Competitive Analysis Technologies releases `Oil and Gas on the Internet'; Eleventh Quarterly Update Delivers 4,900 Web Sites to Industry Personnel.

Business/Energy Editors

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2000

The eleventh quarterly update of the popular databases "Oil and Gas on the Internet -- Second Quarter 2000" for the Upstream and Downstream industry has increased to more than 4,900 oil industry sites. Published quarterly by Competitive Analysis Technologies, these CATSites(R) databases bring important industry Web pages to the desktops of oil and gas information researchers.

Now in its fifth year, the databases were updated to ensure that all 4,900 sites were current and verified. "In the Upstream database, 659 new sites have been added since September 1999 and 441 have been added to the Downstream version," said Bill Crowley, editor of the publication. "We also removed more than 400 dead links due to mergers, acquisitions or otherwise taken off the Internet."

"I especially like the quarterly updates which means that the links are kept current. The chapter divisions are a great idea since they provide the searcher with the ability to drill down to the exact subject area they are looking for without a lot of unrelated Web sites to confuse them," said Emma Murray, information research specialist of Fletcher Challenge Energy. Jere Jay of ARCO International says, "I have used your data and book considerably over the last year."

"This is certainly the most complete and most impressive listing of energy Internet sites I have seen in my six years as an energy researcher," says Ellen Sartorius, a researcher at Ernst & Young LLP.

"Oil and Gas on the Internet -- Second Quarter 2000" provides users with immediate access to the Web sites of 1,178 oil and gas companies, 1,692 support companies, 392 industry associations, 251 industry journals, 85 sources for current pricing information, 353 resources for industry information, plus more oil and gas sites of interest. Users refer to CATSites(R) as "a Yahoo for the oil and gas industry."

Since its first release, Internet users from Alberta Energy, Altura, Amerada Hess, Arco, Ashland, Baker Hughes, British Gas, Brown & Root, BP Amoco, Cabot Oil, Chase Securities, Chevron, Clayton Williams, Coastal, Conoco, Dynegy, Energen, Enron, Equilon, Ernst & Young, ExxonMobil, Geo Services, Halliburton, 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.

"With CATSites(R), our users don't need to stay current with the best Web sites for information, much less keep up with what their competition is saying," said Kathy Sturgeon, assistant editor of the publication. "We do the searching, cataloguing and maintenance of the databases so user can better perform their jobs."

Electronic versions of CATSites(R) are being used on the corporate Intranets of Shell Oil, Baker Hughes, Saudi Aramco, Conoco, Ranger Oil, PetroTrin, Tetra Process and many others.

Issued every 90 days with new sites and changes in site locations, "Oil and Gas on the Internet -- Second Quarter 2000" is the first in the series of industry-specific databases published by Competitive Analysis Technologies that includes "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.

Subscribers of the SageMaker(TM) Enterprise Information Portal (www.sagemaker.com) may also access the electronic versions of these databases. Evaluations and demo disks are available. Access to any of the CATSites(R) databases via SageMaker(TM) also allows free searching of more than 400 direct news wire feeds.

"Oil and Gas on the Internet" is available as a hard copy directory or in electronic format for Intranet or LAN use in various forms to be shared across the corporate spectrum. 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].