86-641: Ponca City ( Iowa-Oto : Chína Uhánⁿdhe ) is a city in Kay County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma . The city was named after the Ponca tribe. Ponca City had a population of 24,424 in the 2020 census , down from 25,387 at the time of the 2010 census . Ponca City was created in 1893 as "New Ponca" after the United States opened the Cherokee Outlet for European-American settlement during
172-638: A United States Army Corps of Engineers project. The facility, located 7 mi (11 km) east of Ponca City, dams the Arkansas River. The electric utility is managed by the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority of Edmond, Oklahoma . The city is accessible by I-35 , US-60 , US-77 , US-177 and OK-11 . On Grand Avenue (Business US-60), a series of new lamp posts is intended to look more classic. This project also replaced every traffic light along Grand Avenue except
258-408: A voice distinction (see the phonology section below), so that the unaspirated stops /b̥ d̥ d̥ʒ ɡ̊/ are variably voiced [b d dʒ ɡ] or unvoiced [p t tʃ k] . Although [tʃ] is a valid pronunciation of the first sound of Jiwere ~ Chiwere , it may mislead English speakers into pronouncing it [tʃʰ] . Similarly, a common folk etymology of Báxoje is "dusty noses," based on the misunderstanding of
344-599: A 35% stake in three Senegalese deepwater oil and gas exploration blocks for about $ 350 million to Woodside Petroleum . In November 2016, the company announced the move of its headquarters to Energy Center Four by 2018. In February 2017, Ecuador was ordered to pay $ 380 million to the company for unlawfully expropriating the company's oil investments. In March 2017, the company agreed to sell its Foster Creek Christina Lake Partnership interest, Western Canada Deep Basin Gas assets to Cenovus Energy for $ 13.3 billion. Along with
430-544: A French bank, BNP Paribas , to sell all assets, including a 17% stake in Brass Liquefied Natural Gas LNG, Oil Mining Lease OML 131 in which ConocoPhillips had a 47.5% stake. ConocoPhillips operated in Nigeria for more than 46 years. In January 2013, Conoco announced that it would sell its Rocky Mountain assets to Denbury Resources for $ 1.05 billion. In July 2016, the company agreed to sell
516-480: A fly-in breakfast every first Saturday of the month, year around, "rain or shine". Commercial air transportation is available out of Stillwater Regional Airport about 40 miles to the south, Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport about 89 miles to the north, or Tulsa International Airport about 101 miles to the southeast. Ponca City was one of the filming locations for 1996 movie Twister . The 2020 children’s film “Adventures of Rufus: The Fantastic Pet”
602-604: A median income of $ 32,283 and females $ 20,098. The per capita income was $ 22,566. About 12.7% of families and 17.7% of the population were below the poverty line , including 23.6% of those under age 18 and 9.3% of those age 65 or over. E. W. Marland built the Ponca City refinery in 1918 and founded the Marland Oil Company . In 1929, the Continental Oil Company merged with Marland , and
688-749: A new club in the Sooner State League called the Ponca City Cubs . The Ponca City Cubs played through 1957, the last season of professional baseball in Ponca City. Ponca City is home to several landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places , including the Poncan Theatre , the Marland Mansion , and Marland's Grand Home . Ponca City also holds several regional events each year. On September 17, 2024,
774-467: A number of variants and allophones. It can appear as a dental tap or flap [ɾ] (especially word-medially), as an alveolar fricative [r] , as an (inter)dental fricative [ð] , as a lateral [l] , as a nasal [n] , or as a voiced dental plosive [d] . The velar nasal phoneme /ŋ/ does not occur word-initially, being confined to "medial position after a nasal vowel." In languages a certain clusters of phonemes show up in particular environments within
860-511: A result, ConocoPhillips continued its operations as an upstream (exploration and production) company. In April 2012, ConocoPhillips sold its Trainer Refinery to Monroe Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines . In May 2012, ConocoPhillips completed the corporate spin-off of its downstream assets as Phillips 66 . In 2012, the company began the process of divesting onshore and offshore assets in Nigeria . ConocoPhillips contracted
946-775: A second phase expansion of the NFE. The NFE expansion is expected to begin production by 2025, and the NFS later in 2028. In year 2023, the Biden administration approved ConocoPhillips' request to drill for oil along the Alaskan coast. In 2023, Conoco purchased another 50% stake in the Surmont Canadian facility from TotalEnergies for $ 3 billion. In February 2024, ConocoPhillips prepared to meet providers of leased floating production, storage and off-loading ( FPSO ) in preparation for
