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Williams Cos. to Buy Gulf Coast Natural Gas Storage Portfolio for $1.95 Billion
28Dec By adminNo Comments
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Williams Cos. to Buy Gulf Coast Natural Gas Storage Portfolio for $1.95 Billion

Energy infrastructure company Williams Cos.has inked a deal to buy a portfolio of Gulf Coast natural-gas storage assets from an affiliate of commodities-trading company Hartree Partners for $1.95 billion.Williams on Wednesday said the acquisition includes six underground natural gas storage facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi with total capacity of 115 billion cubic feet, along with 230 miles of gas transmission pipeline and connections to Transco, the nation’s largest natural gas transmission pipeline.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Williams Cos. to Buy Gulf Coast Natural Gas Storage Portfolio for $1.95 Billion
27Dec By adminNo Comments
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Williams Cos. to Buy Gulf Coast Natural Gas Storage Portfolio for $1.95 Billion

Energy infrastructure company Williams Cos.has inked a deal to buy a portfolio of Gulf Coast natural-gas storage assets from an affiliate of commodities-trading company Hartree Partners for $1.95 billion.Williams on Wednesday said the acquisition includes six underground natural gas storage facilities in Louisiana and Mississippi with total capacity of 115 billion cubic feet, along with 230 miles of gas transmission pipeline and connections to Transco, the nation’s largest natural gas transmission pipeline.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Oklahoma Finds It Hard to Break Up With JPMorgan and BlackRock
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Oklahoma Finds It Hard to Break Up With JPMorgan and BlackRock

Cutting ties with the largest U.S. banks and asset managers is easier said than done. In Oklahoma, where a new law requires the state to stop doing business with financial companies that “boycott” the oil-and-gas industry, officials and pension employees are running into hurdles while trying to comply.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is an Oklahoma Story, but Educators There Might Not Teach It
21Oct By adminNo Comments
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is an Oklahoma Story, but Educators There Might Not Teach It

Three years ago, Oklahoma teacher Debra Thoreson requested copies of a book about the century-old murders of Osage people that took place about an hour from where her school is now. But she changed her plan to assign the book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI,” to her high school English students after passage of a state law that she feared could endanger her license and her school’s accreditation.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 15
15Oct By adminNo Comments
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Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 15

By WSJ Arts in Review Staff Film• “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Oct. 20): Martin Scorsese returns with this tale, co-written by Eric Roth and based on the book by David Grann, about a series of real-life murders in the Osage Nation in Oklahoma that were committed in the 1920s after oil was discovered on tribal land. Frequent Scorsese collaborators Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro star in a cast that includes Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Jack White and more. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Oklahoma Gets a Signature Win Over No. 3 Texas—With Its Defense
8Oct By adminNo Comments
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Oklahoma Gets a Signature Win Over No. 3 Texas—With Its Defense

The moment it became clear that things had changed at Oklahoma came at the top of the fourth quarter of the Sooners’ annual Red River Showdown against Texas on Saturday. With the Longhorns trailing 27-20, quarterback Quinn Ewers threaded a 28-yard pass to Jordan Whittington, who was tackled at the 1-yard line.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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A 1997 Motel Murder Puts a Convict’s Life on the Line in the Supreme Court—Again
23Sep By adminNo Comments
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A 1997 Motel Murder Puts a Convict’s Life on the Line in the Supreme Court—Again

Sept. 23, 2023 8:30 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)Oklahoma City police working a missing-person report jimmied the door of Room 102 of the Best Budget Inn, across from a strip joint called the Vegas Club, and found the battered, blood-smeared body of Barry Van Treese, the motel owner. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Bixby Bridge Project Costs City More Money, But Gets Job Done Faster On Busy Street
18Sep By adminNo Comments
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Bixby Bridge Project Costs City More Money, But Gets Job Done Faster On Busy Street

The City of Bixby is paying more for a new bridge, but the mayor says it’s worth it because of an innovative process to make the job go quicker.The mayor of Bixby says the bridge over Haikey Creek on 131st Street has been out since July but thanks to new bridge-building technology, drivers will be out on the road sooner than if they had used traditional bridge-building methods.For many people in Bixby, 131st Street is a busy road that's used to get to Broken Arrow. That's why Mayor Brian Guthrie wanted the bridge over Haikey Creek fixed as soon as possible."Our businesses, our school traffic, and just our residents as well, including those in South Tulsa and people in Broken Arrow use this road as a major street for connection between Bixby and Broken Arrow," says Guthrie.He says the brid...
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Country Star Zach Bryan Arrested In Oklahoma, Admits He Was ‘Out Of Line’
8Sep By adminNo Comments
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Country Star Zach Bryan Arrested In Oklahoma, Admits He Was ‘Out Of Line’

Chart-topping country singer Zach Bryan has been arrested on an obstruction of investigation charge in Oklahoma, TMZ first reported.The singer, known for his hit song “I Remember Everything” with Kacey Musgraves, was later booked at Craig County Jail in Vinita, Oklahoma on Thursday evening.Bryan, in a post to X (formerly Twitter), wrote that he had an “incident” with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, adding that “emotions” got the best of him and he was “out of line in the things” he said.“I support law enforcement as much as anyone can, I was just frustrated in the moment, it was unlike me and I apologize,” wrote Bryan, who grew up less than an hour drive from Vinita in Oologah, Oklahoma.“They brought me to jail, and there is a mug shot of me floating around. Prayers we can all move on from t...
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