by - November 4, 2015 5:50 pm
Murphy USA Inc. saw third quarter earnings rise slightly from a year ago as the El Dorado retailer and convenience store operator continued its aggressive expansion at Walmart parking lots…
by - November 2, 2015 9:30 pm
Murphy USA continues to streamline its retail operations with Monday’s announcement that it plans to sell its ethanol production facility in Hereford, Texas to Green Plains Inc. of Omaha, Neb….
by - November 2, 2015 2:21 pm
After announcing plans to shut down another nuclear plant ahead of Monday’s opening bell, utility giant Entergy Corp. took a one-time impairment charge and reported a third quarter loss of…
by - October 31, 2015 10:29 am
Customers of Arkansas’ three natural gas utilities will see winter bills that are more than 20% lower than last year as natural gas futures have fallen well below $2.40 per…
by - October 30, 2015 12:18 am
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by - October 29, 2015 10:03 am
The jobs picture improved in September for the central Arkansas and Jonesboro metro areas, with the Little Rock region seeing an almost 4% year-over-year gain in the number of employed…
by - October 28, 2015 4:46 pm
Murphy Oil Corp. on Wednesday posted a huge loss of nearly $1.6 billion in the third quarter as depressed oil and gas prices cast a broad shadow across the Arkansas…
by - October 28, 2015 8:03 am
Murphy USA Inc. announced before Wednesday’s opening bell that it entered into a five-year supply agreement with West Coast retailer marketer Core-Mark to be the primary non-fuel wholesale distributor to…
by - October 23, 2015 3:02 pm
Final rules for President Obama’s Clean Power Plan were published on Friday (Oct. 23) in the Federal Register, opening the doors for legal challenges and removing barriers for Arkansas and…
by - October 23, 2015 7:10 am
Three Arkansas electric cooperatives received more than $47 million in federal grant funding as part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to improve “smart grids” and upgrade electric infrastructure projects in…
by - October 23, 2015 5:53 am
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by - October 22, 2015 7:32 pm
Southwestern Energy fell deep into the well on Thursday after the Fayetteville Shale leader reported third quarter losses of nearly $1.8 billion as natural prices dropped below the $2.50 mark…
by - October 22, 2015 2:09 pm
With crude oil prices languishing in the $40-$50 range for months now, losses in related revenue sources that underpin energy states’ budgets are on the rise, according to a new…
by - October 20, 2015 4:22 pm
Arkansas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell another two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.2% in September as employers added 33,500 workers to Arkansas payrolls in the past year. That draws…
by - October 20, 2015 2:50 pm
The newly hired chief of Walmart’s energy division told members of the Arkansas Advance Energy Association (AAEA) on Tuesday (Oct. 20) that the retail giant’s ultimate goal in becoming 100%…
by - October 16, 2015 8:00 am
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by - October 15, 2015 11:54 am
Economic growth experienced by Arkansas and the rest of the nation in the second quarter has slowed as the post-recession recovery is now being characterized as a “modest expansion.”
by - October 13, 2015 12:52 pm
A long-simmering financial dispute over how two of the nation’s largest grid operators use available capacity on each other’s energy transmission systems has finally come to an end after several…
by - October 13, 2015 7:37 am
Monthly and quarterly severance tax collections in Arkansas at the end of September have declined to levels not seen in several years as wellhead prices for natural gas have brought drilling activity in the Natural State to a virtual standstill.
by - October 12, 2015 4:04 pm
Thanks to a multimillion dollar award announced Friday (Oct. 9) from the U.S. Department of Energy, the University of Arkansas will lead a new national center that will focus on upgrading and protecting the nation’s energy grid from cyber-attacks.
