President Obama firmly defended his record on oil drilling Thursday, ordering the government to fast-track an Oklahoma pipeline while accusing Congress of playing politics with a larger Canada-to-Gulf Coast project.
If Congress doesn’t extend a tax credit for wind energy for after this year, Tindall Corp. may have to push back construction of a $66 million plant in Newton, a company official said.
The only thing more amazing than seeing a row of space-agey buildings rising from western Kansas plains is the fact that there’s anything there at all.
The national debate over fracking has darkened a good-news story for the country: horizontal multistage hydrofracking has reversed the growth of imported oil and natural gas, created hundreds of thousands of American jobs and, in the case of natural gas, dramatically cut prices. In the past few months, the fracking debate moved to Kansas as large companies using horizontal multistage hydrofracking started drilling in Sumner, Harper, Barber and Comanche counties.
OKLAHOMA CITY – One day last month, a worker on a skid-steer loader was jackhammering concrete on the partially demolished roof of a building across the street from SandRidge Energy’s headquarters.
Oil and gas drilling companies could spread clay shavings produced by fracking operations over fields in Kansas under a bill the Senate approved Thursday.
The city of Wichita went looking for a new library site and may have struck oil.
Kansas has been an underperformer in wind energy compared to some other states, but that’s about to change.
Wichita’s loss of Boeing rings familiar to cities across the country that have lost thousands of high-paying jobs amid a recession that’s changed the way they define themselves to the world.
A year ago, forecasters called for slow economic improvement in the year to come. We got that, along with an incredibly bumpy ride.
While overall production of ethanol in the United States was boosted by foreign demand this year, Kansas production likely dropped off a bit due to a drought-ridden corn crop and other factors.
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.
New federal rules to clean up coal-fired power plants are so voluminous that Westar Energy hasn’t even read them all yet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NEW YORK — Oil and gasoline prices finally hit the brakes in May.
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