Copyright: Copyright ©Energy Information Administration


Adobe Acrobat Viewer

Adobe Corporation license this viewer of portable document format (PDF) files for use with this CD.  The viewer will display any page of a document on the screen, and also print the page, or a range of pages to a Windows or postscript compatible printer.

This viewer also includes a number of "plug-ins" including:

A search engine that uses an index of all documents on the CD called "Energy Information Documents", to quickly locates a list of documents that satisfies a particular query.  The index is located on the CD at \cd_rom\pdf\index.pdX.

A web link that can be set to automatically invoke a web browser to follow a URL type link in the portable document file.

This CD contains a 16 bit and a 32 version of the viewers and also installs additional plug-ins.

Memory problems With the Reader

If you have memory problems operating the viewer.  Move the plug-ins that you do not use out of the Adobe3\reader\plug_ins directory and place them in the \save directory.  This way they will not be loaded and thus the reader will require less memory.


Adobe Portable Documents

PDF is short for portable document format, an industry wide standard defined by the Adobe Corporation.  In short a pdf can be viewed on any kind of personal computer.  Adobe provide the Adobe Acrobat viewer for Macs, Windows, DOS and Unix type operating systems and they are available free from the Adobe Corporation at www.adobe.com.

The viewer is added as a helper application to Netscape and Mosaic based web browsers.  The Adobe home page provides further details if the process does not happen during installation.

PDF's retain all of the formatting of the original.  The PDF's on this site are close to perfect replicas of the original documents, except they are often in color while we printed the document in black and white.  They can be printed on any windows or postscript compatible printer and produce page for page close top perfect replicas of the original, in color.

How Can I get Text and Tables Out of a PDF

Note the edit and search buttons do not appear when the Adobe reader is operating in an internet browser.

Click on the edit button, then copy text or table lines to the clipboard and then go to your application and paste them in to your application.  With the viewer in edit mode (tools/select text), mark the text by dragging the cursor over it, then use edit/copy in your other Windows application.

For multi column text mark the text with the control-key held down and then you can select only the text in a marked rectangle.  Graphics can be copied in the same way by using the tools/select graphics.

Data tables are more demanding.  There are "plug-ins" that can be purchased from various vendors that can be added to the Adobe Exchange version of the viewer.  Several of these will extract tables as spreadsheets or data files.  Look at the Adobe demos on www.adobe.com and also at the Emerge Corporation at www.emrg.com


Adobe Viewer Licence Agreements
Adobe Viewer License Agreements

The Adobe Acrobat search engine enabled viewer is licensed from Adobe Systems and the license agreement is installed in the directory for the viewer.  Use of the Adobe viewer is controlled by their agreement.  This is in the Acrobat3\reader\license.pdf on your hard disc, and covers multiple duplication and distribution.

The search engine in version 3, now comes with the reader and is also licensed for multiple users, (unlike the earlier versions which were single user).


All Publications

On this CD-ROM, nearly 200 major publications are organized into

multiple energy areas. You may view and print part or all of any document at the resolution and color capability of your printer. Many publications are cross referenced and appear in more than one area. For example, Performance Profiles of Major Energy Producers, which contains information on both oil and gas, appears in the petroleum and the natural gas publications sections.

To access EIA's available publications, click on one of the publication symbols located on

"EIA Bookshelf"; or select an energy area from the pull-down-menu button at the top of the page. Either method links you to a list of current EIA publication titles. Clicking on the publication title launches the Adobe Acrobat(TM) Reader with the document displayed inside the Adobe window.

Most of EIA's publications are presented in Adobe Acrobat's portable document format (PDF). PDF documents can be viewed on any kind of personal computer and printed on any Windows or postscript compatible printer.

PDF documents retain all of the formatting of the original document. The documents on this CD are close to perfect replicas of the original documents, except they are often in color while we print the document in black and white.

For more information about Adobe Acrobat's portable document format, read our list of frequently asked questions or visit Adobe's Web site.


Annual Energy Outlook

This is EIA's annual outlook to 2020 presenting an annual forecast of supply, demand and price by sector and region of the US.