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#17327797968231032-551: A single complex word. Aside from its complex verbal morphology , Chiwere differs from English in a number of significant ways. There are separate male and female registers , and interrogatives are formed with the question particle je , though this is omitted in informal speech. Finally, Chiwere word order is subject-object-verb , in contrast to English SVO order. The verbal complex is formed of preverbal and postverbal affixes, with preverbal affixes communicating positional, instrumental and pronominal elements. These are added to
1118-551: A station after offering the Santa Fe station agent two town lots and the free relocation of his house from Cross. Ponca City reportedly obtained its first boxcar station by some Ponca City supporters going to Cross and returning with the town's station pulled behind them. Cross eventually became defunct, and today, what was once Cross is now a residential district in Ponca City. In 1913, New Ponca changed its name to Ponca City. Ponca City's history and economy has been shaped chiefly by
1204-683: A statue to the vanishing American, a Ponca, Otoe, or an Osage - a monument of great size?" Marland answered, "the Indian is not the vanishing American - it's the pioneer woman." He sponsored a competition for the winning statue. In 1927, miniature 3 feet (0.9 m) sculptures were submitted as part of a competition by 12 U.S. and international sculptors: John Gregory , Maurice Sterne , Hermon Atkins MacNeil , James Earle Fraser , Alexander Stirling Calder , Wheeler Williams , Mario Korbel , F. Lynn Jenkins, Mahonri Young , Arthur Lee , Jo Davidson , and Bryant Baker . They were displayed in 12 cities around
1290-639: A steady decline after extended European American contact in the 1850s, and by 1940 the language had almost totally ceased to be spoken. "Tciwere itce" (in the Otoe dialect) and "Tcekiwere itce" (in the Iowa dialect) translate to "To speak the home dialect." The name "Chiwere" is said to originate from a person meeting a stranger in the dark. If a stranger in the dark challenged a person to identify their self, that person might respond "I am Tci-we-re" (Otoe) or "I am Tce-ki-we-re" (Iowa), which translates to "I am belonging to
1376-467: A verb stem, which can be mono-, duo- or polysyllabic, and either agent ( transitive ) or patient ( intransitive ). Most verb stems are passive. Altogether, the Chiwere verb complex is arranged as follows: [wa- pronoun] [wa- directional] [positional] [-wa/ri- pronouns] [ha-/ra- pronouns] [reflexive] [possession] [gi- directional] [instrumental] STEM [pronoun suffix] [causative] Positional prefixes occupy
1462-486: A word. According to William Whitman's research of Chiwere, approximately 23 known consonant clusters exist thath are word medial, and approximately 14 of these show up word initially or word medially. In this research Whitman found that the stop + stop consonant cluster čd , as in áčda ('then'), shows up in the word medial position but not as a word initial phoneme cluster. The stop + spirant clusters ʔθ , ʔs , and ʔh all show up word initially and word medially, whereas
1548-403: A writ of habeas corpus challenging his arrest. The case of Standing Bear v. Crook (1879) was a landmark decision in the U.S. District Court , where the judge ruled that Indians had the same legal rights as other United States citizens. A statue of Standing Bear was erected in his honor at the intersection of Highway 60 and Standing Bear Parkway in Ponca City. In the late 20th century,
1634-589: Is 27 feet (8.2 m) high and weighs 12,000 lb. Widely known as the Pioneer Woman Statue, the bronze sculpture's true name is "Confident". A related museum commemorating Oklahoma women was opened on September 16, 1958, on the 65th anniversary of the Cherokee Strip land run. It recognizes the work of Native American, as well as European-American women, and their leadership and stamina in creating homes, raising children, and taking care of
1720-590: Is a Siouan language originally spoken by the Missouria , Otoe , and Iowa peoples, who originated in the Great Lakes region but later moved throughout the Midwest and plains. The language is closely related to Ho-Chunk , also known as Winnebago. Non-Native Christian missionaries first documented Chiwere in the 1830s, but since then not much material has been published about the language. Chiwere suffered
1806-411: Is a high-conversion facility that produces a full range of products, including gasoline, diesel, aviation fuels, liquefied petroleum gas , and anode-grade petroleum coke. Its facilities include two fluid catalytic cracking units, alkylation , delayed coking, naphtha reforming, and hydrodesulfurization units. Finished petroleum products are shipped by truck, railcar, and pipelines to markets throughout
