Thanks to decreasing winds, firefighters across Oklahoma have slowly gained more control of the deadly wildfires that scorched tens of thousands of acres and left four persons dead in the past two weeks. A new update from the Oklahoma Forestry Services office showed some of the larger fires were 60% and 70% under control. …
The state House is scheduled to take up a number of energy-related bills on Wednesday. It’s a day set aside as “energy day” and the House of Representatives will begin consideration of the energy bills beginning at 1:30 p.m. Among the bills, according to a Facebook posting by Rep. Jim Shaw, will be wind …
** President Trump announced Monday that all countries that purchase oil or gas from Venezuela will be subject to a 25% tariff on all trade with the US, marking one of the harshest economic crackdowns on the dictator regime yet. ** U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has called for U.S. power plants to …
The Texas Senate has passed a bill that is similar to one in Oklahoma’s legislature but would also penalize renewable energy sources in the state. SB 388 would set a target for 50% of new power plant capacity to be “sourced from dispatchable generation other than battery energy storage.” An earlier version of the …
Only two oil plays across the U.S. recorded increased drilling activity in the past week and both are in Oklahoma. The Ardmore Woodford jumped from 3 to 6 drilling rigs, reported the Baker Hughes Co. in its latest rig report. The Arkoma Woodford, noticeably absent from any drilling activity for several weeks, saw its first …
While the disasterous winds of early March might have eased in recent days, the wildfire danger persists across Oklahoma. Here’s what the Oklahoma Forestry Services reported over the weekend: “Fire danger will remain a headline through the near-term forecast especially across the northern and western regions of Oklahoma. While fire weather may not eclipse …
A report shows Oklahoma gets 41% of its electrical power from renewable energy. It is one of 28 states that receive more electricity from wind and solar than from coal-fired power plants. Only 6% comes from coal in Oklahoma and other sources provide 52% of the electricity. In Kansas, 52% of the electrical power …
**Elk Range Royalties bought 250,000 net royalty acres in the Denver-Julesburg Basin for $905 million from from Occidental Petroleum, which is looking to shed debt after last year’s acquisition of CrownRock, reported Hart Energy. ** Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced plans to reopen 82% of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve and the 1.56-million-acre Coastal Plain of …
In this episode we discuss what energy moguls were discussing this week with President Trump at the White House. Plus Williams Co. CEO Alan Armstrong’s take on the negative impact on energy choices being posed by the extreme political left…AND political right.
Another northern Arkansas county just put a hold on any construction of new wind and solar projects. The action was taken recently by the Carroll County’s Quorum Court which is the elected governing body for the county. The vote came only months after a neighboring county did the same. The Arkansas Times reported a …