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Finding Aids and GlossariesEnergy Glossary. Includes terminology used in the U.S. Dept. of Energy. Gary Price's List of Lists: Petroleum and Mining Provides sources for rankings of petroleum, gas and mining companies. Oil Field Glossary. This illustrated glossary includes more than 3800 entries for the technical generalist and the expert. Extensive references to technical papers.
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 Issue 5/6: Winter 2005/Spring 2006Updated March 2010The Oil & Gas IndustryTable of Contents
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Image (above): Photograph of drilling rig near Sable Island. Courtesy of the Maritimes Region of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada.
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Open Directory Project (ODP): Petroleum Company Information Search The ODP is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. A search for petroleum company information is provided but there is much more information which may be of use to a researcher of the petroleum industry. Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Allows you to search by a company's URL in order to view old Web pages which are no longer on the Web. Useful resource for historical research. Petroleum Abstracts. (PA) PA, the PA Bulletin, TULSA database and other products that include worldwide petroleum literature and patents related to exploration and production are available from this site with a subscription. See the web site for additional information on Petroleum Abstract's fee-based Search Service. Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Enter search terms such as petroleum or gas in the search box to locate finding aids containing those terms. After selecting a finding aid, then use the "Find in this page" command in the Web browser to locate the terms in the finding aid. Most of the finding aids relate to information on exhibits. Standard Industrial Classification Codes and North American Industrial Classification Codes. Use the following industrial classification codes to search business databases subscribed to by a library. Petroleum refining industry SIC code - 29 and NAICS code - 324 crude petroleum and gas extraction industry SIC code - 1311 and NAICS code - 211111. Petroleum Industry Portals/GatewaysAdventures in Energy.
A general multimedia guide for US citizens about the petroleum and natural gas industries. Demonstrates the processing stages from exploration to consumption. American Petroleum Institute.
API offers both consumers and professionals a large number of free resources. Oil and gas industry sectors are clearly delineated for the beginning researcher. The About Oil and Natural Gas section available from the home page provides basic information on the production of oil and natural gas and on oil and natural gas products as well as tips on energy conservation. Australian Institute of Petroleum.
The Institute collects and disseminates statistics and other information about the operations of the petroleum products industry and issues of public interest in the industry. Export.gov.
The U.S. Dept. Of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Office of Energy and Environment, Energy Industries Team provides information resources by region of the world. Facts on Fuel.
A general multimedia guide for US citizens about gasoline, natural gas, diesel and heating oil. Provides useful statistical information in easy-to-read charts. Latin Petroleum Analytics.
An independent research firm provides news and insights into the petroleum and petroleum-related industries throughout the Latin American and Caribbean regions. Search petroleum news by country. Online publications include The LatAm Energy eDaily which is available free with registration and The LatAm Energy Journal, The LatAm Energy Investor, and The LatAm Energy Research Review which are available to purchase. MENAFN.com.
A Middle East/ North African Financial News portal. The Market Data link available from the home page includes a section on the oil and energy industries. The site also includes a database searchable by company, by industrial sector (choose "Oil, Gas and Petroleum" under the Industry category) and/or by country. Canadian Oil Register. JuneWarren-Nickle's Energy Group.
A portal for Canadian oil company information and industry news. Freely available resources include Energy Toolkit, Events calendar, Oilpatch history, and the Canadian Oil Register Buyers' Guide. Other areas of the site require a subscription. Offshore-Technology.com.
Some categories of information on this site are: International coverage of petroleum projects, A-Z, and A-Z company index, products & services, industry news releases, conferences and international career opportunities. Many of the resources on the site are likely to be primarily of use to industry professionals. Oil & Gas Asset Clearinghouse.
Tristone Capital offers this database of oil and gas property acquisitions and divestitures. Oil and Gas Online.
Offers almost 400 market research reports on the petroleum industry to purchase. The site is primarily intended for industry professionals and B2B activities. Oil.com.
International petroleum news portal. Oiltrash.com.
A petroleum industry directory. Searchable by names of companies, individuals, professionals, suppliers, contractors or by subject categories. Lists federal, state, and local government agencies and trade associations for the U.S. and Canada. Includes an alphabetical listing of mergers and acquisitions. Under the Finance category content from Baker Hughes such as weekly counts of North American oil rigs is included. This site also offers a job center. (Note: this site is currently being rebuilt.) Petroassist.com.
Provides company profiles of oil and petroleum companies from around the world. Petroleum Bazaar.
Portal of the oil and gas industry in India. Petroleum Navigator.
Portal provided by U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration. Petroleum Refining Industry.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides a list of links dealing with pollution prevention, regulation and compliance. Offers technical publications and Web sites of pollution prevention programs and research databases. Includes useful profiles of compliance information for the petroleum refining industry and compliance information for the oil and gas extraction industry. Petro-plaza.
Contains a large amount of content such as news, conferences, industry publications, and international listings of oil companies and associations. Each category can be searched independently. The site map is a useful navigation aid. RefiningOnline.
Refining Online[add trademark R] is a leading Web portal for the petroleum refining industry. You may register and subscribe to this site for free. It features an interactive Q&A, a search engine for refining industry Web sites, an online ROL eStore, free ROL assistant software, technical knowledge base, events calendar, and member directory. RigData.
Free listing of the location of oil rigs throughout the U.S. and statistics on rigs, permits and drillers. Sales statistics, company information and other reports are available with a subscription. Subsea Oil and Gas Directory.
