The ''Oil & Gas Journal'' is a leading
petroleum industry
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weekly publication with a worldwide coverage. It is headquartered in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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, United States and the journal has a major presence in
Houston, Texas
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, United States. The journal is published by Endeavor Business Media.
[ Its publisher is Paul Westervelt, and editor is Bob Tippee.][
][
] The first issue was published in 1902.[
] Its online information services started in 1994.[
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database describes the ''Oil & Gas Journal'' as an authoritative source on the petroleum industry aimed at engineers, oil management and executives throughout the oil and gas industry.[
] The weekly publishes news, analysis, statistics, and technology updates on exploration, drilling, production, pipeline, transportation, refining, processing and marketing.[ It is a subscription trade publication. The ''Oil & Gas Journal'' has about 20,000 subscribers for the printed issue and 80,000 for digital subscriptions.][
The ''Oil & Gas Journal'' began in 1902 as the ''Oil Investor's Journal'' of ]Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about east of Houston (city ...
, which covered the oil boom
An oil boom is a period of large inflow of income as a result of high global oil prices or large oil production in an economy. Generally, this short period initially brings economic benefits, in terms of increased GDP growth, but might later lead ...
that followed the nearby Spindletop
Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas, in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of the Jurassic geologic period. On January 10, 1901, a well at Spindlet ...
discovery. As the oil discoveries spread along the Gulf Coast, the magazine relocated to Houston. In 1910 the magazine was purchased by Patrick C. Boyle, long-time publisher of the ''Oil City Derrick'' in Pennsylvania. Boyle moved the publication briefly to St. Louis, Missouri
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, then to Tulsa, where it still resides.
In 2018, owner PennWell
Endeavor Business Media, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, publishes trade publications and related websites and hosts related events.
History
The company was founded by Chris Ferrell, former CEO of SouthComm Communications, and others in ...
was acquired by Clarion Events, a British company owned by Blackstone. In 2019, Clarion sold several PennWell divisions, including Oil & Gas, to Endeavor Business Media
Endeavor Business Media, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, publishes trade publications and related websites and hosts related events.
History
The company was founded by Chris Ferrell, former CEO of SouthComm Communications, and others in ...
.
See also
* ''Foster Natural Gas/Oil Report
The ''Foster Natural Gas/Oil Report'', formerly known as the ''Foster Natural Gas Report'' and ''Foster Associates Report'', is a U.S.-based weekly newsletter published by Foster Associates, Inc. It was founded in Washington, D.C., on March 23, ...
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* Platts
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a provider of energy and commodities information and a source of benchmark price assessments in the physical commodity markets. The business was started with the foundation in 1909 of the magazine ''National Pe ...
provides energy and metals information and benchmark price assessments in the physical energy markets
* ''Upstream
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* Upstream (hydrology), the direction towards the source of a stream (against the direction of flow)
* Upstream (bioprocess), part of therapeutic cell manufacturing processes from early cell isolation and cultivation until ...
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