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#17327797968231892-549: Is distinctive as well. Chiwere grammar is agglutinative ; its verbal complex is central to the structure of the language. Verbs are formed by addition various affixes to a verb stem, each of which corresponds to a part of speech , such as a preposition , pronoun , case marker and so forth. Concepts such as possession , reflexivity and grammatical number , as well subject-object relation and case (including nine instrumental prefixes) are also expressed via affixing. In this way, large, complete sentences can be formed out of
1978-457: Is mentioned as being an error for the spirant + stop combination hd . But the spirant + stop combination xd has also been found in the words chéxdó ('buffalo bull'), náxda ('sour'), and náxdage ('kick'). With this data we can see that the consonant cluster xd is a possible combination and can show up in word medial position. Chiwere has five oral vowel phonemes, /a e i o u/ , and three nasal vowel phonemes, /ã ĩ ũ/ . Vowel length
2064-523: Is near the Arkansas River, the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River, Kaw Lake , and Lake Ponca, which all provide numerous recreational opportunities. The Ponca City region of Oklahoma is part of " Tornado Alley ". Tornadoes are most common in April, May, and June. Ponca City faces very hot and humid summers with temperatures frequently rising to over 100 °F (38 °C), as well as severe storms. During
2150-676: Is now held in Standing Bear Park. Ponca City is located in southeastern Kay County northwest of the Arkansas River . The city sits on roughly 47.6 km (18.4 sq mi) of land, and also has about 3.2 km (1.2 sq mi) of water, for a total area of 50.8 km (19.6 sq mi). The city is in north-central Oklahoma , around 21 mi (34 km) south of the Kansas border, and approximately 15 mi (24 km) east of Interstate 35 . The city
2236-462: The Cherokee Strip land run , the largest land run in United States history. The site for Ponca City was selected for its proximity to the Arkansas River , a railway, and the presence of a freshwater spring near the river at what is modern 13th Street and South Avenue in Ponca City. The city was laid out by Burton Barnes, who drew up the first survey of the city and sold certificates for
2322-610: The Kaw , Osage , Otoe-Missouria , Pawnee , and Tonkawa . These are all federally recognized tribes, as is the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma . In 1994, the six tribes established the Standing Bear Foundation and Pow-wow, beginning the first of annual shared pow-wows , to which they invite the public. They wanted to build collaboration among the tribes and with the non-Native residents of Ponca City. The pow-wow
2408-632: The National Park Service announced that the Ponca City and Kay County were jointly named a World War II Heritage City . Ponca City is the site of the Pioneer Woman Museum and the Pioneer Woman statue . The statue was erected to commemorate women pioneers. In the early 1920s, E. W. Marland decided to create a statue commemorating the pioneer woman . Marland was reportedly asked, "E. W., why don't you have ...
2494-628: The Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians still speak the language, while 30 members of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma speak their language. The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma has sponsored language workshops in the past and hopes to host more in the future. They have provided tribal elders with recording devices to collect Chiwere words and songs. A 2012 NSF grant was used to provide digital access to existing audio recordings of fluent speakers. The Third Annual Otoe-Missouria Language and Culture Day
2580-670: The Permian Basin , for $ 9.7 billion. In September 2021, ConocoPhillips announced it would buy all of Royal Dutch Shell PLC's assets in the Permian basin for around $ 9.5 billion in cash. In June 2022, ConocoPhillips became one of the stakeholders in the joint venture with QatarEnergy for the North Field East (NFE) expansion, holding 3.125%, as well as holding 6.25% stakes in the North Field South (NFS),
2666-582: The U.S. Climate Action Partnership in February 2010, at the same time as BP and Caterpillar Inc. left the partnership. ConocoPhillips is a signatory participant of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights . In 2016, ConocoPhillips was ranked as being among the 12th best of 92 oil, gas, and mining companies on indigenous rights in the Arctic. In May 2020, it was reported that
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2752-529: The lots he had surveyed. After the drawing for lots in the city was completed, Barnes was elected the city's first mayor. Another city, Cross , vied with Ponca City to become the leading city in the area. After the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had opened a station in Cross, people thought it would not open another in Ponca City because of the two cities' proximity. New Ponca boosters eventually secured
