Access expanded to DOE database of oil and natural gas research results

The results of nearly four decades of oil and natural gas research supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) are now available through the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) OnePetro online document repository.

DOE’s Knowledge Management Database (KMD) provides access to content from dozens of CDs and DVDs related to oil and natural gas research that the Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has published over the years. It also provides links to reports, data sets, and project summaries from ongoing research supported by FE’s Oil and Natural Gas Program.

Now, the 9,000 DOE documents in the KMD are searchable on the OnePetro website, together with documents from SPE, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts, the Offshore Technology Conference, and eight additional professional societies.

The KMD debuted at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in October 2009. Following its full roll-out at the Offshore Technology Conference in May 2010, NETL and SPE worked together to make the KMD available through OnePetro. Containing more than 100,000 documents relating to upstream technology, OnePetro is the primary technical resource for the global upstream industry.

Results of a keyword search on OnePetro will now include all related NETL documents. The repository may also be searched for NETL documents only by entering “NETL” in the search box. All NETL documents are open access.

The KMD is still available at the NETL website.