%0 Book %A National Research Council %T Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources: An Evaluation of the Department of the Interior's 1989 Assessment Procedures %@ 978-0-309-04533-9 %D 1991 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1789/undiscovered-oil-and-gas-resources-an-evaluation-of-the-department %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1789/undiscovered-oil-and-gas-resources-an-evaluation-of-the-department %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Energy and Energy Conservation %P 192 %R doi:10.17226/1789 %X 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.