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  - Tons of confusion
    I read your article “Musings on ‘M,’” and I agree wholeheartedly about the confusing nature of certain abbreviations in our industry (OGJ, Oct. 27, 2008, p. 18).
- Journally Speaking
  - Political fracturing
    Oil and gas producers in the US can profit by brushing up on the regulatory background of hydraulic fracturing.
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- Editor's Perspective
  - Waxman challenge might be a climate change power play
    A chairmanship challenge at the House Energy and Commerce Committee may be the first step in a power play over climate change.
- Market Journal
  - OPEC’s compliance should tighten markets
    If the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries can achieve just 60% compliance with the 1.5 million b/d production reduction voted at its Oct. 24 meeting, there would be at least a “small” reduction in consumer oil inventories through 2009, said analysts at KBC Market Services, a division of KBC Process Technology Ltd. in Surrey, UK.
General Interest
- Editorial: Obama’s energy program
  Because political promises exist to be broken, no one would feel morally usurped if President-Elect Barack Obama ignored the energy program on which he and his running mate campaigned.
- Rise seen in petrochemical, refining construction
  Oil & Gas Journal’s semiannual Worldwide Construction Update shows a slight increase in refining and petrochemical construction activity compared with the previous edition of the update (OGJ, Apr. 7, 2008, P.24).
- Aramco, ConocoPhillips delay Yanbu refinery construction
  Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Aramco and ConocoPhillips, citing uncertainties in financial and contracting markets, have agreed to halt the bidding process for construction of their planned 400,000 b/d export refinery at Yanbu.
- Watching The World: Corrib Controversy
  How long have we been talking about Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s Corrib natural gas field development off the northwest coast of Ireland? Too long, but it looks like we’ll be talking about it even more in the future.
- Saudi production dominance to continue, analyst says
  Saudi Arabia will account for 20.93% of Middle Eastern regional oil demand by 2012 while providing a dominant 40.71% of supply, according to a recent analyst report.
- IPAA: Unconventional gas changing US supply picture
  Shale gas plays helped US natural gas production increase within the last year, while US oil production continues to decline, said speakers at the Independent Petroleum Association of America’s annual meeting Nov. 11.
- Analysts assess possible Obama administration actions
  Voting machines had barely cooled down earlier this week before energy analysts began to evaluate the apparent election victory of Ill. Sen. Barack Obama.
Exploration & Development
- Woodford shale play forms up in Oklahoma Anadarko basin
  A play for gas-condensate and oil in the fractured Upper Devonian Woodford shale formation is emerging on the Oklahoma side of the Anadarko basin.
- Atlas to pursue New Albany shale in Indiana
  Atlas Energy Resources LLC, Pittsburgh, plans to drill more than 100 horizontal wells to Devonian New Albany shale in southwestern Indiana by the end of 2009.
- Encore making run at Tuscaloosa marine shale
  Encore Acquisition Co., Fort Worth, is exploring for oil in the highly overpressured Cretaceous Tuscaloosa marine shale and has accumulated 210,000 net acres along the Louisiana-Mississippi line east of the Mississippi River.
- USGS: 2.4 tcf of gas beneath eastern >Oregon, Washington
  An estimated 2.4 tcf of natural gas and 9.8 million bbl of natural gas liquids lie beneath eastern Oregon and Washington, the US Geological Survey reported.
Drilling & Production
- UFRJ, Petrobras study strength behavior of expandable tubulars
  Researchers at COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Petrobras present a method for determining the necessary diameter-to-thickness ratio of tubulars corresponding to required minimum collapse pressures.
Processing
- Downstream industry struggles with fewer resources, study says
  The global engineering contractor industry is experiencing a shortage of qualified manpower, according to a biennial survey of refiners and petrochemical producers.
Transportation
- CRUDE EXPORT RISER—2: Reliable FSHR use requires advance fatigue assessments
  Analyses assessing the possible use of a free-standing hybrid riser (FSHR) as part of an offshore field development export system should both thoroughly address fatigue damage during installation and determine the allowable sea states for deployment.