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  - Democratic oil finders?
    In response to congressional Democrats obstructing new offshore leasing until all existing leases are fully developed, I request that the Democratic National Committee put its money where its mouth is, so as to apply their assumed earth science expertise to locate the undeveloped petroleum precisely.
- Journally Speaking
  - Spotlight on new technology
    Oil & Gas Journal is a technology-based magazine emphasizing upstream and downstream issues and news for executives, engineers, and other participants in the oil and gas industry.
- Editorial
  - OPEC and hurricanes
    The oil market fell subject to more tugs and pushes than usual last week as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries acted to support the price of crude and the second hurricane in 2 weeks threatened production and refining in and near the Gulf of Mexico.
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- Services/Suppliers
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- Editor's Perspective
  - Oil prices change faster than market perceptions turn
    Market perceptions, whatever they are and whatever their influence over oil prices, take a long time to change.
- Market Journal
  - Storms, OPEC guide oil prices
    Front-month crude prices fluctuated at $111-122/bbl through most of August on the New York Mercantile Exchange but fell sharply Aug. 28-Sept. 5 primarily as Hurricane Gustav proved less of a threat to offshore production and Gulf Coast refining than some anticipated.
General Interest
- SPECIAL REPORT: OGJ200 earnings mixed as US production, reserves climb
  The OGJ200 group of companies recorded a decline in earnings last year as greater expenses ate into returns.
- SPECIAL REPORT: OGJ100 group posts improved 2007 results
  National oil companies continue to head the lists of the world’s oil production and reserves leaders, according to Oil & Gas Journal’s survey of the top 100 oil and gas producers based outside the US, but more nongovernment corporations are breaking into the leading-producer rankings.
- Global E&P investments for 2007 remain flat, study finds
  Oil and gas companies’ 2007 global investment for exploration and development projects totaled $402 billion—unchanged from 2006, said the latest annual upstream performance review by IHS Herold Inc. and Harrison Lovegrove & Co. Ltd.
- US Congress presses for energy votes by October
  Acknowledging that they have less than 3 weeks before the next recess, congressional leaders on both sides of the Capitol said they will bring energy bills up for votes soon.
- WATCHING GOVERNMENT: API on polar bears
  The American Petroleum Institute said on Sept. 5 that it wasn’t questioning the US Department of the Interior’s decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species when it filed a motion on Aug. 27 to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the findings.
- Alaska gas projects advance; consolidation urged
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in its latest report to Congress Aug. 29, said that of the two major projects competing to deliver natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope, only one likely will be built, and it is urging that the sponsors work together to build that single line.
- Reactions mixed as BLM issues EIS for oil shale
  The US Bureau of Land Management issued a final programmatic environmental impact statement Sept. 4 to guide the use of public land containing oil shale and tar sands in three western states.
- Producers forecast decline in oil, natural gas production from Indonesia operations
  PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia (CPI), already under government scrutiny for alleged violations of its cost recovery claims, has forecast that production from its concessions will decline due to aging fields and seasonal floods.
- WATCHING THE WORLD: Does OPEC cut by the numbers?
  If anything can be counted on in the oil and gas industry these days, it is that the governments of Venezuela and the US are not going to see eye-to-eye on very much at all.
Exploration & Development
- Canadian firm gets Mediterranean acreage block off Libya, Tunisia
  Joint Oil of Libya and Tunisia has awarded the 7th of November block in the southern Mediterranean to Canadian Superior Energy Inc., Calgary.
- Delaware basin shales strain for economics
  The Mississippian Barnett shale has the potential to be a prolific gas producer in the Delaware basin, but it will take time, write geoscientists in the AAPG Bulletin.
- Chevron’s 3 tcf Piceance basin project gears up
  Chevron Corp. has started gas production in a $7.3 billion project to develop an estimated 3 tcf of gas over several decades in the Piceance basin in northwestern Colorado.
Drilling & Production
- Corrosion problems solved in CT nitrogen operations off Brazil
  Laboratory and field research with various completion fluids helps refine procedures to reduce corrosion in coiled tubing during use of nitrogen contaminated with oxygen.
- Considerable potential remains after Daqing polymer flood
  At present, one potential for additional oil recovery from Daqing oil field in northern China is the remaining oil contained in reservoirs that have undergone polymer flooding.
Processing
- Contaminants key to refinery offgas treatment unit design
  This article details methods for removing individual contaminants in refinery offgas (ROG).
Transportation
- TERMINAL SITING—Conclusion: Project viability hinges on waterway, land assessments
  LNG terminal development requires careful assessment of both the waterway leading to the potential terminal site and the geographic conditions of the site itself.
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