Internet Guide Resources


Rocky Mountain Region of the PTTC


This annotated collection lists more than 250 petroleum-related Web sites. Sites are hyper-linked (hotlisted), so you can go directly to a site that interests you by clicking on underlined text. The list is arranged in the following categories. Happy browsing!


Cool Sites

The Business


Search Engines

Data and Maps

Software and Software Companies

Rockies Regional Resources

Technology and Research


DOE, EIA, BLM

PTTC sites

Organizations

Canada

Educational

WWW References


Cool Sites

Helpful, fun, educational, useful and worth visiting regularly! Also check "What's new" sections and the Awesome lists to keep up with new "Cool sites."
Awesome Lists (john@trainer.com)
One of my absolute favorites! This is a collection of the best sites on the Web. The Telephone directories section is especially good.
My Virtual Reference Desk
I love this site. It has an extensive set of links to a broad range of research and news sites. Everything you never knew was out there & need to know!
Telephone, Fax, Business Directories: USA
This link to the Awesome list prvides an excellant gateway to the numerous Web sites that offer this information. If the first directory doesn't find your party, try the next.
Glossary of industry terms
Alphabetical, searchable, compliments oof Shell Oil.
Earth Magazine
A fun site for popular earth science stories & good links.
Encyclopedia Britannica Search
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Periodic Table of the Elements
Los Alamos National Laboratory offers this handy reference, start with the table and choose elements to get more information.
PointCast
Information delivered to you, early leader in "push" technology" on the Web.
Unit Conversion Table
Extensive list of conversion factors (alphabetical) and links to on-line conversion software.
VolcanoWorld
What's erupting? Tours by geographic area, images of volcanos, a fun and informative site.

The Business

The following represent a mix of sites loosely related to the "business" side of the oil & gas industry.
CNNfn - the financial network
News, markets, links, stories.
Telephone, Fax, Business Directories: USA
This link to the Awesome list prvides an excellant gateway to the numerous Web sites that offer this information. If the first directory doesn't find your party, try the next.
OILWORLD
News, futures, prices, equipment, suppliers, & much more. Billed as 'one-stop oil newsletter.' Updated twice a day.
Petroleum Business Directory
Searchable database, domestic & International.
M-I Drilling Fluids Oil & Gas Prices
A good place to check commodities.
Oilfield Equipment Manager
Search for equipment available worldwide.
National Petroleum Council
Advisory council to Secretary of Energy, sections on the SPR, energy outlook, environmental issues, & more.
HomeWEB
Real estate & relocation service, search for homes by location & price range.

Companies

Exploration & Production Companies
A goood list oof exploration and production companies on-line from national PTTC. Many of these sites offer detailed infoormation about the company including financials, press releases, and technical information on fields and drilling activities.
Discovery Place
One of the earliest oil & gas WWW sites. Great site for news, jobs, properties & prospects, equipment, events, & links. Originally Canada only, now global.
Red Crown Royalties
This is a company that leases 1.3 million acres in the Williston Basin.
Foreland Corporation
Colorado independent specializing in frontier exploration in the USA, especially for large reserves in Nevada. Using 3D seismic to develop two new Nevada fields - Eagle Springs & Ghost Ranch. Lots of info on WWW site.
GEOMAP COMPANY®
Offers traditional and digital maps and data products and services for the O&G industry.
Geotrace Technologies, Inc.
A Colorado company - seismic data processing, software, training - offered globally.
IBM Petroleum Solutions
Case studies showing IBM technology applied by companies.
Legacy Solutions Inc.
Data management for intranets.
Oil & Gas Field Services
Directory of companies offering wide range of oilfield services - for example, mud additives, cementing, logging, perforating, pipe inspection, etc., etc. Good resource.
PennWell Publishing
Products, on-line Journals, databases, events, conferences, exhibit info.
Petroleum Information/Dwights
Extensive site with information on data products, services, industry news, and events.
West Texas Research Group, LLC
Informative articles on crude prices & history, links to energy data.
World Energy
Extensive information on oil and gas world wide. Searchable database includes maps, lease sale information, consultants, and much more. Be sure to register, it's free & allows you to access the full range of services at this great site.

Industry related on-line Articles

Congressional Research Reports
Papers on pending legislation and issues, including energy, mining, and general resource categories.
Oil Wells That End Well On The Internet
Article on how companies, such as Chevron, are using the Internet to speed data sharing and decision making.
Running Out of Oil -- Get Ready for Another Oil Shock
An example of Internet commentary.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Report on SPR developments from the Congressional Research Service.
World Oil Production After Year 2000: Business As Usual or Crises?
Another example of information from the Congressional Research Service.

