A Guide to the Petroleum Abstracts Information Service Serving the E&P sector of the Oil & Gas Industry for more than 55 years Including: PA List of Publications Reviewed PA Selected Conferences Covered Petroleum Abstracts . your global information partner. Statement of Purpose Petroleum Abstracts is an abstracting and indexing service within Energy Abstracts. We have the world’s leading database for petroleum exploration and production related to scientific and technical information. Petroleum Abstracts Bulletin Petroleum Abstracts contains abstracts of the worldwide technical literature pertaining to petroleum exploration and production. Journals, patent gazettes, full-text patents, conference proceedings, standards, books, dissertations, and other publications are reviewed for technical material of interest to professionals in the following areas: geology, geo- physics, geochemistry, drilling, well logging, well completion, production, reservoir studies, transportation and storage, alternate fuels, business and economics, HSE, and science and engineering. Bulletin records are distributed weekly via email in various formats. Subscribers may elect to receive either the entire Bulletin electronically or to receive various record subsets based on user interest profiles. Contact Petroleum Abstracts for subscription information on these services. TULSA Database As each issue of the Bulletin is produced, the same material (with an expanded set of index terms) is added to an online file, the TULSA database. This database, growing at a rate of about 40,000 items per year, contains more than 1.3 million Petroleum Abstracts entries dating from 1965. It also includes the Oil and Gas Fields Bibliography, a subfile of earlier references for oil and gas fields around the world. Access to the full TULSA database with abstracts requires the purchase of an annual search license. Contact Petroleum Abstracts for more information on accessing TULSA. Petroleum Abstracts The University of Tulsa 800 S. Tucker Drive, MLIC 1520 Tulsa, OK 74104 USA WORLDWIDE: 918-631-2296 US/CANADA: 800-247-8678 [email protected] http://www.pa.utulsa.edu Subscribing to Petroleum Abstracts Organizations can obtain an annual search license for the online TULSA database or an annual subscription to the email Petroleum Abstracts Bulletin, or both, by following these four steps. (Search licenses and PA Bulletin subscriptions are not available for individuals.) 1. Contact Petroleum Abstracts for a price quotation by email, [email protected], or complete the subscription information request form on the PA Website, http://www.pa.utulsa.edu. 2. Choose an online vendor or ask Petroleum Abstracts to help with a vendor arrangement, if you plan to access PA's online TULSA database, 3. Request and complete the standard PA Subscription Agreement and email it or mail it to Petroleum Abstracts. 4. Request an invoice and make arrangements for payment. Payment must be in U.S. dollars and can be made by check or bank draft, credit card, money order or direct wire transfer of funds. Contents Why Use Petroleum Abstracts? 2-3 PA Subscriber Benefits 4 List of Publications Reviewed 5-10 Petroleum Abstracts Priority Journals 11 Major Organizational Sources 12 Petroleum Abstracts Priority Conferences 13 Selected Conferences Covered 14-18 Conference Abbreviations 19 1 Why Use Petroleum Abstracts? Need to be more efficient, more informed and more competitive in today's petroleum industry? Need to keep pace with state-of-the-art oil and gas Exploration and Production? Need to save time and money? Make Petroleum Abstracts your information partner. Every week, Petroleum Abstracts delivers a concise look at the most important E&P information being published today. With PA, you can find scientific and technical material from around the world quickly and conveniently. PA helps you locate essential E&P-related information, giving you get the support you need, when you need it. Petroleum Abstracts Coverage Petroleum Abstracts covers material from around the world, including: - About 300 scientific and technical journals directly relevant to upstream oil and gas; - Publications from professional societies related to petroleum engineering, petroleum geology, geophysics and other industry specialties; - Proceedings from more than 200 international petroleum conferences; - Patent gazettes and patent applications; - E&P-related books and other monographs; - Selected academic dissertations; - Government reports important to the oil and gas industry. Many of these published resources are unavailable on the Internet, and the materials covered annually by PA would be cost-prohibitive for any one company to acquire and process. PA's experienced staff of petroleum engineers and geoscientists selects, indexes and abstracts material in these categories: Petroleum Geology Geochemistry