Petroleum Engineering Resources
Petroleum Engineering Handbook online
PetroWiki was created from the seven volume Petroleum Engineering Handbook (PEH) published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). PetroWiki preserves the PEH content in unaltered form while allowing SPE's membership to update and expand content from the published version
Find data for your projects and papers
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KnovelFind data whether buried in a table, graph, or chart inside hundreds of ebooks. Data can be sorted, filtered, and extracted to other formats, such as Excel, ASCII, and HTML.
You can also search across the ebooks for any topic. Especially good for lab reports.
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DIPPR801Process design data of physical, thermodynamic, and transport properties for industrially important chemicals used in chemical process and equipment design
Find journal articles
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Petroleum Abstracts TULSA DatabasePremier resource for petroleum exploration and production journal literature
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OnePetroFull text of SPE papers, Offshore Technology Conference papers and others
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ScienceDirectFull text of Elsevier journals, the largest publisher of science and technology journals
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Web of ScienceHighly cited journals in the sciences and engineering. Find who cited who from 1955-present
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ScopusSimilar to Web of Science for citation searching. Find who cited who from 1996-present. Covers more publications than Web of Science.
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Academic Search CompleteMultidisciplinary database that includes peer reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers
Find theses and dissertations
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses DatabaseThe ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database indexes over 2.4 million dissertations and theses from around the world. Nearly one million are available in full text.
Find patents
There are many sources for searching patents. While they include similar content, the search options,features, and sometimes search results often differ.
(To decipher the parts of a patent, refer to How to Read a US Patent from Queens University.)
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US Patent and Trademark OfficeUsually updated through most recent business day. (Clunky search interface.)
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Google Patents (advanced search)After getting a list of results, use the drop down "Tools" for more options.
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FreePatentsOnline search pageMore search options than google patents search page.
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European Patent Office (Espacenet)Includes patents from more than 80 countries
Organize and cite your sources
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RefWorksWeb based. Free to UH faculty and students
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RefWorks GuideA useful guide to become familiar with the interface and use of RefWorks.
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EndnoteRequires software purchase from Cougar Byte or use in the Learning Commons
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EndNote Web GuideUseful guide to get familiar with the interface and use of EndNote Web.
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EndNote OnlineWeb based. Not as many features as Endnote
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MendeleyWeb based but has desktop plugin too. Free. Unlike others, it has collaboration and networking features.
Schaum's Study Guides
Work through solved problems using Schaum's Study Guides.
Find high impact journals
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InCites Journal Citation ReportsCritically evaluate and compare journals in the sciences and social sciences using citation data from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals. Use JCR to find the most frequently cited journals, and measure research influence through impact factor, aggregate impact factor, the aggregate immediacy index, aggregated cited half-life, and the number of articles in each category. Full name of the database is Incites Journal Citation Reports.
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New to PE? Read these!
Books you can get from the shelves
Devereux, S. (1999). Drilling for oil & gas: a nontechnical guide. Tulsa, OK: PennWell. (General Collection: TN871.2 D477 1999)
Hyne, N. J. (2012). Nontechnical guide to petroleum geology, exploration, drilling, and production. Tulsa, OK: Penn Well Corp. (General Collection: TN870.5 H9624 2012) Also see ebook version below.
E-books