Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
05/12/2003
Volume 101, Issue 19
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Regular Features
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OGJ Newsletter
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Market Movement
Futures prices for crude and petroleum products seesawed early last week, culminating in a midweek uptick when a big build in US oil inventories, anticipated by traders, failed to materialize.
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Market Movement
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Letters
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Letters
As an author of several books and publications about the Arctic Refuge, and a person who has lived in Alaska for 28 years, I read Scott Montgomery's recent article about the Arctic Refuge with interest.
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Letters
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Journally Speaking
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How E&D is done in the US
It has long been a fact that independent companies discover most of the gas and oil in the US.
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How E&D is done in the US
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Editorial
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Hydrogen and hydrocarbons
The administration of US President George W. Bush deserves credit for two aspects of its push for hydrogen as vehicle fuel. The initiative is ambitious. And it draws useful attention to questions that must have answers if the ambition is to come true.
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Hydrogen and hydrocarbons
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Equip/Software/Lit
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Equipment/Software/Literature
Avoidance sonars available for underwater vehicles
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Equipment/Software/Literature
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Services/Suppliers
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Services/Suppliers
Emerson Process Management, Rosemount Analytical
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Services/Suppliers
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Editor's Perspective
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Gasoline hoard another bad energy idea for California
Under direction of the state legislature, the California Energy Commission last month held workshops to consider a government stockpile of gasoline.
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Gasoline hoard another bad energy idea for California
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Market Hotline
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Reports of OPEC's demise again 'greatly exaggerated'
It didn't take long for the puzzlement of some analysts over the recent "split decision" by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to turn to predictions of OPEC's demise.
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Reports of OPEC's demise again 'greatly exaggerated'
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General Interest
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Deepwater hotspots, offshore gas transport advances top OTC agenda
Advances in offshore technology used for oil and natural gas exploration, development, and production—especially in the deepwater arenas of the world—abounded at the 35th annual Offshore Technology Conference in Houston earlier this month.
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Douglas-Westwood: Expenditures for FPSs to rise through 2007
Oil and natural gas companies' capital expenditures (capex) on floating production systems (FPSs) is expected to reach $32 billion over the next 5 years compared with the $17 billion spent over the last half decade.
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New approaches hold promise for overcoming drilling barriers
Presentations at the 2003 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston stressed the need for offshore drillers to move away from conventional overbalanced drilling to drilling with tools normally associated with underbalanced drilling.
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US Senate starts energy bill floor debate
The US Senate may pass comprehensive energy legislation as early as late May, Republican lawmakers said May 7 on the eve of floor debate in the chamber.
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Secure supplies
With the Senate now debating sweeping energy legislation (see related story, p. 26), some US lawmakers say a key policy goal should be to encourage oil and gas development outside the volatile Middle East.
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US tabs Iraqi oil leadership; UN dispute lingers
The UN Security Council looms large in any plans for the development of Iraq's petroleum industry and the sale of its oil, despite the appointment by the US of three executives to run that industry for the immediate future.
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Energy is key area for worldwide 'sustainable development'
Energy deserves its place as a "key area" when discussing global "sustainable development," said Amy Myers Jaffe, a consultant with the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and associate director for the Rice University energy program, Environmental and Energy Systems Institute.
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Shell reaffirms commitment to 'sustainable development'
Royal Dutch/Shell Group, the world's second-biggest publicly traded oil company, has reaffirmed its commitment to "sustainable development," with a special focus on combatting global climate change it says is related to consumption of fossil fuels.
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Indicators to evaluate environmental, social, and economic sustainability: a proposal for the Brazilian oil industry
Terms such as sustainable development, sustainable growth, and sustainable consumption are today used to present a new view of economic and social progress that is more encompassing and appropriate for humanity.
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Deepwater hotspots, offshore gas transport advances top OTC agenda
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Special Report
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US onshore industry bustles with high prices, decline legacy
Relatively high gas and oil prices are exerting more punch into US onshore exploration and development.
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Deepwater gulf gas onrush to flatten decline from shelf
With almost no fanfare, gas production from the deepwater areas of the Gulf of Mexico has risen significantly during the past 6 months and will continue to rise as new projects are brought to their full forecast potential.
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EISs chart bigger future for Powder River CBM
The US Bureau of Land Management issued final environmental impact statements on Apr. 30 that govern coalbed methane drilling on federal lands in the Powder River basin in eastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana.
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US onshore industry bustles with high prices, decline legacy
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Drilling & Production
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Kinder Morgan CO2's Fox: SACROC a 'home run' for company
Kinder Morgan CO2 Co. LP purchased its interest in the Scurry Area Canyon Reef Operators Committee (SACROC) unit in 2000 and to date has more than doubled the unit's oil production.
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Method predicts brine crystallization temperatures
A new method calculates brine crystallization temperatures at elevated pressure based on the true crystallization temperature and the brine composition. The method predicts temperature within 3° F. of the measured value.
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Kinder Morgan CO2's Fox: SACROC a 'home run' for company
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Processing
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Critical path diagrams optimize FCC start-ups
Critical path diagrams, which have evolved from logic diagrams, can help refiners optimize the timing of FCC start-ups. Those start-ups require that certain steps occur simultaneously before feed goes to the riser.
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Critical path diagrams optimize FCC start-ups
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Transportation
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Pioneering deepwater gulf pipeline system integrates five segments
Construction on the groundbreaking Mardi Gras transportation system in deepwater Gulf of Mexico by BP America Inc. and partners is well under way.
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Pioneering deepwater gulf pipeline system integrates five segments
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