The head of Nine Energy Service, Inc. a Houston firm with operations in Oklahoma’s STACK and SCOOP plays has been selected for honors. Ann Fox, president and CEO of the company was named winner of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Gulf Coast area for energy. The award recognizes entrepreneurs …
We’ll learn the second quarter 2018 financial results of Phillips 66 Partners next month. The Houston-based company plans to unveil them on Friday, July 27 then hold a conference call webcast at 1 p.m. central time. Company management will also provide an update on strategic initiatives.
Clean Energy Fuel Corp., the California company with at least two CNG refueling stations in Oklahoma City opened its latest project in Olathe, Kansas. The $4 million project was funded by the city of Olathe and Johnson County where both are switching to compressed natural gas to power 50 city refuse trucks and 120 county …
The energy industry and employment go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. It’s why the immigration issue has become important to the nation’s economy. This past week, the U.S. House voted down a hard-line immigrant bill and Oklahoma Rep. Steve Russell was one of those who made an impassioned plea …
The National Science Foundation is under fire from four U.S. .Senators over its grant-making process and two of the Senators are Jim Inhofe and James Lankford. They joined Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul of Kentucky in requesting the Foundation’s Inspector General Allison Lerne to investigate their concern that the NSF has “issued several …
While at least one environmental group threatened to file suit against the EPA over transfer of its enforcement of coal ash regulations to the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, the DEQ says it’s been operating the program for a number of years. In response to an inquiry from OK Energy Today, Erin Hatfield, Director of …
Some oil and gas operators in Colorado have agreed to take steps this summer to reduce their ozone emissions on poor air-quality days. The Colorado Oil and Gas Association announced this month the steps will help prevent the northern Front Range, an area that includes metro Denver, from slipping from a “moderate” ozone attainment area …
They called him the “Frack Master” and this week federal agents arrested Christopher Faulkner in an $80 million oil investment scam run out of Dallas. He earned the nick name because of his promotion of the oil and gas industry. But the Securities and Exchange Commission shut down his Breitling Energy after suing the firm …
When it comes to the efforts of electric utilities on energy efficiency customer incentives, they reported spending $3.6 billion in 2016. The U.S. Energy Information Agency said it figured out to be $24 a customer on average. The findings came in the EIA’s survey of electric power sales, revenue and energy efficiency. The average reported …
Taylor Henderson was named State Maintenance Division Engineer for the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in June 2018. Henderson will be responsible for managing activities of the Maintenance Division, including general repair of bridges, interstates and highways; mowing; beautification efforts; litter cleanup and snow and ice removal. Henderson began his career at ODOT in the Oklahoma …