These have been categorised under four headings:

Education        Government

Publications        Societies

(This information was last updated 8 February 2008)

Education

The following institutes offer a range of courses in geoscience and petroleum engineering-related disciplines at under- and post-graduate level

Aberdeen University
Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, College of Physical Sciences, Meston Building, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE
Tel +44 (0) 1224 273433, Fax +44 (0) 1224 272785
Website www.abdn.ac.uk/geology/

Camborne School of Mines
School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ
Tel +44 (0) 1326 370400 (Campus reception)
Website www.uec.ac.uk/csm/

Heriot-Watt University
Department of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh EH14 4AS
Tel +44 (0) 131 451 3543/3545, Fax +44 (0) 131 451 3127
Website www.pet.hw.ac.uk

Imperial College
Centre for Petroleum Studies, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP
Tel +44 (0) 207 594 7440 (Professor Alain Gringarten, Director)
Website www.ic.ac.uk

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Government

Oil and Gas Directorate, Department of Trade and Industry

London address: 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET
Tel +44 (0) 2072 155000, Fax +44 (0) 2072 152619

Aberdeen address: Atholl House, 86-88 Guild Street, Aberdeen AB11 6AR

The OGD's website www.og.dti.gov.uk is packed with useful information and resources. Key pages are:

• www.og.dti.gov.uk/upstream/ which provides links to upstream information on UK licensing, taxation, exploration, well consents, field developments, field consents, infrastructure, operations, field reporting guidelines, decommissioning and measurement;

• www.og.dti.gov.uk/information/ which provides links to the DTI's 'Brown Book' data and various DTI conference papers.

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Publications

World Oil Magazine

This is a monthly US-based magazine which publishes a range of technical articles across a broad spectrum of oil and gas disciplines, as well as current industry news from around the world. The magazine can be viewed online at www.worldoil.com.

As well as the latest copy, archive copies back to 1997 can be browsed. The website also has links to books and software sold through World Oil's parent company, Gulf Publishing Company.

Subscription for postal delivery of the magazine is available, and is free to qualifying persons working for exploration, drilling, producing or engineering companies.

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Societies

Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB)

5th Floor, 9 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DW
Tel +44 (0) 207 408 2000

Primarily for geoscientists. The website www.pesgb.org.uk has an exhaustive list of links to other petroleum-related societies in the UK and worldwide.

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
This is an international society primarily for reservoir and petroleum engineers. Annual subscription in the UK is US$50 or US$80 depending on your age. There are two websites of interest:

• www.spe.org allows online subscription and provides access (for members) to a searchable database of abstracts to all published SPE papers. Full manuscripts can then be downloaded for a small fee. SPE also publish and sell a large range of technical text books. Technical books from other publishers are also sold. (Slightly) discounted book prices are offered to SPE members;

• www.spe-uk.org is the joint site of the London and Aberdeen Sections of the SPE. It has information on Section events, a database of consultants and a directory of oil industry products and services. Current and archive copies of the SPE Review magazine can also be downloaded.

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