Millions of dollars have been approved this month for loans to small towns across Oklahoma to make water improvements. One of the largest loans totaled $2,359,000 to the Roland Utility Authority in Sequoyah County in eastern Oklahoma. The loan was made by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board’s Oklahoma Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. City leaders …
The fight over the Obama-era Waters of the United States rule, the one fought by Oklahoma farmers and ranchers and the state’s congressional delegation might be finished. The release of the new WOTUS rule by the Environmental Protection Agency drew some hearty support from Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and Rep. Frank Lucas who at …
A survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City shows manufacturing activity in the region for January in Oklahoma and other states was nearly flat. But Chad Wilkerson, vice president and economist at the bank said the survey also revealed that Tenth District expectations for the future activity had expanded. “Regional factory activity was …
A New York hedge fund is urging a leadership change at Kansas City-based Evergy Inc. and if it doesnt, then consider being sold or merging with another company. The recommendation is from activist investor Elliott Management Corp. which has a $760 million stake in the Midwest utility. Run by billionaire Paul Singer who has …
Oklahoma’s SCOOP is seeing increased exploration as a handful of companies won permits to drill in the past week from state regulators. Stephens and Johnson Operating Company won permits to drill two different pairs of sister wells near Velma in Stephens County. Two permits were for the McClanahan-Martin #4 wells to be drilled at …
Tulsa’s Chisholm Oil and Gas Operating LLC unloaded 42 completion reports in the past week with Oklahoma regulators. Why the company waited to file the dozens of reports isn’t known. But Chisholm, a company whose website proclaims only three operational rigs turned out the wells in the STACK play. The wells ranged in oil production …
** Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources, Inc. plans to announce full-year 2019 and 4Q19 results on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 following the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The Company plans to host a conference call to discuss full-year 2019 and 4Q19 results on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. CT). ** Oklahoma City’s Enable Midstream …
Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe was told this week that the U.S. Commerce Department is close to a decision on Tulsa’s request for disaster funding for its Levee System and pumps. The revelation came during a Senate Environment and Public Works committee hearing where Dr. John Fleming, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for the Economic Development …
(part of Cushing tank farm) Some of those TransCanada Keystone Pipeline crude oil storage tanks at Cushing, Oklahoma aren’t as old as OK Energy Today reported earlier this week. We had indicated that some of the tanks were constructed in 1984 but a TC Energy spokeswoman in Nebraska corrected us, stating that the earliest company …
The controversial $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline is a step closer to construction after the Trump administration on Wednesday approved a right-of-way allowing the line to be built across U.S. land. The approval signed by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and obtained by The Associated Press covers 46 miles (74 kilometers) of the pipeline’s route across …