Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
- Journally Speaking
  - New year, new look
    Most of us after the holidays are ready for a change. That is why we try to make New Year’s resolutions, such as to lose weight, stop smoking, save more money, and spend more time with family.
- Editorial
  - Democrats in control
    Misunderstanding typical of past energy mistakes is pushing triumphant congressional Democrats to the brink of new error.
- Area Drilling
  - Area Drilling
- Editor's Perspective
  - Corruption fight should target government excess
    Democrats deserve applause for making ethics reform the first legislative thrust of the 110th Congress.
- Market Journal
  - Crude suffers severe 2-day loss
    The February contract price for benchmark US crude fell 9% Jan. 3-4 to near 18-month lows in the first two trading sessions of 2007 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
General Interest
- SPECIAL REPORT: US energy market to expand in 2007 as prices ease
  US energy demand will increase this year as the economy grows at a tempered pace.
- SPECIAL REPORT: Growth expected for global oil demand, production
  Worldwide demand for oil will climb 1.4 million b/d in 2007, following growth of just 900,000 b/d last year.
- SPECIAL REPORT: Lower drilling growth seen in US, drop in Canada
  Price uncertainty, especially for gas, overshadows the forecast for US and Canadian drilling in 2007.
- COMMENT: Sakhalin-2 deal will alter business climate, markets
  The agreement between Royal Dutch Shell PLC and OAO Gazprom, the Russian state-owned natural gas company, under which Gazprom will become the majority shareholder in the Sakhalin-2 LNG project demonstrates that western oil companies will no longer be able to obtain majority stakes in major Russian hydrocarbon assets.
- Democrats put global warming at center of energy plans
  In their first day back in charge, US Senate Democrats said they intend to aggressively address global climate change by developing energy alternatives to oil, gas, and coal; by improving energy efficiency; and by shifting tax incentives from traditional energy sources to emerging technologies.
- Bush lifts leasing bans on two OCS areas
  US President George W. Bush has opened two Outer Continental Shelf areas for new oil and gas leasing after removing tracts in Alaska’s North Aleutian basin (more commonly known as Bristol Bay) and the Central Gulf of Mexico from the presidential withdrawal list.
- WATCHING GOVERNMENT: EIA hikes oil flow outlook
  The US Energy Information Administration won’t present its 2007 Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) for a few more weeks.
- US foreign policy must consider changing energy world
  US foreign policy needs to better recognize the impacts of a changing energy world, experts told the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Jan. 10.
- WATCHING THE WORLD: After prison, the book tour
  Filmmaker John Ford would have loved this tale of Ireland’s little men making their misguided stand against the oil industry.
- Venezuela to nationalize Orinoco oil operations
  Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez announced a series of measures Jan. 8 to change the face of the country’s economy and lead it further onto a socialist path.
- IEA: EU copes with Russian oil export delays
  The International Energy Agency Jan. 9 said European oil markets would cope with the halt of Russian oil exports via the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline across Belarus, but it nonetheless called for a quick and clear resolution to the problem (OGJ Online, Jan. 8, 2007).
Exploration & Development
- WEST AFRICA-2: West Africa second only to Russia in non-OPEC supply contribution
  This is the second of two parts on the exploration and production outlook for the West African countries that border the Gulf of Guinea and Congo Delta.
- Salt origin without evaporation proposed
  A group of authors led by a Statoil ASA specialist in marine geology has proposed an unconventional theory for the origin of salt that could have far reaching implications for oil and gas exploration.
Drilling & Production
- N-removal technology improved to process West Texas Yates gas
  Removing nitrogen from natural gas increases production potential and may spur drilling in the Yates formation, Permian basin.
- Expandable tubulars facilitate intelligent technology placement
  Installation of solid expandable tubulars in combination with intelligent-well technology facilitates remedial operations in multilateral wells in a Saudi Arabia oil field producing from a limestone reservoir.
Processing
- US gasoline markets to rebalance by 2010
  A detailed analysis of the US gasoline market shows that a market rebalancing will be under way by 2010, when additional refining capacity will reduce the imbalance between demand and supply.
Transportation
- ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION-3: Limestone boulders, artificial reef modules provide seafloor mitigation
  Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC created habitat replacement sites on the Gulf of Mexico seafloor during installation of its subsea pipeline as part of efforts to mitigate its effect on both epiflora-epifauna and fish.
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