Driven by continued strong prices and horizontal drilling, Kansas oil production rose 5 percent in 2012, while low natural gas prices idled exploration rigs, causing gas production to fall 4.3 percent, according to the Kansas Geological Survey.
The amount of wind energy generating capacity in Kansas more than doubled in 2012, boosting the state into the top 10 states for wind power, according to a new report by a wind energy trade group.
Promoters of the Keystone XL pipeline are agitating for its fast approval now that the State Department has downplayed the project’s impact on global warming. Energy leaders in the House of Representatives back a bill to force the government to approve it, and the premier of the Canadian province of Alberta is in Washington lobbying for the project.
SandRidge Energy Inc. will add four directors named by TPG-Axon Capital Management LP and agreed to give the activist shareholder control of the board if Tom Ward is still running the company in four months.
Cushing may be just another modest-sized town in central Oklahoma, but below ground, it’s immense.
HollyFrontier Corp. reported fourth quarter profits of $391.6 million or $1.92 per diluted share, up 75 percent from the $223.4 million in fourth quarter of 2011.
Koch Industries subsidiary Koch Minerals is a key investor in a proposed $1.1 billion steel plant in Arkansas.
Koch Nitrogen Company, a subsidiary of Wichita-based Koch Industries, has agreed to pay a $380,000 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at facilities in Iowa and Dodge City.
Kansas business and community leaders will meet in Kingman on Thursday to discuss the costs and benefits of wind energy.
Sarah Hill-Nelson jokes about bad karma these days, but she admits to being little anxious about the weather.
The fifth annual Green Wichita conference is scheduled for Jan. 25 at Century II Convention Center, 225 W. Douglas.
An ethanol plant in Pratt closed since 2008 will reopen in late spring, an official with the Scoular Co. said Monday.
Everywhere around the country, wind energy developers are dusting off plans for wind farms following the one-year renewal of a federal tax credit as part of the “fiscal cliff” bill.
With oil prices high and natural gas prices low, Kansas oil production edged toward what could turn out to be the highest level since the mid-1990s.
Hedge fund TPG-Axon, which wants to replace SandRidge Energy’s board of directors because it is unhappy with the company’s management, said Monday that it had filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court.
SandRidge Energy has announced that it has an agreement to sell its wells and infrastructure in Texas’ Permian Basin region to privately held Sheridan Production Partners of Houston for $2.6 billion in cash.
Following an especially difficult year, leaders of the state’s ethanol industry will gather in Wichita next week to talk about issues facing their industry.
Several of the state’s largest horizontal oil and gas drilling companies stopped short of guaranteeing a long-term oil boom in Kansas, but at a state-sponsored conference in Hutchinson on Tuesday they said they were encouraged by their results after more than a year of drilling.
A breeze may be slowly stirring again for the wind energy industry after months of sitting becalmed.
There are two oil industries duking it out on the western Kansas frontier.
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