Oil Industry: Information Resources
compiled by George Draffan
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History & Politics |
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published books, ranging from corporation-sponsored "histories" to hard-hitting investigative literature |
Tarbell, Ida. History of the Standard Oil Company Sampson, Anthony. The Seven Sisters. Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil and Money. Clark, John G. The Political Economy of World Energy: A Twentieth Century Perspective. Klare, Michael. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict. McCartney, Laton. Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story. Bryce, Robert. Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate. Bryce, Robert. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron. |
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industry news |
Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections Gas.com news and links to the natural gas industry Lundberg Survey of U.S. petroleum and related industries Oil.com links and news indexed by continent. Statistical Review of World Energy from British Petroleum. World Oil.com the oilfield information source |
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industry associations |
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industry directories |
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PennWell (publisher of Oil & Gas Journal) |
Africa-Middle East Petroleum Asia-Pacific Directory Canadian Oil Industry Directory European Petroleum Directory Latin America Directory Natural Gas Directory USA Electric Utility Industry Directory USA Oil Industry Directory Worldwide Offshore Directory Worldwide Petrochemical Directory Worldwide Pipeline Directory Worldwide Refining & Gas Processing |
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industry analyses |
Statistical Review of World Energy from British Petroleum. |
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industry maps: infrastructure and facilties |
PennWell |
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government analyses |
Country Analysis Briefs from the U.S. Department of Energy cover energy consumption, exploration and production, recent mergers |
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major newspapers with good business coverage |
New York Times Washington Post Los Angeles Times |
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the business press |
Wall Street Journal Financial Times Economist Far Eastern Economic Review |
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business databases and news services |
Standard & Poor's Moody's Hoovers Lexis Nexis ABI Inform |
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marketing reports |
for entire industries |
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investment analyses |
for specific corporations |
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corporate websites |
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SEC filings
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8K significant event 10K annual report 13G five percent shareholders 14A proxy |
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news releases |
Company websites PR Newswire Yahoo |
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internal corporate documents (public or leaked) |
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regulatory agencies |
US Federal Trade Commission US Securities & Exchange Commission US Environmental Protection Agency |
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US Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration |
US DOE Country Analysis Briefs cover energy consumption, exploration and production, recent mergers, and more |
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courts |
useful documents are filed during lawsuits but problems include:
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Congress |
Congressional Research Service General Accounting Office |
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multilateral banks and export credit agencies |
World Bank US OPIC |
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commercial services |
US Journal of Commerce PIERS |
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books |
Michael Klare, Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict. (Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, 2001). Michael Klare, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Diplomacy (Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, 2004). |
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government sources |
US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute US DOE Energy Information Administration US Nat Defense Univ, Institute for National Strategic Studies US National Intelligence Council US Naval War College Review DefenseLink (US DOD) |
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industry sources |
Armed Forces Journal International Asia-Pacific Defence Review Journal of International Affairs Survival |
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activist sources |
Center for Defense Information Military Spending Working Group |
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campaign reports and corporate profiles |
Earthworks (formerly Mineral Policy Center) protecting communities and environment from the impacts of mining and oil and gas. End Oil Aid tracking subsidies to oil, gas, and coal Oil Watch network that opposes the activities of oil companies in tropical countries. Publishes the Tegentai and Resistence Bulletins. |
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sustainable energy |
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links to activists |
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The End of Oil (Peak Oil) |
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Energybulletin.net primer on peak oil |
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Ronan Doyle |
OilSmokeandMirrors.com |
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Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil |
Michael C. Ruppert |
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Oil Addiction, the World in Peril |
Pierre Chomat |
2004 |
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Addicted to Oil |
Ian Rutledge |
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Powerdown : Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World |
Richard Heinberg |
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century |
James Howard Kunstler |
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Blood and Oil : The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum |
Michael T. Klare |
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The End of Oil : On the Edge of a Perilous New World |
Paul Roberts |
Houghton Mifflin, 2004 |
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The Coming Oil Crisis |
C. J. Campbell |
Petroconsultants SA, 2004 |
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Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil |
David Goodstein |
W.W. Norton, 2004 |
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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies |
Richard Heinberg |
New Society Publishers, 2003 |
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict |
Michael T. Klare |
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Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy |
Matthew R. Simmons |
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Beyond Oil : The View from Hubbert's Peak |
Kenneth S. Deffeyes |
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Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage |
Kenneth S. Deffeyes |
Princeton University Press, 2003 |
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The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era |
Jeremy K. Leggett |
Routledge, 2001 |
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The Collapse of Complex Societies |
Joseph Tainter |
Cambridge University Press, 1990 |