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EGIS (Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society): SPE Technical Papers

Searching for Petroleum Engineering Technical Papers

OnePetro is a key source for petroleum and energy-related technical papers:

 It is also worth searching the websites of professional bodies such as the Society of Core Analysts

Companies tend not to make their own technical reports publicly available, as these contain commercially sensitive information.

Finding Petroleum Engineering Technical Papers from Citations

OnePetro has a large archive of technical papers and conference proceedings.  Sources of technical papers for specific citations are given below.

Citation   What is it? Where to find it?

NETL #####-##

Also citations starting:

DE-NT ###...

FE ###...

UDW ###...

National Energy Technology Laboratory Try NETL website or One Petro.

PETSOC SS-YY-##

PETSOC YY-##-##

PETSOC YY-##

e.g. PETSOC 89-40-1

Petroleum Society of Canada.

1962-2009 in One Petro.

PETSOC has now merged with SPE.

SCAYYYY-##

e.g. SCA2001-51

Society of Core Analysts Try searching the SCA website.

SPE #####

Society of Petroleum Engineers 1927 to date in One Petro.