Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources:

An Evaluation of the Department of the Interior's 1989 Assessment Procedures

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Size: 192 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1991

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Committee on Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, National Research Council
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When the U.S. Department of the Interior released its 1989 estimates of how much undiscovered oil and gas remain in the United States, a controversy ensued. Some members of the petroleum industry charged that the estimates were too low. This ...
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Front Matter	i-x
Executive Summary	1-11	(skim)
1 Introduction: Questions about the Department of the Interior	12-16	(skim)
2 Limitations of Resource Assessments	17-43	(skim)
3 An Evaluation of the Department of the Interior	44-97	(skim)
4 Recommendations	98-108	(skim)
Appendixes	109-110	(skim)
A Evaluation of the Hydrocarbon Resource Estimates for the Offshore Areas of Northern and Southern California and Florida South of 26° Latitude	111-124	(skim)
B Adequacy of the Data Base for Hydrocarbon Estimates of the Georges Bank Area of the North Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf	125-158	(skim)
C The Effects of Play Mixing in the Permian Basin	159-172	(skim)
D Background: Components of the Petroleum Resource Base	173-182	(skim)

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When the U.S. Department of the Interior released its 1989 estimates of how much undiscovered oil and gas remain in the United States, a controversy ensued. Some members of the petroleum industry charged that the estimates were too low. This book evaluates the scientific credibility of the statistical and geological methods underlying the estimates.

Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources:

An Evaluation of the Department of the Interior's 1989 Assessment Procedures

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