Gasoline prices are up again in Oklahoma, reaching a new statewide average of $2.15 a gallon, according to the latest price report from AAA Oklahoma. It’s a 9-cent jump compared to one week ago when the average was $2.06. “There are a lot of things putting upward pressure on oil and gas prices,” said …
Guthrie Rep Jason Murphey is fighting a new “services” tax by suggesting its proponents are all too eager to have the state continue to be dependent on what he calls the “capricious whims” of the energy sector. Writing in the McCarville Report, the legislator put it this way, “If I were a sneaky out-of-state resident …
As farmers and ranchers in northwest Oklahoma work to replace miles and miles of destroyed fence posts from the deadly and disastrous wildfires in March, they are being urged to use caution because of the buried oil and natural gas pipelines. As one drives along the highways near Buffalo, workers are still busy replacing burned …
Observers of the fights by environmentalists against corporate energy projects are putting their money on the Keystone XL pipeline project in Nebraska as the site of the next messy protest. With the protesters gone from the site of the last work at the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, the focus is turning toward TransCanada’s …
Oil and gas rig counts increased in Oklahoma and the nation in the past week with Oklahoma adding four to reach a total of 122. The U.S. count added 15 to hit 839. The nationwide count added 10 more oil rigs to reach 672 while the number of gas rigs grew by 5 to hit …
It’s a given that newly-confirmed U.S. Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will eventually handle some energy-related cases in the coming years. It’s why his confirmation is important to follow. Oklahoma U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe and James Lankford openly campaigned for the confirmation, using Senate floor speeches on Thursday to support Judge Gorsuch and at the same …
The Nebraska Public Service Commission has set a hearing to be held in August on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route. The commission will hold a five-day public hearing Aug. 7-11 in Lincoln. It will decide afterward whether to approve the route as requested by developer TransCanada. The $8 billion pipeline would carry oil …
Research resources and digital information—it’s the focus of an upcoming inaugural conference at Oklahoma State University. The Coalition for Advancing Digital Research and Education (CADRE) will be held April 11-12. It’s the product of an ongoing collaboration between the OSU High Performance Computing Center and the OSU Libraries’ Research Data Services to bring additional research …
On their way to the State House of Representatives are two bills coming from the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee. One measure calls for changes in the state’s mining laws that focus on the use of explosives in mines. SB 370, carried in committee by Rep. Rick West of LeFlore County amends the mining …
State environmental regulators have gathered in Washington DC for their first meting since President Trump took office along with Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the EPA. Dozens from around the U.S. are on hand for the spring meeting of the Environmental Council of States or ECOS. Pruitt will keynote the event on Friday. …