He helped start Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation 45 years ago and now Larry Nichols will be honored by the University of Oklahoma’s College of Law. He will be given the Eugene Kuntz Award at the annual Eugene Kuntz Conference on Natural Resources Law and Policy on Nov. 4. Nichols, a lawyer by training will …
Ground was recently broken in Ponca City for a $110 million cogeneration facility by Continental Carbon. Dennis J. Hetu, President and CEO from Houston helped with the ceremonies. Continental Carbon plans to construct the new facility behind its existing carbon black manufacturing plant south of Ponca City. “This will allow the company to be free …
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board has received a nearly $11 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund clean-water projects in the state. The grant goes to the state’s Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund. it provides low-interest, flexible loans to communities to help them improve water quality and infrastructure. The $10.79 million will …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds itself hauled into court again, but this time by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The group filed suit in Washington, D.C., accusing the EPA of illegally withholding the specific effects of its pending plan to hike permissible radiation exposure in drinking water. The EPA has refused to disclose …
The Dakota Access Pipeline protest supported by some Oklahoma Native American tribes saw North Dakota law enforcement officials shooting at an unmanned aircraft over the weekend. The Morton County Sheriff’s office said a helicopter that was monitoring the latest protest against the nearly $4 billion pipeline was approached by a drone in what the office …
Oklahoma now has the lowest pump price average in the nation, according to the Fuel Gauge Report from AAA Oklahoma. The State’s new average is $2.01 a gallon, a drop of 3 and a half cents in the past week. Bartlesville and Lawton have the lowest averages of $1.89 each. For Lawton, that’s a 9 …
Nearly 7 and a half months after Oklahoma energy leader Aubrey McClendon was killed in a traffic crash, the claims against his estate have gone beyond $1 billion. Most of the claims have been made by Wilmington Trust and Chesapeake Energy Corp., the firm he helped found before he was forced out a few years …
Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm still thinks Donald Trump would be far better for the U.S. energy industry than Hillary Clinton. Maybe even resulting in U.S. energy independence in the next 6 years. “Hillary Clinton wants to follow on with President Obama and basically discount what’s been given with this American renaissance,” he told CNBC …
Another big wind farm is planned for the Texas Panhandle, one to be located at 11,000 acres of land about 30 miles south of Amarillo. Falvez Energy recently closed financing on the 163-megawatt wind farm planned for Randall, Castro and Deaf Smith counties, according to a report in the Amarillo Globe. The company said the …
Things are back to normal in Atchison, Kansas following a Friday morning chemical plant leak that resulted in a few dozen residents being treated. Authorities in the northeast Oklahoma City blamed it on what they called an “inadvertent” mixture of sodium hypocholorite and sulfuric acity, according to a report in the Kansas City Star. At …