Gary S. Swindell, Petroleum Engineering
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Energy4me - energy education resources for students, educators and the public

Mineral owner information site - Mineralweb.com


Price Data

Nymex Price Charts

Historical Gas Futures data from EIA

Historical Oil Futures data from EIA

EIA Natural Gas Price Weekly Reports

EIA Natural Gas Navigator

EIA  - This Week in Petroleum

EIA - Petroleum Navigator

Oilnergy.com - Posted and Nymex pricing

Ernst & Young Survey of Fixed Rate Overhead by State

Natural Gas Daily/Weekly - by subscription

Futures and Spot Prices - INO.COM

WTRG Economics - great source of price data and energy economics


Rig count - Baker-Hughes - historical detail by state & country

Rig count - Smith International - rig detail by state, etc - excellent and searchable


General Reference

Energy4me - energy education resources for students, educators and the public

Coalbed Methane data - links to international CBM information

Fossil Fuels.org - list of 1000 links related to fossil fuels

SPE - list of sources of oil and gas industry statistics

OnePetro - upstream oil and gas industry library from multiple technical societies.

Datapages - Publications from AAPG and many Geological Societies worldwide

TIPRO Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Assn

Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission - Industry Links

GTI - Gas Technology Institute

Natural Gas Facts.org

Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC)

Public Utilities Reports (PUR). Electric Utilities, Natural Gas and Telecommunications.

SEC - Rules Reserve Reporting

SPE Reserves and Resource Definitions

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)


Professional Societies

Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE)

SPE Home Page

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES)

Society of Professional Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)

Petroleum Society of CIM (Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology)


State Production data on line

Alabama Production data

Arkansas Production Data - awkward JDesignerPro system - requires multiple searches to put a single well together.  Some by API but mostly you'll need Permit No. first.

California Production data

Colorado Production data  - select DATABASE on left side - then Production

Kansas Production data - select Lease Production on upper right side

Lousiana DNR on line production and well information (click on Sonris Lite in the upper left corner)

Louisiana well log TIF files - Supposedly requires a 20 meg "IDM" file viewer downoad - but scroll right and you'll see a .tif download link.

Minerals Management Service well data - good luck.  Also field reserves data or might be better production and lease data here

Mississippi on line production and well information - some also on DEQ Geology Dept - see geological survey lists

Mississippi scout ticket and log images - awkward to use and some flawed data but useful

Montana Production data - awkward JDesignerPro system - requires multiple searches to put a single well together

Nebraska well and production data

New Mexico Production Data (PTTC)

New Mexico Well Data

North Dakota well data

Ohio Oil & Gas Database

Oklahoma Geological Survey - data sources

Oklahoma Corporation Commission production data.  Click on Oil & Gas Web Application

Oklahoma Corporation Commission - imaging data - well logs

Texas

  Texas Production data - by well, lease, county and field - best to have RRC number and RRC district for well data

  Texas Proration Schedules - by field, - by operator

  Texas Field Rules (rules can also be found on the proration schedules)

  Texas Drilling Permit system

  Texas RRC Well mapping system - Log images and other documents are sometimes available - select "Identify" on the map tools then click on the well to get a list of images.

  Texas well log image system - at the end of this link, EDIT AND REPLACE the 8 digit County-Well API number, currently set to 19730470 with the one you want

  Texas RRC Document images - and well records - very complete for some districts.   For API searches, enter 3+5 digit API number without the state - ie County and 5 digit API number.

  Texas Producers Directory (RRC)

  Texas production data for "Pending" wells - ie not assigned a RRC number yet - you must have permit number or possibly the 8 digit API number

Utah Production data

West Virginia well data and logs

Wyoming Production data (WOGCC) and logs, maps, documents.  Very comprehensive and organized data.


free databases

Texas Formation Water Chloride Database - from the Texas Water Development Board publications.

US Coalbed Methane Content Database - from the U.S. Bureau of Mines data.

Canadian Environmental Technology Centre  - crude oil database

Catalog of Petroleum Data - Univ. of South Carolina (ESRI) - apparently a Major Oil Field database but no access?


