Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
08/24/2009
Volume 107, Issue 32
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Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
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Journally Speaking
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Industry safety record improving
While researching health and safety information on the American Petroleum Institute's web site, this editor found an annual survey of nonfatal injuries and illnesses in the workplace.
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Industry safety record improving
- Equipment/Software/Literature
- Services/Suppliers
- Advertisers Index
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The Editor's Perspective
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Hazards linger as the Obama agenda stalls
Those raucous outbursts against health-care reform legislation mean more than what US President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party stalwarts want to believe.
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Hazards linger as the Obama agenda stalls
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Market Journal
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A century of speculation
For more than 100 years, US legislators have passed laws to reduce price volatility and prevent manipulation of commodity markets.
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A century of speculation
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General Interest
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Editorial: Unsound energy thinking
Tax torpedoes in the budget proposed by US President Barack Obama have vital significance to the oil and gas industry regardless of their political fate.
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International upstream: a 5-year roller coaster
Investors in the upstream oil and gas industry have been on a roller coaster ride for the past 5 years, with prices reaching dizzying heights and then plummeting.
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RIIA: West has exaggerated fear of Asia over African oil
Western fears about increasing Asian interest in securing African oil resources are highly exaggerated, according to a recent report by the UK's Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA).
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Watching The World: Corrib project delayed again
I reland's oil and gas industry has been out of the news for a while, but its back as disagreement continues in County Mayo over Royal Dutch Shell PLC's Corrib gas pipeline project.
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Egyptians protest sale of natural gas to Israel
The Egyptian-Israeli consortium Egyptian Mediterranean Gas (EMG) has finalized terms of an agreement to supply natural gas to Israel's Dorad Energy, revising an agreement initially struck in 2007.
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Coalition planning rallies against cap-and-trade program
A coalition of more than 100 organizations, including at least 15 oil and gas groups, plans to hold rallies in about 20 states to express concerns about proposed federal clean air legislation before Congress returns from its August recess.
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Watching Government: An anomaly among indicators
With Congress in recess and the Obama administration concentrating on other issues, late summer is a good time to sample some oil and gas statistics.
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Magellan settles charges stemming from 2004 ammonia spills
Magellan Ammonia Pipeline Co. and two of its former affiliates agreed to pay a $3.65 million civil fine to resolve federal water pollution charges stemming from two 2004 ammonia spills, the US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency jointly announced.
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CFTC to examine CCE's carbon financial instrument
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission will examine whether a carbon financial instrument that trades on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCE) performs a significant price discovery function, CFTC said Aug. 17.
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Western GOM lease sale attracts $115 million in apparent high bids
Apparent high bids totaling more than $115 million were offered for 162 tracts in the Western Gulf of Mexico during Lease Sale 210, reported the US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service Aug. 19 in New Orleans.
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GAO considers refinery outage impact data gaps
While most refinery outages have modest, if any, price impact, analysis of the relationship could be improved, the Governmental Accountability Office said in a recent report.
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Brazil contemplating changes in oil law
Brazil's President Luiz Inancio Lula da Silva expects to send proposed changes in the country's oil laws to Congress within 2 weeks, he announced during an Aug. 18 speech in Rio de Janeiro state.
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Editorial: Unsound energy thinking
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Exploration & Development
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Special Report: Remote, underexplored basins still objects of exploration
Exploration has persisted in some of the world's remote and underexplored basins even in the face of weak oil prices at half or less than their level of a year ago.
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Special Report: Remote, underexplored basins still objects of exploration
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Drilling & Production
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MEOR APPLICATIONS — Conclusion: Field cases illustrate MEOR effectiveness
Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) projects carried out during the last 10 years provide a basis for characterizing the types of reservoirs suitable for MEOR applications.
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MEOR APPLICATIONS — Conclusion: Field cases illustrate MEOR effectiveness
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Processing
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Analysis foresees decline in US gasoline imports
The many uncertainties surrounding forecasts of US gasoline demand for the most part relate to predicting economic activity and industry fundamentals.
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Analysis foresees decline in US gasoline imports
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Transportation
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New MFL technology completes single-run multifeature inspections
GDF Suez's wholly owned gas transmission system operator, GRTgaz, completed its first project with GE Oil & Gas' New MagneScan in-line inspection system, a next-generation magnetic flux leakage device allowing operators to map pipelines as small as 6-in.
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New MFL technology completes single-run multifeature inspections
