Nearly $28 million in State Water Resources Board grants for water and wastewater improvements have been awarded to the cities of Edmond, Jay and Sapulpa. The board took the action at a recent meeting authorizing the largest grant of $19 million to the Edmond Public Works Authority to improve the city’s water infrastructure. The …
Of $34 million in U.S. Energy Department grants announced this week, no Oklahoma research firms received any money. At least 219 grants to 183 small businesses in 41 states were announced by Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Several went to Texas companies and some to research firms in Colorado. One in Kansas, Powers and Zahr located …
Tulsa’s WPX Energy says it’s received nearly $589 million in tenders as part of the company’s recent $400 million cash tender offer for some of its outstanding Senior notes. Information from Global Bondholder Services corporation, the Depositary and Information Agent for the Tenders Offers as of May 22, 2018 showed $548.6 million of the 6% …
The city of Norman moved this week to become one relying on 100 percent clean and renewable energy. The City Council voted unanimously to adopt the resolution which declared Norman will transition to use 100 percent clean energy like wind and solar for electricity by 2035. It also intends to be 100 percent reliable across …
Houston’s Noble Midstream Partners LP reports its wells in the Delaware section of the Permian Basin in West Texas are bringing in 115 thousand barrels of oil equivalent a day. Plus the company is expanding operations in northern Colorado. The Permian’s production includes 90,000 barrels of oil a day and 150 million cubic feet of …
Just because the U.S. Supreme court decided this week against hearing the 30-year old bribed Oklahoma Corporation Commission rate case doesn’t mean Oklahomans Against Bribery is giving up. The handful of consumers who took their case to the Corporation Commission and the State Supreme Court and lost, vow to continue what they called “their pursuit …
Aircraft maker Spirit Aero, the company with large manufacturing operations in McAlester and Tulsa, Oklahoma has unveiled plans for $1 billion in expansion, including a new 7-story headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. The $23 million headquarters will not only be high-tech and 7 stories tall but also capable of housing 2.3 million aircraft parts. Spirit says …
Oklahoma’s Osage Nation is awaiting a recommendation from the solicitor general as to whether the U.S. Supreme court will consider the tribe’s legal fight with the Osage Wind company. But it might be months before it learns if the case will be heard by the high court. The issue was not among those accepted or …
A number of projects ranging from the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System to private developments around Army Corps of Engineers Lakes are part of the Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 passed this week by the U.S Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is the ranking Republican on the committee and …
Due to improving wildland fire conditions, Governor Mary Fallin has issued a proclamation reducing the number of counties in the governor’s burn ban from 14 to seven. The change came at the recommendation of Oklahoma Forestry Services (OFS) after an analysis of the impact of recent rains. Counties that remain under the governor’s burn ban …