Just as towns and cities and counties in Oklahoma are taking economic advantage of the surge in oil and gas activity in the SCOOP and STACK, so are the businesses of North Dakota’s Bakken play. As the Bismarck Tribune reported recently, North Dakota legislators spent two days in November touring operations of four energy firms …
To most readers, the oil flowing through the Keystone pipeline in Oklahoma to Gulf Coast refineries is just oil. But the stuff coming out of Canada that eventually will flow through the Keystone XL pipeline once it’s completed in Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana comes from tar sands. A most fascinating pictorial story of how …
Investor Carl Icahn has raised his objections to the move by Oklahoma City-based SandRidge Energy to acquire a Denver, Colorado energy firm in a $746 million deal. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Icahn notified the government of a letter he sent to SandRidge Energy directors, saying the acquisition of …
Hired three years ago to assist dozens of state government agencies in reducing energy use, an Oklahoma energy consultant has gone to court in a lawsuit against those agencies. The lawsuit filed by Engineered Systems and Energy Solutions Inc. accuses the dozens of agencies of breach of contract, a move that it claims cost the …
An oil leak from an oilfield site in south Oklahoma City on Thursday had city firefighters scurrying to prevent more oil from leaking into a drainage canal. Firefighters reported the spill near SE 55 and High. Crews described it as a “large oil leak” but there is no word on the amount of oil that …
The U.S. House has passed a measure dealing with Brownfield environmental cleanup sites across the U.S. The vote was 409-8 and Oklahoma Reps. Tom Cole, Frank Lucas, Markwayne Mullin, and Steve Russell supported the bill. Rep. Jim Bridenstine did not vote. Brownfield grants were used in cleanup of several sites in Oklahoma City. “The number …
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin calls it “great news”, the expansion of work for the American Airlines Tulsa Maintenance Center. While the Airline was saddled with troubling news this past week for a glitch that resulted in a December shortage of pilots, it also announced that some of its maintenance outsourced to South America is coming …
The latest Mid-America Business Conditions Index covering Oklahoma and 8 other Midwest and Plains states indicated a slight drop in business conditions for the month of November. But Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says it still suggests that regional economic conditions continue to improve. He calls it a “Goldilocks” economy….not too bad and not overly …
Even as the U.S. Senate was poised to vote on the GOP tax reform plan, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony was urging fellow commissioners to support the measure. His words of encouragement Thursday morning came as Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain announced his support for the measure, an important move for President Trump and Republican …
The State of Idaho wants the federal government to assume regulation of wastewater injection wells. The request was made of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which is taking public comments until early January on the proposed plan to transfer part of Idaho’s Underground Injection Control program. The request was made in August after the state …