At times, good stories are obvious, and "Indonesia," this month's cover, is one. Editor Leslie Haines and photographer Lowell Georgia tell the country's oil and gas tale masterfully with words and images, from their two-week visit in March. Although an OPEC member that exports 1.3 million barrels of oil per day, Indonesia has much work to do in finding and developing its oil-and particularly gas-reserves, Haines writes. "Operators have explored only 38 of the 60 tertiary sedimentary basins identified here, and they are producing from just 14 of them." Pak Gatot Wiroyudo, Pertamina senior vice president and director, exploration and production, told Haines while at Pertamina headquarters, "In a way, the [recent Asian] financial crisis was a blessing in disguise because it gave us the will to make changes we had been discussing since 1995." And Pertamina is not satisfied with production from just its own lands. "We eventually intend to enter more international ventures," the executive says. Nasdaq is looking beyond its current border too, according to "World Stock Exchange, Inc.," a discussion of the benefits and pitfalls that a global stock listing may bring an oil or oil-service firm. It appears that Nasdaq will offer global listing of its U.S. stocks first. Will NYSE-listed firms be shutout, temporarily, while their Nasdaq peers enjoy ready access to global capital? Presently finding no difficulty in raising cash, however, is First Permian LLC, the Midland-based firm that was formed to acquire the Permian Basin assets of Fina Oil & Chemical Co. Read about this, in "$96 Million in 45 Days." Chasing cash are Arctic pipeline developers, who are suddenly reappearing after all these gas-bubble years, reports associate editor Jodi Wetuski, in "Arctic Dreams." Ready to provide capital to production projects, at least, are more than a dozen financiers that presented at "Accessing Private Capital for the Energy Sector," a recent conference sponsored by Cosco Capital Management LLC and Oil and Gas Investor. See "Capital Fair" for a short course on what these capital providers seek in a client. Guest author John Tobin suggests that companies don't invest enough in public education about energy. "Otherwise we would not see public outrage over energy price spikes or shortages, or environmental accidents," the executive director of Colorado-based The Energy Literacy Project Inc. writes, in "Flunking Out." And join us next month for commencement of a year-long celebration of 20 years of Oil and Gas Investor, whose mission remains educating the industry's executive and investor community. -Nissa Darbonne, Managing Editor