`Oil and Gas on the Internet' 14th Quarterly Update Released; Upstream Surpasses 3,000 Profiled Records.

Business/Energy Editors

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001

The First Quarter 2001 issue of the popular databases, "Oil and Gas on the Internet," for the Upstream and Downstream industry has been released. These databases have increased to more than 5,428 oil industry sites. Published quarterly by Competitive Analysis Technologies, these CATSites(R) databases bring important industry information and "deep" Web pages to the desktops of oil and gas researchers.

These databases were updated to ensure that all 5,428 sites are verified. "The Upstream database has grown by 43% and the Downstream version by 42% since they were split into separate products," said Bill Crowley, editor of the publication. "It's not about news, it's about information."

Competitive Analysis Technologies also announces that a fully functional demo of the databases is now available on their Web site at http://www.catsites.com/publications.html

More than 21,000 desktops at Shell Oil, Baker Hughes, Saudi Aramco, Kerr-McGee, Ranger Oil, PetroTrin, Tetra Process, and others have this valuable resource on their corporate Intranet.

Since first release six years ago, Internet users from Alberta Energy, Altura, Amerada Hess, Arco, Ashland, British Gas, Brown & Root, BP Amoco, Cabot Oil, Chase Securities, Chevron, Clayton Williams, Coastal, Dynegy, Energen, Enron, Equilon, Ernst & Young, ExxonMobil, Geo Services, Halliburton, IHS Energy Group, Kvaerner, LASMO, Marathon, McDermott, Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals, NationsBank, Noble Drilling, Ocean Energy, Phillips, Qatar General Petroleum, Sonat, Tesoro, Unocal, Veba OEL, Western Atlas, Williams Companies, Wood Mackenzie, and members of AAPG have utilized this directory to find information on the Internet faster and more efficiently. Users refer to the CATSites(R) databases as "a Yahoo for the oil and gas industry."

"We verify every site in the database to ensure that they are still active, and then we do the searching, cataloging, profiling, and maintenance of the databases so that users can perform their jobs easier and faster," said Kathy Sturgeon, assistant editor of the publication.

Issued every 90 days with new sources and changes in site locations, "Oil and Gas on the Internet" is one in a series of industry-specific databases from Competitive Analysis Technologies which also include "Power Utilities on the Internet" and "Petrochemicals on the Internet."

All databases are available in hard copy or in electronic format for simple "drop-in" use on corporate Intranets to be shared across the corporation. Demo CD-ROMs are available for evaluation. Subscribers of the SageMaker(R) Enterprise Information Portal also have access to the electronic versions of these databases; contact CAT for a free 7-day evaluation.

For more information or to place an order, visit the Competitive Analysis Technologies Web site at http://www.catsites.com/publications.html or contact Competitive Analysis Technologies at 281/890-8255; fax [phone]; e-mail [e-mail]