OnePetro is a key source for petroleum and energy-related technical papers:
Providing access to over 200,000 items of technical literature for the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Provided by the Society of Petroleum Engineers on behalf of 21 publishing partners. Content dating from 1885 to present.
Subject Coverage:
Engineering, Petroleum technology, Marine technology
Sources:
Book and eBooks, Conference papers, Journal articles (academic), Reports
Includes Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Papers Online (covers publications from 1991 to 2005).
Full text availability:
This is a full text resource.
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.
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. |