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American Petroleum Institute (API)
 
This site "represents all aspects of America's oil and natural gas industry ... [including] producers, refiners, suppliers, pipeline operators and marine transporters, as well as service and supply companies." Features links to member companies, trade and professional organizations, federal government sites, energy statistics, petroleum museums, and activities for the classroom. Sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute.
http://api-ec.api.org/
Topics: Industries, Oil & Gas
Last updated Jan 2, 2008
The Arabian Adventure of Wallace Stegner
This 2007 article answers the question, "What was the nature-loving novelist [Wallace Stegner] doing working for the world's biggest oil company?" Describes how in the mid-1950s Stegner came to produce for the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) "'Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil,' a tormented work-for-hire project about the early days of Saudi oil exploration in the 1930s and 1940s." From the Stanford Magazine.
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2007/janfeb/features/stegner.html
Topics: Industries, Oil & Gas
Last updated Mar 10, 2008
Business & Economics Research Advisor (BERA): The Oil & Gas Industry
Guide to researching topics related to the oil and gas industry, covering history, cartels and organizations, production, refining, transportation and storage, marketing and distribution, trends, and alternative energy sources. Includes resources for company research, statistical sources, and news and analysis. From the Library of Congress Business Reference Services.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/BERA/issue5/issue5_main.html
Topics: Oil & Gas
Last updated May 2, 2006
Extreme Oil
Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series that "looks at how the oil industry must now go to extremes to find new sources of the asset that drives the world's economy and fuels so many aspects of our lives." Features sections on oil regions, the history of oil production and use, and the science behind oil exploration, production, transportation, and refining. Also includes lesson plans and Web links.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/
Topics: Industries, Lesson Plans, Oil & Gas
Last updated Apr 28, 2005
Minerals Management Service
Information about the projects of "the Federal agency that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS)." Find statistics, publications, a glossary of mineral terms, and details of offshore oil and gas projects in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Searchable. Part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
http://www.mms.gov/
Topics: Industries, Oil & Gas
Last updated Apr 28, 2005
Minerals Management Service (MMS): Offshore Energy & Minerals Management
Material from the U.S. government about its management of "the mineral resources on 1.76 billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The OCS is a significant source of oil and gas for the Nation's energy supply." Includes information on topics such as alternative energy programs, coastal impact, environmental assessment and monitoring, leasing (for Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific regions), and more. From the Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior.
http://www.mms.gov/offshore/
Topics: Energy, Oil & Gas
Last updated Jul 23, 2008
NETL: Technologies: Oil and Natural Gas Supply
This government site focuses on innovative and ecologically sensitive methods to explore for and recover oil and natural gas. Find details and project information about exploration and production technologies, future supply and emerging resources (such as coal bed natural gas), and transmission, refining, and transportation (such as inspection technologies for pipelines). From the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), U.S. Department of Energy.
http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/oil-gas/
Topics: Oil & Gas
Last updated Aug 16, 2006
Offshore Drilling and Exploration
"News about offshore drilling and exploration, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times." Includes articles on President Bush's July 2008 lifting of "nearly two decades of executive orders banning drilling for oil and natural gas off the country's shoreline," and others back as far as 1981 when a Congressional moratorium on drilling was enacted.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/offshore_drilling_and_exploration/
Topics: Oil & Gas
Last updated Jul 21, 2008
Oil and Gas at Your Door?
Full version of this 2005 landowner's guide to oil and gas development. Topics includes stages of oil and gas development (such as obtaining mineral rights, exploration, and production), development of nonconventional gas and oil (such as coalbed methane and gas shales), legal and regulatory issues (such as mineral versus surface rights), tips for landowners, and landowner stories. From the Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability Project.
http://www.earthworksaction.org/LOguidechapters.cfm
Topics: Oil & Gas
Last updated Apr 9, 2008
Oil150
"'Oil 150' is the official website of the 150th anniversary celebration of the oil industry, which occurs in 2009" and which commemorates when Colonel Edwin Drake drilled the first successful commercial well in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859. "This site ... [provides] information on anniversary events, educational materials, historical places to visit, commemorative items, and more." Includes essays on people, places, and technology. From a Pennsylvania oil industry and tourism group.
http://www.oil150.com/
Topics: Oil & Gas
Last updated Dec 22, 2008
Overview of U.S. Legislation and Regulations Affecting Offshore Natural Gas and Oil Activity
This 2005 "summary of the legislative and regulatory regime that affects natural gas and oil exploration and production in offshore regions of the United States. ... discusses the role and importance of these areas as well as the competing interests surrounding ownership, production, exploration, and conservation." Includes map of areas covered by the offshore drilling ban. Opens directly into a PDF document. From the Energy Information Administration, Office of Oil and Gas.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/feature_articles/2005/offshore/offshore.pdf
Topics: Oil & Gas
Last updated Jul 21, 2008
Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary
"Provides definitions and illustrations of oilfield terminology for the technical generalist," covering geology, geophysics, drilling, drilling fluids, formation evaluation, well completions, well testing, and well workover and intervention. Definitions may include synonyms, related terms, and illustrations or diagrams. Includes an extensive bibliography. Searchable.
http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/
Topics: Energy, Industries, Oil & Gas
Last updated Apr 28, 2005
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