This page contains links to sites which offer reference material and other information of interest to Tradequip readers. This includes links to universities performing energy-related research, non-profit organizations, industry news, etc. For links to companies who supply energy-related goods and services, see our Product Index.


Petroleum News & Journals
API - American Petroleum Institute; current news, FAQs & more
E & P Environment - Bi-weekly newsletter reporting on environmental issues affecting the exploration and production sector of the oil and gas industry
HP - Hydrocarbon Processing Magazine
JPSE -Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
Oilinfo - Petroleum Day - European site with daily petroleum news

Governmental Sites
DOE - U. S. Department of Energy - general Info
EIA - Energy Information Administration; includes weekly assessment of production, stocks, prices & much more!
National Petroleum Council - Oil and Natural Gas Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Energy
Federal Laboratory Consortium - Expertise in Petroleum exploration, drilling and production
Fossil Energy Web Network - DOE site; news & more
IEIS - NSF's Integrated Earth Information Server; current weather maps, oceanographic, seismic & other environmental info
PTTC - Petroleum Technology Transfer Council; clearinghouse for new or recent information, funded by Dept. of Energy
USGS - U. S. Geological Survey

Education – University Research
Arterial Blockage/Fouling in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industry - maintained by the Thermodynamics Research Lab, Un. of Illinois at Chicago
College of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Oxford England
GO-TECH - New Mexico Tech's Gas & Oil Technology Exchange & Communication Highway; Software reviews, market prices, data, a search engine, an industry calendar & more
Petroleum Abstracts - University of Tulsa
PRRC - New Mexico Tech's Petroleum Recovery Research Center
Texas A&M - Dept of Petroleum Engineering; home of ADR (Aggie Drilling Research), CIR (Center for Improved Recovery) & RCG (Reservoir Characterization Group)
Salt Tectonics - Research by Giovanni Guglielmo at the University of Texas, Austin
Stanford University Research - Various petroleum research projects
Stanford Exploration Project - Abstracts of theses, books & reports dealing with Geophysical Research
University of Edinburgh - Dept of Geology & Geophysics

International Trade & Industry Associations
IADC - International Association of Drilling Contractors
GTI - Gas Technology Institute
Network of Petroleum Landmen - To help petroleum landmen keep in touch
SPE - Society of Petroleum Engineers

Regional Sites
Alaska Petroleum Production and Drilling Standards - HTML version of the Alaska Administrative Code, 08 AAC 061.1180
Artic National Wildlife Refuge - Issues surrounding opening the ARWR to development
CAODC - Canadian Associan of Oilwell Drilling Contractors
GSC - Atlantic - Geological Survey of Canada, Marine Geoscience

Misc. Info & Other Resources
Petroleum Club of Western Austrailia - Info for petroleum students & others
Rock & Dirt - "The Equipment Marketplace" - Heavy Construction Equipment buy/sell publication from TAP Publishing.
Rock & Dirt Español - Rock & Dirt sister Spanish publication
SAND - Norwegian Computing Center's Statistical Analysis of Natural Resource Data site
Rotary Rig Counts - Compliments of Baker Hughes
Trade-A-Plane - "The Aviation Marketplace" - another product of TAP Publishing Co.
sci.geo.petroleum - Exhaustive list of links and resources!
Virtual Earth - A tour of the web for earth scientists
WeatherTAP - "The fastest weather on the web" - another product of TAP Publishing Co.