Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
- Journally Speaking
  - The unexplored Arctic
    Most of the Arctic, especially offshore, is essentially unexplored with respect to petroleum.
- Editorial
  - Skewed attention to supply
    After years of neglect, US energy politics at last considers supply. The attention is skewed by the politics of a grueling election year.
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - Equipment/Software/Literature
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
- Editor's Perspective
  - High oil prices form weak base for state power
    Most Americans base their distaste for foreign oil on presumed instability in the Middle East.
- Market Journal
  - A week of falling prices
    The biggest ever work-week fall of crude prices dropped a total $16.20 July 14-18 to $128.88/bbl, “below key price points that bulls may have needed to hold onto to continue their rally,” said analysts at Pritchard Capital Partners LLC, New Orleans.
General Interest
- Cost shift signals changes in energy investment, use
  Industrial energy costs have increased recently relative to industrial construction costs in a shift that will affect energy investment, production, and use.
- US congressional energy stalemate hardens as recess nears
  US congressional Democrats and Republicans appeared unlikely to resolve their impasse over energy as the August recess drew closer.
- Oil markets cling to ‘Rising demand-Falling supplies’ view
  Expectations that supplies will continue to dwindle while demand keeps growing have pushed crude oil prices dramatically higher since the beginning of 2008, two leading energy analysts told US senators.
- WATCHING GOVERNMENT: Costly E&P behind high prices
  Several members of Congress may try to minimize it. But experts say that a basic force behind dramatically higher oil and gas prices is more expensive exploration and production.
- BLM decision sets stage for major NPR-A lease sale
  The US Bureau of Land Management issued a record of decision that sets the stage for a major lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska’s northeast portion.
- Study: US unconventional gas resources underestimated
  The United States has 2,247 tcf of natural gas reserves, enough to last 118 years at 2007 demand levels, a new study has said.
- Indonesia to place BPMigas VPs within IOCs
  Indonesia, in a bid to exercise greater control over contract holders, will allow upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas to assign officials to work as vice-president within international oil companies (IOCs).
- Indonesia’s OPEC withdraw decision ‘sovereign’
  Chakib Khelil, president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, while acknowledging that Indonesia has played an important role since joining the organization in 1962, said its plan to withdraw from the group is a “sovereign” decision.
- WATCHING THE WORLD: Mexico, US talk gulf reserves
  The US and Mexico are reported to have begun talks on how to conduct oil exploration operations in the Gulf of Mexico beginning in 2011 when a 10-year moratorium expires.
- Pertamina to offset downtime, hike August fuel imports
  Indonesia’s state-owned PT Pertamina will raise its fuel imports by 60% for about a month to compensate for a drop in production at its Cilacap refinery in Central Java.
- API: US oil demand dropped 3% during first half
  US oil demand dropped 3% in 2008’s first 6 months as gasoline deliveries fell 1.7% in their first significant 6-month decrease since 1991, the American Petroleum Institute reported on July 18.
Exploration & Development
- SPECIAL REPORT: Discoveries, undeveloped opportunities persist as offshore Europe oil output falls
  Despite the growth of other regions, Europe remains one of the world’s largest offshore producing theaters.
- SPECIAL REPORT: UK first half drilling steady
  Offshore exploration and appraisal drilling in UK waters in the first 6 months of 2008 kept pace with 2007’s level, said the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Drilling & Production
- 3D pore pressure used to optimize well design
  Pore pressure greatly affects drilling safety and the economics of drilling design and well construction.
- Fossil fuel development requires long-term sulfur strategies
  Based on history, the world will require long-term sulfur management strategies because the increased development of fossil fuels likely will result in involuntary production of large amounts of surplus sulfur.
Processing
- Modified cycles, adsorbents improve gas treatment, increase mol-sieve life
  Natural gas treatment often uses adsorbents for contaminant removal. Special materials, such as molecular sieves, remove sulfur-containing impurities like mercaptans, as well as water vapor.
- Nelson-Farrar monthly cost indexes
Transportation
- Study details errors contributing to high-pressure pipeline infringement
  A new case study written by Julian Williamson and Christine Daniels and published by the UK’s Health and Safety Executive details issues contributing to a third-party pipeline infringement in February 2007.
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