2838-615: The "Palace on the Prairie"). Because of this period of wealth and affluence, Ponca City has a high concentration of buildings that exemplify the popular Spanish Colonial Revival architecture of the period, as well as Art Deco -influenced buildings and homes. The "Roaring '20s" came to an end for Ponca City shortly before the Great Depression . After a successful takeover bid by J.P. Morgan, Jr. , son of financier J.P. Morgan , Marland Oil Co . merged with Continental Oil Co. in
2924-616: The 19th century, the Poncas' trek was arduous. Followed by the United States government's failure to provide adequate supplies and malaria at their destination, nearly one-third of the Ponca died from illness and exposure. "Out of 700 Ponca who left the Nebraska reservation, 158 died in Oklahoma within two years." The Ponca protested their conditions. An additional irritant occurred upon
3010-540: The ConocoPhillips oil company. On July 14, 2011, ConocoPhillips announced its intent to separate the company's upstream and downstream businesses into two stand-alone, publicly traded corporations, with the intent of maximizing shareholder value. On May 1, 2012, all midstream , downstream , marketing and chemical operations were separated into a new company named Phillips 66 , headquartered in Houston. As
3096-590: The Isla refinery on Curacao to collect on $ 2 billion owed since a 2007 court decision. In March 2019, the World Bank ruled that Venezuela must pay ConocoPhillips $ 8.7 billion to compensate for the 2007 expropriation of oil assets. In April 2019, the company sold a 30% stake in the Greater Sunrise Fields to the government of Timor-Leste. In September 2019, the company sold its business in
3182-567: The Kashagan oilfield for approximately US$ 5 billion. On August 30, 2002, Conoco Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Company , whose headquarters were in nearby Bartlesville, Oklahoma merged into ConocoPhillips. By January 2002, the groups organizing the merger had selected Houston as the site of the headquarters. The merger brought the two companies' expertise together, allowing the new company to develop megaprojects involving remote natural gas supplies. Governor of Oklahoma Frank Keating said that
3268-765: The Midcontinent region. Ponca City hosted minor league baseball from the 1920s through the 1950s. The Ponca City Poncans played in 1924, the Ponca City Angels played from 1934–1938 (winning three Western Association championships), and the Ponca City Dodgers (an affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers ) operated from 1947–1952. The Ponca City Jets played in the Western Association in 1954, only to be replaced in 1955 by
3354-788: The Phillips Petroleum Company Museum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma , are dedicated to the history of the company. ConocoPhillips explores for, produces, transports and markets crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, natural gas liquids and liquefied natural gas on a worldwide basis. The company manages its operations through six operating segments, defined by geographic region: Alaska; Lower 48; Canada; Europe, Middle East and North Africa; Asia Pacific; and Other International. Archie W. Dunham , 2002–2004 James J. Mulva , 2004–2012 Ryan M. Lance , 2012– James J. Mulva , 2002–2012 On April 11, 2007, ConocoPhillips became
3440-842: The United Kingdom for $ 2.675 billion. For the 2019 Awards in Predefined Areas (APA) on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS), ConocoPhillips was awarded three operatorships and ownership interests in a total of five production licenses. Two which are located in the Norwegian Sea (PL 1009 B and PL 1064) in Warka and Slagugle, one in the North Sea (PL 917 B) for two discoveries in Busta Voe and Cape Enniberg , and
3526-610: The United States dissolved Standard Oil, Conoco became independent in 1913. By 1929, it had become a fully integrated oil company. The company was a coal , oil , kerosene , grease and candles distributor in the West. In 1929, Conoco merged with the Marland Oil Company . Marland Oil Company , founded by exploration pioneer E. W. Marland , later acquired the assets of Continental Oil Co.. On June 26, 1899, Marland Oil changed its name to Continental Oil Co. and moved its headquarters to Fargo, North Dakota . The acquisition gave Conoco
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3612-1108: The United States included production in Alaska , the Eagle Ford Group , the Permian Basin , the Bakken Formation , the Gulf of Mexico and the Anadarko Basin . Approximately one-third of the company's U.S. production is in Alaska, where it has operations in the Cook Inlet Area , the Alpine oil field off the Colville River , and the Kuparuk oil field and Prudhoe Bay Oil Field on the Alaska North Slope . As of December 31, 2023,
3698-589: The city developed a park and museum named in his honor. In addition to the Standing Bear Museum, the 63-acre park includes more than eight fully developed acres with off street parking, a one-acre pond and a walking trail. The Ponca Nation , which has kept its headquarters south of Ponca City since 1879, played a major part in the development of the Marland Oil Company and the city. Chief White Eagle leased resource-containing portions of
