Oil & Gas Journal has spent well over a century bringing you the most authoritative operations-focused coverage available of industry trends, advances, and news across all three of its segments: upstream, midstream, and downstream. When the industry went offshore, OGJ was there. When the introduction of hydraulic fracturing brought previously undevelopable resources within reach, you read about in our pages. And now, as the industry evolves yet again, we’ve been at the forefront of providing the information you need to navigate the changes.
As part of this mission, change is also coming to the Journal. Once strictly a print magazine, OGJ was an early adopter of the Internet, putting news and features on a website in the mid-‘90s. Printing a magazine has become a smaller part of our output each year. And although the breadth and depth of our coverage will remain unchanged, we will move to a six-issue per year print schedule in 2024. A new publication will also be replacing OGJ’s digital weekly. These shifts will allow us to continue providing useful, timely, and award-winning news and feature articles while also deploying new formats to address the new issues facing the industry. In 2024, there will be two additions to the OGJ lineup:
- OGJ Market Weekly. Subscribers to Oil & Gas Journal will receive the market weekly via email each Thursday. The OGJ Market Weekly will provide a comprehensive up-to-date overview of the US oil and gas market via weekly data on production, trading, refining, pricing, and storage. The report will distill complex market dynamics into visual representations, allowing decision makers to spot trends and assess volatility. Available exclusively to Oil & Gas Journal subscribers, it also includes OGJ’s Industry Statistics, previously part of the digital version of the magazine.
- OGJ ReEnterprised. OGJ’s podcast debut will go beyond the news and technical coverage on which the Journal has made its name, by addressing topics such as inclusivity and the transition towards a net-zero carbon future. It will offer in-depth perspectives from OGJ editors and guests, exploring the ways operators, service companies, and their employees, are finding solutions while continuing to focus on completing their core assignments.
We look forward to increasing the breadth of Oil & Gas Journal’s scope while retaining our focus on drilling, production, transportation, and processing, and highlighting the industry’s role in leading efforts to find the balance between energy reliability, affordability, and sustainability. OGJ has been reporting on the energy transition since 2019 and began dedicated coverage in early 2021. Nearly 3 years later, our coverage of the interface between these changes and oil and gas operations remains unrivaled.
As part of this, OGJ’s Energy Transition Update eNewsletter will be published twice-monthly starting in 2024. Already available is Oil & Gas Journal’s Members-Only website tier, offering expert insights into not just the current transition but everything the Journal covers. Articles, case studies, webinars, and analysis are all available here. Soon, podcasts and video presentations will be as well.
A steady hand
At a time when news cycles are increasingly driven by conjecture, speculation, hype, and outright gossip, Oil & Gas Journal remains focused on providing its audience with the facts it needs to stay informed. We haven’t strayed from this mission, and very much appreciate the relationship we’ve forged with you, our readers, as a result.
Your continued readership demonstrates the value of what the Journal is doing. And even as change seems to swirl in every corner, our approach to the task at hand will remain steady, clear-voiced, and authoritative.
Oil & Gas Journal’s audience leads our publication. We cover what you do and how you do it as it’s happening. It’s easy to stay on the right path that way, but not foolproof. So please, feel free to reach out to any of our editors directly, starting with Editor-in-Chief Chris Smith at [email protected].