While the nation’s oil and gas rig count increased by 14 in the past week, the count in Oklahoma remained at 73 from last week, according to oilfield servicing company, Baker Hughes Inc. of Houston, Texas. The U.S. count reached 553 but is still 234 below last year’s count at this time of 787. So …
Native American concerns that ancient architecture found in northwest New Mexico could be harmed by oil and gas drilling have prompted the federal government to expand its review of public lands management in the area. The focus of the attention by the U.S. interior Department is the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, considered a world …
North Dakota—where Indian activists and environments are protesting the Dakota Access Oil pipeline construction, actress Shailene Woodley has pleaded not guilty in court to criminal trespass and riot charges. The start of “Divergent” entered her pleas this week through attorney Alexander Reichert. She was among about two dozen protesters arrested Oct. 10. Woodley could get …
Even late into the week, some residents near a deadly anhydrous ammonia leak 40 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska still weren’t allowed into their homes. The evacuation continued as officials with Tulsa-based Magellan Midstream Partners pipeline investigated the leak that killed a 59 year old farmer who drove into the cloud Monday night. As of …
Tinker Air Force Base is about to get a nearly $19 million energy efficiency project to be carried out by Oklahoma Gas and Electric and Honeywell. Honeywell says the challenge will be retrofitting the massive former GM vehicle assembly plant, replacing the hot water system with new boilers, the chilled water system and retrofitting light …
The 2017 Oklahoma Economic Outlook Conference to be held by the Oklahoma State University Center for Applied Economic Research and the Spears School of Business will be held Dec. 6 at the Metro Technology Centers Springlake Campus in Oklahoma City. This year’s conference will focus on what the sponsors call a “focus on trajectory of …
The director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey says studies show the biggest earthquakes recorded in the state, including the 5.8 magnitude event last month at Pawnee have been at the edges of vulnerable faults, not close to them where active wastewater injection wells are located. It’s what Jeremy Boak told a meeting this week of …
The Kansas Corporation Commission has warned it might be inclined to stop the merger of Great Plains Energy Inc. and Westar Energy Inc. unless more details are provided. The warning came in a Tuesday meeting of the KCC as it explored the $12.2 billion sale of Topeka-based Westar Energy to Great Plains Energy, according to the …
A damning report on the 2013 deadly explosion at a Williams Company Olefins plant in Louisiana has been issued by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a report that said a poor “safety culture” led to the blast that killed two workers in Geismar, Louisiana. “The report concludes that process safety management program deficiencies at the Williams …
Those opponents of the smart meters installed by PSO in Tulsa are planning another rally against the efforts of the utility. Members of Tulsa 9.12 will hold a “Keep Our Analog Meter” rally Friday afternoon in front of the PSO headquarters at 212 E. 6th street in Tulsa. In announcing the rally time and date, …