3784-615: The city. The city's recent efforts to grow its economy beyond the petroleum industry have attracted a number of technology, manufacturing, and service jobs. In 2005, ConocoPhillips announced plans to build a $ 5 million museum across from its Ponca City refinery. Opened to the public in May 2007, the Conoco Museum features artifacts, photographs, and other historical items related to the petroleum industry and its culture in northern Oklahoma. A sister museum, Phillips Petroleum Company Museum,
3870-563: The cluster hñ has been found in the word medial position, as in péhñi ('whiskey') and thus appears to be another possible spirant + nasal consonant combination. The stop + semivowel consonant clusters θw , xw , and hw all appear to be restricted to the word medial environment, whereas the stop + semivowel consonant cluster sw appears to be the only stop + semivowel known to show up both word initially, as in swá̃la ('to be soft') and baswá ('to cut piece off'). The stop + liquid phoneme clusters θl , sl , and xl have all been found in
3956-620: The company had proved reserves of 6,758 million barrels of oil equivalent (4.134 × 10 GJ), of which 46% was petroleum , 34% was natural gas , 14% was natural gas liquids and 6% was bitumen . The company is ranked 156th on the Fortune 500 . In the 2023 Forbes Global 2000 , ConocoPhillips was ranked as the 83rd-largest public company in the world. ConocoPhillips also ranked 207th on Forbes Best Employers for Diversity (2021), 125th on Forbes America's Best Employers (2021) and 76 on Forbes Canada's Best Employers (2021). The company
4042-496: The death of Standing Bear 's oldest son in 1879. The chief had promised to bury him in his homeland, and about 60 Ponca accompanied him back to Nebraska. The U.S. Army was ordered to arrest them for having left the reservation, and they were confined to Fort Omaha . Most of the tribal members who left eventually returned to the reservation in Oklahoma . With the aid of prominent attorneys working pro bono , Standing Bear filed
4128-406: The ebb and flow of the petroleum industry . E. W. Marland , a Pennsylvania oil man, came to Oklahoma and founded the Marland Oil Company , which once controlled about 10% of the world's oil reserves . He founded the 101 Ranch Oil Company , located on the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch , and drilled his first successful oil well on land he leased in 1911 from the Ponca tribe of American Indians . He
4214-437: The end of April, rose to $ 40 per barrel. In December 2020, ConocoPhillips made the largest discovery of oil for the year, between 75.5 million and 201 million barrels in the Slagugle well. Executive Vice President Matt Fox, stated that this was the fourth successful exploration well to be found on the Norwegian continental shelf in the past 16 months. In January 2021, the company acquired Concho Resources , an operator in
4300-511: The first U.S. oil company to join the U.S. Climate Action Partnership , an alliance of big business and environmental groups. In January 2007, the partnership advised President George W. Bush that mandatory emissions caps would be needed to reduce the flow of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In 2007, ConocoPhillips announced it would spend $ 150 million that year on alternative and unconventional energy sources, up from $ 80 million in 2006. However, ConocoPhillips left
4386-416: The first position in the verbal complex. These prefixes refer to the location or direction of the verb's action: Chiwere distinguishes three persons – first, second and inclusive , which functions as an inclusive first person plural. Each person has an agent (subject) and patient (object) form. The agent forms mark the subjects of active verbs, whereas the patient forms mark the objects of active verbs and
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#17327797968234472-427: The first syllable bá as pá , or "nose." However, the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma says that Bah-Kho-Je means "grey snow," due to their winter lodges being covered with snow that is stained grey by fire smoke. The last two fluent speakers died in the winter of 1996, and only a handful of semi-fluent speakers remain, all of whom are elderly, making Chiwere critically endangered . As of 2006, an estimated four members of
4558-413: The growth of the oil industry in Ponca City have often overshadowed both the long ancient history of indigenous peoples in the area, and those tribes who were resettled to Oklahoma in the 19th century under Indian Removal . Ponca City is named after the Ponca tribe, part of whom were relocated from Nebraska to northern Oklahoma from 1877 to 1880. Like all of the forced American Indigenous removals of
4644-403: The language, and are distinguished by actual statements of time using words like "yesterday" or "today." The future tense is indicated with the particle hnye , which follows the verb. Chiwere is a pro-drop language ; once the subject of the sentence has been established, it can be omitted. Statements are negated with the particle skunyi , which follows the verb. Commands are formed using
