treatment in Bakersfield, California. On …
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has announced that the boil order for the Beaver Co. RWD #1 (Turpin), located in Beaver County, has been lifted. The water is now safe for human consumption. The order to boil water was issued due to the presence of E. coli. State and federal regulations require that customers …
After listening to opponents of a proposed wind farm in northeast Nebraska, one county is considering restrictions on the wind project including half-mile setbacks. It’s in Burt County where planning commissioners recently heard opposition to the possible construction of 86 turbines by Con Edison. Some of the turbines would be as tall as 650 …
Environmentalists have gone to court to stop the Trump administration to allow 3,500 new gas wells in southwestern Wyoming, contending the wells will interrupt an historic migration route for the Pronghorn antelope. The area in question is also where antelope have historically traversed a 170-mile migration route every year for 6,000 years. Conservation groups filed …
After years of fighting New York state officials as well as environmentalists, Tulsa-based Williams Cos. Inc is giving up on its proposed Constitution Pipeline. And it’s left environmentalists elated. The pipeline was an effort to transport natural gas from Pennsylvania’s shale fields to New York. “Williams — with support from its partners, Duke Energy …
New leadership is coming to Tulsa’s Unit Corporation as Larry D. Pinkston has retired as Chief Executive Officer and President. He will be replaced by David T. Merrill effective April 1, 2020. Pinkston, who joined the company in 1981 and became Chief Financial Officer in 1989, will remain on Unit’s Board of Directors. His retirement …
Denver-based Cimarex Energy Co., a firm with exploration operations in western Oklahoma is linking executive pay to the reduction of natural gas flaring and of air emissions. The board of directors of Cimarex Energy also set 2020 targets for such reductions saying the industry needs more environmental credibility. The targets include an increase in …