Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
- Journally Speaking
  - Free markets and biofuels
    Without exception, everyone interviewed for the special report beginning on p. 20, Agrifuels-Promise and Progress, expressed a desire to avoid unintended consequences.
- Editorial
  - Last of three parts: The final four facts
    A three-part editorial series concludes here with the last of 12 points in a monograph by two former US Federal Trade Commission officials entitled “A Dozen Facts You Should Know about Antitrust and the Oil Industry.
- Area Drilling
  - Area Drilling
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Equipment/Software/Literature
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
- Editor's Perspective
  - Explosion? Fire? Must be an oil and gas disaster
    Ignorance and suspicion frolic again at the expense of oil and gas.
- Market Journal
  - Equities market, GDP rattle oil prices
    Futures prices for crude and petroleum products took unusual bounces in the last full week of July, influenced by a falling equities market and US economic growth with virtually no immediate changes in supply and demand.
General Interest
- SPECIAL REPORT: Oil industry researching nonfood biofeedstocks
  Agrifuels’ promise from an oil industry perspective hinges on unlocking the answers to two root questions.
- NPC report: All energy options should be pursued
  Every option, from developing unconventional fossil fuel resources to pursuing renewable and other alternatives, will need to be pursued if the world expects to meet its growing energy demand through 2030, the National Petroleum Council concluded in a recent study.
- Marathon to buy Western Oil Sands, gain Athabasca stake
  Marathon Oil Corp., which is increasing capacities of its US refineries to handle heavy feedstocks, has agreed to buy Western Oil Sands Inc. for $6.5 billion (Can.) in a cash-and-stock deal that gives it a strong position in the Athabasca oil sands of northern Alberta.
- WATCHING THE WORLD: A Caribbean chessboard
  Oil companies from the Middle East, North America, East Asia, and South America are lining up to build refining capacity in Central America.
- House energy bill draws fire from producers, consumers
  US House Democratic leaders announced a wide-ranging energy bill on July 30 that incorporates work by the Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources, and other committees.
- WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Taxing oil for biofuels
  Skeptics may have wondered what a “conservation fee” on some holders of federal deepwater Gulf of Mexico leases issued in 1998 and 1999 without price thresholds had to do with a 5-year farm bill which the US House passed on July 27 with much fanfare.
Exploration & Development
- Firms to explore Fergana basin in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
  A large exploration block is taking shape in the underexplored Fergana basin in former Soviet Central Asia between the Caspian and Tarim basins.
- Interest rising in New Zealand’s East Coast basin
  Exploratory drilling will be increased late next year in the onshore portions of New Zealand’s East Coast basin as Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. begins a drilling program.
Drilling & Production
- ESTIMATING DRILLING COSTS-1: Joint association survey, mechanical risk index methods common in GOM
  Over the past several decades, various methods have been proposed to evaluate drilling costs and complexity, but because of the large number of factors and events that affect drilling performance, predictive models have been difficult to construct.
Processing
- Refiners suffer penalties when overtreating diesel
  Continuously operating distillate hydrotreaters at a finished ultralow-sulfur diesel (ULSD) product target just a few ppm below the requirement for refinery specifications to maintain a certain comfort level is uneconomic and will cost the refinery a significant loss of catalyst activity.
- Nelson-farrar cost indexes
Transportation
- World’s largest LNG compressors designed, tested for Qatargas II
  Growing global demand for LNG has spurred an increase in LNG liquefaction capacity.
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