The 20th annual Oklahoma Oil and Gas Expo presented by the OERB and SOER will be held Oct. 6 on the Oklahoma State Fair Park in Oklahoma City. “It’s our 20th anniversary which we’re very proud of, the longest running and largest oil and gas expo in the state,” declared Katy Spetter, one of the …
Shareholders Approve Merger of Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy
Shareholders have given approval to the merger of Great Plains Energy Incorporated and Westar Energy, Inc., both in Kansas. Westar is considered the largest electric utility in the state and has 700,000 customers and 2,400 employees. Great Plains is the parent company of KCP and L and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. “Our shareholders’ support for the transaction …
UN Wants Work Stopped on Pipeline While Federal Judge Says Some Protesters are Hooligans
Now the U-N is getting involved in the oil pipeline fight in North Dakota as the U.N.s special envoy for the rights of indigenous people is calling for a halt to its construction. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz in Geneva, Switzerland wants work stopped on the Dakota Access pipeline, calling it a threat to drinking water supplies and …
ONG Awaits Hearing on Pipeline Explosion in Oklahoma City Residential Neighborhood
The filing has been made and now it is a matter of a hearing date to be set in the matter of the State Corporation Commission filing a complaint against Oklahoma Natural Gas nearly 9 months after three people were injured in a January pipeline explosion in Oklahoma City. The filing of the complaint was …
Hamm Objects to Being Called the “F” Word
Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm certainly got the attention of an energy conference this week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he told the crowd he didn’t like being called a “fracker.” “I’m not putting up with it,” declared Hamm in his keynote address to the Shale Insight conference. “It’s time to stop. We have a very proud …
T-Boone Pickens Warns Against Electing Hillary Clinton as President and How it would Harm the Energy Industry
“A complete loser for energy” T-Boone Pickens on President Obama Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens isn’t afraid to say it—he’s for Donald Trump, against Hillary Clinton and thinks President Obama has not been good for U.S. energy. It’s what he said in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance. “There’s no question Donald …
Trump Vows to End War on Coal, Eliminate WOTUS and Lift Energy Restrictions
In unveiling his energy specifics on Thursday, Donald Trump said America is sitting on a treasure trove of untapped energy. And he said if he’s elected President, he will end the war on coal and eliminate the EPA’s Water of the U.S. rule. He also made a point to thank Oklahoma energy mogul Harold Hamm. …
Oklahoma Highways Rank 17th in Condition and Cost Effectiveness
Drivers no doubt are saying you don’t need a national report to tell us how bad Oklahoma roads and highways are. Just ask truck drivers who haul oil and gas down the road. Or how about those truckers who tow those massive wind turbine blades to new wind farm sites. But a new annual report …
Fallin Blames Tough Legislative Session on Oil and Gas Downturn
The slumping economy in Oklahoma and the accompanying downturn in the oil and gas sector have obviously been a weighty concern for Gov. Mary Fallin, something she reflected on this week during a speech to the Enid Rotary club. “I know it hasn’t been an easy time for Enid,” stated the governor, according to a …
Energy Employment Losses Boost State’s Jobless Rate
As Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry added more workers to the list of the unemployed in August, it also resulted in a slight increase in the state’s overall unemployment rate, according to the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. The Commission’s latest report shows the state’s jobless rate stands at 5.1 percent, up 0.1 of a percent …