Commercial Sources of Data

TGS (formerly A2D Technologies)_ - well log provider

MJ Systems - digital well log provider

Drilling Info - excellent online source of well and production data

Geomap - executive reference and custom regional petroleum mapping, raster logs, library services

IHS Energy (Petroleum Information / Dwights)

Records Research - Texas RRC research and documents - excellent service

Banks Information Solutions - Texas Railroad Commission research

Oil-Law Records - Oklahoma Commission and New Mexico research

Seismic Exchange - marketing seismic data


Geological Surveys

Alabama Geological Survey

Arkansas Geological Commission

Australia Geological Survey

Australia Geoscience Portal

British Geological Survey

Kansas Geological Survey

Colorado Geological Survey

Illinois Geological Survey

Louisiana Geological Survey

Mississippi DEQ - Geology Section - there are searchable databases and images on just energy  -click here

Missouri Geological Survey

Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology

Nebraska Geological Survey

New Mexico Geological Survey

New Zealand Geological Sciences

North Dakota Geological Survey

Ohio Geological Survey

Oklahoma Geological Survey

Pennsylvania Geological Survey

Poland Geological Survey

Texas Bureau of Economic Geology

West Texas Geological Society

West Virginia Geological Survey

Wyoming Geological Survey


Map Data

The National Map

Digital Atlas of Texas Counties - from Texas Tech University

Texas Natural Resources Information System - download GIS data

Texas General Land Office Interactive Land/Lease Mapping System

Minerals Management Service Offshore map data

North Dakota map server

Terraserver - digital Satellite Photographs - and USGS topos

USGS Aerial Photos on terraserver.microsoft.com

Geomap - executive reference and custom regional petroleum mapping

East View Cartigraphic data worldwide

Tobin Data Graphics

Structure Maps.com - Geological Consulting Services Inc - recently acquired by IHS

Petroleum Geographics Corp Mapping - oil and gas well base, lease and culture data.  Also mapping software.

IHS Energy Maps - custom maps in the U.S. and world

Earthmaps.com

GMT  - an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets

GRASS  - an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization

Ventyx - Oil and gas well and pipeline general maps


Petroleum Software

Geological Software

Kansas Geological Survey software - Gemini simulator

Drilling Software - drilling, casing and production programs

Drillbench - Advanced drilling engineering and operation (SPT Group)

Computer Oriented Geological Society (COGS)

U.S. Department of Energy - Boast simulator and others

Schlumberger Freeware Utilities including PDS log viewer- and an excellent LAS log viewer (DataView, BlueView - reads LAS and TIF)

Halliburton log viewer - an Internet Explorer add-on for CGM and TIF files - not great.  Other calculators here also.

IrfanView - view log tif files

Pore Pressure Analysis tools

Eclipse Simulator from Schlumberger - now with new EOR modeling

Exodus  Reservoir Simulator for Windows with CBM modeling

Sensor reservoir simulator

Great and WFLOOD - Gas reservoir simulator and waterflood simulator

S3D streamline simulator - Dr. Akhil Datta-Guta Texas A&M - pretty good - an apparently updated version comes with his book Streamline Simulation (SPE bookstore)

OLGA - simulator for engineering the flow of oil, water and gas in wells, pipelines and receiving facilities.  (SPT Group)  Basically vertical flow simulator

MEPO - Fast History Matching & Uncertainty Assessment (SPT Group)

FlowStream Studio  from Plano Research - IOR/EOR simulator applicaiton for reservoir management

From SPE - E&P Toolbox -  rentable online access to software on an as-needed basis.

WellSight Systems logging programs for geologists, mud loggers and drilling engineers.

Sitelark - Excel based gas reservoir toolkit, waterflood simulation, price modelling.

eProduction Solutions -from Weatherford - not sure what they're selling here.

Schlumberger iHandbook - their engineering handbook, sections on well bore, pipe, tubing, casing, tanks, volume, fracturing, cement, and acid/oil/brines.