Applications

Click on this button for an explanation of Smart Applications and related topics.  Selecting this topic provides a menu leading to a series of energy applications.


CABS
Country Analysis Briefs provides the user with maps and analysis of the energy sector for more than 50 key energy producing or consuming countries.  There is also a hypertext link here back to the CABS web page.


CNEAF
Coal, Nuclear and Electricity Data shows the characteristics of reporters to the coal, nuclear and electric power data systems.  It shows mine location and capacity, electrical and nuclear location and generating capacity, output and other statistics.


Coal and Nuclear Publications

This section lists all publications related to coal or nuclear resources providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


Consumption Publications

This section contains all publications related to energy consumption and consumption databases providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


Contents

Welcome to the Energy InfoDisc.

Help! How Do I .......

Install The InfoDisc CD?

Install A Database

Look For A Particular Document

Search Everything For My Topic?

Search Only My Current Document

The most recent data publications are included, however their data are also in our application databases.

Where Do I Find......

Detailed Oil Data, Gas Data, Oil Price Data, Gas Price data.

Detailed Coal Data, Electricity Data, Nuclear Data

Electricity Generator Data

Emissions Data

Greenhouse Gas Data

US. energy, oil, coal, gas, electricity, nuclear, renewable time series data.

International oil, coal, gas, electricity, nuclear energy balances.

Uranium Data

The Details.....

Opening Menu

EIA's Bookshelves

Database Applications

See also

Clean Air Database

Coal, Nuclear and Electricity Data

Green House Gas Data

Oil and Gas Data

International Energy Data

Short-Term Energy Model

Starting Applications

See also

Adobe Portable Documents

Searching PDF's

Run time Options

Installation Issues....

Standard Installation

What is Installed

Smart Applications

Installation Options

Uninstalling the InfoDisc

Adobe Viewer License Agreements

Connecting Your Browser Software

How to Reinstall the Energy InfoDisc

For Help on Help, Press F1

Further information on this CD and all publications can be obtained from the

National Energy Information Center

Energy Information Administration

Forrestal Building

Washington DC 20585

Telephone (202) 586-8800

E-mail address: infoctr@eia.doe.gov

World Wide Web address: http://www.eia.doe.gov


Database Applications Page

This page lists all databases and applications.  Many need to be installed before use.

Choose an application by clicking its icon.

If the application is not installed, smart automatically pops up to ask if you need this installed.

If you say yes it starts the installation using the version appropriate to your MS Access installation.

Click the appropriate part of this graphic for further information.....


Detailed Coal Data, Electricity Data, Nuclear Data

All detailed coal, electricity and nuclear data is contained in the Coal, Nuclear and Electricity data applications.  It is one of the applications that must be installed on your hard disk.


Detailed Oil Data, Gas Data, Oil Price Data, Gas Price data

All detailed oil and gas data can be found in the Oil and Gas Data System, an application that must be installed on your hard disk.


Document FTP Reference

This is the reference to the document on our FTP site in case you want to download an updated version.  However these references are usually to specific dated versions coded 0XXX97MM.PDF, where XXX is the document number, 97 is the year and MM is the month.  You can check for later or earlier versions by changing the year and month reference and entering the reference as given in your browser.


Document Information
This provides the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract.


EIA Directory Publications

This section includes all documents about EIA and its programs, including directory's of experts, employees and organization.


EIA's Web site

This button takes you to EIA's web site home page address www.eia.doe.gov  Various other hot spots on the other screens lead to specific locations on the site.


Electricity Generator Data

can be found in the Coal Nuclear and Electricity database application.  It needs to be installed.


Electricity Publications

This section includes all publications related to electricity generation and distribution providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


Emmissions Data
Emissions Data

can be found in the Clean Air database application.


Energy Experts

Selecting this button provides a PDF showing EIA's experts in each area.


Energy InfoDisc

This is the main menu system for navigating the CD.  Double click here to be able to view the documents, run the applications and use the databases.  The CD search function also operates from this menu.


Exit

Click this button to leave the program.