Plays, Prospects, Investment Opportunities

The following are examples of properties and investment opportunities offered on-line. All the usual legal disclaimers apply.
Oil Prospects in Rockies
Commercial site with basic text info on prospects in the Rocies region.
OilOnLine
Investment opportunities, short summaries, contact information, and links.
Production & properties for sale
Example of oil properties advertised for sale on Oil World site.
The Energy Exchange Home Page
WWW site for connecting Energy projects with funding.
Thousand Peaks (WY overthrust)
Roochester Minerals overthrust play in Wyoming.
Valley County (MT) Oil and Gas Prospect
Prospect summary w/map, Williston Basin. Located in Altavista search 6/97.

Travel

CDC Travel Information
Health-related travel advisories, vaccine recommendations, and much more.
CIA World Factbook
Planning international activity? This is the famous CIA resource on-line, lots of information here.
Currency Exchange Rates
From Infoseek, easy interface.
Travelocity, online reservations
Powered by SABRE, offers last minute deals, reservations, and lots more.

Weather

The Weather Channel
Breaking weather, forecasts & current conditions for US & international cities. Information on weather related flight delays.
USA TODAY Weather
National map, regional forecasts, world weather, trip planning & more. Lots of good links for weather - like hurricanes & tornados.

Search Engines and Collections

Search Engines & Databases

AltaVista Search
Large indexed datbase offers advanced search options, good help section. My favorite.
Awesome Lists (john@trainer.com)
One of my absolute favorites! This is a collection of the best sites on the Web. The Telephone directories section is especially good.
CARL Library and Information Database Search
Search libraries & databases nationwide. If you use the literature, this will become a frequently visited site. Easy interface, gateway to Uncover journal search service.
Deja News
Great search engine for Usenet newsgroups and the Web. Topic searches here avoid the time consuming aspect of following individual newsgroups.
GovBot Database of Government Web Sites
Searchable database with more than 300,000 Web pages cataloged; from the US Business Advisor. Find lots of public domain (ie. free) items.
Infoseek
Large, comprehensive indexed database, good search help & extras on the side.
Lycos
Categorical database from Carnegie Mellon University - billed as "The Catalog of the Net." Easy interface, good set of categories on the first page, for example "Best Newspaper Sites."
Magellan
Easy to use categorical database with nice set of features called "search voyeur."
The Virtual Earth
An introduction to the Web for Geoscientists, illustrates the potential of the Web as an information retrieval system.
Welcome to UnCoverWeb!
The best journal search engine I have found. Articles can be faxed for a fee, or print the reference & take it to your local library to retrieve.
Yahoo!
The best known categorical database, I regularly start here to browse broad topics such as "Internet Collections." If your search does not turn up any matches on Yahoo, it automatically submits a search on AltaVista - a nice feature.

Collections

WWW sites which specialize in hotlists of related resources are called "collections." Consider these a specific, categorical index. As such, they are a great place to begin browsing the Web if you are looking for a particular set - like Petroleum Resources (see section below).

Internet Collections

Explore the Internet (Library of Congress)
Great site - Internet search tool reviews, government resources (fed, state & international), library research sites & tools.
My Virtual Reference Desk - Welcome
I love this site.
Web & Internet Resources/Indiana
Broad range of WWW sites arranged by category - business, computers, dictionaries & encyclopedias, maps, science & technology, & much more. Brief annotations.
Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:Internet
An extensive index of Internet related WWW sites, and searchable, too!

