BHP set to invest heavily in Shale
Australia-based BHP Billiton LLC said Monday it expects to expand its investment in natural-gas production in Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale by more than $1 bill…
Australia-based BHP Billiton LLC said Monday it expects to expand its investment in natural-gas production in Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale by more than $1 bill…
Extreme weather has left Arkansas’ major row crop yields a mixed bag this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.
The Arkansas agencies that regulate the oil and gas industry said Tuesday that they need more inspectors and improved online records to better oversee the indu…
Historic flooding in Thailand, which makes about 30 percent of the world’s hard drives, will severely reduce supplies of the item that is an essential part of …
A federal lawsuit filed recently in Arkansas accuses Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. of fraudulently underpaying royalty owners for their minerals in the…
Murphy Oil Corp.’s profits doubled in the third quarter compared with its net income from the corresponding quarter in 2010, the El Dorado-based company said i…
A television network based in Little Rock and geared toward blacks is set to launch in the first quarter of 2012.
Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., which has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars in Pennsylvania after the contamination of water supplies, is jo…
More than 60 industry executives, educators and public-policy leaders met in Little Rock on Wednesday to conduct a series of panel discussions on how to create…
A company whose drilling-fluid disposal well was one of four linked to an outbreak of minor earthquakes in the Fayetteville Shale natural-gas formation in Arka…
When Marianna farmer Nathan Reed was in Rwanda earlier this year, he used his iPhone to check the moisture of his rice in a silo back home.
More than 600 jobs in Little Rock hinge on a proposed pipeline that would allow the existing Keystone pipeline to extend from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, but…
Arkansas is experiencing a mining boom — but it’s not for diamonds or gold. It’s for tiny, perfectly round silica sand used in hydraulic fracturing.
Despite the flooding of millions of rural acres in Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana in April and May, two agencies declared victory Tuesday over the Mississipp…
For the fourth time in three weeks, a bomb threat has been made at the Southwestern Electric Power Co. John W. Turk Jr. coal-fired power plant under constructi…
U.S. Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas said Monday that he co-sponsored a bill that would prevent federal regulation of farm dust because greater scientific eviden…
Personal income in Arkansas grew 1.3 percent in the second quarter compared with the first quarter of 2011 — 15th-best increase in the country, according to th…
President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise taxes $1.5 trillion in the next decade didn’t get any endorsements from members of the state’s congressional delegat…
A recent report calling for stricter enforcement of regulations in the Fayetteville Shale misrepresented the facts to scare people, an attorney for the Arkansa…
Three bomb threats have been made in the past week at Southwestern Electric Power Co.’s John W. Turk power plant construction site in Hempstead County, prompti…
When a company violates Arkansas water laws, the state Department of Environmental Quality does one of two things — it writes a letter telling the offender to …
A report released Tuesday by a private group that advocates strict regulation of the natural gas industry in Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale said that companies w…
This small town was named for the claylike ore from which aluminum is made. Mining of the ore in Saline County started in the 1890s to meet the demand for the …
A global manufacturing company will invest approximately $100 million to expand its mining operation in Bauxite and add at least 100 jobs, the small city’s may…
A company this fall intends to begin recycling water used in hydraulic fracturing in the Fayetteville Shale. Most of it will be sold back to the companies that…
The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission approved a rule that will limit the amount of noise a natural-gas compressor station emits.
The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission will hear a request at its Aug. 23 meeting that it should participate in an independent review of the state’s hydraulic-fra…
The Department of Justice has denied claims in a federal court lawsuit alleging that government agencies did not give adequate public notice that the number of…
State officials are concerned that a new biofuel grass to be planted in northeast Arkansas could spread like kudzu and destroy crops such as rice and soybeans.
Southwestern Energy Co. of Houston has invested millions of dollars in south Arkansas with plans to drill for oil in the next few months, according to the comp…
After two days of testimony, the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission voted Wednesday to ban all four natural-gas drilling disposal wells in a 1,150-square-mile are…
The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission heard testimony Tuesday from two scientists who said that natural gas drilling wastewater disposal wells are causing earthq…
The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission is set to hear evidence today on the possibility that more than a thousand minor earthquakes since September in Faulkner Co…
Most industry analysts and geologists knowledgeable about Arkansas’ Fayetteville Shale formation expected from the outset that the natural-gas field will be vi…
The public comment period on a proposed Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission rule that would limit the noise level of natural gas compressor stations ended Thursday…
The trial of the third and final defendant accused in a conspiracy to heist a 95-ton locomotive from a Union Pacific rail yard in North Little Rock has been de…
Because of increased oil and gas leasing in south Arkansas, the state Oil and Gas Commission held an informational meeting here Wednesday to let people know th…
Five days after Germanybased Bayer CropScience agreed to pay up to $750 million to settle lawsuits brought by thousands of rice farmers over contaminating the …
A 5-year-old legal battle involving thousands of rice farmers was settled Friday with Germany-based Bayer CropScience agreeing to pay up to $750 million, attor…
Recent minor earthquakes in Faulkner County were triggered by natural gas drilling wastewater injected into deep disposal wells, the Arkansas Geological Survey…
Minutes before a sawmill in Glenwood was to go up for sale at a foreclosure auction in Murfreesboro on Tuesday, the company’s owners filed for Chapter 11 bankr…
After a bill on the subject died during the 2011 legislative session, the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission is proposing a rule to limit the noise level of natur…
A Pulaski County circuit judge Monday denied a motion to dismiss a case involving $39 million in bonds and notes for a 550-acre development in Livingston Paris…
Caterpillar Inc. announced Wednesday that it would boost its quarterly dividend 4.5 percent and reaffirmed its outlook for the year — the same day the world’s …
Arkansas’ economy grew 2.3 percent in 2010, the first full year that the state’s economy was out of a recession it entered in 2008, according to the U.S. Burea…
Oil companies are snatching up mineral rights on thousands of acres in the old Smackover oil field, which has yielded little since its boom days in the 1920s a…
Kroger on Wednesday expanded its gasoline-discount program by offering as much as $1 a gallon off per monthly fill-up.
Opponents of a $2.1 billion coal-fired power plant in Hempstead County should have appealed to state regulators before introducing state-law claims into a fede…
When Browning’s Mexican Grill closed last summer, devotees thought they were just waiting out a siesta.
The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission and two companies have agreed that the three-month shutdown of two natural-gas fluid-disposal wells in Faulkner County will…