4730-613: The late 1920s. It was known as Conoco for more than 70 years. The company maintained its headquarters in Ponca City until 1949 and continued to grow into a global corporation. During the oil boom years of the 1980s, Conoco was owned by the DuPont Corp., which took control of the company in 1981. After nearly two decades of ownership and an oil bust that crippled Oklahoma's economy in the late 1980s, DuPont sold off its Conoco assets in 1998. In 2002, Conoco merged with Phillips Petroleum (another major petroleum player with roots in northern Oklahoma) to become ConocoPhillips . ConocoPhillips
4816-416: The launch of the FEED competition for Salam-Patawali project offshore Malaysia . The project has been developing for several years: in February 2021, permission was obtained for exploration on the Malaysian shelf called SB405, in 2022 conducted seismic exploration in 3D. Also in 2022, FPSO contractors Bumi Armada , MISC and Yinson Holdings were said to have expressed an interest in this project, and Genesis
4902-421: The move to Houston was "regrettable". In September 2004, the company invested $ 2 billion in Lukoil . In March 2006, ConocoPhillips acquired Wilhelmshavener Raffineriegesellschaft mbH, based in Germany. It also acquired Burlington Resources for $ 35 billion in cash and stock. On May 10, 2006, Richard Armitage , former deputy-secretary of the U.S. State Department, was elected to the board of directors of
4988-443: The name Phillips 66. The Ponca City Refinery, operated by Phillips 66, is the largest refinery in Oklahoma. The Ponca City Refinery processes a mixture of light, medium, and heavy crude oils. Most of the crude oil processed is received by pipeline from Oklahoma , Texas , and Canada . Infrastructure improvements have enabled the delivery of increased volumes of locally produced advantaged crude oil by pipeline and truck. The refinery
5074-409: The other is the Hasselbaink prospect, where drilling has already begun. In May 2020, the company sold its assets in Northern Australia to Santos Limited for $ 1.39 billion. In July 2020, the company announced the acquisition of acreage in the Montney Formation in Canada for $ 375 million. On 1 August 2020, Steinar Våge who has been with the ConocoPhillips company since 1988, was elected into
5160-420: The people of this land" or "I am belonging to those dwelling here." The Iowa tribe refers to their language as Báxoje ich'é or Bah Kho Je (pronounced [b̥aꜜxodʒɛ itʃʼeꜜ] ). The Otoe-Missouria dialect is called Jíwere ich'é (pronounced [d̥ʒiꜜweɾɛ itʃʼeꜜ] ). The spelling Chiwere , used mostly by linguists, derives from the fact that the language has an aspiration distinction rather than
5246-421: The population. Of the 10,440 households, 25.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.3% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.0% were not families. About 30.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size
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#17327797968235332-464: The position of President for ConocoPhillips Europe, Middle East and North Africa . He was previously the Senior Vice President of Global Operations, Wells and Projects at the corporate headquarters in Houston, United States, and is now located in Stavanger, where the main office is located. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, ConocoPhillips had to reduce its production in May as the price of oil in North Slope , which stood at about $ 10 per barrel at
5418-400: The prefix has no literal meaning. Verbs are made reflexive by the ki- prefix; the reduplicated form kiki- expresses reciprocity. Thus: A number of verbs that are non-reflexive in English take the reflexive prefix in Chiwere. These three prefixes serve to indicate an indirect object and as such are grouped together, even though they do not occupy the same position within
5504-410: The pronominal hi- , and approximates the English third person plural object of a transitive verb. Additionally, the prefix can be used as a dummy pronoun to make transitive verbs intransitive; these verbal forms are often used as nouns, and this prefix is thus the general method of forming nouns from verb stems. There are several intransitive verbs that take the wa- prefix idiomatically, wherein
5590-523: The red bar-and-triangle logo previously used by Marland. Conoco used the logo between 1930 and 1970, when the current red capsule logo was adopted. Conoco was based in Ponca City until 1949, when it moved to Houston, Texas. In 1998, Conoco acquired an interest in 10.5 blocks in the Kashagan Field in the Caspian Sea off Kazakhstan through the North Caspian Sea Production Sharing Agreement (NCSPSA). On November 26, 2012, in its largest acquisition ever, ONGC Videsh agreed to buy ConocoPhillips' 8.4% stake in
