April 10, 2007:
GLOBALIZATION There is a mini-tempest brewing over Halliburton’s announcement that it will move its headquarters to Dubai, as chief executive officer Dave Lesar sets up an office there (although other key ...more
March 20, 2007:
Running Hot and Cold It’s March. Let’s hope the month goes out like a lamb, because the winter has been too hot and too cold. The warmest December on record was followed by extreme ...more
February 14, 2007:
R&D under fire Sometimes the federal government giveth, but it taketh away just as often. Later this year, the Department of the Interior will open for leasing more blocks in the eastern Gulf ...more
January 16, 2007:
THE RECIPE At year-end 2006, a number of knowledgeable people gave us their recipe for continued high oil and gas prices. But how painful are high oil prices? Apparently they have not ...more
December 7, 2006:
Country Risk High oil prices have pumped billions of dollars into the coffers of OPEC and non-OPEC producers alike. Thanks to that, 2006 will go down in history as the year that ...more
November 6, 2006:
The New Breakeven What is the breakeven price of a play? And what does it take into account, besides land, seismic, drilling and completion costs? What about the time value of money, and ...more
October 3, 2006:
PATIENCE, PATIENCE The hoopla about the Jack well in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico’s Lower Tertiary trend, and the first flow of crude oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline, are signposts of ...more
September 12, 2006:
From Alaska to Denver In August we saw the best and worst of the energy industry, from talk about natural gas prodution growth to apparent mismanagement of operational risk.BP’s Alaskan oil leak is very ...more
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