The family of a 12 year old Dallas girl killed last year in a natural gas explosion at her home has settled a lawsuit with Atmos Energy. Details of the settlement were not revealed in the lawsuit brought by the parents of Linda “Michellita” Rogers who was killed the morning of Feb. 23, 2018. The …
Clean energy storage project announced in Utah
What is being billed as the world’s largest project of its kind is going to be built to store energy in in Utah. Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems and Magnum Development announced the initiative to launch the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project in the central part of the state. The initiative will develop 1,000 megawatts of …
NGL tells investors there are numerous risks with their investments
Tulsa’s NGL Energy Partners has filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in it, offered warnings how its business could be adversely affected by rules against fracking, expansion of pipelines and changes in the nation’s Renewable Fuels Standard. In the report, the company stated that recent attempts to reduce or eliminate …
OKC Water Trust gets high marks from Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s
As the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust plans to break ground soon on a 100-mile Atoka to OKC waterline, the Trust has learned it has earned the highest possible ratings from Standard and Poor’s Global Ratings and Moody’s. They are two of the nation’s most respected financial rating agencies. The agencies reaffirmed OCWUT’s AAA and …
Tulsa’s Unit Corporation to seek new investors at New York conference
Management at Tulsa’s Unit Corporation are seeking new investors in the company. They plan to make a presentation Wednesday, June 5 at the Banker of America Merrill Lynch 2019 Energy Credit Conference in New York. it will be broadcast live over the Internet at 6:30 a.m. Central time and listeners will be able to …
Texas judge rules against WOTUS
A federal court in Southern Texas gave a victory to those fighting the Obama administration’s push in 2015 to expand federal jurisdiction over small and isolated waters. The court said the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers had violated requirements of fair process in the WOTUS or Waters of the U.S. rules. …
Unsafe drinking water discovered in Chickasha business
Flooding has resulted in drinking water problems in some parts of Oklahoma. The State Department of Environmental Quality has issued a boil order for customers of the Apex Fitness water system in Grady County because E. coli has been found in the water. Users are urged to use water that has been brought to a …
AG threatens to shut down Enbridge pipeline in Lake Michigan
The Associated Press reports that Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said this she will move in June to shut a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the governor cannot reach a resolution with operator Enbridge, saying the state is in “great peril” the longer the oil continues to flow under a sensitive waterway. Nessel revealed her …
Flooding in Oklahoma is affecting the crude oil market
Operators of the Blue Moon restaurant in Ponca City probably thought their place would be flooded only “once in a blue moon.” But the blue moon arrived this month and now the residents are under a life-threatening flood warning as the Arkansas River that makes a turn close to the city is well out of …
Robot designed to carry out storage tank inspections
Robots do the dangerous work—so people don’t have to. It’s what a Houston company says about the autonomous robot it’s designed and tested to inspect storage tanks for oil and diesel. Veritank, Inc worked with Phillips 66 in successfully deploying the robot in the first in-service inspection of the interior of an aboveground diesel storage …