Drill Deeper

Introduction/General: Web-based Resources:

American Petroleum Institute
www.adventuresinenergy.org

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
www.anwr.org

Extreme Oil, PBS
www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil

Joint Oil Data Initiative
www.oil-data-transparency.org/FileZ/ODTmain.htm
A joint activity launched by the Asia Pacific Energy Research Center (APEC), statistics office of the European Union (EUROSTAT), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Latin-American Energy Organization (OLADE), the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD) as an effort to improve the quality and transparency of international oil statistics.

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
www.opec.org/library/faqs/crude.htm

OTS Heavy Oil Science Center
www.lloydminsterheavyoil.com

Paleontological Research Institution – World of Oil
www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/index.html

Society of Petroleum Engineers
www.spe.org

U.S. Energy Information Administration
www.eia.doe.gov

What is oil?: Web-based Resources:

Franklin Institute — Oil Basics
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow2/jan99/new/oilindex.html

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission site on Edwin L. Drake.
www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/edwin/page1.asp?secid=31

San Joaquin Geological Society
http://www.sjgs.com/index.html

Schlumbereger Oilfield Glossary
www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/default.cfm

U.S. Geological Service, Seeps
http://seeps.wr.usgs.gov

Crude to Car: Web-based Resources:

California Energy Commission
www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline

Chicago Tribune — Oil: A Travelogue of Addiction
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/broadband/chi-oilsafari-html,0,7894741.htmlstory

Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission — Glossary of Oil and Gas Terms
http://oil-gas.state.co.us/COGIS_Help/glossary.htm

Discover Petroleum
www.schoolscience.co.uk/petroleum/index.html

Drilling Waste Management Information System
web.ead.anl.gov/dwm/techdesc/burial

Environmental Working Group — Public Lands Project
www.ewg.org/oil_and_gas

 Extreme Oil, PBS
www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil

 Franklin Institute — Oil Basics
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow2/jan99/new/oilindex.html

 Global Positioning System Overview
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html

Illinois State Geological Survey
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/servs/pubs/geobits-pub/geobit9/geobit9.htm

Key Centre for Polymer Colloids — Cracking of Petroleum http://www.kcpc.usyd.edu.au/discovery/9.2.1/9.2.1_CrackingIntro.html

Lloydminster Oilfield Technical Society — Heavy Oil Science Center
http://www.lloydminsterheavyoil.com

Minerals Management Service
www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/offshore/egom/factshee.html

National Library of Medicine, ToxTown \
http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/descriptions/description.php?chem=gasoline

Offshore Environment
www.offshore-environment.com

Petroleum Coke Petrography
http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/projects/crelling2/atlas/PetroleumCoke/pettut.html

Pipeline 101
www.pipeline101.com

Remote Sensing in the Oil and Gas Industry
www.personal.psu.edu/users/k/r/krg156/inde_study.htm

Rigzone
www.rigzone.com

Schlumbereger Oilfield Glossary
www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/default.cfm

U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational safety and health Administration
www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/oilandgas

U.S. Department of the Interior, Gulf of Mexico Region, Offshore Information http://www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/offshore/egom/factshee.html

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov/oilspill/crude.htm

Peak Oil Theory: Web-based Resources: Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
www.peakoil.net

Channel 4
http://channel4.com/news/2004/10/week_5/26_oil.html

Energy Bulletin: Peak Oil Primer
www.energybulletin.net/primer.php

Ruppert, Michael C. “Colin Campbell on Oil: Perhaps the World's Foremost Expert on Oil and the Oil Business Confirms the Ever More Apparent Reality of the Post-9-11 World.” From the Wilderness, October 23, 2002.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102302_campbell.html

U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Refining Capacity, 1982 and 2002
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/finance/mergers/refcap_tab2.html

U.S. Geological Service, World Petroleum Assessment, 2000
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-060/

The Wolf at the Door
wolf.readinglitho.co.uk/index.html

Peak Oil Theory: Print Resources: Appenzeller. Tim. “The End of Cheap Oil.” National Geographic, June 2004.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0406/feature5/?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com

