The Internet - an information pipeline for petroleum
- Consultant, Garland, TX (United States)
Telnet, Gopher, FTP, WWW, Mosaic, Archie, Usenet, Home Page, E-mail. These terms represent some of the services available to users of the Internet. Use Usenet to ask the world for comments on software or participate in a discussion on proposed regulations. With Gopher, search the card catalog at the Library of Congress, the University of Texas, or Oxford University. Find locations of USGS map files with Archie and download them directly to your PC, Macintosh, or workstation with FTP (file transfer protocol). Use the graphical interface of Mosaic to access the World Wide Web to view company information, new product announcements, data and more. Use of the Internet currently falls into three broad categories: data and program transmission, discussions between individuals or groups, and general information about companies, services, and products. Many government agencies and universities are making information such as USGS culture and topographic data available for free on the Internet. Numerous mapping, visualization, and coordinate transformation programs are available for downloading to your computer. Discussions and requests for information take place daily on the news groups. You can send E-mail and data files to many vendors to get help. You can actually send them the data that is causing the problem and they can load it and work with it directly, not a faxed copy. Many companies, universities, professional societies and government agencies have set up Home Pages describing products and services. You can even retrieve abstracts from some sources. There are numerous FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions Lists) that are posted monthly to help the new user. The Internet is an inexpensive new communications tool available to both large corporations and individuals alike. In this presentation I will demonstrate these and other ways the Internet can be used by the petroleum professional.
- OSTI ID:
- 86633
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9506190-; ISSN 0149-1423; TRN: 95:004859-0033
- Journal Information:
- AAPG Bulletin, Vol. 79, Issue 6; Conference: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Southwest section meeting, Dallas, TX (United States), 3-7 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: Jun 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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