New Routes to Energy Data OGJ SPECIAL Information Access Quick, Easy With Internet, Bulletin Boards

Patrick Crow Energy Policies Editor The Internet and computer bulletin boards are making it easy for oil and gas industry workers to quickly access information. Almost without exception, within the past 2 years major industry associations and federal agencies have launched bulletin boards or Internet sites to provide data quickly to members and the public.

Sept. 11, 1995

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Sponsor Location CommentsNew Mexico's Go-Tech http://baervan.nmt.edu The grandfather of oil industry sites, with New Mexico data and good hypertext links Schlumberger Ltd. http://www.slb.com Has good links to other companies. A must visit location due to Scott Guthery's list Gas Research Institute http://www.gri.org A well-developed site with good hypertext links. Allows searches of Internet and GRI Bureau of Economic Geology http://www.utexas.edu/research/beg A developing, research-oriented site with good links to Texas sources Petroleum Tech. Transfer Council http://www.msc.edu/pttc Another developing site, but with good connections and discussion forums University of Tulsa http://www.pa.utulsa.edu A research site for abstracts of exploration and production papers Media FX Corp. http://www.mediafx.com A Canadian site with well-connect- ed hypertext links to other compa- nies Global Petroleum Centre http://www.cadvision.com/oil/gpc.html Another Canadian site with good links and impressive graphics Discovery Place http://www.worldweb.com/discoveryplace A third Canadian site, with links to annual reports and Canadian societiesWashington oil industry information via bulletin boards*Sponsor Telephone number CommentsEnergy Department fuels program 202-586-7853 Data on natural gas import/export applica- tionsEnergy Department Telenews 202-586-6496 Press releases and other data on fossil fuels programsEnergy Department Fax on Demand 202-586-0550 Press releases and documents you can have faxed to youEnergy Information Adminstration 202-586-2557 Selected data from EIA reportsLabor Department 202-219-4784 General bulletin board, including Occupa- tional Safety and Health Administration noticesEnvironmental Protection Agency 919-541-5384 General bulletin boardEnvironmental Protection Agency 919-541-5742 Air quality regulationsFederal Energy Regulatory Comm. 202-208-1397 Gas pipeline dataGovernment Printing Office 202-219-1538 Bulletin board for public law numbers and federal rulesGeneral Accounting Office 202-258-4097 Fax on demand system for recent GAO reportsAmerican Petroleum Institute 202-962-4715 Press releases and position papers*All modem parameters are full duplex, no parity, eight data bits, and one stop bit.