Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
- Letters
  - Problems with hydrogen
    This letter responds to the article “Shell Oil executive outlines 12-point energy plan”.
- Journally Speaking
  - Windmills in paradise
    To drive regularly between Abilene and Lubbock, Tex., is to witness the industrialization of the Llano Estacado.
- Editorial
  - Spurning unconventional oil
    An energy-craving country obsessed by fear of oil from the Middle East should welcome prospects for a new 7-8 million b/d from North America.
- Area Drilling
  - Area Drilling
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Equipment/Software/Literature
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
- Editor's Perspective
  - Climate bill seen raising gas use, lowering supply
    Climate-change legislation in the US Senate would boost demand for natural gas while limiting supply, according to analyses by two industry groups.
- Market Journal
  - Dollar value, crude prices fluctuate
    The May benchmark US crude contract jumped above $107/bbl Mar. 27 in the New York market following the bombing of a primary export oil pipeline in southern Iraq.
General Interest
- SPECIAL REPORT: Rise seen in sulfur, refining construction projects
  Oil & Gas Journal’s semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows a slight increase in refining and sulfur projects in the engineering stage as well as gas processing construction activity compared with the previous edition of the update.
- Lawmaker urges majors to spend more on alternatives
  Saying that the poorest US families now spend 10% of their annual incomes on gasoline because of high oil prices, a US House committee chairman said that major oil companies should direct a similar portion of their profits to alternate energy research and development.
- API: Oil costs remain key gasoline price influence
  Oil costs, and not refinery turnarounds, are primarily responsible for higher gasoline prices, American Petroleum Institute officials said.
- WATCHING GOVERNMENT: US law targets Canada’s oil sands
  A provision that was inserted into the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA 2007) to keep the US Air Force from developing coal-to-liquids (CTL) fuels could limit imports of Canadian oil produced from tar sands.
- Shell officials outline routes to world’s energy future
  The world’s energy producers, consumers, and governments could either cooperate or “scramble” as they try to solve major energy and environment problems, two Royal Dutch Shell PLC executives said on Apr. 1.
- RMI: Challenges affecting many US energy elements
  National oil companies (NOCs), which now have “superior access to resources and booming domestic markets,” made two thirds of the largest oil and gas discoveries in 2007, said Parker Drilling Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Robert L. Parker Jr. at the RMI Oilfield Breakfast Forum in Houston Mar. 28.
- IEA: Non-OPEC output decline rates lower than believed
  The combined production decline rate for countries outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is steadier and less steep than is generally believed, according to the International Energy Agency, Paris.
- EPA signs more-stringent air quality standard
  The US Environmental Protection Agency on Mar. 12 signed its most stringent standard for ground-level ozone, revising the standards for the first time in more than a decade.
- Colorado state agency releases draft oil, gas rules
  The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC) released a set of proposed rules Mar. 31 that are open to public comment, and a final OGCC decision on the rules is expected in July.
- WATCHING THE WORLD: Colombia’s 2020 oil vision
  Colombia hopes to raise its oil production to 1 million b/d by 2020—if its neighbors Ecuador, Venezuela, and Nicaragua will allow it.
- Europia: EU must issue policies that help refiners compete
  The European Union should provide its refining companies with “a globally competitive level playing field” to help them face the “important” challenges of the next years and make the needed investments, said Panos E. Cavoulacos, president of the 17-member refining trade group Europia.
Exploration & Development
- Longer legs, multilaterals under study in Arkoma Woodford shale gas play
  The most experienced operator in the Arkoma basin Woodford shale gas play is demonstrating that longer horizontal lateral drilling will lead to higher estimated ultimate recoveries and improved rates of return just as in the Barnett shale.
Drilling & Production
- CHANGBEI WELLS—1: Shell drills gas project in China
  To supply gas for the Olympics, Shell is drilling the longest horizontal wells ever attempted in mainland China.
- DEEPWATER ESP—Conclusion: Jubarte downhole ESP required extensive qualification, testing
  Extensive qualification and testing proved out the electric submersible pump (ESP) installed downhole in the JUB-6 well in Jubarte field off Brazil.
Processing
- Russian refining tax structure fails to promote investment
  The Russian petroleum tax structure encourages the country’s operators to export refined products rather than crude oil; therefore Russian crude throughput averaged 4.6 million b/d in 2007, a new post-Soviet era record, according to the International Energy Agency’s “Oil Market Report,” published on Feb. 13, 2008.
- Nelson-Farrar monthly cost indexes
- Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Changes in indexes for selected equipment items
  Continuing a trend starting in 1983, the Nelson-Farrar refinery construction index rose quickly to 2,144.4 in December 2007 from 1,961.6 in January 2006.
Transportation
- Raster-based GIS data guide economic pipeline construction
  Raster-based GIS routing models prevent pipelines from becoming an economic burden on the companies and countries involved in their construction and operation by minimizing not just the economic costs, but also the environmental and social costs of any new project.
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Supplement to Oil & Gas Journal
- Pipeline Protection Equipment & Services
  - Capacities and new regulations top pipeline protection concerns
    Service and supply companies dedicated to pipeline protection are coping well with an array of concerns facing their industry.
  - Pipeline protection technology challenges center on corrosion, inspection
    Technology challenges in the area of pipeline protection are centered on the areas of corrosion detection and inhibition, remote monitoring and risk assessment, and inspecting unpiggable lines.