5676-449: The research of William Whitman, however, the spirant + stop cluster hk has been found to exist word medially, as in chéthka ('domestic cow'). According to Whitman's, research two spirant + nasal consonant clusters that have been found, which are hm , as in sáhmã ('seven') and hn , as in láhnũwe ('calumet'), however Whitman does account that hñ is a combination which appears as a future tense suffix. After reviewing further data,
5762-406: The sale of natural gas fields in the U.S., it led to a reduction of close to 30% of its proved oil and gas reserves. In June 2017, the company agreed to sell assets in the Barnett Shale for $ 305 million. In August 2017, the company sold its business in the San Juan Basin for $ 2.5 billion. In May 2018, ConocoPhillips seized assets belonging to the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA from
5848-732: The simple verb stem plus a gender-specific particle – le for male speakers and lé for female speakers. ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational corporation engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production. It is based in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas . The company has operations in 15 countries and has production in the United States (49% of 2019 production), Norway (10% of 2019 production), Canada (5% of 2019 production), Australia (12% of 2019 production), Indonesia (4% of 2019 production), Malaysia (4% of 2019 production), Libya (3% of 2019 production), China (3% of 2019 production), and Qatar (6% of 2019 production). The company's production in
5934-529: The state, where they were viewed by 750,000 people, who voted for their favorite. The original submissions have been on display at the museum at Woolaroc near Bartlesville, Oklahoma since the 1930s. Marland sold them to Frank Phillips after losing control of the Marland Oil Company. British-born American sculptor Bryant Baker was chosen as the winner. His full-scale work was unveiled in a public ceremony on April 22, 1930. About 40,000 guests came to hear Will Rogers pay tribute to Oklahoma's pioneers. The statue
6020-438: The stop + semivowel clusters dw and gw only show up word medially. The stop + liquid clusters bl and gl show up word initially and word medially. Spirant + stop clusters generally appear in both word initial and word medial position, these clusters include θg , sǰ , sg , hd , and hg , however the spirant + stop clusters sd and xd only appear word medially. These are all the spirant + stop clusters accounted for in
6106-513: The subjects of passive verbs, making Chiwere, like many other Siouan languages, active-stative . Third person forms as they exist in English are not directly marked. Following are the subject and object forms of the pronominal prefixes: The inclusive object form is spelled wa-wa because it can be separated by the positional prefixes. The 3SG is not marked; the 2DU form does not exist. This prefix, perhaps best translated as "something," occurs before every other verbal element except for
6192-412: The traffic signals at 14th St. and at Waverly to match the new lamp posts. Ponca City Regional Airport ( airport code PNC) (1007 feet above mean sea level) is located at the northwest corner of the city at 36°43.84'N and 97°5.99'W. The facility has a 7,201-ft 17-35 runway, which is 150 ft (46 m) wide, and the facility has a full-length taxiway but no tower. The local airport booster club hosts
6278-513: The tribe's allotted land to E.W. Marland in 1911 for oil exploration and development. Since the late 20th century, the Ponca tribe has worked to build its infrastructure and improve services for its people. In February 2006, the tribe received a grant of more than $ 800,000 from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota for debt retirement and economic development. Nearby north-central tribes are
6364-440: The two became Conoco Inc. The Conoco headquarters were in Ponca City until 1949, when they moved to Houston, Texas . In 2002, Conoco Inc . and Phillips Petroleum Company , whose headquarters were in nearby Bartlesville, Oklahoma , merged into ConocoPhillips . In 2012, ConocoPhillips split into two separate companies, with the upstream portion retaining the ConocoPhillips name and the refining and transportation portions taking
6450-475: The verbal complex: There are nine separate prefixes that indicate instrumentality , all of which change passive verbs into active. The causative , wherein the subject causes or makes something else to do or be something, is expressed via the suffix -hi . The verbs prefixed by da- are intransitive and are made transitive with the -hi suffix. " Tense " in Chiwere can be divided into present/past and future. Present and past tenses are unmarked in
6536-570: The winters, Ponca City has mild to cold temperatures with occasional snowstorms and ice. At the 2010 census , 25,387 people, 10,440 households and 7,019 families resided in the city. The population density was 1,431.0/sq mi (552.5/km). The 11,950 housing units were at an average density of 655.4/sq mi (253.1/km). The racial makeup of the city was 84.18% White, 2.99% African American, 6.27% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 2.08% from other races , and 3.75% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 4.43% of
