Oil & Gas Journal Online: Editor's Perspective

Climate change poses new threat: a litigation spree (Oct 23, 2009)

Common sense on climate change is pinned down by crossfire among the three branches of US government.

CBO: Climate bill threatens oil and gas employment (Oct 16, 2009)

US oil and gas workers have extra reason to find interesting the Congressional Budget Office’s confirmation that cap-and-trade legislation passed by the House of Representatives would diminish employment.

Tradeoff on climate bill might fracture oil and gas industry (Oct 9, 2009)

Compromise forming around climate-change legislation in the US Senate promises despair for the oil and gas industry.

Gas-price relief, if not reshaping, seen at meeting (Oct 2, 2009)

Setting offers important context to predictions of near-term gains for recently abysmal gas prices in the US.

Chevron confronts unreal damages in Ecuadorian lawsuit (Sep 25, 2009)

A single fact puts Chevron’s legal mess in Ecuador into all the perspective anyone should need.

RIK management, not concept, led to program?s demise (Sep 18, 2009)

If the US government can’t manage oil and gas royalties taken in kind, how can anyone expect it to handle a shady market for greenhouse-gas emission credits?

Obama team sheds green-job leader but keeps his ideas (Sep 11, 2009)

The imprudence over which Van Jones lost his job should not divert attention from the conviction that had propelled him into the administration of US President Barack Obama.

Employment woes puncture hope for green energy jobs (Sep 4, 2009)

The latest failure of liberal employment remedies should encourage the oil and gas industry.

Commodity trading controls can yield unsavory surprises (Aug 21, 2009)

New attempts to moderate energy-price movement with controls on commodity trading might, like much regulation of markets, yield unsavory surprises.

Hazards linger as the Obama agenda stalls (Aug 14, 2009)

Americans correctly sense that their stylish and articulate president has been railroading them—and not just on health care.

FTC oil market rule will restrict market activity (Aug 7, 2009)

The US Federal Trade Commission’s rule prohibiting oil-market manipulation culminates a witch hunt in a land of no witches.

With profits down, lawmakers find new oil-price menace (Jul 31, 2009)

When oil-company profits surged last year, Congress staged a two-ring circus. So what happens now that profits are crashing?

Needy California takes a new look at big oil project (Jul 24, 2009)

Fiscal distress is nudging California toward a measured embrace of—gasp!—oil and gas development.

Reporting profits in recession sure to stir public ire (Jul 17, 2009)

The US oil and gas industry should listen to whatever political problems befall Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for echoes from its own experience.

Signs scrambled on the inevitable start of recovery (Jul 10, 2009)

Global economic recovery has to start sometime. Now seems like as good a time as any.

In need of money, the US government takes aim at LIFO (Jul 3, 2009)

Beware the government asserting principle but needing money.

A new government foray: commerce in highway rest areas (Jun 19, 2009)

Government is encroaching into private affairs in ways other than the big-headline issues like automaker takeovers and fuel selection. It’s even sneaking up on interstate highways.

Ethanol's green goodness clouded by water strains (Jun 12, 2009)

For a supposedly clean-burning gasoline additive, ethanol always has carried a full load of environmental compromises.

Oil sands attack lifts doubt about activists' motives (Jun 6, 2009)

A stepped-up attack on the Canadian oil sands strengthens doubt about the motives of environmental activists.

Lands bill a new package of horrors for US oil and gas (May 29, 2009)
As horror follows horror in Washington, DC, the US oil and gas industry needs a scorecard to keep track of threats building against it.

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