TULSA™ (Petroleum Abstracts)
Date revised: 4 August 2021

TULSA™ (Petroleum Abstracts) is the world’s leading information source for published scientific and technicalknowledge related to oil and gas exploration and production.
Information in TULSA comes from 300 journals and more than 200 conference proceedings, plus patent gazettes andfull-text patents, government documents and reports, dissertations, books, maps and many other sources. TULSA
includes precise, consistent and comprehensive indexing, so you can find the exact information you need.
TULSA (Petroleum Abstracts) covers the following subject areas:
Petroleum exploration geology, geophysics, andgeochemistry
Drilling
Well logging
Well completion and servicing

Production of oil and gas
Reservoir engineering and recovery methods
Pipelining, shipping and storage
Alternative fuels and energy sources
Health, safety and environment

Two versions of TULSATM (Petroleum Abstracts) are available:• Dialog customers who contract with/subscribe directly to the Energy Abstracts LLC Petroleum Abstracts
database will get access to the citations and abstracts within the database – known as TULSA – on a site
license basis.
• Customers who do not contract with/subscribe directly to the Energy Abstracts LLC Petroleum Abstracts
database will only have access to the citations within the database – known as TULSA2 – on a transactional
basis.
If any TULSA2 user would like to obtain access to the abstracts, please contact your Dialog representative and we will
coordinate this with Petroleum Abstracts, a division of Energy Abstracts LLC.
Use TULSA to answer such questions as:• What recent publications are available on depth correlation?
• How are the best zones with hydrocarbon presence identified in Neuquén basin?
• What are the latest methods for modelling surge and swab pressures in horizontal and inclined wells?
• What has been published on fertility enhancement of soils contaminated with heavy hydrocarbons?
Date Coverage
1965 - present

Update Frequency
WeeklyGeographic Coverage
International

Document Types• Conferences, Symposia, Meetings• Journal Articles• Patents

Publisher
TULSA (Petroleum Abstracts) is provided by Petroleum Abstracts at The University of Tulsa, a division of Energy
Abstracts LLC.
Petroleum Abstracts
The University of Tulsa
800 South Tucker DriveTulsa, OK 74104-3189, USA1© 2023 Clarivate. Clarivate and its logo, as well as all other trademarks usedherein are trademarks of their respective owners and used under license.

Sample document

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CCTI
AU
AF

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DTYPE
PUB
SRC
VO
PG
ISSN
PSTYP
EDOIPD,YRANFAVUDSearch fields
You can use field codes on the Basic Search, Advanced Search, and Command Line Search pages to limit searches tospecific fields. The table below lists the field codes for this database.

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Field nameField code

ExampleDescription and Notes

AbstractAB

ab("anchoring device" PRE/5"sliding component")

Abstracts are available to Energy
Abstracts LLC Petroleum Abstracts
subscribers only.

Abstract present

ABANY“fluid flow" AND abany(yes)Add: AND ABANY(YES) to a query to limit
retrieval to records with abstracts.

Accession numberANan(1393234)

A unique document identification
number assigned by the information
provider, Petroleum Abstracts.

All fieldsALLall("condensate gas reservoir")Searches all fields.

All fields--"condensate gas reservoir"

Same as ALL field code. Searches allfields.

Author1
Author First Name
Author Last Name

AU1
AUFN
AULN

au(“sun h”)
aufn(h)auln(sun)

Includes all authors.

First author

FAU

fau(“liu l”)

First name listed in Author field. It is
included in Author browse, but its
position cannot be specified in theAuthor browse.

Author affiliation

AFaf(china univ petroleum)

Includes organization name.

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Field nameField codeExample
cc(reservoir engineering)
cc(sc008)

Description and Notes

Classification

CCClassification (IPC)

IPC

ipc(e21b-033/138)
ipc(e21b-033)
ipc(e21b)

IPC8 patent classification codes areavailable in patent records only.

Conference
informationCFcf(iadc baku 2019)

Searches conference title.