Petroleum Collections

In addition to the following, check the "Links" or "Resources" sections of other industry related Web sites.
A large collection of Web Sites for the Petroleum Industry
Just what the title says! Comprehensive list, not annotated; many research labs, universities, maps & data sites, journal list.
Electric and Gas Utilities (Energy)
Range of WWW sites of interest to this industry sector - marketing, publications, research, NERC, TSIN, laws, labor unions, & more.
Exploration & Production Companies
A goood list oof exploration and production companies on-line from national PTTC. Many of these sites offer detailed infoormation about the company including financials, press releases, and technical information on fields and drilling activities.
GIS related sites arranged by state
This collection of GIS related sites arranged by state can lead you to geographic information systems projects, examples, and data on the Web.
Links to Service Companies, Hoffman Marine
Particularly good for offshore & international service companies & operators.
Merak's Internet Directory for Oil & Gas
Billed as 'World's largest Internet Directory for Oil & Gas' & it probably is! Well organized, variable annotation, broad range of categories.
Neopolis Oil Patch, geophysics
Hotlist of WWW geophysical resources.
OIL & GAS MAPS, DATA, AND GIS LINKS
Links for data, prices, information on permits, production data & trends; annotated. Good "What's new" section right up front.
Oil & Gas Networks
Links arranged alphabetically from the PTERIS (Petroleum Technology Research Information System). Not annotated.
On-line Earth Science Journals (Original Site)
Comprehensive site - WWW journal sites, searchable publisher databases, newsletters & scout reports on-line.
Petroleum Technology Transfer Council National Home Page
Resource links, events, publications, forums, from this organization dedicated to getting effective technologies out to the domestic producer.
PTTC's Resource Link Index
Dedicated to the ooil and gas industry, well organized.
sci.geo.petroleum Internet Resources
Great list gathered from posts to the Usenet newsgroup, not annotated, extensive.
Selective Petroleum Links
Annotated, regularly updated, rated WWW sites, goes for the best sites. Worth regular return visits! From the folks at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Geneva.
The E&P Connection
Billed as "your resource for upstream data solutions." News, links, searchable, annotated site.
UT Petroleum Engineering Reading Room
Great publication list including on-line works. Commercial, jobs, events & research hotlinks as well.
Yahoo! - Science:Earth Sciences:Geology and Geophysics
Good place to search for site, updated frequently. Also check other science and engineering categories in Yahoo!

Literature Searches and Sources

The following offer some good literature search sites. Don't forget the searchable databases of individual professional organizations, as well.
CARL Library and Information Database Search
Search libraries & databases nationwide. If you use the literature, this will become a frequently visited site. Easy interface, gateway to Uncover journal search service.
Geotimes
On-line journal.
On-line Earth Science Journals (Original Site)
Comprehensive site - WWW journal sites, searchable publisher databases, newsletters & scout reports on-line.
PennWell Publishing
Products, on-line Journals, databases, events, conferences, exhibit info.
Search Library of Congress Web Pages
UT Petroleum Engineering Reading Room
Great publication list including on-line works. Commercial, jobs, events & research hotlinks as well.
Welcome to UnCoverWeb!
The best journal search engine I have found. Articles can be faxed for a fee, or print the reference & take it to your local library to retrieve.

Data and Maps

Data

1995 Revised Colorado State Statutes
Searchable database of Colorado statutes, including those relevant to oil & gas operations.
ACTI Oil & Gas Database
Database under development at Lawrence Livermore NL. Samples from several states include: wells, production, reservoir characteristics. Graphical user interface.
BASIN Database
The Geological Survey of Canada/ Atlantic site hosts this digital database of geological, geophysical & engineering information for offshore eastern Canada which contains exploration wells and a large number of seismic surveys.
Colorado DNR - Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Rules & regulations to browse or download, hearing schedule, commission information, Colorado oil & gas operations summary.
EIA Natural Gas Page
Offers a wealth of data on volume produced, reserves, consumption, and more. Can download & open data in Excell (need Adobe Acrobat to read reports).
Energy Information Administration
The Energy Information Administration site is useful with data such as annual reserves report and much more.
GIS related sites arranged by state
This collection of GIS related sites arranged by state can lead you to geographic information systems projects, examples, and data on the Web.
Kansas Geological Survey-Oil and Gas Info
Great site for oil & gas information in Kansas. Searchable, interactive map interface, well data, digital petroleum atlas.
List of companies offering production data
Oil World's hotlist of companies offering production data, short, with contact information.
Louisiana Energy Access System (LEAS)
Dial-up on-line access to oil and gas information via the Louisiana Energy Access System (LEAS), hosted by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources .
Nevada wells
List of wells in Nevada, arranged by Township, Range and Section, can be downloaded, opened as spreadsheet in Excel (comma delimited format).
OIL & GAS MAPS, DATA, AND GIS LINKS
Links for data, prices, information on permits, production data & trends. Annotated, good 'What's new' section right up front.
Petroleum Explorer - Seismic Data in Canada
List of all active geophysical crews in Canada, published every two weeks.
Petroleum Information/Dwights
Extensive site with information on data products, services, industry news, and events.
Retail Gas Prices by State
Northeast-Midwest Institute calculations of Energy Information Agency (EIA) data. Can be saved as .xls file & opened in Excel (tab delimited format).
RULES - Utah O&G Conservation Commission
Browse or download rules, cross-referenced hotlinks, index. Great resources for companies that operate in Utah.
Space Imaging EOSAT
EOSAT (Earth Observation Satellite Corporation) offers information on its extensive images database (Landsat, Radar, etc.) and a downloadable catalog with prices.
U.S. Reserves Annual Report 1995
Individual data files in Lotus 123 and Excel formats to download and the complete Advance Summary Report to download in Adobe Acrobat (PDF).
US Energy Data EIA/DOE
The big daddy of energy statistics, including Monthly stats for the past two to three years (updated monthly). A variety of formats offered for download.
USGS: Geo Data
Gateway to map data, format standards, and public domain software offered via FTP from the USGS.
UTAH Annual Oil Production
Production for 1976 - 1996, chart & data.
Utah Oil & Gas Rules
Hotlinked rules document, downloadable to word processor.
UTAH Oil & Gas Statistics
Summaries & lists of wells permitted by county & date, and much more. Download operator & well data for all wells in Utah.
UW Home Page
University of Wyoming has a searchable site where you can use 'Save As' under 'File' to capture petroleum research abstracts.
World Data Center (NOAA-NGDC)
The World Data Center site has fantastic images on-line, including Gulf of Mexico salt deformation expressed on the sea floor.
World Energy
Extensive information on oil and gas world wide. Searchable database includes maps, lease sale information, consultants, and much more. Be sure to register, it's free & allows you to access the full range of services at this great site.

