Regular Features
- OGJ Newsletter
- Letter
  - Spending and jobs
    As a marketing writer and technical editor for a major engineering firm, which includes oil and gas, I was struck by your comment that, according to "liberal theory," "…history suggests otherwise" that states create jobs by spending money (OGJ, Sept. 14, 2009, p. 88).
- Journally Speaking
  - Canadian oil trusts
    Canadian oil and gas trusts are in the midst of positioning themselves for a federal tax change effective next year in which trusts essentially will be taxed the same way that corporations are taxed.
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- The Editor's Perspective
  - Dramatic education sometimes the best antidote for fear
    Because antidevelopment environmentalists know how to manipulate fear, advocates of oil and gas development need to know how to combat it.
- Market Journal
  - Energy markets in transition
    This year will likely see a transition of energy markets back to "traditional fundamentals" of supply, demand, and inventories in place of the financial, currency, and equity market drivers that dominated 2009, said Adam Sieminski, chief energy economist, Deutsche Bank, Washington, DC.
General Interest
- Editorial: Massachusetts and oil
  The US oil and gas industry has reason to treat with care the Republican takeover of a US Senate seat held for decades by the late Ted Kennedy representing steadfastly Democratic Massachusetts.
- Industry embraces opportunities, meets challenges from Washington in 2009
  As 2009 began, the US oil and gas industry wondered how the change Barack Obama promised in his successful 2008 presidential campaign would affect its business.
- SAFE: Industry, military can coexist in eastern gulf
  Oil and gas activity in the eastern Gulf of Mexico will not encroach on US military missions in the area, a report commissioned by Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) concluded.
- API: US drilling activity falls 37% in 2009
  Fewer US oil and gas wells were drilled in 2009 than in 2008, but the pace of activity grew during last year's final 6 months, the American Petroleum Institute reported.
- API: US oil demand showed signs of recovery late in 2009
  US oil demand fell during 2009 but began to recover as the year concluded, the American Petroleum Institute said.
- Watching Government: GHG rules bring higher costs
  The US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that businesses will be subject to significant regulations and higher costs and endure more regulation as a result of four greenhouse gas (GHG) rules the agency has proposed or finalized, two US House Republicans said.
- IPAA asks Salazar to reconsider onshore leasing regs
  The Independent Petroleum Association of America urged US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to reconsider implementing what the trade association believes are new duplicative and unnecessary onshore leasing regulations.
- Marcellus shale fight continues in New York
  Chesapeake Energy Corp. has warned that new rules proposed by New York regulators over shale gas drilling already are unnecessarily onerous and may deprive New York of badly needed revenue by scaring off energy firms.
- Watching The World: China, Japan sparring again
  Disputed natural gas reserves beneath the East China Sea are once again making headlines, as China and Japan spar over which of the two countries has the rights to the underwater reserves.
Exploration & Development
- McMoRan sees Davy Jones find revitalizing much of gulf shelf
  An apparent Eocene-Paleocene discovery just off the central Louisiana coast could eventually produce 2 tcf of gas or more from Wilcox, appears to have shallower Eocene pay, and is being deepened to test more of the Paleocene section, said McMoRan Exploration Co., New Orleans.
Technology
- OGJ Focus: Thermodynamics help determine underlying black powder processes
  Thermodynamics can assist with understanding the underlying chemical processes of internal corrosion and black powder formation in dry gas pipelines.
- Causes of Tarim oil field drillstring failures assessed
  A statistic analysis found that drillstring failures in Tarim oil field were related to the difference between specifications and working conditions.
- GUIDE TO WORLD CRUDES: StatoilHydro publishes Troll Blend assay
  StatoilHydro late last year published an assay of its Troll Blend crude oil, a commingling of Troll B, Troll C, Fram, and Kvitebjorn fields off Norway and operated by the company.