B to B directory for the international oil and gas industry. Searchable directory for purchasers sourcing global subsea oil and gas specific suppliers and contractors in order to identify potential approved vendors. Twenty-Four Hours of Progress (Part I).
Short film on the oil industry. Producer: Film Counselors, Inc. The film describes the central importance of the oil industry to the American economy. Complete shotlist is provided. World Oil Online.
Provides information for the oil and gas industry. Some areas of this site may require registration, however there is no cost to register. Most of the publications are available for purchase but with registration one can access certain resources on the site without charge including the current issue of the World Oil magazine, Industry Statistics, the Energy Events Calendar and much more. Yahoo! News: Oil and Gas Industry.
News portal from Yahoo! Includes links to NPR audio and BBC video resources. Trade Associations and PublicationsIndependent Petroleum Association of America. Provides research in the form of economic reports, statistics and international forum reports. Institute of Petroleum. For sixty years the Institute of Petroleum has been one of the principal independent bodies in Europe concerned with the advancement of technical and economic knowledge in the oil and gas industry around the world. National Petrochemical and Refiners Association. Conference papers of NPRA which represents most U.S. refiners and petrochemical manufacturers. Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) Includes full-text annual reports, statistical reports, monthly bulletins, etc. of OAPC. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) publications. Includes full-text annual reports, bulletins and a limited number of reports free of charge. A quarterly academic journal, OPEC Review, covers energy economics, and is available by subscription. The organization also offers an option to purchase online access to individual articles from the journal. An advanced search feature allows one to search the entire site or restrict the search to individual publications. TradePub.com Utility & Energy. Allows requests of free subscriptions to petroleum industry trade journals. World Energy Council (WEC) publications. Congresses, speeches, current online and free publications and archives are offered. Use the search feature to search Petroleum or Oil. World Petroleum Council (WPC) publications Proceedings of the WPC, handbook, speeches, etc. are provided in full-text under the Publications category. Petroleum LibrariesBarrows Company Library. Fee-based international reference library for oil, gas and minerals laws. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Library and Archives. Provides free access to almost 1,200 full-text U.S. Dept. of Energy, EIA publications. Current publications of EIA are available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf.html Dallas Public Library. Nancy and Jake L. Haman Oil and Gas Resource Center. Provides a comprehensive current collection of print and electronic materials with emphasis on investments, company information, financial management, industrial surveys and statistics within the oil and gas industry and the broader energy industry. OnePetro (formerly the Society of Petroleum Engineers eLibrary) On July 1, 2009 eLibrary became OnePetro. OnePetro is a multi-society library bringing together a broad range of technical literature relating to the oil and gas industry. Documents found during a search may be purchased online and downloaded as PDF files. Information on the organizations and documents included in OnePetro can be found on the coverage page. Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Resources Comprehensive listings of organizations, government and commercial entities. The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum Library & Archives Center The museum library has a wide range of published books, manuscripts, sound recordings, motion picture film, maps and photographic prints on the Permian Basin petroleum industry. This is a non-circulating library (all materials must e used on-site), however they do offer reproduction [PDF format/ 224.6KB 4 p.] and photo duplication [PDF format/ 275.1KB 2 p.] services. Panhandle Plains Historical Museum Library & Archives
The library offers books, manuscripts, historical photographs, oral history interviews, trade literature and architectural drawings and maps. Located in Canyon, Texas. U.S. Government InformationFederal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)
Provided by Research Division of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This web site provides historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents. When used in connection with data contained in FRED[insert trademark R] (Federal Reserve Economic Data), FRASER[insert trademark R] allows the researcher to create uninterrupted data series by accessing sources previously available only in print. Search for petroleum data. USA.gov
Use this portal to search for government information from all state, municipal and federal government agencies. Government Printing Office. Federal Digital System (FDsys)
Use this site to search for government documents on the petroleum industry. Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission
Commission of U.S. Governor's of oil and gas producing states. Includes a state membership directory, a Weblog, and extensive links to other state and national government sites, industry-related sites, and the sites of professional societies, as well as a complete list of publications, some of which are freely available. U.S. Dept. of Energy. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
List of DOE, EIA petroleum experts who specialize in petroleum data, along with an Ask an Expert service via email or telephone. Also available from the EIA are a number of publications including: U.S. Dept. of Energy. Office of Fossil Energy. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The reserve is a key emergency response tool available to the President to protect Americans from energy supply disruptions. This site also offers a searchable Fossil Energy R&D Project Data Base which includes 500 active R&D projects. Of interest to researchers of U.S. consumer protection and pricing. U.S. Dept. of Interior. Minerals Management Service (MMS)
Search the publications of the MMS that deal with the petroleum industry. Economic aspects of the industry are part of the research presented by MMS. U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Resources
House committee that discusses the energy issues and policy of the United States. Search Engines/DatabasesBizMiner
Purchase detailed industry analysis and marketing plan research. Offers industry search by keyword, SIC codes, A-Z list of industrial segments and industry groups. Energy & Industry category should be used to acquire petroleum industry information. Examples of industry reports are available. Business & Company Resource Center Subscription database available at a library. Search petroleum companies by name or use SIC or NAICS codes to acquire information on petroleum companies. CSIRO Petroleum
Australian petroleum industry links to all R&D initiatives. Site also includes the Australian Resources Research Center annual report. |
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