Maps

Color Landform Atlas of the United States
A nice color map of your favorite state. Good for report illustration, regional locator maps.
GEOMAP COMPANY®
Offers traditional and digital maps and data products and services for the O&G industry.
Map Stats, Census Bureau
Graphic interface lets you access census data by state & county.
MapQuest! Welcome!
A fun site - driving directions in USA, interactive atlas of the world, free personalized maps.
Maps on DiscTM
Collection of CD-ROMS that give you sharp, detailed 7 1/2 minute topographic maps for Windows PC; from Coldbay Software, a Colorado company.
Xerox PARC Map Viewer
Interactive map site, graphic interface lets you zero in on the desired geographic area.

Software and Software Companies

Oil and Gas Software On-line

Computer Oriented Geological Society Software Directory
The original geological freeware/shareware ftp site! Offers a wide selection of programs,downloadable from an easy to use FTP site. Compliments of the former Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS), now folded into AAPG.
Computer Software from DOE (freeware)
Download software (freeware) from the U. S. Department of Energy, with documentation, including EOR, polymer flood, & waterflood predictive models & more.
Neuralog, Inc. Home Page
Digitizing system that converts paper maps and logs into computer data. Software resides in Rockies PTTC Resource Center.
Oil and Gas accounting software
Office accounting software"Roughneck for Windows." Downloadable trail version with documentation, upgrades via internet. Also home to the "large collection of Web sites for the Petroleum Industry."
PolyPaint+, 3D visualization software
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics offers 3-D visualization software, Polypaint+, for the Sun SparcStation (free, public domain software).
PTTC Software
Download PTTC software from the Kansas Geological Survey, includes mapping, petrophysical, seismic processing and more.
RockWare Inc. Earth Science Software
Rockware's Scientific Software catalog is legendary, now it is available on-line! And you can download free well log software at their cool web site.
TCU Mac Geological Software
Nice collection of geologic software for the Macintosh platform.
The Soft Earth
The Soft Earth, a WWW site of internet resources for Geoscientists, has a list of Geoscience software on the Web.

Internet & General Software

Adobe Acrobat Overview
Download a free Adobe Acrobat reader to take advantage of the many documents that are presented on the Web in PDF format.
Aladdin Systems, Inc.
Stuffit Expander for Macintosh and PC will handle the decoding of numerous compression formats (freeware and commercial versions).
Dr. Shareware's Download Sites
Extensive collection of links to download sites.
McAfee
Anti-Virus products from McAfee.
Shareware/Freeware list - Merak
WWW sites for petroleum related software programs.
Symantec Corporation
Symantec Anti-Virus products, Norton & Sam.
The Ultimate Collection
The famous TUCOWS site! Software for PC and Mac platforms, all types of applications and utilities, numerous mirror sites to speed downloads.
U of M Mac software
The big gopher site for all types of Mac software.
Welcome To Dr Solomon's On-Line
Dr. Solomon anti-virus product line.
WinZip Home Page
WinZip for the PC will expand a variety of formats (shareware) commonly used for data compression on the Web.

