The sites below are ones we find useful for sourcing data on a regular basis:

Merlin Datawise for secure storage and modern, professional library services to the E&P industry
www.merlin-datawise.co.uk

The ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service allowed plate reconstructions to be produced for the present to 150ma. The site seems regularly unavailable now.
http://www.odsn.de/odsn/services/paleomap/paleomap.html
An excellent set of global tectonic resources, including reconstructions is available via: http://www.serg.unicam.it/Geo.html

TerraSciences Inc: Functional log and geological interpretation software. Good links page, particularly for interesting geodetic sites. (Yes, we do have TerraScience software in-house!)
http://www.terrasciences.com

National Geophysical Data Center. Digital coastline data source for most of the world. Look at the rest of the site for all sorts of other useful data.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/shorelines.html

UK DECC Oil and gas Directorate Home Page. Direct access to UK well location and licence data (but see UKDEAL below). Scope of site expanding all the time.
https://www.og.decc.gov.uk/

UK Deal (Now part of CDA): the definitive source of offshore UK well and seismic location data, unfortunately now requiring subscription to access downloads. However, most of the shapefiles are also available via DECC:
http://www.ukdeal.co.uk

Norwegian Petroleum Directorate: site is a wealth of data and information. These fact pages are an excellent example of GIS access to a national data resource. Other national authorities should look and learn!
http://www.npd.no/en/

IGI Ltd: Not only a cracking good company for all things petroleum geochemical (pun intended!), but based in one of the most beautiful sites in the UK. http://www.igiltd.com/index.html

Manifold.Net: the best GIS available for the "rest of us". Extremely powerful and unbelievably low-priced. Try it and see.
http://www.manifold.net

Literature searches on-line and good links page: http://www.geolsoc.org.uk

The Society of Petroleum Engineers: Resource definitions (Reserves) and portal to an immense database via the SPE online library. Lots of good links here too.
http://www.spe.org

Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain. If you are not a member why not consider joining now?
http://www.pesgb.org.uk

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