Auer, Josef. “Energy Prospects After the Petroleum Age.” Deutsche Bank Research, December 2, 2004.
www.odac-info.org/bulletin/documents/DeutscheBankresearch.pdf

Campbell, C.J. “Oil Depletion—The Heart of the Matter.” The Association For The Study Of Peak Oil And Gas, 2003.
http://www.oilcrisis.com/campbell/index.html

Leggett, Jeremy. The Empty Tank. New York: Random House, 2005.
http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781588365293

Legget, Jeremy. “What they don’t want you to know about the coming oil crisis.” The Independent (UK), January, 20 2006.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article339928.ece

Lloyd, Bob. “The End of Oil.” 2004.
www.vuw.ac.nz/chaplains/issues/bob-lloyd-the-end-of-oil.pdf

Roberts, Paul. The End of Oil. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.
http://the-end-of-oil.com

Vidal, John. “The end of oil is closer than you think.” The Guardian (UK), April 21, 2005.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1464050,00.html

Zittel, W., J. Schindler, L-B-Systemtechnik, “The Countdown for the Peak of Oil Production has Begun—but what are the Views of the Most Important International Energy Agencies.” Energy Bulletin 2, October 2004.
www.energybulletin.net/2544.html

The Real Price of Oil: Web Resources: California Energy Commission, Estimated 2006 Gasoline Price Breakdown & Margins Details
http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/margins/index.html

Hargreaves, Steve. “Pumping the fear factor out of oil: As more production comes online over the next few years, prices may ease by as much as $20 a barrel.” CNN Money, August 21 2006.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/18/news/economy/oil_fear/index.htm

Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, Energy Security News
http://www.iags.org/index.html

U.S. Energy Information Administration, Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

U.S. Energy Information Administration, Primer on Gasoline Prices
http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/gasolinepricesprimer/eia1_2005primerM.html

U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Retail Gasoline and Diesel Prices
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_gnd_dcus_nus_w.htm

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
www.epa.gov/oilspill/crude.htm

WTRG Economics, Oil Price History
http://www.wtrg.com/prices.htm

The Real Price of Oil: Print Resources: Bezdek, Roger H. and Robert M. Wendling. “The U.S. Energy Subsidy Scorecard.” Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2006.
http://www.issues.org/22.3/realnumbers.html

Blum, Justin. “Energy Tax Breaks Total $14.5 Billion.” Washington Post, Thursday, July 28, 2005, page A4.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072702207.html

Copulos, Milton R. “America’s Achilles Heel: The Hidden Costs of Imported Oil.” The National Defense Council Foundation Report, October, 2003.
http://www.ndcf.org

Greene, David L. and Sanjana Ahmad. “Costs of U.S. Oil Dependence, 2005 Update.” Report prepared for U.S. Department of Energy, February 2005.
http://cta.ornl.gov/cta/Publications/Reports/ORNL_TM2005_45.pdf

International Center for Technology Assessment. “The Real Price of Gasoline.” Report No. 3, November 1998.
http://www.icta.org/doc/Real%20Price%20of%20Gasoline.pdf

Koplow, Douglas and Aaron Martin. “Fueling Global Warming: Federal Subsidies to Oil in the United States.” Report prepared for Greenpeace, June 1998.
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/usa/press/reports/fueling-global-warming.pdf

Mufson, Steven. “Factors That Pushed Oil Price Up Are Now Pushing It Down.” Washington Post, September 16, 2006, page D1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091501121.html

Uses of Oil: Web Resources: Elmhurst College Chemistry Department — Oil to Petrochemicals
http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/325petrochem.html

Petrochemistry.net
http://www.petrochemistry.net/templates/shwArticle.asp?TID=1&SNID=2

Uses of Oil: Print Resources: Legget, Jeremy. “What they don’t want you to know about the coming oil crisis.” The Independent (UK), January, 20 2006.
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article339928.ece