Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
- Letters
  - Biofuels and food
    I believe that blaming biofuels for high feedstuff prices is simplistic.
- Journally Speaking
  - US gasoline perceptions
    With the official start of the summer driving season just a week away, US drivers are faced with the most expensive gasoline in history.
- Editorial
  - Subsidizing oil use
    What better symbolizes the modern oil market than the American sport utility vehicle? The outsize crowd carrier embodies the unbridled gasoline consumption and disregard for cost that receive widespread blame for fuel prices now pressing hard on consumers and economies.
- Area Drilling
  - Area Drilling
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Equipment/Software/Literature
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
- Editor's Perspective
  - Intensity rising in the politics of energy villainy
    Intensity is rising in the politics of energy villainy.
- Market Journal
  - Energy prices continue climbing
    The June contract for US light, sweet crudes jumped to a record of $126.27/bbl May 9 on the New York Mercantile Exchange before closing at a record $125.96/bbl, gaining a total $9.64/bbl over five trading sessions that week.
General Interest
- COMMENT: US can learn from European experience with cap and trade
  Cap-and-trade responses to climate change are in place in Europe and are in prospect in the US.
- Bodman criticizes gasoline tax suspension pitch
  US Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman has criticized a call by both Republic Party presumptive nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) for a suspension of the 18.4¢/gal federal gasoline tax during the US summer driving season.
- WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Wyoming Range leasing resisted
  When the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee sent 45 public land, forest, park, and water bills to the floor on May 7, the measures included closure of 1.2 million federal acres in Wyoming to future oil and gas leasing.
- Senate, House approve bills to suspend SPR crude oil purchases
  The US Senate and House overwhelmingly approved bills on May 13 to suspend crude oil purchases for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve through the end of 2008 unless prices fall below $75/bbl for 90 days.
- OTC: Dialogue with consumer groups can influence policy
  The oil and gas industry is headed for an energy policy “train wreck” unless it can successfully communicate with and engage the public in a way that will influence governmental actions favorable to the realistic provision of energy, said Consumer Energy Alliance Vice-Pres. Michael Whatley at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston May 8.
- Refiners’ storm plans greatly improved, NPRA says
  Refiners have greatly enhanced their storm preparation procedures in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, reported National Petrochemical & Refiners Association Pres. Charles T. Drevna to a US Senate committee May 13.
- WATCHING THE WORLD: A shamrock or shillelagh?
  Believe it or not, in Ireland’s County Mayo they’re still arguing over the route of the pipeline Shell E&P Ireland wants to construct from offshore Corrib gas field (OGJ, Nov. 20, 2006, p. 30).
- OTC: Natural gas hydrates research active, promising
  Methane hydrates research has made unexpected strides since 2000, but technical and economic obstacles have to be resolved before hydrates production can be proved feasible, a speaker told the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston on May 8.
- COMPANY NEWS: EnCana plans split into separate oil, gas companies
  The board of Canadian oil and natural gas company EnCana Corp. has approved a proposal to split along distinct business lines—oil and gas—to create two Calgary-based energy firms.
- PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: Dragon Oil appoints chief executive officer
  Dragon Oil PLC has appointed Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa as chief executive officer.
Exploration & Development
- Method is alternative to soil gas for detecting seepage anomalies
  Through the years, many geochemical methods have been developed for the detection of near surface hydrocarbon seepage anomalies.
Drilling & Production
- New fluids prevent formation damage to Tarim sandstones
  Researchers at China University of Petroleum have developed new drilling and completion fluids to minimize damage in Jurassic sandstones.
Processing
- SPECIAL REPORT: CMMS improves refining maintenance management
  To operate a world-class maintenance organization, plant operators need precise information combined with the ability to act quickly in response to impending emergencies.
- SPECIAL REPORT: Extending mole-sieve life depends on understanding how liquids form
  Well-designed, monitored, and operated molecular sieve dehydration systems in natural gas processing plants effectively remove moisture for more than 2,000 regeneration cycles.
Transportation
- Shallow-water gas network navigates multiple problems
  Design and installation of the offshore portion of Bahrain Petroleum Co.’s Khuff gas transmission and distribution networks (three 18-in. OD high-pressure natural gas lines) required careful planning and implementation to avoid damaging fisheries and migratory bird stops located in the shallow-water environment and impeding shipping through the commercial channel.
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