The ''Oil & Gas Journal'' is a leading

petroleum industry The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products. The large ...

weekly publication with a worldwide coverage. It is headquartered in

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and the journal has a major presence in Houston, Texas. 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. ''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, which covered the oil boom that followed the nearby Spindletop 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

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, then to Tulsa, where it still resides. In 2018, owner

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was acquired by Clarion Events, a British company owned by

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. In 2019, Clarion sold several PennWell divisions, including Oil & Gas, to

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