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Table of Contents

Oil & Gas Journal

01/26/2009
Volume 107, Issue 4
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  • Regular Features

    • OGJ Newsletter

    • Letters

      • The warming joust
        Regarding your editorial entitled “Obama and climate change,” thank you for a bit of sanity (OGJ, Dec. 8 2008, p. 24)!

    • Journally Speaking

      • A peek inside OGJ news
        Oil & Gas Journal editors supply the latest industry news, statistical studies, special reports, and technical information to the oil and gas industry through its weekly print and online magazines, daily electronic newsletter and web site formats, webcasts, conferences, and other information outlets.

    • Market Journal

      • ‘Vicious’ loop in oil market
        Escalating oil inventories have filled most storage at the Cushing, Okla., primary delivery point, undermining US crude prices to the point West Texas Intermediate is “about as useful as a chocolate oven-glove” in assessing world market conditions, said Paul Horsnell at Barclays Capital Inc., London.

    • Editor's Perspective

  • General Interest

  • Exploration & Development

    • Iraq’s E&D Future —2 Impediments abound to exploiting Iraq’s vast petroleum resource
      The traditional go-slow approach of the Iraq Petroleum Co. and its associated companies, its ability to shift exploration and production to where it best served its interests and to strengthen its negotiating power; as well as Iraq’s politically-driven, confrontational oil policy, unnecessary and destructive wars, and years of sanctions, have proven to be serious impediments to the development of Iraq’s oil industry.

  • Drilling & Production

    • Oil Shale —2: New approaches overcome past technical issues
      Building on past lessons in the US and successful efforts in Estonia, China, and Brazil, developers of oil shale technology are defining, testing, and demonstrating new approaches that overcome past technical issues such as energy use, thermal efficiency, oil yield, gas richness, water use, spent-shale management, emissions controls, and groundwater protection.

  • Processing

  • Transportation

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