In this Then & Now episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Laura Bell-Hammer examines how US crude oil imports have evolved from structural dependence in the mid-1990s to today’s model of strategic grade optimization.

Using historical and current data, the episode traces how refinery configuration, shale-driven production growth, regional pipeline integration, and shifting geopolitics reshaped US trade flows over three decades. From OPEC’s dominant role in 1995 to Canada’s system-critical position today and the reemergence of Venezuelan barrels under evolving sanctions policy...this episode explores how long-cycle capital investment and policy decisions continue to influence refinery economics and supply strategy.

In this Insights episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Head of Content Chris Smith updates the evolving situation in Venezuela as the industry attempts to navigate the best path forward while the two governments continue to hammer out the details.

The discussion centers on the new legal frameworks being established in both countries within the context of fraught relations stretching back for decades.

Want to hear more? Listen in on a January episode highlighting industry's initial take following the removal of Nicholas Maduro from power.

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Monaldi Substack

Baker webinar

Washington, Caracas open Venezuela to allow more oil sales

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.

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!

• 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.

In this Then & Now episode of the Oil & Gas Journal ReEnterprised podcast, Statistics Editor Laura Bell-Hammer takes listeners on a journey through three decades of oil-market transformation.

Bell-Hammer looks back at the mid-1990s, when US production was believed to be in irreversible decline, fast-forwarding to today’s record production highs powered by shale technology, deepwater advances, and new global producers.

From the Permian basin to Brazil’s presalt and Guyana’s meteoric rise, this episode reveals how technology reshaped the world’s supply map.