USGS issues improved 2000-11 US unconventional oil, gas analysis

The US Geological Survey issued a more fully documented analysis of 139 quantitative assessments of US unconventional oil and gas accumulations that it originally conducted from 2000 to 2011.

Nick Snow

Oct. 21, 2015

The US Geological Survey issued a more fully documented analysis of 139 quantitative assessments of US unconventional oil and gas accumulations that it originally conducted from 2000 to 2011.

The new report, which it released on Oct. 20, documents those assessments more fully than previously done by providing detailed documentation of both the assessment input and output, USGS said.

“This report also compiles the data into spreadsheet tables that can be more readily used to provide analogs for future assessments, especially for hypothetical continuous accumulations,” it added.

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Nick Snow

NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.