What’s Going On!

Oil and gas. Onshore and offshore. Domestic and international. They are all integral to the playbooks of the U.S.-based independent oil and gas producers and operators The American Oil & Gas Reporter specifically serves.

Advancements in technology have opened a new world of expanded oil and gas resource potential at home. Estimates of the vast promise of domestic unconventional natural gas are increasing seemingly by the day. That is because technological tool kits keep getting better–from cutting-edge geophysical techniques that shed new light on the mysteries of the subsurface, to drilling and multistage completion capabilities that push the boundaries of what is possible with ultralong horizontal and extended-reach wells.

Now independent operators are gearing up to apply these new drilling, stimulation and completion technologies to abundant domestic oil shales. They are expanding onshore CO2-enhanced recovery operations in established fields even as they study almost limitless new oil and gas recovery possibilities.

Meanwhile, the Gulf of Mexico deepwater Lower Tertiary is all the buzz, and bright minds are looking at the big picture of its basin geology for a new era of deep drilling–from corollaries beneath the shallow-water Shelf to the ultradeepwater frontier.

Increased international operations are inevitable as independents’ business skills and technological prowess form the makings for global oil and gas alliances. From host government concessions to national oil company farm-outs, U.S.-based independents are proving time and again that they are the right partners for petroleum resource development the world over.

The American Oil & Gas Reporter has faithfully served independent producers and operators for more than 50 years with the business, financial and technology information they need to improve their businesses both at home and abroad. Plain and simple, it is where executives and operational decision makers alike learn what’s going on!

Coming September 2010

While leading economic indicators continue to send mixed signals, manufacturing grew in July for the 12th month in a row, and there has been good news from the international banking community. Most importantly, onshore oil and gas rig counts have been heading north all year long. We are hard at work preparing the information that will help operators take advantage of this upswing in the September issue of

The American Oil & Gas Reporter!

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