The demand for energy is booming across the nation and Oklahoma’s recent announcements of data centers is just an example of what is happening in the electrical-power generation industry. Some data center projects are also including their own power supply projects, such as the recently-announced project in Chickasha where the developer intends to build …
Williams asks New York for approval of natural gas pipeline
Williams former CEO and President Alan Armstrong must have finally gotten the “red carpet treatment” from the state of New York. The Tulsa company, in the past few days, submitted an application for approval of the natural gas pipeline extension project the state rejected a few years ago because of opposition to natural …
Feds sign off on project to enhance rail transportation of oil from Utah’s Uinta Basin
A recent Trump administration decision approving an expansion of an oilfield project in Utah could mean the eventual transportation of more crude oil to the Cushing Hub in Oklahoma. Colorado leaders have argued the Uinta Basin rail line carring out from Utah across Colorado and to other locations might endanger some of their …
Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen—energy demands are all around Oklahoma
In today’s podcast of Scott Mitchell talks energy with Jerry Bohnen, they take a regional tour of energy demands, rate hikes and legal fights.
Energy briefs
** U.S. security experts have reportedly uncovered undocumented communication devices inside Chinese-made solar power inverters — hardware that’s widely used to support renewable energy infrastructure. ** California lawmakers have for years vowed to hold fossil fuel companies liable for damages caused by their emissions, including worsening wildfires and floods and mounting costs of climate recovery …
Gas contract used to power data center in Roswell
Data centers and the power to run them. It’s what we’ve been focusing on over the past several weeks and one of the latest examples of the need for a fuel source is in eastern New Mexico where a Canadian firm announcing a natural gas deal. Desert Mountain Energy Corp., a firm based …
Oklahoma’s most recent loss in rigs is around the state
Three separate oil plays in Oklahoma lost some drilling activity over the past week, according to the most recent Rig Report from Baker Hughes. The largest play, the Cana Woodford, experienced the decline of one rig, leaving 20 others still in the search for more oil. The Ardmore Wood count fell one to two …
Kansas gas utility wants approval for 9% bill hike
(Robert Daniel, director of regulatory affairs for Kansas and Arkansas at Black Hills Energy, testifies June 30, 2025, before the Kansas Corporation Commission. (Morgan Chilson/Kansas Reflector) More than 120,000 customers of a Kansas natural gas supplier are facing a nearly 9% hike in their monthly gas bills. Black Hills Energy wants to increase the …
Proposed giant AI center in Amarillo wastes no time and secures big natural gas source for power
The people behind a massive artificial intelligence campus proposed at Amarillo, Texas wasted no time. Days after announcing plans for the 5,800 acre project, officials with Fermi America, co-founded by former Texas Governor and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, said it had already secured more than 600 megawatts of natural gas generation capacity. The …
NextEra scores solar farm victory in Kansas
While NextEra Energy Resources is challenging the decline of approval for a solar farm in northeast Oklahoma’s Wagoner Country, it won a court fight over another solar farm proposed in northeast Kansas. Four landowners and the city of Rossville sued in a move to stop NextEra’s proposed 500-megawatt Jeffrey Solar project in Jackson …