Oil & Gas Journal Articles, Jul 2009

Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
- Letters
  - Waxman-Markey omissions
    Sixty percent of our annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are emitted by transportation petroleum-based fuels and coal-based electric power plants.
- Journally Speaking
  - Prudhoe’s oil and gas future
    Forty-one years after discovery on Alaska's North Slope, Prudhoe Bay field remains the largest oil-producing field in the US.
- Equipment/Software/Literature
- Services/Suppliers
- Advertisers Index
- The Editor's Perspective
  - Reporting profits in recession sure to stir public ire
    The US oil and gas industry should listen to whatever political problems befall Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for echoes from its own experience.
- Market Journal
  - Gas market seeks sign
    Four consecutive weeks of smaller-than-expected injections of natural gas into US storage triggered a 12% price jump for the front-month contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange in mid-July in what some hoped might be the first sign that well shut-ins and reduced drilling may be decreasing supply.
General Interest
- Editorial: An upstart contradiction
  Contradictions of energy policy emerge so spontaneously these days in the US that it's rare to have the chance to warn of one before it has fully developed and begun gorging itself on the national welfare.
- COMMENT: US exaggerating hope for renewable energy
  Far from learning any lessons from their ill-conceived foray into biofuels through the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), Congress and the Obama administration appear destined to compound their mistakes in the huge climate bill now making its way through Congress.
- Local approaches may help US in oil-rich areas overseas
  The US government should be ready to engage local and state governments overseas in addition to national officials as it tries to secure foreign oil and gas supplies, a US senate committee was told on July 16.
- California ponders offshore oil project to ease budget crisis
  California's legislature might vote soon to authorize the first new oil activity off Santa Barbara in 40 years as a way to help resolve the state's budget crisis.
- Watching Government: E15 opponents want more tests
  We have tried to use our good will to encourage each party, particularly their security forces, to not get into violent situations.
- Oil, gas demand drive Asian boundary disputes
  A subcommittee of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee was told that growing demand for oil and gas is one of the main drivers of increasing "friction and tension" over maritime boundaries in waters of East and Southeast Asia.
- EU slaps antidumping, antisubsidy duties on US biodiesel
  The European Biodiesel Board (EBB), representing the major biofuels producing industry in the European Union, praised the European Council for approving what it called "definitive antidumping and countervailing measures against unfair US biodiesel exports."
- Watching The World: Khodorkovsky case
  The oil and gas industry now and then suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
- Court ruling leaves key oil fields to Sudanese government
  The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has readjusted the borders of Sudan's oil-rich Abyei region, effectively awarding control of key oil facilities in the area to the Khartoum-based northern government.
- Abu Dhabi awards $9 billion in gas project contracts
  Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (Gasco) has awarded more than $9 billion in lump-sum turnkey contracts for engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of its integrated gas development project at Ruwais and Habshan.
- Regas units for floating LNG being installed
  Testing of LNG regasification packages for floating installations is taking place this summer in advance of commissioning off Brazil, Boston, and Dubai.
Exploration & Development
- Indonesia opens 24 oil, gas blocks for bidding
  The Indonesian government, seeking international investment to boost the country's falling output of oil, has released 24 new oil and gas blocks for exploration and production contracts.
- Ghana approves first Jubilee development phase
  Ghana has formally approved the first development phase of giant Jubilee oil field, which will tap 300 million bbl and is to begin producing in the second half of 2010.
- ExxonMobil spuds Libya’s first deepwater well
  ExxonMobil Exploration Co.'s Libyan affiliate has spud the first deepwater exploration well off Libya.
- PDO lets contract for Kauther depletion-compression project
  Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) has let a $350 million engineering, procurement, and construction contract to Petrofac Ltd. for the Kauther gas-condensate field depletion-compression project.
Drilling & Production
- Well off Mexico illustrates various drilling, completion complications
  A well recently drilled off Mexico, Bolontiku 43, provides an example of numerous drilling problems encountered when drilling tectonically active zones that included extensive faulting, salt zones, clay and shale problems, loss circulations, and high-pressure zones over or underlain by low-pressure zones.
Processing
- Special Report: Global ethylene productionrises 7 million tpy in 2008
  Worldwide ethylene producers added more than 7 million tonnes/year of capacity in 2008, according to Oil & Gas Journal's latest ethylene survey.
- Special Report: International survey of ethylene from steam crackers—2009
Transportation
- CORROSION— Conclusion: Pitting corrosion models improve integrity management, reliability
  New deterministic and stochastic models for external pitting corrosion in underground pipelines can help improve integrity and reliability analyses.

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