Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
05/01/2006
Volume 104, Issue 17
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Print Ad Index
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Advertising Index
Advertisers in the print issue
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Advertising Index
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Regular Features
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Journally Speaking
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Complying with compliance
For the oil and gas industry, abiding by environmental statutes, regulations, and permits has become no simple-or easily understood-task.
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Complying with compliance
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Equip/Software/Lit
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Equipment/Software/Literature
The new Unite remote data acquisition and transmission seismic acquisition system offers channel capacity without digital cables and connectors or VHF radio transmission.
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Equipment/Software/Literature
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Market Journal
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Ethanol switch raises prices
Crude futures prices shot up 19% from early March through late April, with the June contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes closing at a record $75.
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Ethanol switch raises prices
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Editor's Perspective
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Lawmaker sustains harmful myth with gripe on refining
Watching Congress respond to rising fuel prices is painful.
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Lawmaker sustains harmful myth with gripe on refining
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OGJ Newsletter
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OGJ Newsletter
Venezuela last month reclaimed more than 27,000 sq km formerly licensed by oil companies by requiring them to join new state-controlled joint ventures, El Tiempo newspaper reported.
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OGJ Newsletter
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Services/Suppliers
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Services/Suppliers
Houston, has announced the opening of new manufacturing facilities.
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Services/Suppliers
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General Interest
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Official says both arctic gas pipelines are needed
Construction of both the Alaska natural gas pipeline and the Mackenzie River Delta pipeline are needed to help meet escalating gas demand, the Northwest Territories minister of industry, tourism, and investment told the Ziff Energy Group gas strategies conference.
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Bush orders agencies to investigate US gasoline prices
US President George W. Bush momentarily shifted his focus from longer-term alternatives and ordered more federal investigations of high gasoline prices.
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Politicians urge aggressive work on energy alternatives
Washington politicians observed Earth Day 2006 by calling for aggressive research and development of alternatives to oil and gas.
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Watching the World: Tax warning issued in UK
British Prime Minister Tony Blair last week was urged to reverse the proposed increase in North Sea taxation or risk seeing Britain’s offshore oil industry decimated as fields are sold off and exploration spending moves elsewhere.
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UKOOA calls for cabinet-level energy post
The UK Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA) has recommended that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair appoint a secretary of state for energy.
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US DOE assesses economic effect of China’s energy push
Rapid growth in demand for energy in general and oil in particular puts China in need of an energy policy able to manage consumption and increase indigenous supply.
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Watching Government: Eastern Utah awaits a boom
Don’t waste Eastern Utahns’ time talking about the potential of motor fuels from switch grass or hydrogen.
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Editorial: A US energy meltdown
Washington, DC, has entered political meltdown over energy. For fuel consumers, this is a far greater problem than $3/gal gasoline.
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Official says both arctic gas pipelines are needed
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Processing
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US PROPANE - FOURTH-QUARTER 2005 - FIRST-QUARTER 2006: Capacity recovers from storm damage; industry braces for active 2006 season
For US offshore oil and gas producers, midstream companies, refiners, and petrochemical companies, recovery and rebuilding dominated fourth-quarter 2005 and first-quarter 2006.
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Nelson-Farrar cost indexes
Nelson-Farrar cost indexes
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US PROPANE - FOURTH-QUARTER 2005 - FIRST-QUARTER 2006: Capacity recovers from storm damage; industry braces for active 2006 season
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Special Report
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Technology keys Brazil’s drive to oil self-sufficiency
Current work to link the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) P-50 vessel to 16 production wells at the Albacora Leste field in Campos basin symbolizes Brazil’s plans to reach oil self-sufficiency by mid-2006, according to Sergio Gabrielli, president of state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras).
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Forecast sees ramp up in floating production system orders
A recent report predicts a ramp up in floating production system orders during the next 5 years.
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Geosteering precisely places multilaterals in Norway’s Troll field
In Norway’s Troll field, Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS and its service partners drilled the complex Starfish well in June 2005 with five laterals from a single slot.
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Golfinho route optimization keys successful lay off Brazil
The export gas pipeline from the Espírito Santo basin’s deepwater Golfinho field off Brazil required extensive geophysical and oceanographic work before beginning pipeline design, it being the first development in the basin.
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GULF SEVERE STORMS-1: Analysis of extreme weather events shows vulnerability of Gulf of Mexico production
Extensive damage to oil and gas facilities and pipelines has brought to light the vulnerability of offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico the past 2 years.
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Technology keys Brazil’s drive to oil self-sufficiency
