Table of Contents
Oil & Gas Journal
06/27/2011
Volume 109, Issue 26
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Regular Features
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OGJ Newsletter
International news for oil and gas professionals
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Journally Speaking
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Coiled tubing use expands
The shift to drilling horizontal laterals, especially in shale oil and gas plays in the US, has led companies often to use coiled tubing units for well completion and intervention work, concludes a recent Simmons & Co. International research report.
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Coiled tubing use expands
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Editorial
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The subsidy reckoning
On both sides of the Atlantic, economic distress has forced attention to a question too long ignored: How much unaffordable energy can nations afford to support?
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The subsidy reckoning
- EQUIPMENT | SOFTWARE | LITERATURE
- Advertisers Index
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The Editor's Perspective
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Global warming consensus melts in its own heat
Credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, embodiment of the ballyhooed consensus about humanly induced global warming, has suffered another blow.
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Global warming consensus melts in its own heat
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Market Journal
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WTI-Brent spread hits 'weakest level'
Energy prices fell sharply June 15 with the August North Sea Brent contract dropping more than $6/bbl, wiping out "all gains of the last 15 trading days" and closing its price spread vs. West Texas Intermediate to "the weakest level" since March, said Olivier Jakob at Petromatrix, Zug, Switzerland.
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WTI-Brent spread hits 'weakest level'
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OGJ Newsletter
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General Interest
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Alaska's resources director blasts failed federal decisions
Federal government decisions and broad policy mandates in the last 2 years to delay, shut down, or discourage Alaskan resource development are a broad-based policy failure, an Alaska state official told a US House Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee on June 2.
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Salazar announces expedited NPR-A lease sale by yearend
The US Bureau of Land Management will accelerate a lease sale within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska so that it will take place before the end of 2011, with subsequent lease sales annually, US Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar said.
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Watching Government: Keystone foes air concerns
Republicans and most of the witnesses came to a US House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on June 16 expecting to discuss reauthorization of federal pipeline safety regulations.
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House subcommittee passes bill to expedite Keystone XL decision
A US House Energy and Commerce subcommittee passed a bill aimed at expediting a final Department of State decision on a cross-border permit for a proposed crude oil pipeline from Canada.
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FTC to investigate crude, product price allegations
The US Federal Trade Commission will investigate whether crude oil and product price increases this spring resulted from possibly anticompetitive behavior, according to letters sent by FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz to five US senators.
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IEA: High oil prices, economic growth can coexist
The juxtaposition of triple-digit oil prices and 4-5% global economic growth looks paradoxical, but it partly reflects the time lags that affect oil market dynamics, the International Energy Agency said in its latest medium-term oil and gas markets report.
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E&Y: Economics, technology drove 2010 US reserves increases
US oil and natural gas reserves increases last year for a group of top producers reached a 5-year high, reported Ernst & Young LLP.
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US Supreme Court rules in climate change litigation threat
The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association lauded the US Supreme Court's decision on June 20 to reject attempts to address greenhouse gas emissions through the use of common law "nuisance" lawsuits.
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Transocean's Macondo report blames BP for oil spill
Transocean Ltd., owner of the Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible drilling rig that exploded and sank following the Macondo well blowout on Apr. 20, 2010, said BP PLC used a poor well design and failed to properly confirm critical cement tests.
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EIA: OPEC may earn $1 trillion this year from oil exports
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which earlier this month failed to agree new output targets, stands to earn a record $1.034 trillion from exports this year and even more in 2012, according to the US government.
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Watching The World: Khodorkovsky trumps Medvedev
The oil and gas industry will be pleased to hear that Russia must reduce its reliance on high oil prices and must press on with modernization of its economy in the next few years.
- Exploration/Development Briefs
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Alaska's resources director blasts failed federal decisions