Software Companies

The following list provides links to software companies that offer oil & gas related products. Check these web sites for more information about specific vendors. Many of these programs are available for review at the Rocky Mountain PTTC Resource Center.
CogniSeis
Digi-Rule Inc.
Dynamic Graphics, Inc.
GeoGraphix
Integrity Consulting - Reservoir Toolkits
Interactive Network Tech, Inc. (INT)
Landmark Graphics
Maps on DiscTM
Neuralog, Inc. Home Page
Petroinfo - WINDS
RockWare Inc. Earth Science Software
Systems & Software, Inc. (SSI)
TERRASCIENCES' Home Page

Rockies Regional Resources

The following list in a selction of a few resources on the Web (at this time) in the nine state Rocky Mountain PTTC Region. Research is ongoing for Idaho, South Dakota, and Nebraska, at this time.

Colorado

1995 Revised Colorado State Statutes
Searchable database of Colorado statutes, including those relevant to oil & gas operations.
ARI fractures in tight gas sand
Working in a "tight sand" gas field in Colorado, Advanced Resources International is combining several of the most advanced geological and geophysical techniques to predict where natural fractures exist in western gas formations.
COLORADO BLM INFO PAGE
Oil & gas lease sale information and more.
Colorado BLM Oil and Gas Leasing Info Page
Sale schedule, parcel descriptions, results, electronic nomination of parcels, & more.
Colorado Business Magazine
State wide business magazine offers recent issue on-line, community calendar, feature stories.
Colorado Department of Natural Resources
Gateway to divisions (O&G, Mining), directory, search, floodwatch, events.
Colorado DNR - Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Rules & regulations to browse or download, hearing schedule, commission information, Colorado oil & gas operations summary.
Colorado ELBERT
Land & Natural Resources planning database
Colorado Geological Survey
On-line publications & news.
Colorado Oil & Gas On-line
Brochure of information available from the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission.
Colorado School of Mines
Research University which focuses on Engineering curriculum. Visit Geology, geophysics, and ppetroleum engineering at this searchable site (at least).
Colorado Servers: Government
List of Federal, State, County, and City government servers.
"How To" manual for reservoir compartmentalization
The Colorado School of Mines is working in an oil field northwest of Denver, CO, to develop a "how-to" manual for independent producers that will describe the best procedures for designing an efficient oil recovery project.
Natural Gas Project - Rifle, CO
Seismic measurements and computerized data processing systems are used at the Rifle, Colorado test site to analyze the characteristics of fractures in a low-permeability sandstone formation. Joint project of DOE, GRI, and CER Corporation of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Oil resource assessment Colorado
USGS assessment of resources on National Forest lands in Colorado
University of Colorado at Boulder
Lots of information about this research University.
USGS Programs in Colorado
Links to WWW sites for a variety of programs located in Colorado, including the oil & gas assessment study.

Montana

3-D & waterflood in Williston
Use of 3-D to target infill drilling in carbonate reservoir, Luff Exploration. One of DOE Class II projects.
BLM Montana-Dakotas Home Page
Oil & gas lease sale information & operations information for the 4.73 million acres that BLM manages in Montana & the Dakotas.
Lodgepole Oil and Gas Prospect
Prospect offered by Rochester Minerals.
MSU-Bozeman Libraries Internet Information Resources
Great regional links, as well as search tips and general links.
Reservoir Characterization of Rabbit Hills Field
Integrated study of field in north central Montana, 3-D visualization of field on-line.
Seismic Study, Northern Williston, Thesis
Abstract of seismic study in Canadian section of the Williston Basin..
Shallow gas well site selection on Fort Peck Reservation, Montana
Abstract on the use of GIS to rate drilling sites.
Williston Basin Project - WBP
Research group at the University of Saskatchewan posts results of project to establish a comprehensive quasi-3D tectonic development model of the Williston Basin.
Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation
This site contains rules and regulations in Adobe Acrobat or Word format, activity letters, board and staff names, etc.  There is also a link to a searchable statute database for the state.

Nevada

BLM Nevada
Contact info, regional offices, mission, news.
Grant Canyon, Nevada, Field-3D Seismic
Abstract of presentation.
Mackay School of Mines
Earth science and engineering schoool at University of Nevada Reno; good links.
Nevada resources
Easy to use Gopher site offers downloadable files on publications, newsletters, oil & gas wells and more from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology.
Nevada Seismic Research gateway page
Links to the Seismological lab, Consortium for Economic Migration and Tomography, and earthquake center; University of Nevada, Reno.
Nevada wells
List of wells in Nevada, arranged by Township, Range and Section, can be downloaded, opened as spreadsheet in Excel (comma delimited format).
Upheaval Dome Seismic Refraction Analysis
Nice seismic study of impact structure in Paradox Basin.

