Editor's Comment
- Middle East observations
  The Middle East is worried about oil resource maturity, and practical peak oil is becoming broadly recognized as a critical issue.
Capital Perspectives
- Anatomy lessons (part 2): dissecting a successful PSA
  The scope and extent of the seller’s representations and warranties in a purchase and sale agreement may largely depend upon the relative bargaining power of the parties.
NewsBits
- Group challenges CERA with $100,000 wager
  A group of businessmen and energy experts who believe that global oil production will soon peak, plateau, and decline has issued a $100,000 wager to Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a prominent oil forecasting organization.
Analyze This
- The threat of a new cartel
  The increasing need for LNG could support a global pricing mechanism for natural gas
Upstream News
- US President requests $307.1M for FY 2009 MMS budget
  The FY 2009 budget request for the Minerals Management Service is $307.1 million.
Cover Story
- Industry in the Crosshairs: IPAA’s fight to shape national energy policy
  For nearly 80 years, the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) has been a member-driven organization.
Features
- OGFJ Exclusive: FERC considers penalties for ‘market manipulation’
  Energy and energy futures marketers and traders who have never before been regulated by FERC are receiving ‘informal nonpublic investigation letters’ from the Commission.
- Assessing economic worth in hydrocarbon exploration
  Professor Lerche examines how a company can option an investment opportunity with a minimum rate of return requirement and shows how to address quantitatively the various constraints and their influence on project economics.
- New technology companies need an intellectual property strategy
  Companies often leverage their research efforts by partnering with universities, private research groups, venture capitalists, and other industry partners.
- Maximizing the value of your oil and gas royalty holdings
  Noble Royalties Inc., an oil and gas acquisition and asset management company, held an invitation-only informational briefing at the Four Seasons Hotel during NAPE in Houston on Feb.
- Mexico Pt.6: New times, new opportunities
  Having benefited from PEMEX’s investment boom over the past decade, with investment averaging US$4.6 billion over 1995-2000, US$10.1 between 2001 and 2006 and a forecasted annual CAPEX of US$20.1 billion over the current Presidential term of 2007-2012, numerous Mexican service providers have gained the expertise and level of technological advancement that enables them to venture beyond the limits of their domestic market..
Industry Briefs
- Suncor approves C$20.6B oil sands expansion plans
  Suncor Energy has given final approval to a $20.6 billion investment that is expected to boost crude oil production at the company’s oil sands operation, located north of Fort McMurray, by 200,000 b/d.
Energy Players
- Stone Energy mourns death of founder, chairman
  Stone Energy Corp.’s founder and chairman, James H. Stone, has passed away.
Beyond the Well
- Newfield honors one of its own while helping others
  On January 25, 2008, Houston-based Newfield Exploration’s board room was named after a very special individual, David F.

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Oil & Gas Financial Journal

Editor's Comment

Capital Perspectives

NewsBits

Analyze This

Upstream News

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Features

Industry Briefs

Energy Players

Beyond the Well

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