Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
  - OGJ Newsletter
- Letters
  - Unwarranted hostility
    The editorial “An unprecedented rebuke” (O&GJ, 10/13/08) might better have been titled “Unwarranted hostility” (OGJ, Oct. 13, 2008, p. 20).
- Journally Speaking
  - Producing energy from smoke
    Congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama for his unsurprising victory after an unusually long and unusually bitter campaign.
- Equip/Software/Lit
  - E q u i p m e n t / S o f t w a r e / L i t e r a t u r e
    Inhibex 301 kinetic-gas hydrate inhibitor (KHI), which promises performance under a variety of gas types and conditions, now shows—after testing—it to work as a corrosion inhibitor (CI).
- Services/Suppliers
  - Services/Suppliers
- Advertisers’ Index
- Editor's Perspective
  - EIA: New US gas saved $4 billion in first 7 months
    Anyone concerned about imported energy should find useful the simple proposition that raising production lowers imports unless consumption rises by the same amount.
- Market Journal
  - Oil futures post biggest monthly loss
    In a surprise rally in the last few moments of trading Oct. 31 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the front-month December contract for benchmark US light, sweet crudes surged upward to close at $67.81/bbl, up $1.85 for the day.
General Interest
- Editorial: Dollars and politics
  The US oil and gas industry, politically unpopular and publicly misunderstood, spent its political money on a losing cause in this year’s general election.
- Special Report: Producers, regulators address Marcellus shale gas challenges
  The Marcellus shale, which extends 575 miles across parts of three eastern US states, is thought to hold as much as 500 tcf of natural gas, about 50 tcf of which is considered recoverable.
- Special Report: Analysts see no trend of insider stock sales
  In early October, top executives of two large independent production companies, Chesapeake Energy Corp. in Oklahoma City and XTO Energy Inc. in Fort Worth, separately sold large blocks of personally owned stock in their companies.
- Capital spending cuts will delay oil sands projects
  Suncor Energy Inc. and Petro-Canada are trimming their capital expenditure budgets and delaying some of the plans for their oil sands production projects next year.
- GAO: More verification of MMS RIK production needed
  The US Minerals Management Service could improve oversight of its oil and gas royalty-in-kind (RIK) program by verifying more production data through third parties and improving reports of benefits and costs, the Government Accountability Office said on Oct. 29.
- Watching Government: BLM’s Utah plans
  New resource management plans (RMPs) for five of the US Bureau of Land Management’s six Utah field offices received final approval Oct. 31.
- Brazil’s oil development bonanza shapes up
  Brazil’s Petroleo Brasilerio SA (Petrobras), even as it eyes greater output for the future, exported a record 574,000 b/d of oil in October, breaking the previous monthly high of 532,000 b/d in April.
- Watching the World: Credit crunch impacts E&P
  How the oil and gas industry will be affected by the election of Barack Obama as president of the US remains to be seen.
- Uncertainty afflicts International Gas Summit participants
  Uncertainty was the hallmark of the 13th International Gas Summit in Paris Oct. 22-23, reflecting the current world financial turmoil and looming economic slowdown.
Exploration & Development
- Ultradeep shelf well logs four indicated pays in Miocene
  The ultradeep Gulf of Mexico shelf well known as Blackbeard has logged four “potential hydrocarbon-bearing zones below 30,067 ft,” said operator McMoRan Exploration Co., New Orleans.
Drilling & Production
- Study analyzes nine US, Canada shale gas plays
  A recent study has estimated that nine US and Canada shale-gas plays may produce as much as 24 bcfd by 2018.
Processing
- Refiners should consider Monte Carlo analysis to assess expansion projects
  Due to robust growth in the global demand for refined products, refiners often face the tough decision of whether to spend significantly to accelerate expansion projects or stick to existing time frames.
Transportation
- Crude Export Riser — 1: Hybrid riser application provides deepwater crude export solution
  The freestanding hybrid riser concept allows decoupling the schedules of riser and floating production unit design, manufacture, and installation, providing flexibility should delays occur during FPU construction.