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Print ResourcesFuel Oil News. Morristown, NJ : Publex Corp. Monthly. 1935 to present. News for those involved in the fuel oil industry. Natural Gas Week. Washington, D.C.: The Oil Daily, Inc./Energy Intelligence Group. Weekly. 1985 to present. Newsletter and special reports on oil and gas pricing and developments domestically and internationally, including industry trends, news, spot prices, and storage capacities. Headlines for the current issue may be viewed online from the publisher's web site, and back issues from January 1996 to the present may be searched online; however, access to the full text is by subscription only. National Petroleum News (NPN). Cleveland, Ohio : National Petroleum Publishing Co. Weekly/Monthly
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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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Covers the petroleum refining industry and the retail gasoline marketing industry. Offshore. Conroe, Tex. : PennWell Pub. Co. Monthly Articles/information with analysis, charts, illustrations, and market statistics on offshore oil and gas operations and deep offshore markets around the world. Topics covered include seismic services, exploration, drilling, production, processing, pipelining, operating problems and design solutions. Selections from the current issue are available online without charge, and back issues for the last ten years may be searched without charge. A subscription is required to view the full text. Oil & Gas Journal. Conroe, Tex. : PennWell Pub. Co. Weekly/49 no. per year. 1910 - present.
Articles/information with analysis, special reports, charts, illustrations, and market statistics and news on the oil and gas industry and technology. Table of contents from the current issue are available online without charge, and back issues for the last fifteen years may be searched without charge. A subscription is required to view the full text. Oil and Gas Investor. Denver, CO: Investor Pub. Co. Monthly. 1981 - present.
Analysis and market statistics on the petroleum and power industry. Tables of contents for the last five years are available online from the publisher. Access to the full text requires a subscription. OPEC Review. Vienna: Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Quarterly. October 1976 - present.
Once published by Pergamon now published by Blackwell, the OPEC review is a selection of original analytical papers on energy economics and related issues. Platt's Oilgram Price Report. New York: McGraw-Hill. Daily. Volume 57, number 1, January 2, 1979 to present.
Begun in the mid 1950's and known variously as Platt's Oilgram News Service, and Platt's Oilgram News, this daily report, according to the publisher, covers market changes, market fundamentals and factors driving crude and oil product prices prices, both domestically and internationally. Also includes netback tables, and other market critical data. Oil Daily. Washington, D.C.: Oil Daily Co./Energy Intelligence Group. Daily. 1951 to present.
Newsletter and special reports on oil and gas pricing and developments domestically and internationally. According to the publisher, the newsletter focuses on the North and Latin America oil and gas industries, but also includes global coverage of worldwide upstream and downstream developments, market trends, business deals, and regulatory and legislative changes affecting the petroleum industry. Headlines from the current issue are available online without charge. Issues of Oil Daily from December 1999 to date may be searched online from the publisher's web site; however, access to the full text is by subscription only. Petroleum Intelligence Weekly. New York: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly/Energy Intelligence Group. Weekly. 1982 to present.
Aimed at top petroleum executives, this newsletter tries to offer a broad, international perspective and analysis at the macro level, of the most significant news developments on oil and gas pricing relating to the petroleum business. Headlines from the current issue are available online without charge. Issues of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly from 1990 to date may be searched online from the publisher's web site; however, access to the full text is by subscription only. Internet ResourcesEnergy. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Includes energy statistics, publications and documents, and information by country on OECD member countries. Much of the information is from the International Energy Agency (IEA). OECD's online subscription product, SouceOECD, contains additional OECD produced material that is not available on the organization's open site. Energy Intelligence publications. Energy Intelligence Group, Inc. Newsletters available by subscription only from the web site include: Energy Compass, Energy Intelligence Briefing, Energy Network, International Oil Daily, International Petroleum Finance, Jet Fuel Intelligence, Natural Gas Week, Oil Daily, Oil Market Intelligence, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, and World Gas Intelligence. Energy Markets: Understanding Current Gasoline Prices and Potential Future Trends. Washington, D.C. : U.S. General Accounting Office. GAO-05-675T, May 9, 2005. This report addresses factors that help to explain today's high gasoline prices in the nation as a whole and specifically in California. In addition, potential trends that may impact future prices of crude oil and gasoline are addressed. Energy Reports. Library of Congress. Congressional
