Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
- Letters
  - Climate and plague
    St. Augustine said it best: "Faith is to believe what we cannot see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe," in this particular case, the deleterious effects of man-made carbon dioxide emissions.
- Journally Speaking
  - Writing significantly
    As writers, journalists become products of accumulated correction.
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- The Editor's Perspective
  - Authors say crisis forces remain at work on oil price
    If you think stability has returned to the oil market, two Rice University researchers have a message that should slosh your coffee: The crisis isn't over.
- Market Journal
  - Cold weather saps distillates surplus
    Colder weather across much of the northern hemisphere in late December and early January accelerated the burn-off of a global distillate fuel surplus.
General Interest
- Editorial: Another leasing setback
  The second-worst part of land management under US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar is duplicity. The worst part is a systematic slowdown in development of oil and gas resources.
- Special Report: US energy demand set for slim expansion in 2010
  Moderate economic growth will spur a small recovery in US energy demand this year.
- Special Report: Marginally higher drilling in view in US, Canada
  The roller coaster drilling year of 2009 gives way to somewhat brighter prospects in the US and Canada in 2010.
- EIA: World economic recovery to restore oil demand growth
  Global oil demand declined a second consecutive year in 2009 for the first time since 1983, the US Energy Information Administration said.
- Salazar draws industry heat with oil, gas leasing reform
  US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced onshore federal oil and gas leasing reform which he said would provide producers greater certainty but which oil and gas groups argued would create delays.
- Interior Sec. Salazar blasted for 'kings of the world' statement
  An oil state US House Democrat strongly criticized Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for his characterizations of the oil and gas industry during a teleconference last week with reporters.
- Watching Government: Fuel ethanol limits
  At first glance, the Jan. 6 letter to three key federal energy and environment policymakers from 14 trade associations about possible early approval of a higher ethanol content in motor fuels might have seemed routine.
- EPA proposes strictest federal smog standards yet
  The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed the strictest federal standards yet for ground-level ozone, commonly known as smog.
- Indonesia unveils long-term oil, gas plan
  Indonesia unveiled a long-term oil and gas management plan to attract $32 billion in investments for oil and gas facilities in 2010-14.
- Watching The World: Reprise in Madagascar
  A year ago, we were watching Madagascar's oil and gas industry, and the signs were not promising as demonstrators rampaged in the streets and set fire to an oil depot (OGJ, Feb. 2, 2009, p. 34).
- US biofuels policies flawed, Baker Institute study finds
  US policymakers need to consider the unintended consequences of federal subsidies and tariffs that go to domestic ethanol producers, concluded a study from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
- Total inaugurates CCS pilot in southwest France
  Total Exploration & Production France on Jan. 11 inaugurated a carbon capture, transportation, and storage pilot project at the Lacq natural gas processing plant and industrial complex in southwestern France.
- COMPANY NEWS: Total, Chesapeake announce Barnett shale joint venture
  Chesapeake Energy Corp. announced a $2.25 billion joint venture agreement with Total E&P USA Inc. in which Total will acquire a 25% interest in Chesapeake's upstream Barnett shale assets.
Exploration & Development
- PDVSA, Eni to form JVs to develop, refine Orinoco oil
  Venezuela's Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and Italy's Eni SPA agreed to establish two joint ventures to produce and refine oil from the Junin 5 block in the Orinoco belt.
- Lodgepole Scallion zone yields oil in North Dakota
  Continental Resources Inc., Enid, Okla., said an initial test of a horizontally drilled section of Scallion limestone in west-central North Dakota produced at an uneconomic 7-day rate of 65 b/d of oil and 37 Mcfd of associated gas and plans no further drilling at present.
Technology
- Refrigeration provides economic process for recovering NGL from CO₂-EOR recycle gas
  Removing and selling NGL from the produced gas stream is one on the ways CO<sub>2</sub> enhanced oil recovery projects can improve their economics.
- GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: Statoil publishes Aasgard Blend assay
  Statoil late last year published an assay of its Aasgard Blend, a commingling of production from Smorbukk, Smorbukk South, Midgard, Mikkel, Kristin, Yttergryta, and Tyrihans fields in the Norwegian Sea.
- In-line EMAT expands IM capabilities
  Electromagnetic transducer technology in-line inspections are sufficiently sensitive to detect crack-like features as part of pipeline integrity management.