Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
01/01/2007
Volume 105, Issue 1
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Regular Features
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OGJ Newsletter
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Journally Speaking
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Gulf of Mexico recycling
“Recycle the Gulf” is a comprehensive recycling program that recovers waste from offshore oil and gas operations and shore bases and provides support for the Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC), New Iberia, La.
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Gulf of Mexico recycling
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Editorial
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Restraining government
Governments historically err on energy policy by governing too aggressively, especially on fuel choice.
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Restraining government
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Area Drilling
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Equip/Software/Lit
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Editor's Perspective
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Lease bluster raises question about ‘new cop’
“When the new Democratic Congress takes office in January, there will be a new cop on the beat to force every big oil company that is currently lining its pockets with taxpayer dollars [to] come back to the negotiating table.
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Lease bluster raises question about ‘new cop’
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Market Journal
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Little reaction seen to second OPEC reduction
Despite knee-jerk purchases that hiked the January contract for benchmark US crudes to $63.43/bbl by Dec. 15, the highest closing in weeks on the New York market, there was little immediate reaction after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed Dec. 14 to trim production by 500,000 b/d to 25.8 million b/d., effective Feb. 1, “in order to balance supply and demand.”
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Little reaction seen to second OPEC reduction
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General Interest
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Exploration & Development: New thinking confronts the ‘brain drain’
Expect 2007 to be a strong year for exploration and development worldwide.
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Drilling & Production: Powerful new rigs drill in tough conditions
The drilling industry this year will use newer, more-efficient, and more-powerful rigs and tools to test new plays and develop reserves in challenging environments such as arctic conditions and deep, high-temperature, high-pressure regimes.
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Drilling & Production: Smart wells, ‘e-fields’ shaping production plans
Technology remains key to how fast and how much of the world’s remaining oil and gas resources the industry can produce economically from the varied environments that hold most potential: deep water, arctic regions, coalbeds, partially depleted reservoirs, and deep, tight formations with high temperature and pressure, as well as formations containing heavy oil or bitumen.
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Processing: Refining focus swings from clean fuels to adding capacity
Refiners throughout the world will turn their focus in 2007 to expanding crude distillation capacity and expanding the use of renewable fuels.
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Processing: LPG surplus developing in association with LNG supply jump
Production of LPG-the world’s most widely traded NGL-is on the rise everywhere but in North America.
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Transportation: Integrity management to remain top pipeline concern in 2007
Integrity management will stay at the forefront of pipeline operators’ agendas in 2007.
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Lehman Bros.: E&P spending to see slower growth
After “extremely strong growths” of 20% in 2005 and 30% in 2006, global exploration and production spending is expected to rise at a slower rate of 9% to $300 billion in 2007, with more emphasis on international rather than US projects, said analysts at Lehman Bros. Inc., New York.
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FACTS forecasts two gas-price convergence trends
Natural gas prices are converging upward, both in conjunction with rising oil prices and across global gas markets, according to a study of gas trends by Fesharaki Associates Consulting & Technical Services Inc. (FACTS), Honolulu.
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New group to develop energy policy recommendations
Energy consumers and producers, including six oil and gas trade associations, have formed what former US Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) termed “a coalition of coalitions” to develop national energy policy recommendations.
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WATCHING GOVERNMENT: A look back at 2006
“Fast away, the old year passes… Hail the new, ye lads and lasses!”
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COMPANY NEWS: Statoil, Norsk Hydro to merge in $30 billion deal
The boards of Norway’s Statoil ASA and Norsk Hydro ASA have agreed to merge their oil and gas operations in a deal valued at about $30 billion, creating the world’s largest offshore operator.
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WATCHING THE WORLD: Putin’s oil grab
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not good for his country’s oil industry.
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WoodMac: Gulf of Mexico key for merging Statoil-Norsk Hydro
The merger of Statoil ASA’s and Norsk Hydro ASA’s oil and gas businesses will create an upstream player whose most important future international operations will be in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Wood Mackenzie analysts said.
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Exploration & Development: New thinking confronts the ‘brain drain’
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Exploration & Development
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Trap types can be instructive in Gulf of Mexico shelf search
Most exploration on the Gulf of Mexico shelf off Louisiana and Texas has been based on the search for the types of traps in which oil and gas have previously been found.
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Trap types can be instructive in Gulf of Mexico shelf search
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Drilling & Production
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Liner tie-backs stop casing leaks in Libya completions
A project in which existing 7-in. liners were tied back to surface then cemented stopped casing leaks in the Sarir and Messla oil fields in Libya.
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Modeling, analysis prevent sleeve tool sticking during casing repair
Increasing casing failures in Daqing oil field have aggravated damage to wells. A new method to repair these failures removes and replaces damaged casing with a sleeve milling pipe string.
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Liner tie-backs stop casing leaks in Libya completions
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Processing
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Mideast site tests fiber-optic corrosion monitoring system
Field trials in a Middle East gas processing plant have assessed a new approach to monitoring wall thickness loss caused by corrosion or erosion processes.
- Nelson-farrar cost indexes
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Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: How refinery fuel indexes have varied
Refinery fuels costs have endured an unsteady course since 2003. As shown in the accompanying table, most of the PADD residual fuels’ increases in cost occurred in 2004 and 2005 for all five PADDs.
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Mideast site tests fiber-optic corrosion monitoring system
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Transportation
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ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION-1: Monitoring, analysis show rapid Gulf of Mexico seafloor recovery
Hard-live bottom areas affected by the 2001 construction of Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC’s 36-in., 419-mile offshore pipeline between Mobile Bay, Ala. and Tampa Bay, Fla. have largely recovered, in the face of permitting expectations that this process would take roughly 100 years.
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ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION-1: Monitoring, analysis show rapid Gulf of Mexico seafloor recovery
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