FRS
Financial Reporting System contains financial information, most of which can not be found elsewhere, for the nation's largest energy firms.


Feature Articles

This section contains most feature articles that appeared in EIA publications providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


Federal Statistical Agencies

Selecting this button reveals a PDF guide to all federal statistical points of contact.


GHGD
Green House Gas Data

Click here for an explanation of the data application.  Access this button for access to estimates of US Green House gas Emissions.


General Information On Databases

This section contains EIA's major database applications that give you full electronic access to the information contained in our data, analyses, and forecasting products. Each application allows you to display or tabulate the data in other ways that you may choose.

Most of the database applications require Microsoft Access and need to be installed on your PC. The Smart installation looks to see if you already own a copy of MS Access, otherwise it will offer to install a copy of the Access run-time engine.


General Information On Documents
On this CD-ROM, nearly 200 major publications are organized into

multiple energy areas. You may view and print part or all of any document at the resolution and color capability of your printer. Many publications are cross referenced and appear in more than one area. For example, Performance Profiles of Major Energy Producers, which contains information on both oil and gas, appears in the petroleum and the natural gas publications sections.

To access EIA's available publications, click on one of the publication symbols located on

"EIA Bookshelf"; or select an energy area from the pull-down-menu button at the top of the page. Either method links you to a list of current EIA publication titles. Clicking on the publication title launches the Adobe Acrobat(TM) Reader with the document displayed inside the Adobe window.

Most of EIA's publications are presented in Adobe Acrobat's portable document format (PDF). PDF documents can be viewed on any kind of personal computer and printed on any Windows or postscript compatible printer.

PDF documents retain all of the formatting of the original document. The documents on this CD are close to perfect replicas of the original documents, except they are often in color while we print the document in black and white.

For more information about Adobe Acrobat's portable document format, read our list of frequently asked questions or visit Adobe's Web site.


Greenhouse Gas Data

can be found in the Greenhouse Gas database application.


Installation Options

Both the standard and the smart application installations have standard set of options that can be invoked by adding them at the file/run request, or on the smart installation icon.

Normally no options are necessary to run the installation software.

setup.exe options

/A	Forces the setup to use whatever version of Adobe you have installed, which includes having nothing.
/D	Turns on message dialog boxes for further information on the installation process.  This information has been turned off because it is normally redundant.  It may help solve technical support questions.

e.g.	setup.exe /D


Installing Browser Software

the InfoDisc comes with a copy of Netscape version 4.0x in 16 and 32 bit versions.

During installation, your default browser, (Netscape, MS Explorer or other) is detected by checking the registry.  If your browser did not register itself then it is possible that nothing will be detected and you will have to provide this information manually.  The latest versions of Netscape and MS Explorer do register themselves.  However, earlier versions did not.


International Publications

This section contains all publications related to international energy providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


International oil, coal, gas, electricity, nuclear energy balances.

can be found in the World Energy database, one of the applications that need to be installed on your hard disk.


MER
Monthly Energy Review contains monthly statistics on energy consumption, production and price at the national level, covering both domestic and relevant international statistics


MS Access,
MS Access

The InfoDisc CD installation checks your PC for any version of the MS Access database software and responds as follows:

If the default version of Microsoft Access is:

Access 2 then Access 2 versions of the database are provided and used.

Access 95, then Access 97 versions of the database are provided and Access 97 run-time is used.

Access 97 then Access 97 versions of the database are provided and used.

nothing, then if your PC is running a 32-bit operating system, Access 97 versions of the database are provided and Access 97 run-time is used, otherwise Access 2 is provided and used.

Access 2 and Access 97 run-time software is provided as part of the CD installation for each of the databases.


Menu System
The Menu System

The Menu System for the InfoDisc CD is available from any internet browser viewing the file infodisc.htm at the CD root directory.

The menu items are:

What's New: a listing of all new items on this CD

Special Topics: which focuses on the special items for this edition of the CD

Publications by Fuel Type and Energy Area: a list of all publications on the CD arranged into overlapping areas.

