Like the industry it covers, Oil & Gas Journal is complex. It's a multimedia channel for several species of business intelligence about the full range of activities conducted by the oil and gas business.
Also like the industry it covers, OGJ becomes more complex with time.
In response to growing complexity, the magazine is taking a new step into the future.
With this column, OGJ introduces its Editorial Advisory Board, members of which will counsel staff editors on editorial decisions, especially about technical articles.
OGJ editors have always worked closely with industry specialists. Most of the new board members have offered advice on or written articles in the past, provided background information, or in other ways contributed to the quality of the product.
But the board does more than formalize existing relationships. It extends OGJ's intellectual reach into an industry breeding specialist technologies faster than ever before.
The rapid, multifaceted proliferation of method and knowhow occurs in every operation OGJ covers. It makes the industry ever more complex, ever more interesting, ever more able to perform its supremely important work.
It also, inevitably, moves the frontiers of progress into ever more-specialized realms. For staff limited in size, no matter how much experience and expertise it embodies, keeping up becomes ever more challenging.
Hence formation of the Editorial Advisory Board, members of which thrive on those frontiers of progress. In alphabetical order, they are:
• Pat Dennler, process engineering manager, Shell Oil Products US, Anacortes, Wash.
• Doug Elliot, advisor, Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions/IPSI, Houston.
• Andy Flower, independent consultant, Caterham, UK.
• Michael Lynch, president, Strategic Energy & Economic Resarch, Amherst, Mass., and lecturer, Vienna University.
• Tom Miesner, Pipeline Knowledge & Development, Houston.
• Ralph Neumann, senior vice-president, engineering and operations, US Infrastructure LP, Houston.
• Kent F. Perry, executive director, exploration and production research, Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, Ill.
• Ignacio Quintero, project manager, Chevron Pipe Line Co., Houston.
• John A. Sheffield, John M. Campbell & Co., Lechlade, UK.
• Bill Schlesing, executive advisor, Booz & Co., Houston.
• Andrew J. Slaughter, business environment advisor, Shell Upstream Americas, Houston.
• John Thorogood, Drilling Global Consultant LLP, Insch, Scotland.
• Steven Tobias, vice-president, exploration, South Bay Resources LLC, Houston.
• Colin Woodward, Woodward International Ltd., Durham, UK.
The chances are good you recognize one or several but not all of the names here. These people make presentations, write papers, consult, operate, and otherwise influence in extraordinary ways the specialties they represent. You've probably encountered board members who share your specialty. If so, you can appreciate the group's depth of expertise.
Because the ensemble includes experts from the full spectrum of industry operations, though, you—if you're as specialized as most industry professionals—may not know everyone. OGJ ties together the whole oil and gas operational chain—upstream, midstream, and downstream. The scope is broad, encompassing many people from various disciplines. It provides OGJ a unique perspective.
It's also, as board members already have discovered, a dimension of complexity—but not the only one. OGJ doesn't just cover the raw material, distribution, and manufacturing stories of the international oil and gas industry. It also covers those stories from three aspects: news, technology, and statistics. And it covers the stories in a variety of media and frequency: with a rich web site; daily, weekly, and monthly electronic newsletters; and a weekly magazine delivered in print once a month and digitally on other weeks.
More than all that, OGJ tells the oil and gas story, in all its many dimensions and from all its many perspectives, with the authority central to its reputation, which it must earn anew with every word and number it publishes.
Authority forms when unparalleled expertise bonds with uncompromising integrity. In the OGJ Editorial Advisory Board, the reaction has a new catalyst.
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