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• A variety of books on the oil industry have been placed on Short Loan (the red section near the entrance) in Wheatley Library. We are not attempting to recommend any, but everything on oil would soon be heavily reserved, so at least everyone has a better opportunity to see them. Full citations can be taken from the books. Scroll down for advice on using databases:
• 338.2728 SHE  Shelley. Oil: politics, poverty and the planet
• 338.2728 ROB  Roberts. The end of oil: the decline of the petroleum economy and the rise of a new energy order
• 338.27092247  FOR  Fortescue. Russia’s oil barons and metal magnates: oligarchs and the state in transition
• 338.27209538  SIM Simmons. Twilight in the desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy
• 338.27282 CHA  Davis (ed). The changing world of oil: an analysis of corporate change and adaptation
• 338.27282 NEW  Mitchell (et al eds). The new economy of oil: impacts on business, geoplolitics and society
• 338.27282 TER  Tertzakian. A thousand barrels a second: the coming oil break point and the challenges facing an energy dependent world
• 338.27282 YEO Yeo. Oil: a concise guide to the most important product in the world
• 338.272820941 OPT  Upton. Waves of Fortune: the past present and future of the United Kingdom offshore oil and gas industries
• 338.27280947 CON  Considine & Kerr. The Russian oil economy
• 338.272820947 GRA  Grace. Russian oil supply: performance and prospects
• 338.27280947 RUS  Ellman. Russia’s oil and natural gas: boanza or curse?
• 338.272809475 ECO  Najman etc. eds. The economics of oil revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia: the redistribution of oil revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia
• 338.272809475 KAL  Kalyuzhnova. Economics of the Caspian oil and gas wealth: companies, governments, policies
• 338.272809474 LEE  Leeuw. Oil and gas in the Caucasus and Caspian: a history
• 338.272809669 ARI  Ariweriokuma. The political economy of oil and gas in Africa
• 338.27282 CLA  Clarke. Empires of oil: corporate oil in Barbarian worlds
• 338.27282 COR  Black gold stranglehold: the myth of scarcity and the politics of oil
• 338.27282 HOR  Horsnell & Mabro. Oil markets and prices: the brent Market and the formation of world oil prices
• 338.27282 MAU  Maugeri. The age of oil: the mythology, history, and future of the world’s most controversial resource
• 338.27282 NOR  Noreng. Crude power: politics and the oil market
• 338.27282 NOR  Norman. The oil card: global economic warfare in the 21st century
• 338.27282 OIL  Mabro ed. Oil in the 21st century: issues, challenges and opportunities
• 338.27282 OIL  Kaldor etc eds. Oil wars
• 338.27282 PAU  Paul. Future energy: how the new oil industry will change people, politics, and portfolios
• 338.27282 SHA  Crude: the story of oil
• 338.272820941 WOO  Paying for the piper: capital and labour in Britain’s offshore oil industry
• 338.272820947 DIX  Dixon. Organisational transformation in the Russian oil industry
• 338.272820947 SIM  Sim. The rise and fall of privarization in the Russian oil industry
• 338.272820956 COR  Cordesman & Al-Rhodhan. The changing dynamics of energy in the Middle East Volume 1 & 2
• 338.27282096 GHA  Ghazvinian. Untapped: the scramble for Africa’s oil
• 338.27282096 SHA  Shaxson. Poisoned wells: the dirty politics of African oil
• 338.272820973 DUF  Duffield. Over a barrel: the costs of US foreign oil dependence
• 338.272820973 JUH  Juhasz. The world’s most powerful industry – and what we must do to stop it
• 338.272820973 RUT  Rutledge. Addicted to oil: America’s relentless drive for energy security
• 338.272820973 STA Standlea. Oil, globalization, and the war for the arctic refuge
• 338.27285 STE Stern. The future of Russian gas and Gazprom
• 338.27285 WRI  Wright. Gas prices in the UK: markets and insecurity of supply
• 338.27285094 NAT  Arentsen & Kunneke. National reforms in European gas
• Look at the EBSCOhost database guide and connect to the Business Source Complete database. Enter petroleum prospecting as a search and from the drop down menu select SU Subject Term (we clicked on the Thesaurus button and entered the search oil and found that the subject index term used is petroleum prospecting). This retrieves over 4700 articles. It is possible to browse recent ones, but not all. So…
• Click on the Industry Profiles link in the left margin. This retrieves the Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Industry Profile: Global, published by Datamonitor in April 2008. This gives a broad view of the global industry. Note the company names in this report and, later, look for them amongst the Datamonitor Company Profiles by clicking on the More tab and then on Company Profiles in the toolbar. The SWOT analyses provided will be helpful.