Keyword Search: gives the ability to search across all documents for a specific keyword or phrase.

Historic Data: a list of publications and databases that cover longer term time series

Databases: all database type applications

Energy Experts: provides links to EIA experts in each specialty area.

About EIA

Administrators Message for this CD.


Model Documentation

This section contains all publications related to energy models and documentation providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


Multi-Fuel Publications

This category covers publications that are about energy rather than fuel specific.  Many are cross referenced in the other fuel specific lists.  This list also includes:

forecast publications

financial publications

Providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


Natural Gas Publications

This section contains all publications related to natural gas providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


O&GR
Oil and Natural Gas Reserves Data showing the latest information on oil and gas reserve size by state.


OGIRS
Oil and Gas Information Resource System is a public database system containing more than 10,000 time series on crude oil, petroleum products, oil and natural gas production, consumption, imports, exports and prices.  A query system provides search capability to generate text or spreadsheet extracts of specific information


Oil and Gas Information System

The Oil and Gas Information Resource System (OGIRS) has been designed to provide users with the capability to extract published data and daily price data that appear in the Petroleum Marketing Monthly (PMM), Petroleum Supply Monthly (PSM), Weekly Petroleum Status Report (WPSR), Winter Fuels Report, and Natural Gas Monthly.  Daily price data is not published and can be retrieved by selecting Exogenous as the source for the requested data.  OGIRS is the official publication level database for the Office of Oil and Gas.

The OGIRS system provides users with the capability to retrieve time series data and subsequently output these requests onto a choice of many output formats such as spreadsheet files and database files for further analysis.

OGIRS offers two ways in which the user can retrieve their requested data.

The first way is by tagging information related to the data such as product information and geographical area.

The second way is to select tables from a publication.

Once the selections have been made, the data is retrieved and stored onto the output media that the user has chosen.   In addition, the system can store commonly used requests that can be executed again at a later time with the most current data.  OGIRS is a highly visible, high priority Total Quality Management oriented system.


Petroleum Publications

This section contains all publications related to petroleum, or joint oil and gas activity providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


Publications

Click on this button for more explanation of EIA's publications.  Selecting this topic leads to a display of EIA's PDF documents on this CD arranged by topic.  See Publications Page


Publications Page

All publications on the CD are organized onto this page.

They are arranged into categories accessed by clicking an icon

or by using the pop-down list

The categories overlap so that all multi-fuel, forecasting and generic "no-fuel" titles appear under several icons.

Click on areas of this graphic for an explanation....


Re-Installing The Energy InfoDisc
Reinstalling The Energy InfoDisc

Repeat the installation using setup.exe at the CD root.

The installation will read the old initialization files (assuming that you have not uninstalled the application) and use these to choose the starting directories for local files.

Reinstallation will clear the installation status of the previous system but does not remove the old files.  To remove the old files use the uninstall feature.


Renewables Publications
Renewable Publications

This section contains all publications related to solar and renewable energy providing the author, date of publication, publication number, file size for downloading and the abstract and a reference to the file.  Click on the reference to access the Adobe browser with the file.


SEDS
State Energy Data System contains time series on energy consumption for each state.  Provides an executive summary with canned queries.  In addition user may generate a custom query to provide a data extract in multiple formats.


STEO
Short-Term Energy Outlook provides a forecast of the nation's energy trends, including prices over the next six quarters.  Users may adjust the assumptions and generate new forecasts


Search Button

Click here to open the  the search window


Search Only My Current Document

To search for a keyword in a PDF document, open the document and click on the large binoculars and provide the key word.

The searching is linear, from the beginning of the document to the end.  Searching using the index is much quicker because the index has already done all of the work to find all words.


Search Results

Click this button to see the results of the last search


Searching PDF's

Clicking on the Keyword Search menu item in the InfoDisc viewer, or on the Search PDF's at the top of the publications page, will open up the Adobe Reader with the search.pdf explanation of how to perform simple and complex searches.

Note that when using Netscape or Internet Explorer the Adobe viewer shows no search icons.