Petris Technology - a variety of software on a service basis

Petrosys - Geological mapping software package

The Logic Group - Planimeter and Volumetric Software for the Oil Industry

Petroleum Geographics Corp - along with map data, they market mapping software - Arc products, Surfer, Didger, Global Mapper

PetEng Online calculators - lots of calculators here - now all free

Gulf Publishing software guide listing of software

Gulf Publishing upstream software packages

Rockware - a large and broad catalog of  geological, engineering, logging and seismic software

GMT  - an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets

GRASS  - an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization

Petec 21 economic software

IHS Energy

OGRE Systems - very capable and flexible petroleum economic evaluation software

TRC Consultants - PHDWin economics program

IPOS - Optimize your production plan and maximize NPV (SPT Group)

QuickSyn - Quick and easy generation of synthetic seismograms

SEGY viewer to view segy seismic data

SEIS Vu segy viewer

Seismic Micro - Kingdom seismic and geological mapping software

Madagascar is an open source software package for geophysical data processing and reproducible numerical experiments for researchers working with digital image and data processing


Petroleum Engineering Schools

The University of Oklahoma Petroleum Engineering

University of Texas Petroleum

Heriot-Watt University Petroleum Engineering

Texas Tech University Petroleum Engineering

Texas A&M University Petroleum Engineering

Imperial College Petroleum Engineering

Petroleum Institute for Continuing Education (PEICE) - world's largest selection of petroleum industry courses and seminars

SPE listing of Petroleum Engineering Schools


Publications and Periodicals

Oil & Gas Journal

Journal of Petroleum Technology - SPE

AAPG Explorer

Harts E&P Magazine - rapidly becoming the best upstream periodical

Offshore

Oil and Gas Investor

Gulf Publishing - good list of other links

PetroMin Magazine - Asia's oil & gas magazine

World Oil


Companies

Schlumberger Limited

Halliburton

National-Oilwell Home Page

Records Research - Texas RRC research and documents - excellent service

IBM's E&P Connection

Whipstock.com - comprehensive source of directional and horizontal drilling services, tools, companies, etc


Consulting Companies

William M. Cobb & Associates - petroleum consultants

Cawley, Gillespie & Associates, Fort Worth

DeGolyer and MacNaughton - Dallas

Collarini Engineering, Inc.

Forest A. Garb & Associates - Dallas

Netherland, Sewell & Associates - Dallas

Petroskills - worldwide petroleum industry training alliance

Sproule Associates


Coalbed Methane

Coalbed Methane data - links to international CBM information

US Coalbed Methane Content Database

China Coalbed Methane clearinghouse

Australia coalbed methane information

UK coalbed methane information

Poland coalbed methane

Russian coalbed methane center

U.S. EPA coalbed methane site


Government Agencies

Alabama State Oil & Gas Board
Alberta Energy Resources and Conservation Board

Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission

Australia Geological Survey

Australia Geoscience Portal

British Geological Survey

U.S. Bureau of Land Management
California Department of Conservation
Canadian National Energy Board
Natural Resources Canada
Natural Resources Canada Earth Sciences Sector

Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
Colorado Production data
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
DOE - National Petroleum Technology Office
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission - IOGCC


Kansas Geological Survey
Kansas Corporation Commission

Kansas Production data
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
Lousiana DNR on line production and well information
Minerals Management Service
Minerals Management Service-Gulf of Mexico OCS Region
Mississippi Oil & Gas Board
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Montana Board of Oil & Gas Conservation

Nebraska Geological Survey

Nebraska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission
Nevada Division of Minerals
New Mexico Oil Conservation Division
New Mexico Production Data (PTTC)

New Zealand Energy & Resources
North Dakota Oil & Gas Division

North Dakota Geological Survey

Ohio Oil & Gas Database
Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Oregon Department of Geology & Mineral Industries

Pennsylvania DCNR Geological Survey
South Dakota Department of Environment & Natural Resources
Texas Natural Resources Information System

Texas Board of Professional Engineers
Texas Bureau of Economic Geology
Texas Railroad Commission

Texas Railroad Commission Proration Schedules
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
United States Geological Survey
USGS Aerial Photographs

U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change (oil and gas regulation)
Utah Division of Oil, Gas & Mining
West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission


Gary S. Swindell, Petroleum Engineering