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By Dan Voorhis, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 29 at 7:39 a.m. SandRidge Energy, which has become one of the biggest oil prospectors and producers in Kansas in the last two years, has traded some of its production in exchange for $1 billion in financing to develop its extensive land holdings in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas, an area called the Mississippian Limestone play.
By Dion Lefler, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 26 at 9:32 p.m. New federal rules to clean up coal-fired power plants are so voluminous that Westar Energy hasn’t even read them all yet.
By Dan Voorhis, The Wichita Eagle | Dec. 9 at 7:05 a.m. The tax subsidy for ethanol will likely go away on Jan. 1, but the industry won’t, the head of the industry’s trade group said Thursday.
BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | July 24 at 6:09 a.m. Not everybody is happy about Kansas' move into a wind-powered future. Several utilities in the region that are being asked to help foot a bill for hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade high voltage lines in western Kansas remain upset about the process.
BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | July 16 at 6:59 a.m. NEWTON — Colorado-based New Millennium Wind Energy, a builder wind turbines, has chosen the Kansas Logistics Park in Newton for its first manufacturing facility, Gov. Sam Brownback announced Friday afternoon during a press conference in Newton.
BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | July 8 at 6:49 a.m. Frontier Oil Corp., which owns the refinery in El Dorado, has completed its a $2.85 billion all-stock merger with Holly Corp. to form HollyFrontier Corp.
BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | July 3 at 6:56 a.m. With federal subsidies for ethanol, wind energy and other alternative energies targeted for possible cuts, many in Kansas' congressional delegation say they won't defend them.
BY CHRIS KAHN AND George Jahn, Associated Press | June 9 at 12:07 a.m. NEW YORK — With their economies slowed by high energy costs, the U.S. and other countries were hoping that OPEC would raise production levels and bring down the price of oil.
BY CHRIS KAHN, Associated Press | June 2 at 7:09 a.m. NEW YORK — Oil and gasoline prices finally hit the brakes in May.
BY MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press | May 24 at 12:06 a.m. A dispute over a plan to send oil from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast moved to Capitol Hill on Monday, where a House panel debated whether to speed a decision by the Obama administration.
BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | March 30 at 12:08 a.m. Wichita oil and gas man Wayne Woolsey has done a lot in the business — producing more than 890 million barrels of oil equivalent.
BY P.J. HUFFSTUTTER, Los Angeles Times | March 13 at 12:05 a.m. LOS ANGELES — Corn-based ethanol is the renewable fuel environmentalists love to hate. But as turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has sent oil prices soaring, U.S.-made ethanol is making a comeback.
BY JAMES MACPHERSON, Associated Press | March 3 at 12:05 a.m. BISMARCK, N.D. —The U.S. government must evaluate the additional effects of allowing domestic crude on a proposed pipeline designed to carry Canadian tar sands oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast, a coalition of environmental groups has said.
Associated Press | Feb. 23 at 12:05 a.m. Refinery operators Holly Corp. and Frontier Oil Corp. are combining in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $3 billion.
BY MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press | Feb. 6 at 12:05 a.m. WASHINGTON — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday urged U.S. officials to approve a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, calling Canada a "secure, stable and friendly" neighbor that poses no threat to U.S. security.
BY DAN VOORHIS, The Wichita Eagle | Jan. 16 at 12:56 a.m. PEABODY In a snow-covered field two miles northwest of town, a crew is trying to bring a nearly dead oil field back to life.
BY RICK PLUMLEE, The Wichita Eagle | Jan. 6 at 12:04 a.m. The Kansas Geological Survey has been awarded a $1.5 million federal grant to test a technique that could enhance sequestering carbon dioxide in the deep subsurface of south-central and southwestern Kansas.
BY BECKY BOHRER, Associated Press | Dec. 23 at 12:04 a.m. JUNEAU, Alaska — Federal analysts believe it will not be economical to build a major natural gas pipeline in Alaska for at least 20 years, according to a recent report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
By Steve Gelsi and Jeffry Bartash, Marketwatch | Dec. 21 at 12:04 a.m. NEW YORK — A trade group that includes automotive giants Ford and General Motors has joined forces with other vehicle and engine makers to sound a warning against the government's move to allow more ethanol to be blended with gasoline.
BY KEVIN G. HALL, McClatchy Newspapers | Dec. 12 at 12:05 a.m. WASHINGTON — Despite weak demand in the U.S. and Europe, oil prices climbed last week to near $90 a barrel, and gasoline prices have passed $3 a gallon on the West Coast and parts of the Northeast.