When the Adobe Reader is working inside an internet browser window, it does not show the search buttons, or the search menu (Tools | Search).  To see this menu, click on the search link at the top of the page InfoDisc publications page  This will open the Adobe Reader outside of your internet viewer.  The InfoDisc browser opens the Acrobat reader outside in its own window.

Normally the search engine starts immediately and this document also opens the EIA Energy Documents index.  This can be checked by clicking the indexes button on the search dialog, or Tools | Search | Indexes on the menu.  If it does not show the index, manually add it by clicking the browse button and finding \cd_rom\pdf\index.pdx on the InfoDisc CD-ROM.

To Search, Click The Small Binoculars

Key to the search are three buttons outlined in the red square. They search inside a document (large binoculars), across all documents (small binoculars) and the show the search results (pie score icon).

The center (small binoculars, or Tools | Search) button opens the search dialog.  In it one can type a query such "natural AND gas AND nebraska" to find all natural gas documents that discuss about Nebraska.  Type the query and click search to see a list of documents.  Click on a document to open it at the correct page.

Note (1) the case of the query is not important unless you check the case box, and (2) the option boxes on the search dialog box.  For complex searches check the proximity box so that "gas AND Nebraska" occur on the same page.

If you see no documents, check that the index is loaded, or your query excluded all documents.

To look at other publications found by the search, click on the pie score icon, the right one in the red box.


Smart Applications

All applications and databases are installed by clicking on the application icon on the Databases page

Smart applications require the installation of the Energy InfoDisc software and also (for some applications) the availability of Microsoft Access.  All of this should be taken care of during installation.

Both Access 2.0 (16 bit) and Access 97 (32 bit) versions of the databases are provided.  In addition, this CD automatically provides the Access 2.0 and Access 97 run-time engine for each application if neither version is detected during installation.

For Access 95 the run-time engine is always substituted.   The Access 2.0 version of the database can be converted to Access 95, but this usually involve some recoding of 16 bit calls to system utilities.


Standard Installation

You must install an Adobe Acrobat Reader to view documents and conduct full text search. We provide version 3.01 with its built in search engine on this CD.  If you have Adobe Acrobat Exchange 3.0 with the search option, this is equivalent.  Also see installation options.

The normal procedure is as follows:

From the program manager, select File menu option

Select the Run option

Type in the following command line D:\setup where D represents the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive

Setup checks for the Adobe reader, version 3 and if not detected offers to install it.  Setup also detects Adobe Acrobat Exchange. 3

Otherwise, setup offers the standard choices of a drive and a directory to copy the software on to your hard disk.

The graphic shows the windows 95 group.  For windows 3.1x users an uninstall icon is also explicitly added, while for windows 95, the uninstall is via the control panel.

The program will create the following entries in a group icon called Energy InfoDisc

Start Energy InfoDisc

InfoDisc Help (this file)

Uninstall Energy InfoDisc (windows 3.x only)

If you have the older Acrobat reader software including the reader version 2. or 2.1, or Exchange-LE, version 2.0, you may safely delete it and install the Acrobat reader provided on this CD.   However, the Acrobat Exchange 2.1 offers features that are not present in Adobe Acrobat Reader. 3 and as a result you may want to keep this.

 Adobe Acrobat software products is REQUIRED for using the CD-ROM interface software to view any of the publications, which are stored in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

Full text search and retrieval capability is only available if the Adobe search engine in the reader software is installed, or if your PC already has either the Adobe Exchange with search capability, or another CD's installation of Adobe CD-Search.  The associated index of all documents is automatically attached during startup.


Starting Applications

Clicking on a hot spot on the applications or database pages will start the application, or it will start the installation program that will install that, or any other application.  See smart applications.  There are a number of possible side effects.

Open or Save to Disk?

If you see a message asking whether to open this type of file "eia" or save it to disk, choose open.  The question is the normal behavior of a modern browser when confronted with an unfamiliar mime-type.

