PAnet Profile Will Cover Unconventional Resources
Subscription renewal information for 2012 will be available online for Petroleum Abstracts subscribers beginning September 15, 2011. To renew online, an organization's primary PA subscription contact should go to the Subscriber Login section of the PA Website at http://www.pa.utulsa.edu. If you are a primary contact and do not have an existing User Name and Password to access the renewal information, please click on Request Login and complete the login request form. A login confirmation will be sent to you. Subscription renewals are due by December 7, 2011. If you have any questions about the renewal process, please contact David Brown or Ivana O'Brien, 918-631-2297.
Earlier this year, PA proposed changing the Petroleum Abstracts Bulletin from once a week to twice a week distribution. The proposed modification reflected an effort to increase the number of abstracts that PA publishes each year. Publishing two issues per week rather than one would have allowed PA to streamline some work processes and increase the total number of abstracts published each week. Based on feedback from subscribers, PA has decided not to implement the proposed distribution change at this time. Distribution of the Petroleum Abstracts Bulletin will continue to be once per week on Friday, with the publication date on Saturday. PA will continue our efforts to streamline work flow and increase productivity of our operations. We appreciate the input and helpful advice from our subscribers.
PA has issued its list of Selected Conferences Covered, updated through July 2011. This publication lists about 250 of the worldwide conferences covered by PA. A PDF copy of the conferences list is available for downloading on PA's Web site, http://www.pa.utulsa.edu, under the Resources tab. For a printed copy of this publication, please contact Ivana O'Brien.
Petroleum Abstracts recently announced promotions for two staff members. Bethany Crow has been promoted to the position of Assistant Director of Data Services. Bethany now will be responsible for managing all of PA's Data Services staff and information systems. Kandi Withers has been promoted to the position of Acquisitions Specialist. She will be responsible for the acquisition and processing of all print and electronic materials for PA, and facilitating their integration into PA's new records management system.
PA will be exhibiting at the Society of Petroleum Engineer's Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Denver, October 31-November 2. Please visit us in Booth 1241. Exhibit hours will be from 9 am to 5:30 pm Monday, October 29, and Tuesday, November 1, and 9 am to 2 pm Wednesday, November 2.
PA maintains a subscription to the WebEx desktop sharing and phone conferencing tool. WebEx enables PA to offer online training, presentations and meeting access via a Web-and-phone connection. PA subscribers who want to discuss scheduling a WebEx training or presentation session should contact
Because of the importance of unconventional resources in oil and gas Exploration and Production, PA is developing a special PAnet Profile search to identify relevant entries in the PA Bulletin. A PAnet Profile utilizes PA's indexing vocabulary to retrieve selected entries of interest from the PA Bulletin every week. Any PA subscriber organization that receives the PA Bulletin can order a special PAnet Profile or request a custom PAnet Profile. The unconventional resources PAnet Profile will be introduced at the SPE annual meeting in Denver.
