Tallgrass Energy, LP, the Kansas City area based midstream company announced it’s made a binding agreement with a firm to be the potential to be an anchor shipper on a line to move crude from Cushing south to Louisiana. Tallgrass wouldn’t name the third-party but said it has the potential to be an anchor shipper …
That brush of north wind in Oklahoma might not be mother nature but more of a gigantic sigh of relief in Kansas City that the GM plant wasn’t among five proposed by General Motors to be closed. The company is also planning a reduction of its workforce by an estimated 14,000 workers. The Fairfax plant …
State environmental regulators say they’ve found a rural water district in Oklahoma where users need to boil their water. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has advised the Pittsburg County RWD #14 water system, located in Pittsburg County, to inform its customers and users of its drinking water to use water that has been brought to …
Two Monday morning earthquakes in southern Oklahoma are a puzzle to the oil and gas workers at the State Corporation Commission. Plus, continued quakes around the Bridge Creek Community have them scrambling as they continued to get complaints from area residents. “We’re actively investigating this late round of quakes,” said Matt Skinner, a spokesman for …
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission holds a regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 27. The 1:30 p.m. meeting in the Jim Thorpe Building will focus on a technical conference for stakeholders to review and discuss PSO’s 2018 Integrated Resource Plan. No vote is anticipated and the agenda indicated that some commissioners might attend.
The oil and gas industry is getting a lot of the credit for driving the state of Wyoming out of its economic bus, and those Oklahoma companies exploring there have played a big role. Not to mention the midstream operations that move the crude from Wyoming southward to the Cushing hub and eventually to the …
The state of North Dakota has eased its flaring rules but plans to keep its gas capture goal of 88 percent. And the move will have a definite impact on the Oklahoma energy firms carrying out oil and gas exploration in the Bakken. Bruce Hicks, Asst. Director of the North Dakota Mineral Resources Oil and …
Bankruptcy for a helicopter-leasing business that serves offshore oil drillers around the globe. Waypoint Leasing Holdings Ltd. has flown itself into bankruptcy court and at the same time, put itself on the auction block. Waypoint is the business backed by Michael Dell and George Soros and filed for bankruptcy on Sunday. It has focused on …
The state of New Mexico has come down hard on a Texas-based oilfield driller and waste disposal company, fining the firm $2.2 million for pollution violations. The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department announced a state district court order that Siana Operating, based in Midland, Texas had to also cease disposal activities and …
To say NASA Administrator and former Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine is pumped about the Mars landing is an understatement. On Sunday, he tweeted: “Years in the making, tomorrow is the moment of truth for @NASAInSight. We’re landing on Mars! Don’t miss it!” But it might be hours or days before NASA knows how the InSight …