To avoid future questions  uncheck "ask me again" or check don't ask me again

This behavior is extension specific and for "eia" it is removed by uninstalling InfoDisc

Installing EIAView

If you see this message in your browser, then eiaview.exe has not been installed correctly:

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If you see this message, you need to install the helper application

EIAView.exe

from this CD.  Follow the instructions in helper.txt

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During installation, eiaview.exe is placed in the InfoDisc directory d:\eia_cd where d: is the hard disk you chose.  To function in Netscape Navigator it needs to be added as a helper application, while to function in MS Internet Explorer, it needs to have the extension "eia" associated with eiaview.exe.

Here is how to make this happen in Netscape Navigator 3 and Navigator 4, and also MS Internet Explorer 3 and 4.

In Netscape Navigator Versions 4:

1) Go to the menu Edit | Preferences | Navigator | Applications sub tree

2) Select the button "New Type"

3) In the Configure New Type dialog use the following

description of new type: application

file extension: eia

mime type: x-eiaViewer

application to use: click the browse button and search for d:\eia_cd\eiaview.exe where d: is the local hard disk that you chose for the installation.

Uncheck the box "Ask me before downloading files of this type"

4) Click OK and close the Preferences menu.

If you click the edit button you should see the following dialog for an installation based on c:\eia_cd\eiaview.exe

Clicking on an application should now invoke either the smart application installation, or the application itself if it is installed.

In MS Internet Explorer Versions 3 and 4.

1) In the View menu select Options, select the programs Tab

2) In the Viewers section select File Types

3) In the Add New File Type dialog use the following:

Description of type: EiaDocument

Associated Extension: eia

Content Type: application/x-eiaview

4) Under Actions select New

5) Select Browse and search for for d:\eia_cd\eiaview.exe where d: is the local hard disk that you chose for the installation.

6) Click Open

7) Click OK to close the New Actions screen.

Clicking on an application should now invoke either the smart application installation, or the application itself if it is installed.

In Netscape Navigator Versions 2 and 3:

1) Go to Options General helper functions.

2) Select Create new Type

3) In the Configure New Type dialog use the following

mime type: application

sub-type: x-eiaview

4) Click OK

5) In the file extensions field type eia

6) Select the option launch application

7) Click the browse button and search for d:\eia_cd\eiaview.exe where d: is the local hard disk that you chose for the installation.

8) Click OK and close the Options.


U.S. energy, oil, coal, gas, electricity, nuclear, renewable time series data.
US. energy, oil, coal, gas, electricity, nuclear, renewable time series data.

can be found in the Monthly Energy Review database application.


Uninstalling the Software

The uninstall uses the installation log to remove all files that were added.

Uninstall has an automatic mode and a custom mode.   generally the automatic mode is safe.  In addition if any file marked as shared is to be deleted, automatic mode asks for user confirmation.

Custom mode asks which files need to be deleted.


Uranium Data

can be found in the publications.. Search on "uranium"


WORLD
World Energy provides annual data on international oil, natural gas, coal and electricity in the form of an energy balance for each country.


What Is Installed

You must install Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.  See their installation for details.

For the InfoDisc you will receive 3 icons.

(1) One to invoke the browser of your choice and view the CD-ROM files.  depending on which you choose, you will receive additional support dll's.

(2) One to install additional smart applications from the CD.

(3) One for the help file, this file.

We also install eiaview.exe, a small helper application used to connect and invoke smart applications and databases from within the browser text.  It is automatically installed for Netscape Navigator, MS Explorer


Which Browser

There is only one way to operate this CD, use an internet browser!  Either:

 Use your Internet Browser (which must have frames capability).  MS Internet Explorer 3 or Netscape Navigator 3 are both ideal choices for viewing and downloading from www.eia.doe.gov. They are available from the internet at www.microsoft.com or www.netscape.com

Or, Install Netscape Navigator version 4.06 from the CD.

You may prefer your own internet browser for viewing and downloading from our web site, but they do not fully invoke the Adobe reader WITH the search capability.  You have to do that with the Adobe reader separately.  See the publications page for details.

After installing the Adobe Acrobat reader, you may delete earlier versions (2.0 and 2.1) of the reader since they are upwards compatible.