• Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, TABS, Texas Automated Buoy System Texas A & M, College of Geosciences
  "Real Time Oceanographic Data Supporting Oil Spill Prevention and Response "
• GeoForschungsZentrum Germany
• Geophysics and Borehole Research, University of Leicester
  "research programmes in Crustal and Applied Geophysics focus on crustal evolution and environmental geophysics, Borehole and Petrophysics focus on gas hydrates, reservoir characterization and support to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme"
• Groundwater Research Group at Queens University
• The Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC)
  "Center for the Performing Sciences".
• Industrial Research Institute Washington, DC
• International Ocean Drilling Program
  "an international marine research program that explores the Earth's history and structure as recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks, and monitors subseafloor environments. IODP builds upon ...the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)"
• Institut Francais du Petrole
• Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
  "A New Zealand Crown Research Institute"
• Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)
  "Norway's second largest polytechnical research institute. One of our main focuses is on petroleum and reservoir technology."
• Integrated Petroleum Environmental Consortium (IPEC)
  "a consortium of the University of Tulsa, the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.... the mission of IPEC is to increase the competitiveness of the domestic petroleum industry through a reduction in the costs of compliance with U.S. environmental regulations. "
• M. King Hubbert Center for Petroleum Supply Studies Colorado School of Mines
• Marintek WWW Server Norway
• National Geophysical Data Center
• Norge Geotekniske Institutt NGI
  Research, development and advisory services: Geotechnics; Engineering Geology, Reservoir mechanics; Hydrogeology; Environmental geotechnics; Avalanche hazard.
• Norsk Regnesentral Norway
  a private, independent, non-profit foundation dating its history back to 1952. NR carries out contract research and development in the areas of computing and quantitative methods for a broad range of industrial, commercial and public service organisations in the national as well as the international market. "
• Ocean Drilling Program
  "(ODP) consists of basic research into the history of the ocean basins and the nature of the crust beneath the ocean floor....Geophysical and geochemical logging is an important part of the program."
• ODP Logging Services
  "provides downhole logging operations, as well as log data processing, distribution, and database services for the international Ocean Drilling Program "
• Oil & Gas Institute, Krosno Branch (Poland)
  
• Offshore Technology Research Center
  "a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center supporting the offshore oil and gas industry. It is jointly operated by Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin"
• Research Triangle Institute North Carolina
• Reservoir Characterization Project (RCP) at Colorado School of Mines
  "an independently sponsored research consortium whose mission is to develop and apply 4-D, 3-C seismology and associated technologies for enhanced reservoir recovery."
• Rocky Mountain Oil Testing Center
  "industry-driven venture ...under the direction of the Department of Energy."
• Sarkey's Energy Center University of Oklahoma
• SINTEF, Petroleum & Energy Norway
• Southwest Research Institute
  "is an independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with nine technical divisions using multidisciplinary approaches to problem solving. "
• Texas Water Resources Institute
• TNO - Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research
• Tulsa University Drilling Research Projects (TUDRP)