Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised

In this Insights episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Alex Procyk, Upstream Editor, recaps four recent technical papers shaping today’s upstream decisions. He looks at how lightweight and ultralight proppants are influencing fracture performance and gravel-pack stability, why updated data show the Marcellus continuing to expand without signs of productivity loss, and how airborne monitoring offshore Angola is exposing gaps in reported methane emissions.

The episode is a practical walkthrough of what the latest research means for completion design, resource expectations, and environmental oversight.

Article references
If you’d like to dig deeper, the full articles are available with your membership on OGJ.com. 

Marcellus assessment shows continued expansion [Free - Members Only]

New assessment suggests substantial Appalachian shale gas resources [Premium]

Lightweight proppants improve completion [Free - Members Only]

Airborne Angolan methane monitoring reveals discrepancies [Free - Members Only]

In this Insights episode of the Oil & Gas ReEnterprised podcast, OGJ Head of Content Chris Smith talks with Bob Crossen, Vice-President of Content Strategy for the Water and Energy Groups of Endeavor Business Media, about the latter’s first trip to the world’s largest oil and gas trade show: Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC).

Conference themes discussed as they relate to the year ahead include the shift from automation to autonomy, AI, the energy addition, and sustainability.

In this Insights episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Oil & Gas Journal Head of Content, Chris Smith, talks about the issues shaping what happens next in Venezuela now that Nicholas Maduro has been removed from power.

An oversupplied crude market, deep infrastructural needs, and in-country political uncertainty are only a few of the problems to be addressed.

But there are also opportunities, particularly if progress can begin quickly. This episode was based on and expanded from an OGJ article written by Conglin Xu, Managing Editor - Economics.

In this, the final Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast episode of 2025, Mikaila Adams, managing editor, along with a team of OGJ editors, walks readers through content that most captured readers’ attention throughout the year.

In this episode, you’ll hear short recaps of this year's most-read content from OGJ.com...shared in our editors’ own words...with thoughts to carry into 2026. 

Give it a listen...you don't know what you may have missed! 

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Laura

2024 Worldwide Reserves/Production tables  

2025 Worldwide Reserves/Production tables

Conglin 

 2025 Forecast & Review webinar  

2026 Forecast & Review webinar (REGISTER TODAY!)

Geert

Aethon president: Natural gas needs to top $5 to spur Haynesville investment

Mikaila 

TGNR adds East Texas gas assets in $525-million deal with Chevron

Chris  

Venture Global withdraws Delta LNG from pre-filing to focus on Plaquemines expansion

Alex  

Shell starts oil production from deepwater Gulf of Mexico Whale development

Shell designed Vito development for present deepwater economics

Chevron Anchor pioneers 20K subsea development

In this Market Focus episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Conglin Xu, managing editor, economics, takes a look at the growing oversupply in global crude markets and the shift now underway as fundamentals begin overtaking sentiment and geopolitics as the primary price driver.