Research Service. Reports prepared for Congress by the Congressional Research Service. The reports are made available by The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) which has no affiliation with the Congressional Research Service. Some reports are available in PDF format. Major Integrated Oil & Gas . Yahoo! Finance. Industry Center. Includes links to Yahoo! articles on the topic, company information, and a market summary. NPNWeb. Adams Business Media. The site provides access to the online news service, National Petroleum News, which is free to those in the retail petroleum and convenience store industry, although registration is required; in addition, the site serves as a portal to oil and gas information. Oil News. WN Network. News on various aspects on the oil and gas industry. Also includes statistics and pricing information. OPEC: The oil cartel BBC. Includes a brief introduction to OPEC as well as links to BBC stories on oil and gas and background information on oil markets and alternatives to oil. OPEC News. WN Network. The site provides news on energy and oil. It is not affiliated with OPEC. PennWell Petroleum Group. In addition to providing access to several publications including Oil & Gas Journal, Off-Shore, Oil & Gas Finance Journal, (available by subscription only), the site also serves as a portal to other related information on the oil and gas industries. Platts publications. Platts/The McGraw-Hill Companies. Platts produces many publications in the area of oil and gas developments. Many of these publications, including Platt's Commodity News, Platt's Energy Business and Technology, Platt's Oilgram News, Platt's Oilgram Price Report, and Platt's Petrochemical Report, are available on to patrons onsite at the Library of Congress through Factiva, a subscription database. Reports and Testimony by Topic. Government Accountability Office (GAO). GAO, as the investigative arm of Congress, evaluates federal programs, audits federal expenditures, and issues reports on its findings. From the GAO web site, users may search by topic or agency for reports from 1995 to the present. Upstream. Norges Handels og Sjofartstidende (NHST). Norway. Weekly. November 1996 to present.
A subscription based resource containing articles covering the financial, technology, market data dealing with the financial, technological, and marketing aspects of worldwide exploration and production activities. Includes a mix of news, politics, topical features, opinion, personal profiles and market information. Articles from this title are available to patrons onsite at the Library of Congress from April 30, 1999, forward through the online subscription service, Factiva. AssociationsAmerican Gas Association (AGA).
This association represents local energy utility companies that deliver natural gas. Its Stats & Studies section contains: Studies (most are for members only), Non-AGA Studies/Forecasts/Stats, State Profiles, Company Rankings, and other information. The site also provides the table of contents for the association's journal, American Gas, from September 2000 forward, and full text of selected columns from the journal from August 1997 forward. American Petroleum Institute (API).
API is the primary industry association for the oil and natural gas industry and represents companies involved in all aspects of the industry. The site has a well-organized collection of links as well as an Industry Statistics section that includes many useful publications including: monthly and weekly statistical releases, information imports by country, and reports on environmental and supply/demand. Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA).
IAPP represents independent oil and natural gas producers. The Reports & Statistics section of the site contains industry statistics on prices, exploration, as well as information crude oil and natural gas, while the Economic Reports section includes information on the overall industry, specific segments, as well as a state of the industry report. National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA).
NPRA represents U.S. refiners and petrochemical manufacturers. The site includes information on a number of publications from the association which are available by subscription only, including an Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses and various petrochemical statistical series. The association also makes available without charge the text of a few of its publications including the U.S. Refining Capacity Report, from 1999 to the present, based on data supplied by the U.S. Department of Energy on the crude oil capacity of petroleum refiners in the U.S., along with data on the capacities of the principal processing units within refineries. Research FirmsGlobal Insight. (formerly DRI-WEFA)
In addition consulting. the group provides economic data, forecasts, and analysis, much of which is available by subscription only. Publications include the fee-based Monthly Oil Market Outlook and Monthly Natural Gas Price Outlook. IHS Energy.
Energy research firm provides exploration and production data. Produces a variety of databases, including the PI/Dwight's Energy Database which it acquired at the end of 1997. John S. Herold, Inc.
An independent research firm specializing in the analysis of companies, transactions, and trends. Publishes Global Upstream Performance Review, an annual study of the upstream investment performance for petroleum companies available by subscription only. ODS-Petrodata Group
Produces daily, weekly, and monthly news and data publications, industry directories, and databases on the offshore drilling fleet and offshore field development projects all available by subscription. Releases free weekly update on U.S. and worldwide rig counts, dayrates, and utilization rates, and other market news. |
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