Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
11/27/2006
Volume 104, Issue 44
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Regular Features
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OGJ Newsletter
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Journally Speaking
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One small step?
No less an authority than the International Energy Agency has renewed its warning about a future of limited fossil energy and more environmental damage from burning too much of it.
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One small step?
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Editorial
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Democrats and energy
Democrats newly in control of the US Congress have a unique opportunity to act constructively on energy.
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Democrats and energy
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Equip/Software/Lit
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Services/Suppliers
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Energy represents a belief test for new party leaders
Political-party leadership choices portend much about energy issues in the 110th Congress.
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Market Journal
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Crude prices hit new low for the year
The December contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes plunged to $56.26/bbl, the lowest close for a front-month contract since Nov. 18, 2005, on the New York Mercantile Exchange after the Energy Information Administration reported the injection of 5 bcf of gas into US underground storage during the week ended Nov. 10.
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Crude prices hit new low for the year
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General Interest
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Global oil, gas outlook bright; US gas production nears plateau
Data for liquids presented in this article suggest that global crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGL), and Alberta oil sands production will plateau at above 118 million b/d and productive capacity at 123 million b/d in 2031-far later than current alarmist predictions-even without the likely development of tar sands and other bitumens and extra-heavy crude.
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Prompt passage of federal pipeline safety bill urged
New federal pipeline safety legislation is overdue and should be passed before the end of the year, witnesses and lawmakers agreed at a Nov. 16 hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
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FERC grants first market-based gas storage rates request
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Nov. 16 granted an interstate natural gas storage operator market-based rates for the first time.
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Venture seeks better seismic imaging of deep prospects
A partnership led by Repsol YPF SA has launched a project to apply unprecedented computing power to geophysics to reduce the risk in exploration of deep subsalt prospects under ultradeep water of the Gulf of Mexico.
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CERA study: Oil production to track ‘undulating plateau’
The “peak oil” theory, stipulating that world oil production will soon peak and sharply decline, is flawed, according to an analysis by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA).
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Republican group opposes broad OCS reform bill
If an Outer Continental Shelf leasing reform bill comes before the full House during the lame-duck session, it should be S. 3711 and not the broader HR 4761, 18 House Republicans told Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).
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Senate Democrats signal climate-change push
Three incoming Senate committee chairmen have asked President George W. Bush to commit to working with the new Congress in passing aggressive climate change legislation in 2007.
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COMPANY NEWS: Gazprom gets 51% of new JV with Lukoil
OAO Lukoil Holdings ceded control of a joint venture for new projects to state-controlled OAO Gazprom’s oil subsidiary, Gazprom Neft.
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WATCHING THE WORLD: A new desert energy source
“He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers...”
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Global oil, gas outlook bright; US gas production nears plateau
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Exploration & Development
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DEEPWATER RISKS-1: Challenges, risks can be managed in deepwater oil and gas projects
Deepwater projects typically face technical and financial challenges to their viability.
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DEEPWATER RISKS-1: Challenges, risks can be managed in deepwater oil and gas projects
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Drilling & Production
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SPECIAL REPORT: Independence Hub nears production from eastern Gulf of Mexico leases
Gas production from the eastern Gulf of Mexico will start in 2007 from 10 deepwater fields tied into a floating central processing facility, Independence Hub, moored in about 8,000 ft of water.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Well-specific guidelines adopted for dynamic positioning
In the last decade, offshore operators have developed and refined an emergency response system with standardized format and nomenclature for dynamically positioned drilling operations.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Independence Hub nears production from eastern Gulf of Mexico leases
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Processing
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FACTS: Asia-Pacific refined product demand to rebound in 2006 and later
After experiencing strong growth in 2004, the Asia-Pacific region’s oil demand growth slowed in 2005, particularly during the second half of the year, according to a July 2006 study from FACTS Inc., Honolulu.
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FACTS: Asia-Pacific refined product demand to rebound in 2006 and later
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Transportation
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PIPELINE FAILURE RATES-CONCLUSION: Pipeline grouping method improves aggregate data
This concluding part of an article exploring a model for reducing statistical uncertainty when pooling pipeline data applies Part 1’s methodology to actual pipeline-failure data compiled by the US Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) 1994-2005.
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PIPELINE FAILURE RATES-CONCLUSION: Pipeline grouping method improves aggregate data
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Print Ad Index
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Supplement to Oil & Gas Journal
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Market Focus: Gulf of Mexico
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Gulf of Mexico world’s hottest play, but challenges still loom
The US Gulf of Mexico is the world’s hottest exploration and development play and the most important source of US oil and natural gas supply.
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Technology challenges daunting for deepwater GOM bonanza
Overcoming technology challenges in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico is critical to future US energy supply.
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Deep shelf gas: big potential but high risks
The deep geologic horizons of the shallow-water Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf offer the best near-term opportunity for increasing US natural gas production.
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Gulf of Mexico world’s hottest play, but challenges still loom
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