• Then go back to the original search results by clicking on All results in the left margin and enter (and) Economist in the search box below your original petroleum prospecting search and and select SO Publication Name from the drop down menu. The Economist is a prestigious journal that covers major strategic issues in the world economy such as the oil industry. Later check the Economist articles in Factiva (see below)
• When we browsed previously we found numbers of articles in a publication World oil, which looked relevant. Selecting one or two comprehensive, authoritative trade journals can be a good strategy when you are faced with huge numbers of articles in your results. So, delete the Economist in your search and substitute World oil, keeping the drop-down menu as SO Publication Name and browse the results.
• Next, move on to Thomson One Banker because the Investext database is now available on this platform. The new version of Investext is a little more tricky to use than the previous Thomson Gale version, so we have produced a powerpoint demo, which we hope is fairly painless to understand, to help you. Click on (if off campus you will need to enter your student number and password): https://www2.brookes.ac.uk/library/resources/thomsonpowerpoint.ppt
• Log  on to the database, enter company searches and try to find the larger reports (it is essential to look at the powerpoint). The  Analysts reports in Investext give usually give opinions on share prices and therefore cover plcs only. They vary from brief 1 page statements to a full scale analysis of a company’s operations with competitor and industry analysis, SWOT analysis etc.. Do not bother with 1 page reports.
• Next, click on Research report in the left menu and then click on  the Conduct Research Report Search option. You really are going to have to look at the powerpoint presentation so that you know how to enter an industry search for oil and then from the lists presented, select 211 oil and gas extraction and 213111 Drilling oil and gas wells. Remember to reset the date to Last 2 years. You should be presented with over 7000 reports on the oil exploration industry. Note that selecting the reports by ticking the boxes next to the titles allows you in the next stage to look at the contents lists before actually downloading the report.
• Finally, look at the Factiva database which contains 10000 news sources in 22 languages. Again, you will need to look at the powerpoint presentation to really understand how it works if you want to follow the instructions below. Click on (if off campus you will need to enter your student number and password): https://www2.brookes.ac.uk/library/resources/factivapowerpoint.ppt
• Log on to Factiva and click on the + next to Industry to go into the index. Then click on + Energy to list the various industry sectors and click on  + Crude Oil/Natural Gas, then click on Natural Gas/Oil Exploration. The entry turns pink and remains at the top of this section as part of your search (click on it again to remove it). Unfortunately, hitting the search button retrieves over 195000 articles, so, as always, you are going to have to be selective about the sources you read in this huge database. Click on Modify Search in the top right corner to return to the Search screen.
• Click on the + next to the Source index. Enter Financial Times in the search box and scroll down the list that appears to select the Financial Times by clicking on the title to make it turn pink and find the 900+ articles that you will find this time (you really are going to need to look at the powerpoint presentation).
• Next, remove the Financial Times and select the Economist.
• Finally, starting a New Search and returning to the Source index, click on the drop-down menu next to My source lists and select Publications by industry (note all the other listings of publications). Scroll down to Energy and click on the + to list all of the trade journals on the energy industry. There are many on the oil industry. Try to browse, for example, Oil and gas journal. Find it in the list and click on the triangular up arrow ^ next to the entry. This enters the code for the journal rst=OG into the free text search box at the top and when you click on search this retrieves all of the articles in reverse chronological order for browsing (if you clicked on the title to turn it pink you would have specify a search for a particular topic in addition, it would not retrieve all the articles for browsing). World oil is also available in Factiva, but note that Factiva times out quickly, so Businesss Source Complete is the more convenient source to  use.
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