Action by the federal government to give another 2 and a half years to a Ponca City plant to install new pollution controls has angered residents in northern Oklahoma. The move affects Continental Carbon Co., a firm that agreed in 2009 to pay $10.5 million to settle a class-action pollution lawsuit. “It is outrageous that …
If some University of Texas supporters get their wishes, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will become the new chancellor of the University of Texas System. Some system leaders have been talking to him following his dismissal as Secretary of State by President trump. The Texas Tribune recently reported Tillerson is being actively courted as …
Texas-based Lewis Energy has signed a deal with Mexican state oil company Pemex for the exploration and extraction of a shale gas deposit in northern Mexico’s Eagle Ford formation. The deal focuses on the Olmos field in the northern border sate of Coahuila. Pemex said it expected the contract to yield investment of $61 7 …
HollyFrontier Corporation, a Dallas firm with refineries in Tulsa and El Dorado, Kansas says a recent fire has resulted in reduced rates at its refinery in West Bountiful, Utah. The company says the fire happened March 12 and no workers were injured. But it affected the ability of the refinery to receive crude oil deliveries. …
Tulsa-based Williams Partners L.P. announced it has put into service Phase 2 of its Garden State Expansion Project, a project fought by environmentalists in New Jersey in the past two years. The expansion of the Transco pipeline system will deliver 180,000 dekatherms a day of more natural gas capacity to New Jersey Natural Gas. But …
A merger agreement has been announced by the Kansas City-based oil and natural gas pipeline operator Tallgrass Energy GP and Tallgrass Energy Partners. Under the deal, Tallgrass Energy GP will acquire 47.6 million shares in Tallgrass Energy Partners. And unitholders of TEP will receive 2 TEGP Class A shares for each share they own. Once …
XTO Energy Inc., the Houston based oil and gas company with field offices in Oklahoma City and Elk City has wrapped up alleged Clean Air Act violations with the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency. The settlement involves the company’s oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The …
Oklahoma’s two oil and gas groups, the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association and the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association plan to hold a rally on Tuesday at the capitol. While the “Rally for Rigs” says nothing about the latest plan from the Oklahoma Education Association calling for a 5 percent gross production tax on oil, the …
Oil prices both in New York and London slipped on Monday’s trading, tumbling from a two-month high. May contracts for West Texas Intermediate crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange dropped 33 cents before settling at $65.55 a barrel. Brent crude in London’s ICE Futures Europe Exchange took a 40-cent dive and settled at …
Teachers’ groups that unveiled a $905.6 million dollar plan to get pay raises have run into opposition from the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association. The plan unveiled last Friday by the Oklahoma Education Association, the Oklahoma Public Employees Association and the Oklahoma City American Federation of Teachers proposes a number of tax hikes. But what the …