Throughout the day, we have visited petroleum related Internet sites. Once again, remember that the Internet is growing and changing every day. The Web Reference section in this chapter consists of lists of Internet sites which may prove useful to you. This list is by no means exhaustive, there are probably excellant sites which are not on it. Because it is selective, however, it is a somewhat manageable starting place for your exploration of the Internet. Petroleum resources on the Internet fall into five broad categories: organizations, businesses, libraries, professional societies, and collections of petroleum related resources.
Examples of organizations which have useful sights on the Internet are the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC), the Gas Research Institute (GRI), Federal agencies (e.g., USGS, US Department of Energy), and State agencies (e.g., state geological surveys, university research groups, state environmental regulatory agencies).
The PTTC has national and regional web sites that are dedicated to making new technologies easily accessible to the independent producer. GRI allows you to submit on-line subject searches (literature, projects) of its extensive research database. Government agencies have quite a bit of public domain information and software, some of which is available for download on the Internet. Federal agencies offer access to digital map data (USGS), as well as energy related software (U. S. Department of Energy). A review of the Rocky Mountain area revealed regulatory information, contact information, geologic information to download, and production data to download at various state agency Web sites (see Rockies Resources).
On-line businesses include sites for individual oil and gas companies, software companies, on-line clearing houses for prospects, plays, and information (e.g., the Discovery Place, worldenergy), and service companies (e.g., Penn Well Publishing, Schlumberger).
Libraries have some of the most useful sites. The Library of Congress has an extensive set of hyper-links to library resources nationwide. In addition to searching collections state wide, the Colorado Area Regional Library (CARL) service (http://www.carl.org) offers the service Uncover. Uncover offers free searches of an extensive Journal database as well as special services such as the e-mail delivery of current table of contents for the Journals which you designate and FAX delivery of selected articles.
Most professional societies (e.g., SPE, AAPG, and GSA) have Web sites. The Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS), part of AAPG, has an excellent FTP site which offers petroleum related software (ftp://ftp.csn.net/COGS/ ). At the GSA site (http://www.geosociety.org/) you can review sessions and abstracts for the national GSA meeting. A great deal of pertinent information is available at these sites, including on-line journals and abstracts. Finally, some sites specialize in hyper-linked collections of petroleum related resources. Consider these a categorical index for petroleum, as such, they are great places to begin searches on the Web. A section listing these sites is included in the Web References at the end of this chapter.
I. Go to one of the the locations given below. Are there items of interest? Can you follow some hyper-links to other sites of interest? When you finish the exercise for one site, visit the other sites.
II. Here is a new set of sites to surf -
III. And more -
IV. And even more -
http://www.worldenergy.solutions/
http://www.utexas.edu/research/beg/
V. I think you get the idea - this is just the tip of today's Internet iceberg. We hope that you leave this guide with a greatly increased understanding of the resources available to you on the Internet and a clear understanding of how to get on the Web. We'll look for you in cyberspace - vsare@mines.edu
*see also the Rockies Resources Section that follows
Natural Gas Weekly Market Update offers a wealth of data on volume produced, reserves, consumption, and more (need Adobe Acrobat to read reports)
Software from the U. S. Department of Energy, including documentation
Oil and Gas Infrastructure Project, a joint UC/Lawrence Livermore/DOE effort, offers an interactive oil and gas database for California
Big Sand Draw Field Evaluation Project, Wyoming, joint Los Alamos National Lab & Wold Oil Company project
The Energy Information Administration site is a winner, data such as annual reserves report and much more
Gulf of Mexico Atlas of Oil and Gas Reservoirs, production data, reservoirs, fields, plays
Sandia National Laboratory's Oil and Gas Programs Department
National PTTC page has great forums & links, industry calendar, regional sections
Rocky Mountain Region PTTC at Colorado School of Mines has data to download, regional calendar, info on Resource Center, more
SPE software from PTTC, free and useful, at the Kansas Energy Research Center
GO-TECH Petroleum Industry Electronic Information System, electronic information from diverse sources
The USGS has an extensive set of pages which offer maps, GIS data, declassified satellite photos, information on recent earthquake activity and geologic hazards, and more
Manual of Federal Geographic Data Products, provides a description of all federal data products & how to get them
U. S. GovBot Database, search engine for government sites
Energy Research Center at the University of Kansas offers publications and more
Kansas Geological Survey - software includes mapping, petrophysical, seismic processing, digital oil & gas atlas, and more
An index map, contact information, and Web links for State Geological Surveys
Utah Geological Survey features the Bluebell DOE project with Ferron Sandstone and Paradox Basin studies coming soon
UT Austin's Bureau of Economic Geology has an active program in reservoir characterization, Gulf of Mexico Reservoirs, and much more
World Energy, extensive information on oil & gas doings world wide
Natural Resources Canada and the Geological Survey of Canada are on the same server at
National Center for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Australia
Indonesian Geology Resources, offers information on natural resources
Country Studies/Area Handbook Program, must reading for those of you who work International, for the Army from the Library of Congress
Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), realtime weather data & images, global
Earth Resources Laboratory at MIT, applied geophysics, especially seismic exploration
Also from MIT, recent stock market information, prices, one year graphs of performance
Software from the Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS), wide selection of programs, an easy to use FTP site
World Data Center System (NOAA-NGDC) has fantastic images, Gulf of Mexico salt deformation expressed on sea floor, and much more, tour this one
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Public Image Archive, radar images from the space shuttle
WeatherNet, US oriented, links to weather info elsewhere on the Web
Volcano World, what's erupting? and tours by geographic area
The Museum of Paleontology at the UC, Berkeley, extensive library, virtual tours
Copyright 1996 by the Rocky Mountain Region of the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council
PTTC is partly funded by the U. S. Department of Energy, visit their Energy Technology Center on the Web.
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