North Dakota

3-D & waterflood in Williston
Use of 3-D to target infill drilling in carbonate reservoir, Luff Exploration. One of DOE Class II projects.
BLM Montana-Dakotas Home Page
Oil & gas lease sale information & operations information for the 4.73 million acres that BLM manages in Montana & the Dakotas.
Lodgepole Oil and Gas Prospect
Prospect offered by Rochester Minerals.
ND Strat Column
Download with "File/Save as."
NDGS - Miscellaneous Maps
Maps listed with scales, dates of publication & prices.
NDGS - Oil and Gas Materials
Production reports, computer generated performance curves & more.
NDGS Publication List - Reports of Investigation
Many oil & gas related publications in this report list from the North Dakota Geological Survey.
North Dakota Geological Survey
Gateway to useful information on North Dakota geology & energy.
Seismic Study, Northern Williston, Thesis
Abstract of seismic study in Canadian section of the Williston Basin..
Welcome to ND Association of Oil & Gas Producing Counties
Operations info - permits, taxes, statistics.
Williston Basin Project - WBP
Research group at the University of Saskatchewan posts results of project to establish a comprehensive quasi-3D tectonic development model of the Williston Basin.

Utah

Bluebell Field, bypassed zones, UGS
The Utah Geological Survey is working on a project co-funded with the U.S. Department of Energy to demonstrate techniques that could help recover as much as 1 billion barrels of oil that is at risk of being abandoned in the Uinta Basin of Utah.
Economic Geology Program Projects (UGS)
Gateway page to four oil & gas studies - Bluebell Field, Ferron Sandstone, Paradox Basin, & Midway-Sunset.
Lomax Oil Recovery Project, waterflood
In Utah's Uintah Basin, as little as 5% of the basin's oil has historically been produced. Local operators have assumed that waterflooding would not be effective. Lomax has shown that waterflooding is technically and economically feasible in its Monument Butte reservoir. DOE Class project.
Seismic detection of fractures, tight gas sands
Coleman Research Corp. and DOE joint project to apply seismic detection of fractures focusing specifically on using sound waves to detect and map the ribbon-like fractures that exist in the gas-bearing formations common in the West; Altamont-Bluebell Field.
UTAH Annual Oil Production
Production for 1976 - 1996, chart & data.
Utah BLM office
News, field offices, events, photos.
Utah Geological Survey (UGS)
Geologic programs, research projects, FAQs, newsletters, & more.
Utah Oil & Gas Rules
Hotlinked rules document, downloadable to word processor.
UTAH Oil & Gas Statistics
Summaries & lists of wells permitted by county & date, and much more. Download operator & well data for all wells in Utah.
Utah Oil and Gas Information Page
Great site to access statistics, environmental handbook, and rules.
Utah State - Department of Natural Resources
Gateway to geological survey, division of Oil & gas, and more.
Utah Travel and Adventure Online
Destinations! Adventures! And a cool photo tour.

Wyoming

Bureau of Land Management-Wyoming
Information, contacts, news.
Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center
Working oilfield to test ideas, new recovery technologies evaluated, training, and more.
Slant wells in Frontier
Sierra Energy is combining 3-dimension seismic surveying with slant and horizontal well drilling to increase the flow of crude oil from the Basin Field in Park County.
UW Home Page
University of Wyoming has a searchable site where you can use 'Save As' under 'File' to capture petroleum research abstracts.

State Home Pages

State pages are often gateways to oil and gas agency related information as well as general state information, weather, and news.
Colorado
Idaho
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
North Dakota
Utah
Wyoming

