Print Ad Index
- Advertising Index
  Advertisers in the print issue.
General Interest
- Accord signed for Venezuela-Argentina gas line
  Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Néstor Kirchner of Argentina, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, on Dec.
- Barriers seen on industry’s digital technology path
  Oil companies’ growing use of digital technologies could boost world oil and gas reserves, but the industry must overcome barriers to gathering, managing, and sharing data, participants agreed at a recent roundtable discussion.
- Company News: E&P firms continue to set 2006 capital budget plans
  US-based oil and gas companies continue to report their capital spending plans for 2006.
- E&P exemption eyed for storm-water permits
  The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed modifications to storm-water regulations under the Clean Water Act that would exempt oil and gas exploration and production.
- Editorial: A lingering supply issue
  A year of rocky energy politics left unresolved too many issues crucial to US energy supply.
- ExxonMobil: Energy demand to increase 50% by 2030
  Energy demand, driven by economic progress and population growth, will increase about 50% from the current 205 million boe/d level to 335 million boe/d by 2030, reported ExxonMobil Corp.
- PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS
  Flint Hills Resources, a subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc., has named Executive Vice-Pres.
- Watching the World: Iraq’s war over oil
  The administration of US President George W. Bush has always denied that the war in Iraq was over oil.
Regular Features
- Editor's Perspective
  - The Editor's Perspective
    That a geographic pattern of opinion has become part of the controversy over global warming suggests a what-if mind experiment that might be illuminating.
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Equipment/Software/Literature
    A new brochure, yours free for the asking, offers PTFE, FEP, and PFA convoluted tubing in a variety of designs and configurations in sizes of 1⁄8-4 in.
- Letters
  - Letters
    The Dec. 19, 2005, issue of OGJ ran two articles on peak oil.
- Market Journal
  - Market Journal
    Energy futures prices continued to climb Dec. 30, the last trading day of 2005, with the February contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes gaining 72¢ to $61.
- Journally Speaking
  - Mineral dating tracks oil
    Quenching the world’s ever-increasing thirst for oil is a continuous struggle.
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
    ConocoPhillips, to resume Libyan operations
Processing
- SAUDI PETROCHEMICALS - conclusion: Five strategies drive Saudi Arabia’s petchem industry growth
  Saudi Arabia, a significant global producer of commodity petrochemicals, will increase its position in the global market during the next 5 years due to five growth strategies: diversifying the product portfolio, establishing more joint ventures with industry majors, placing greater emphasis on research and development, endorsing a larger role for private sector, and diversifying into downstream.
Drilling & Production
- Gel-polymer extends Arbuckle high-water-cut well life
  Arbuckle wells provide a good example of how the use of gelled polymer technology can extend the life of high water-cut wells.
- Method estimates collapse strength of worn casing
  New equations for calculating the collapse strength of worn casing can aid future casing string design.
Exploration & Development
- SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES-2: Access to real-time E&P operating data: A nontechnical overview of a solution
  We intentionally avoided getting into the technical details of BP’s RTAP/Web Services solution in the first part of this article (OGJ, Jan.
Special Report
- US industry expects more political turbulence in ‘06
  The US oil and gas industry has moved into 2006 fully expecting the past year’s political turbulence to continue.
Transportation
- TEPCO completes Trans-Bay tunnel, pipelay next
  Tokyo Electric Power Co. has completed excavation of a tunnel under central Tokyo Bay and is ready to lay the Trans-Bay Gas Pipeline through it, linking the LNG receiving terminal at Futtsu thermal power station in Futtsu City, Chiba prefecture, with the Higashi-Ogishima thermal power station in Kawasaki city, Kanagawa prefecture.