Document title

See Title

Document type

DTYPE

dtype(article)
dtype(conference paper)
dtype(patent)
dtype(meeting paper text)

DOIDOIdoi(10.1016/j.petrol.2018.09.030)

Digital Object Identifier. Search theportion of the DOI that comes after
http://dx.doi.org/.

FAVfav(20190219)

Date on which a record was first loaded
on Dialog. The document may havebeen subsequently updated, indicated inUpdate.

From database2

FDB2

su("plate tectonics") AND
fdb(petroleumabstracts)su("plate tectonics") AND
fdb(10000141)

Useful in multi-file searches to isolate
records from a single file. FDB cannot besearched on its own; specify at least one
search term then AND it with FDB.

ISBNISBNisbn(978-3-936418-90-3)

Also searchable via the Look Up Citation
tool.

ISSNISSN

issn(0920-4105)
issn(09204105)

Also searchable via the Look Up Citation
tool.

IssueISSiss(12)

Also searchable via the Look Up Citation
tool.

First availablejn(journal of petroleum science &engineering)jn.exact(petroleum)jn(“journal of earth science”)

The most frequent document types areshown in the examples. Additional
types are government report, book,thesis, news, review, map, standard.

Full journal name. Use double quotes or.exact to disambiguate names. A lookup list is available under Publication
title.

Journal title

JN

Language

LAla(spanish)

The language in which the document
was originally published.

Major subject

MJSUB

mjsub("fractured reservoir")

Subjects which have major emphasis in
the document.

Notes

NTnt(earthdoc)

Notes on availability are sometimes
provided.

PG

pg(1186-1201)
pg(1186)
pg(1201)

Pagination

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Field name

Patent Information

Field code

PAT

Examplepat(eu 1457639)
pat(halliburton)pat(eu)pat(us 386264)

Description and Notes
May include patent number, assignee,
publication date, publication country,
application number, application date,priority country, priority application
number, priority date and inventor. Dates
and inventor are only searchable with
their own fields (shown below).
IPC Classification is available in its own
field – see Classificaiton.

Inventor
Patent publication
country
Patent number
Patent publication
date

INV

Patent priority number

PRN

Patent priority date

PRD

Patent application
date
Patent assignee

PDA

pda(20040915)

PBC

PAD
AP

prn(us 271081)
prn(us)prd(1996-06-10)
prd(19960610)
pad(2007-07-26)
pad(20070726)
ap(halliburton)
pd(2019)pd(>=20180101)
pd(20181201-20190201)
yr(2019)

Publication datePD

Publication year

YR

Publication title1

PUB1

pub("marine and petroleumgeology")

Name of the publication, including
books, reports and other types inaddition to journals.

Publication type

PSTYPE

pstype(journals)

The main publication types are journals,
books, patents, reports and meetings

Report numberRPrp(spe*)rp("ADSPE-44")

Source information

5PN

inv(girgenti)
pbc(us)pbc(eu)pn(1457639)

SRC

Date range searching is supported.
Publication year; occurs in all records.

src(marine and 29 and 2019)

Source details.
‘SRLA’ and ‘SRPA’ refer respectively to‘See Related Literature Abstract’ and‘See Related Patent Abstract’; they arefollowed by the accession numbers of
the related TULSA records.

Subject1

SU1

su(“compositional model”)

To search for major subjects use
MJSUB.
SUBT is an alternative code for theSubject field.

Title

TIti(modeling shale condensate gasflow)

Includes the title, foreign language title,
alternate title and subtitle, whenavailable.

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Field nameField code

ExampleDescription and Notes
Searches only the Title, not subtitle oralternate title.

Title only

TIO

tio(shale condensate)

Alternate title

OTIoti(“injecao de vapor e solvente”)

The alternate title is usually the original
language title of a non-English article.

UpdatesUDud(20190205)
ud(>=20181130)

Dates here indicate the dates on which
the document was updated on Dialog. If
there has been no update, the date willbe the same as that in First Available.