Technology & Research

"How To" manual for reservoir compartmentalization
The Colorado School of Mines is working in an oil field northwest of Denver, CO, to develop a "how-to" manual for independent producers that will describe the best procedures for designing an efficient oil recovery project.
4D Interactive Seismic Imaging
3-D seismic imaging, prestack depth migration, and framework for parallel seismic processing projects.
ACTI-SEG Project
Tests new approaches to numerical modeling and imaging of seismic reflection data.
Atlas of Northern GOM Gas and Oil Reservoirs
Gulf of Mexico Atlas of Gas and Oil Reservoirs, production data, reservoirs, fields, plays.
Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin
Research in advanced geotechnology, oil and gas discovery and recovery optimization, geophysics, and more.
Center for Wave Phenomena (CWP)
The main focus of the CWP program at Colorado School of Mines is in seismic modeling, migration, and inversion methods and accurate and efficient computational methods for seismic data processing, primarily for application to regions of structural complexity.
Energy & Geoscience Institute
Gateway page to research projects, contact information, publications and more offered by this group located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
ERL Borehole Acoustics and Logging Consortium
A research group focusing on the physics of seismic wave propagation in the borehole.
Gas & Oil Technology Exchange (GO-TECH)
New Mexico Tech and the Los Alamos National Laboratory developed this information rich site. New Mexico lease sale and regulation information, current oil prices, databases, and publications are a few of the offerings.
GIS in Oil and Gas Exploration
Paper with figures that reviews the use of GIS to integrate information from multiple sources and provide it to geologists and other professionals in a user-friendly way.
GRI Report on production in Wyoming
Report covers 181 fields, relationship of production to lineaments; with figures.
Horizontal Drilling
Survey article on this topic from the Oil and Gas Journal.
Institute of Gas Technology
R&D, databases, news, education related to gas production, operations, marketing.
Methane emission reduction
Work on new methods for initial production testing of gas wells that will avoid the hazardous practice of venting gas into the atmosphere to test the production capability of a new well.
MIT Earth Resources Laboratory
Applied geophysics as it relates to seismic exploration and parallel computing.
Petroleum TEchnology Research Information System
Events, publications, consortium info, links, research activities.
Petroleum Technology Transfer Council National Home Page
Resource links, events, publications, forums, from this organization dedicated to getting effective technologies out to the domestic producer.
Reservoir Characterization of Rabbit Hills Field
Integrated study of field in north central Montana, 3-D visualization of field on-line.
Reservoir Characterization Project (RCP)
The Reservoir Characterization Project (RCP) at Colorado School of Mines (CSM) is an industry sponsored research consortium whose mission is to develop and apply 3-D, 3-C seismology and associated technologies for enhanced reservoir recovery. See current projects and search publications.
Reservoir description constrained by seismic data
Research on how to utilize seismic parameters to improve and constrain stochastic reservoir models. From the SAND department of the Norwegian Computing Center.
Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center
Working oilfield to test ideas, new recovery technologies evaluated, training, and more.
Salt Tectonics
Giovanni Guglielmo's research on salt tectonics is frequently updated and includes 3-D illustrations. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Web site.
Seismic data transmission via Fibre Optic Network
Report on Metro Calgary Fiber Services Inc. (MetroNet) which transmits seismic data between companies hooked into its fibre optic network, installed underground in Calgary earlier this year.
Seismic Reservoir Stimulation
Large group of collaborating researchers.
Seismic Studies on Gas Hydrates
Study of the gas hydrate deposits of the Blake Ridge region, offshore South Carolina.
Seismic Supercomputing for Oil Field Services
Parallel processing computer handles processing on board Geco-Prakla's fleet of seismic acquisition vessels.
Stanford PE Papers
Abstracts from Petroleum Engineering research group.
Stochastic 3D Geomodels of Sub-Marine Fans
Different sedimentary facies are modelled with different methods to accommodate specific features characteristic for the environments.

DOE, EIA, BLM

Case sudies from joint industry/DOE projects to improve field recovery & life-span, freeware, lease sale & regs, and more.
Natural Gas & Oil Technology Partnership
The NGOTP is a DOE-funded organization that includes national laboratories, universities, and industry participants that work together to develop advanced technologies that would help the industry.  This site includes a quarterly newsletter, partnership projects, links to other oil and gas related sites, and more.
ACTI Oil & Gas Database
Database under development at Lawrence Livermore NL. Samples from several states include: wells, production, reservoir characteristics. Graphical user interface.
ARI fractures in tight gas sand
Working in a "tight sand" gas field in Colorado, Advanced Resources International is combining several of the most advanced geological and geophysical techniques to predict where natural fractures exist in western gas formations.
Atlas of Northern GOM Gas and Oil Reservoirs
Gulf of Mexico Atlas of Oil and Gas Reservoirs, production data, reservoirs, fields, plays.
Big Sand Draw field - Wold Oil Properties
The objective of the Big Sand Draw field evaluation project is to improve the ultimate recovery of oil from an existing natural water-drive reservoir in the Tensleep Formation in Wyoming, using characterization of reservoir geology, simulation, & re-development schemes. Images of 3-D visualization of field on-line.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National
BLM news & information, links to state offices, downloadable 1996 edition of PUBLIC LAND STATISTICS (PDF format).
CER Corp. Natural Gas Project
Seismic measurements and computerized data processing systems are used at the Rifle, Colorado test site to analyze the characteristics of fractures in a low-permeability sandstone formation
Computer Software from DOE (freeware)
Download software (freeware) from the U. S. Department of Energy, with documentation, including EOR, polymer flood, & waterflood predictive models & more.
DOE'S OIL PROGRAM
Links to the field demonstration program (reservoir class) and research & development program.
EIA Natural Gas Page
Offers a wealth of data on volume produced, reserves, consumption, and more. Can download & open data in Excell (need Adobe Acrobat to read reports).
Energy Information Administration
The Energy Information Administration site is useful, data such as annual reserves report and much more.
Fossil Energy DOE
Gateway to news, R&D, technology, reserves, statistics and reports - searchable site.
Gas & Oil Technology Exchange (GO-TECH)
New Mexico Tech and the Los Alamos National Laboratory developed this information rich site. New Mexico lease sale and regulation information, current oil prices, databases, and publications are a few of the offerings.
Natural Gas Project Map
Good set of links to gas research and development projects supported by DOE.
Oil Technology Project Map/DOE
This is the Department of Energy's cost-shared program with the domestic oil industry, universities, and state agencies to demonstrate both conventional and advanced technologies that can prolong the economic life of oil fields considered to be endangered by premature abandonment.
Petroleum Technology Transfer Council National Home Page
Resource links, events, publications, forums, from this organization dedicated to getting effective technologies out to the domestic producer.
Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center
Working oilfield to test ideas, new recovery technologies evaluated, training, and more.
Sandia National Lab
Check this site listing the Oil and Gas Programs for new technologies and links.
The Class Act Oil Reservoir Newsletter Menu
News on progress of Class projects.
The Department of Energy's FY1997 Budget
Congressional Research Service put this document out on the Web.

