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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.
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.
Wichita oil and gas man Wayne Woolsey has done a lot in the business — producing more than 890 million barrels of oil equivalent.
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.
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.
Refinery operators Holly Corp. and Frontier Oil Corp. are combining in an all-stock deal valued at nearly $3 billion.
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.
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.
