Public Service Co. of Oklahoma and the City of Owasso will be making a special announcement today about a pilot project to upgrade PSO’s electric distribution system with new, state-of-the-art technology. The project will involve all 13,000 area PSO customers. The announcement and comments about how homes and businesses in Owasso will benefit from the [...]

Regent Bank recently hired Greg Boudreau as executive vice president and director of business banking. Boudreau is a banking veteran with almost 20 years of commercial banking experience in Oklahoma. He has served in senior lending and management positions with SpiritBank, The Bank N.A. and First United Bank. TTCU announces executives Tulsa Teachers Credit Union [...]

Oneok Partners LP yesterday announced plans to build approximately $595 million to $730 million of natural gas liquids projects between now and 2013. The preliminary cost estimates for the new projects are: • $450 million to $550 million to build a 525- to 615-mile NGL pipeline that will transport unfractionated NGLs from the Bakken Shale [...]

Williams Partners LP announced yesterday, notifying Oneok Partners LP, that it has elected to exercise its option to increase its ownership of Overland Pass Pipeline Co. LLC to 50 percent from 1 percent. Williams currently owns 1 percent of the joint venture, while Oneok owns the remaining 99 percent. Both companies at based in downtown [...]

OG&E announced yesterday that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission has approved a settlement agreement reached by all parties to the company’s application to build and operate a new wind farm in northwestern Oklahoma. Known as “Crossroads,” the wind farm is expected to be running in the second half of 2011. “This is a good outcome resulting [...]

The board of directors of Oneok Inc. elects Oneok CEO John W. Gibson to the additional role of president. Separately, the board of the general partner of Oneok Partners LP elects Gibson to the additional role of president of the partnership where he currently serves as chairman and chief executive officer. In addition, Terry K. [...]