6622-444: The word initial and word medial environments. An interesting analysis of the Chiwere language has shown that the spirant + stop consonant cluster hg is the more commonly used pronunciation of the spirant + stop cluster θg and that the hg cluster may be replacing the θg altogether. In William Whitman's research, the spirant + stop combination xd , with the one given example used in this journal being iblí̃xdo ('blackbird'),
6708-592: The work of sustaining life and communities. Ponca City Public Schools serves the general population's education requirements in almost all of the city limits. Ponca City Public Schools serve over 5100 students. Ponca City has currently eight elementary schools to serve the district's pre-K through fifth-grade students: Small sections of the Ponca City city limits are zoned to Kildare Public School . Ponca City has three private schools that serve students from pre-K through eighth grade: The Ponca City region receives electricity generated hydroelectrically at Kaw Lake,
6794-405: Was 2.95. The population was distributed as 26.2% under of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.8 males. The median household income was $ 39,023, and the median family income was $ 38,839. Males had
6880-518: Was contracted for engineering services. In September 2024 ConocoPhillips and Uniper agreed for a supplying deal which is up to 10 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas for the next 10 years. With this, ConocoPhillips will be able to supply natural gas to Uniper i.e in the north- western European zone. In November 2024, ConocoPhillips acquired Marathon Oil in a $ 22.5 billion transaction. The Conoco Museum in Ponca City, Oklahoma , and
6966-465: Was elected in 1932 as a U.S. congressman and in 1934 as governor of Oklahoma. Marland's exploitation of oil reserves generated growth and wealth that were previously unimaginable on the Oklahoma prairie, and his company virtually built the city from the ground up. Marland and his associates built mansions to display their new wealth, including the Grand Home and the E.W. Marland Estate (once called
7052-745: Was largely filmed at the Marland Mansion. A film about E. W. Marland was expected to be in production to shoot in Ponca City, titled The Ends of the Earth . The film was to star the Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence , and was originally expected to start in 2014. However, as of May 2023, Internet Movie Database continues to list the movie only as "in development." Several scenes from American Gods (TV series) were shot in Ponca City. Iowa-Oto language Chiwere (also called Iowa-Otoe-Missouria or Báxoje-Jíwere-Nyútʼach )
7138-715: Was planned for September 2012. The Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians is establishing a language program in conjunction with the University of Oklahoma Native American Studies Department. The Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma 's Otoe Language Program teaches weekly classes in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , and Red Rock, Oklahoma . The phoneme inventory of Chiwere consists of approximately 33 consonants, and five vowel qualities (three of which occur as nasalized). Voiceless stop sounds /p, t, tʃ, k/ may be heard as voiced [b, d, dʒ, ɡ] in final position. The phoneme /ɾ/ has
7224-513: Was ranked as the 14th most polluting company in the world by The Guardian in 2019. It is responsible for 0.91% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions from 1988 to 2015. In 1875, the "Continental Oil and Transportation Company" (acronym "Conoco") was founded in Ogden, Utah by Isaac Blake. In 1885, Conoco was reincorporated as part of Standard Oil . After the Supreme Court of
7310-466: Was then the sixth-largest publicly traded oil company in the world, and the third largest in the United States. It maintains a significant presence in its historic home state. Since the company has reduced its workforce and facilities in the city, the population has declined steadily since the early 1990s. In February 2009, ConocoPhillips announced that all of its remaining non refinery operations in Ponca City (representing 750 jobs) would be moved out of
7396-660: Was to be opened in Bartlesville, Oklahoma . Funded by a private foundation, the Conoco Museum charges no admission fee. In 2012, ConocoPhillips split into two separate companies, with the upstream portion retaining the ConocoPhillips name and the refining and transportation portions taking the name Phillips 66 . Based in Houston , Texas , Phillips 66 continues to operate a 200,000-barrel-per-day refinery. Phillips 66 | Ponca City Refinery in Ponca City. Until recently, European Americans' accounts of their settlement and
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