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Fundamentals of the Global Oil and Gas Industry, 2008
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"IN THE decades ahead, our world's energy system will be radically different from today's."
Jan van der Eijk, chief technology officer, Shell

Demand for energy is surging. Production of easy oil and gas will be unable to match the growing requirement. More energy means more carbon dioxide emissions – and greater climate change.

The challenges facing the energy industry will determine the extent to which the world will have continued access to the clean, convenient, affordable energy that is a foundation of modern life. Fundamentals of the Global Oil and Gas Industry, 2008 assesses these challenges and looks at how the energy industries may develop in the future.

Its 160 pages include 40 articles by the industry's leading journalists and thinkers. They tackle the most important issues the industry faces; some of the topics covered include:

  • An overview of the oil-supply challenge from the secretary-general of Opec;
  • An assessment of the risks of carbon capture and storage;
  • An examination of the Russian far east – what are its prospects?
  • Views on the future of oil and gas technology from senior thinkers at Schlumberger and Halliburton;
  • A look at the possibility of nuclear power fuelling Canada's oil-sands development;
  • The boom and bust in the biofuels sector;
  • An evaluation of gas hydrates;
  • The challenges of the Brazilian pre-salt offshore, including an update on the Tupi discovery;
  • The lessons learnt by China's national oil companies from their overseas investments;
  • And much, much more.
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Abdallah S Jum‘ah, President and Chief Executive, Saudi Aramco

2.2 Fuelling the future

Jan van der Eijk, Chief Technology Officer, Royal Dutch Shell

2.3 Dolphin delivers

Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, Chief Executive, Dolphin Energy

2.4 China’s NOCs: lessons learned from adventures abroad

Erica Downs, China Energy Fellow, Brookings Institution

2.5 Pre-salt challenges of Tupi

Paula Issler de Andrade, Helena Assaf Teixeira de Souza Lima, Luis Carlos Soares de Freitas, Sergio Paulo Gomes Pinho, Luiz Eduardo Peclat Bernardes and Célia Maria Ferraz Nakano, Petrobras

2.6 Russia: east is east

Nina Poussenkova, scholar-in-residence, Carnegie Moscow Center

2.7 Reaching the $22 trillion target: a progress report

Tim Rockell, Executive, global energy and natural resources practice, KPMG

2.8 Setting the rules of energy trade

André Mernier, Secretary General, the Energy Charter

2.9 Managing the risks of CCS

Kaare Helle, Senior Consultant, and Frøydis Eldevik, Principal Consultant, Det Norsk Veritas

2.10 Qatar invests its energy wealth

Qatar Foundation

3.0 Upstream

3.1 Oil-supply challenge needs industry-wide commitment

Abdalla Salem El-Badri, Secretary General, Opec

3.2 Energy demand: meeting the challenge together

Mark W Albers, Senior Vice-President, ExxonMobil

3.3 Intelligent energy

Andrew Gould, Chairman and Chief Executive, Schlumberger

3.4 Technology advances

Vikram Rao, Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, Halliburton

3.5 Production benefits from improved wellbore casing economics

Chan Daigle and Kevin Waddell, Enventure

3.6 The Caspian export conundrum

Julian Lee, Senior Energy Analyst, Centre for Global Energy Studies

3.7 Alberta’s nuclear option

David McColl, Senior Economist, Canadian Energy Research Institute

3.8 Intelligent completion enhances Mittelplate production

Christoph Koch, Manager, reservoir development, oil, central and western Europe, and Matthias Doehler, Senior Operation Geologist, central and western Europe, RWE Dea

3.9 The rise of an NOC

Xiaojie Xu, participating fellow, James Baker Institute Energy Forum, and former Director, institute of overseas investment, China National Petroleum Corporation

3.10 Advances in water management

Roberta Alves Mendes, Roberto Motta Gomes , Livia Hastenreiter and Luis Carlos de Sousa Jr, Petrobras

4.0 Downstream

4.1 Biofuels: boom, bust, settle

Melissa Stark, Partner, Accenture

4.2 The political costs of high prices

Jonathan Wood, Global Issues Analyst, Control Risks

4.3 A renewed focus on fuels

Anne Marie Davis, Lead Analyst, Datamonitor

4.4 Blazing a path for synthetic fuels

Lean Strauss, Group General Manager, international energy cluster, Sasol

5.0 Natural gas

5.1 Exuberance ebbs away as LNG supply crunch fears grow

Alex Forbes, Petroleum Economist

5.2 NBP: the natural European hub

Jason Pegley, Head of Utility Markets, Ice Futures Europe

5.3 Peru LNG: a first for South America

Rafael Segovia, Project Engineer, Compañía Operadora de LNG del Perú

5.4 Putting a premium on marketing

Alex Forbes, Petroleum Economist

5.5 Hydrate evaluation evolves

Gary Humphrey, Senior Consultant, Fugro GeoConsulting, Peter Schultheiss, Managing Director, and Melanie Holland, Science Consultant, Geotek

6.0 Environment and sustainability

6.1 Taking responsibility

Georg Kell, Executive Director, UN Global Compact

6.2 EU ETS: rising to the challenge

Daniel Radov, Associate Director, Nera Economic Consulting

6.3 Offshore wind power to swell

Adam Westwood, Manager, Renewable Energy, Douglas-Westwood

6.4 Arctic: great potential and interest, but huge challenges

Morten Anker, Advisor, and Eivind Magnus, Director, The Petroleum Group, Econ Pöyry

7.0 Finance

7.1 Advancing transparency

Sasha Lezhnev, Policy Advisor, Global Witness

7.2 Contracting strategies

Mary Corsaro, Manager, Process and Project Engineering Group, Pan American Energy, and Martín Mastandrea, Engineering Business Unit Manager, Tecna

7.3 A priceless reserves-reporting tool

Geoff Barker, Partner, Resource Investment Strategy Consultants, and SPE oil and gas reserves committee

8.0 Youth and continuity

8.1 Attracting the best and the brightest to the industry

Denise McCourt, Director, general membership and member relations, API

8.2 Seven reasons to join the industry

8.3 Succeeding through people

Russell Stewart, Vice-President, human resources, Subsea 7

9.0 World oil and gas map and statistics