Resources Relating to the Oil Sector

• Information and Research Centers
• Publications
• Email Listserves
• California Oil Companies

Information and Research Centers

• Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections is a source for up to date news about the international oil, gas, and power industry.

• The Carbon Trader is the worlds leading reporter, library and commercial services intermediary within the emerging Carbon Credit Market.

• The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), works in partnership with citizens groups globally on environment and development issues with a particular focus on climate change, human rights, energy, gender equity, and economic issues.

• Strategies for Today's Environmental Partnerships (STEP) is a project of The American Petroleum Institute. The STEP project provides a unifying framework that the oil and natural gas industry can use to improve EH&S performance in a flexible, yet systematic manner; to share best practices; to enhance operating efficiencies and reduce costs; to document performance improvements; and to respond to public concerns about industry performance and future commitments.

• The National Oil Refinery ACTION! Network is sponsored by the Communities for a Better Environment Organization. Their goal is to win commitments from corporations to reduce or prevent multimedia petrochemical toxic pollution releases and to minimize toxic threats to workers and residents from oil refineries. The organization also helps translate communities' right to know about toxic hazards at nearby oil refineries into the right to participate in facilities monitoring and industry decision making.

• Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil & gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.

• Greenpeace - Arctic Action

Publications

• Oil For Nothing: Multinational Corporations, Environmental Destruction, Death and Impunity in the Niger Delta
  A report from Essential Action and Global Exchange on the devastating levels of environmental degradation caused by oil exploration and extraction in the Niger Delta. Report released on January 25, 2000.

Email Listserves

• Drillbits and Trailings
  Project Underground's electronic fortnightly on the mineral industries. Includes Drillbits and Trailings' archives from 1996 and mineral industry vital statistics and resources.

• Pipeline Oilwatch Europe's e-mail list dedicated to the social and environmental effects of the oil and gas industries' activities in the area between the Baltic Sea and the Bering Strait, the Arctic Ocean and the Caspian Sea.

• Gallon Environment Letter
  The Gallon Environment Letter, provided twice a month, includes current environmental business and government policy information in Canada. It is available by subscription by contacting Gary Gallon at: cibe@web.net.

California Oil Companies