Volume of publication

VOvo(172)

Also searchable via the Look Up Citation
tool.

A Lookup/Browse feature is available for this field in the Advanced Search dropdown or in Browse Fields.
Click the “Field codes” hyperlink at the top right of the Advanced Search page. Click “Search syntax and field codes”, then click on“FDB command” to get a list of database names and codes that can be searched with FDB.

Search tools
In addition to Search Fields, other tools available for searching are Limit options, Browse Fields, “Narrow results by”
Filters, and Look Up Citation. Each is listed separately below. Some data can be searched using more than one tool.

Limit options
Limit options are quick and easy ways of searching certain common concepts. Check boxes are available for:
Abstract included
Short lists of choices are available for:Document type, Language
Date limiters are available in which you can select single dates or ranges for date of publication and updated.

Browse fields
You can browse the contents of certain fields by using Look up lists. These are particularly useful to validate spellings or
the presence of specific data. Terms found in the course of browsing may be selected and automatically added to theAdvanced Search form. Look up lists are available in the fields drop-down for:
Author, Subject, Publication title

Thesaurus
Petroleum Abstracts Thesaurus is available by clicking on the “Thesaurus” hyperlink on the right-hand side of theAdvanced and the Command Line search pages. Thesaurus terms may be searched within the thesaurus, then selected tobe added automatically to the search form.

“Narrow Results By” limiters
When results of a search are presented, the results display is accompanied by a list of “Narrow results by” options shownon the right-hand panel. Click on any of these options and you will see a ranked list showing the most frequently occurring
terms in your results. Click on term(s) to include or exclude and apply them to (“narrow”) your search results. Narrow
results by limiters in in TULSA (Petroleum Abstracts) include
Author, Classification, Document type, Language, Publication Title, Subject, and Publication date6

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Look up citation
If you need to trace a particular bibliographic reference, use the Look Up Citation feature. Find a link to this toward the top
left of the Advanced Search page, or in the drop list under Advanced on any search form; click this and you will go to aform where you can enter any known details of the citation, including document title, author, journal name, volume, issue,
page, publication date, ISSN.

International Patent Classification (IPC)
IPC classification codes are applied to patent-type records only.

Document formats
Document Format

FieldsBrief view

Title and Publication date.

üDetailed view

Same as Brief view plus a 3-line KWIC window

ü

KWIC (Keyword in Context)
Preview (subscribers only)

OnlineDetailed view plus all occurrences of your searchterms, highlighted within the fields where the termsoccur.
Title, Author, Publication title, Pagination,Publication date, Abstract, Subject terms.

üExport /DownloadüüPreview (transactional)

Title, Publication date, Subject terms

ü

Brief citation

Complete record minus Abstract and IndexingüüCitation / Abstract

Complete record

ü1üCustom

Choose the fields you wantü2

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2Custom export/download format is available in the following mediums only: HTML, PDF, RefWorks, RTF, Text only, XLS.

Terms & Conditions
TULSA™ (Petroleum Abstracts) is copyrighted. All Rights reserved. Material contained in this database may not be copied,republished, or redistributed without the prior written consent of Petroleum Abstracts, a division of Energy Abstracts LLC.
All subscribers to TULSA™ (Petroleum Abstracts) must sign an annual Online Search License with Petroleum Abstracts
the division of Energy Abstracts LLC. The standard license terms permit search results to be copied and distributed only
within the subscriber's organization and its subsidiaries worldwide. Subscribers who wish to search TULSA™ (PetroleumAbstracts) on behalf of third parties outside their own organizations must first sign a "License Agreement for Brokers ofPetroleum Abstracts Information."
For subscription and license agreement information contact Petroleum Abstracts at The University of Tulsa, 800 South
Tucker Drive, MLIC 1520 Tulsa OK 74104-3189 USA. Tel: +1 (918) 631-2296 or (800) 247-8678 (US and Canada). E-mail:pa@utulsa.edu.
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