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Oil & Gas Financial Journal

10/01/2006
Volume 3, Issue 10

  • Cover Story

  • Features

    • Some investors are losing their shirts in SEC-registered drilling programs
      Question - Would you, as a financial advisor, recommend a program from a sponsor with a long history of similar programs that all lost money?
    • Exploring the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley
      Time sure does fly by. It might seem like just yesterday, but is has already been more than four years since President George W. Bush signed the much-ballyhooed Sarbanes-Oxley Act into law on July 30, 2002.
    • Control & influences on world oil price
      From the early days of the oil industry through the first global oil crisis of the mid-1960s and 1970s, the major international oil companies (all originating from the United States and Europe) had control of the oil supply chains and were able to dictate the price of crude oil to the major producing nations, primarily located in the Middle East.
    • OGFJ Canadian 100
      Once again, Oil & Gas Financial Journal has teamed up with Calgary-based Woodside Research to provide subscribers with financial and operating information about the Canadian oil and gas industry.

  • Editor's Comment

    • The promise of GTL technology
      Gas-to-liquids (GTL) technology may finally be on the verge of a breakthrough. The economic promise of converting abundant supplies of natural gas to clean-burning liquid fuels has long been apparent.

  • Capital Perspectives

  • Opinion

    • Regulatory rulings on Shell’s reserves
      The exoneration of Shell’s most senior managers, coupled with the relatively light civil penalty imposed on Shell for market abuse, may lead investors to question whether the regulatory decisions delivered sufficient vindication for public interest.

  • Upstream News

    • Chevron’s deepwater Jack #2 well
      In what could be the biggest domestic breakthrough since the discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, Chevron Corp. and its partners, Devon Energy and Statoil, have completed a successful deepwater exploration well in the US Gulf of Mexico that could prove to be the largest domestic petroleum find in nearly 40 years.

  • Financial Update

  • Industry Briefs

    • Industry Briefs
      Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNR) plans to buy Anadarko Canada Corp. (ACC) for $4.24 billion.

  • Energy Players

    • Energy Players
      Pride International Inc. has named Rodney W. Eads to the position of executive vice president and COO, where he will assume responsibility for the company’s worldwide offshore operations and eastern hemisphere land assets.

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