Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
- Journally Speaking
  - Biofuels in transportation
    In pursuit of energy independence, the US government is promoting the use of biofuels as transportation fuels.
- Editorial
  - New US diesel era
    As US fuel consumers enter a new era of highway diesel fuel this week, the first and probably only thing many of them will notice is the price.
- Area Drilling
  - Area Drilling
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Equipment/Software/Literature
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
- Editor's Perspective
  - Who said crude wouldn’t drop below $60/bbl?
    Here’s an assignment for anyone who has at any time this year declared that the price of crude oil would never again fall below $60/bbl.
- Market Journal
  - Crude prices dip below $59/bbl
    The November contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes fell $2.35 to $58.68/bbl Oct. 3, the lowest front-month closing on the New York Mercantile Exchange since Feb. 16.
General Interest
- FACTS: Oil market suffering from investment lull of 1990s
  The global oil market is suffering now from a lack of investments in the 1990s when oil prices were low and refining margins poor, said analysts at Fesharaki Associates Consulting & Technical Services Inc. (FACTS), Honolulu.
- Gazprom to develop Shtokman alone, pipe gas to Europe
  In a surprise move, Russia’s OAO Gazprom announced on Oct. 9 that it will develop giant Shtokman (Shtokmanovskoye) natural gas-condensate field in the Barents Sea without foreign partners and will pipe the gas to Europe rather than convert it to LNG for North American markets as had been planned.
- WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Those elusive pass-throughs
  Oil and gas prices have fallen more quickly than autumn leaves in the past few weeks, which has helped improve the US economic outlook.
- Cavaney: Industry needs to reconcile good with bad
  The oil and gas industry faces a huge paradox as executives from its biggest companies gather in Washington, DC, for the American Petroleum Institute’s 2006 annual meeting Oct. 15-16.
- WATCHING THE WORLD: Japan exploring methane hydrate
  In a bid to move Japan toward energy self-sufficiency, the country’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry is promoting technologies to provide new fuel sources, among them methane hydrate.
- GAO recommends spending limits for SPR fill
  The US Department of Energy could have saved about $590 million from late 2001 through 2005 if it had used a steady dollar value of crude oil over time to assure that more purchases were made for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when prices were low, the Government Accountability Office says.
- Congressional panel hears of produced water potential
  Water produced with oil and gas can help relieve pressure on surface-water resources, witnesses told a US House Resources subcommittee hearing Sept. 26.
Exploration & Development
- Drilling confirms radar-mapped atmospheric seepage anomalies
  This article will discuss three types of atmospheric seepage anomaly (ASA).
Drilling & Production
- DRILLING MARKET FOCUS: New jack ups will soon hit the water
  Without accounting for likely attrition of older units, the world’s supply of jack ups will expand more than 16% by 2009, adding 61 jack ups now under construction, in addition to 3 delivered earlier this year.
- Best practices limit fluid effects on CRA tubulars
  Proper procedures in the design of clear brine completion fluids combined with proper handling of the fluids can mitigate annular environmentally assisted cracking (AEAC) in wells completed with corrosion-resistant alloys (CRAs), according to TETRA Technologies Inc.
Processing
- PROCESS CONTROL-Conclusion: Ethylene plant uses best practices to improve controller performance
  Nova Chemicals Corp. used a holistic, best-practices approach to help sustain and improve the performance of control system assets at its Joffre, Alta., ethylene plant.
Transportation
- SPECIAL REPORT: Field use supports move to suspension-based DRA
  Suspension-based drag-reducing agents (DRAs) have proven to be an alternative to gel-based technology for ConocoPhillips Pipeline Co.'s US crude pipelines.
- SPECIAL REPORT: Study evaluates viscosity prediction of crude blends
  Transporting crude oil blends via pipeline requires careful estimation of their viscosities.
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