Geophysics Drilling Well Logging Well Completion & Servicing Production of Oil and Gas Reservoir Engineering & Recovery Methods Pipelining, Shipping & Storage Alternate Fuels & Energy Sources Business & Economics Health, Safety & Environment Science & Engineering 2 TULSA Database and PA Bulletin The online TULSA database contains more than 1.3 million entries dating from 1965 to the present. About 40,000 items are added every year. Updated weekly, TULSA gives you the most timely E&P coverage possible. PA specialists index entries in the TULSA database using a controlled vocabulary of index terms. That provides precise, consistent and comprehensive indexing of related concepts, so you can find the exact information you need. Petroleum Abstracts provides its BRICKS Online Search Aids product to help you search the TULSA database using PA's indexing vocabulary, which contains about 80,000 technical terms relevant to upstream oil and gas. Using online search aids can improve your results and reduce searching time. Fifty weeks a year, the Petroleum Abstracts Bulletin provides a concise overview of E&P information. Each Bulletin issue contains hundreds of pertinent entries, most with abstracts of the material covered. It's no wonder so many companies make the PA Bulletin a key part of their information support. Subscribers to the Petroleum Abstracts Bulletin receive material by email. An annual subscription allows distribution of Bulletin material to all subscriber employees and locations. Your Information Partner Since its founding in 1960, Petroleum Abstracts has become the petroleum industry's preeminent information resource for coverage of E&P-related scientific and technical knowledge. To be more efficient, more knowledgeable and more competitive, join the thousands of E&P professionals who make Petroleum Abstracts their Global Information Partner. 3 PA Subscriber Benefits Every week, Petroleum Abstracts delivers a concise look at the most important Exploration and Production-related scientific and technical information being published today. PA subscribers get the information support they need, when they need it. It's no wonder thousands of oil and gas professionals around the world depend on Petroleum Abstracts to find the published E&P knowledge they want, quickly and conveniently. Petroleum Abstracts: ◆ Reduces the time required to find E&P-related scientific and technical information by over 90%. ◆ Gives subscribers handy access to a 55-year archive of petroleum engineering and petroleum geoscience knowledge. ◆ Helps subscriber organizations eliminate costly mistakes caused by failure to stay up-to-date with current practices and technology. ◆ Covers information not available on the Internet, including material from many hard-to-find sources. ◆ Produces a comprehensive database with more than 1.3 million references to E&P-related literature and patents, currently growing by more than 40,000 references per year. ◆ Can be accessed through a convenient Web-based search interface, with helpful search support and training. ◆ Enables precise retrieval of relevant information through use of industry-specific index terms. ◆ Sends subscribers a weekly electronic Bulletin of 750-850 pertinent items, available for organization- wide access. ◆ Supplies a highly focused guide to material selected, abstracted and indexed by experienced E&P professionals. ◆ Issues references in English to material published worldwide in 32 languages. ◆ Improves efficiency through access to vital scientific and technical knowledge for all professionals in an organization. ◆ Provides quick and convenient delivery of full-text documents. 4 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED BY PETROLEUM ABSTRACTS Petroleum Abstracts reviews the following publications on a regular basis and selects material for indexing and ab- stracting according to our Selection Policy. Other similar publications and meetings are reviewed on a selective basis. The Abbreviated Title was used by Petroleum Abstracts through 2004. Beginning with 2005 issues, the Complete Title is used. ISSN COMPLETE TITLE ABBREVIATED TITLE 0149--1423‡ AAPG BULLETIN AAPG BULL. 2300--1887E ACTA GEOLOGICA POLONICA ACTA GEOL. POL. 1000--9515 ACTAGEOLOGICA SINICA (ENGLISH EDITION) ACTA GEOL. SINICA (ENGLISH EDITION) 1755--6724E 0567--7920 ACTAPALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA ACTA PALAENONTOL. POL. 1732--2421E 0001--1541 AICHE JOURNAL AICHE J. 1547--5905E 0002--9599 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AMER. J. SCI. 1945--452XE 0718--7092 ANDEAN GEOLOGY 0718--7106E 0208--9068 ANNALES SOCIETATIS GEOLOGORUM POLONIAE 0883--2927 APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRYAPPL. GEOCHEM. 0141--1187 APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH APPL. OCEAN RES. 0843--5561 ATLANTIC GEOLOGY ATLANTIC