PTTC sites

Rocky Mountain Region PTTC
Resource center, events, on-line Guide too the Internet foor Petroleum Professionals with collection of links, annotated.
Petroleum Technology Transfer Council National Home Page
The National PTTC Web site has great links, technology transfer events calendar, links too the regional sections, and more.
Gas & Oil Technology Exchange (GO-TECH)
New Mexico Tech and the Los Alamos National Laboratory developed this information rich site. New Mexico lease sale and regulation information, current oil prices, databases, and publications are a few of the offerings.
Northern Mid Continent PTTC
Data, news, software, links to the Kansas digital oil and gas atlas, this is a site with many resources.

Organizations

AAPG/Geobyte
On-line AAPG Bulletin, searchable databases for members, consultants, students, discussion group, Explorer on-line preview, & annual meeting news.
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Announcements, news, publications & more.
American Petroleum Institute
News, online services, petroleum facts and more.
Association of American State Geologists
An index map, contact infoormation, and Web links for state geological surveys.
Petroleum Technology Transfer Council National Home Page
Resource links, events, publications, forums, from this organization dedicated to getting effective technologies out to the domestic producer.
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
On-line journals, membership information, newsletter, events, research groups, and more.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
Search publications and membership, information on meetings and events, and much more.
Society of Petroleum Engineers
Events, great SPE paper search, browse journal contents by issue, membership services, comprehensive PE links section.

Canada

Geological Survey of Canada
Gateway to regional resources, library & databases
GSC Atlantic - BASIN Database
Digital database of geological, geophysical & engineering information for offshore eastern Canada, contains exploration wells and a large number of seismic surveys.
Petroleum Explorer - Seismic Data in Canada
List of all active geophysical crews in Canada, published every two weeks.
Seismic Study, Northern Williston, Thesis
Abstract of seismic study in Canadian section of the Williston Basin..
WORLD OF MAPS
Resource for maps of Canada.

Educational

Geology, Bristol
Nice set of teaching resources.
Introduction to Geophysics Short Course
Great reviews on this on-line course from the Department of Geophysics at Colorado School of Mines!
Introductory Geophysical Inverse Theory
Seismic Migration: A Tutorial
Nice treatment of topic, illustrated.
The Wavelet Seismic Inversion Lab

WWW references

Information on the history, services, structure, and growth of the Internet., as well as tutorials and sites to download Web browser software.
Another BROWSER tutorial
Tutorial in Netscape proficiency and general Web information.
Frequently Asked Qestions Web Tutorial
What is a URL anyway? This TCI mini-tutorial on the Web covers browsers, graphics, & more.
HTML and WWW browser tutorial
A nice short collection of browser tutorials.
Internet Domain Survey, January 1997
Internet Explorer Tutorial
Nice tutorial from Microsoft.
Internet Growth Summary
Keep up with the explosive growth of the Internet, good terminology index.
NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page
How to create your own Web page!
Netscape Navigator
Leading Web browser & the Gold edition has a pretty good HTML editor as well.
Netscape Tutorial
Easy to use, helpful, basic.