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**U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WORLD PETROLEUM ASSESSMENT 2000**
**– DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS**
By USGS World Energy Assessment Team^*

**U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series - DDS-60**
(**Available on CD-ROM***: contact* E-Team Disks)
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Contents Master Code List Numeric key to regions, provinces, total petroleum systems, and assessment units World Maps World Assessment Summary (Revised) For revised Summary in PDF format, Click HERE Assessment Regions Title __________________________		Author ___________
Chapter ES (PDF file 231KB) Executive Summary - HTML format		U.S. Geological Survey World Energy Assessment Team (PDF 765KB)
Chapter CF (PDF file 953KB) - Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in this Report
Chapter LS (PDF file 765KB) - Members of the U.S. Geological Survey World Petroleum Assessment 2000 Team
Chapter CD (PDF file 1.18MB) - CD-ROM Design Notes		Kenneth I. Takahashi
Chapter AK (PDF file 843KB) - Acknowledgments		T. S. Ahlbrandt
Chapter IN (PDF file 1.44MB) – INTRODUCTION		T. S. Ahlbrandt
Chapter GL (PDF file 1.1MB) – Glossary		T. R. Klett, James W. Schmoker, Ronald R. Charpentier, Thomas S. Ahlbrandt, and Gregory F. Ulmishek
Chapter RV (PDF file 1.35MB) – A Review of Previous USGS World Energy Assessments		J. W. Schmoker and T. S. Dyman
Chapter PS (PDF file 2.94MB) – The Total Petroleum System—The Natural Fluid Network That Constrains the Assessment Unit		L. B. Magoon and J. W. Schmoker
Chapter RH (PDF file 6.75MB) – Assessment Hierarchy and Initial Province Ranking		T. R. Klett, James W. Schmoker, and Thomas S. Ahlbrandt
Chapter DS (PDF file 1.44MB) – Data Sources and Compilation		T. R. Klett and Thomas S. Ahlbrandt
Chapter AM (PDF file 2.09MB) – U.S. Geological Survey Assessment Model for Undiscovered Conventional Oil, Gas, and NGL Resources— The Seventh Approximation		James W. Schmoker and Timothy R. Klett
Chapter OP (PDF file 2.85MB) – Assessment Operational Procedures		T. R. Klett, Ronald R. Charpentier, and James W. Schmoker
Chapter MC (PDF file 1.54MB) – Monte Carlo Simulation Method Monte Carlo Simulation Programs		Ronald R. Charpentier and Timothy R. Klett
Chapter AA (PDF file 2.62MB) – Procedures For Allocation and Aggregation of Resources		Ronald R. Charpentier, T. R. Klett, and James W. Schmoker
Chapter RG (PDF file 2.76MB) – Estimating Potential Reserve Growth of Known (discovered) Fields: A Component of the USGS World Petroleum Assessment 2000		James W. Schmoker and Timothy R. Klett
Chapter AR (PDF file 6.3MB) – Analysis of Assessment Results		Thomas S. Ahlbrandt, Ronald R. Charpentier, T. R. Klett, James W. Schmoker, and Christopher J. Schenk, Map compilation by Feliks M. Persits², and geologic data compilation by Sandra J. Lindquist²
Region Reports USGS Region Code Title (in HTML) (view or download the PDF file) _______ ____________________		Author ___________
R1	Region 1 (PDF file 940KB) – Former Soviet Union	G. F. Ulmishek¹, S. J. Lindquist², and L. S. Smith-Rouch²
R2	Region 2 (PDF file 801KB) – Middle East and North Africa	by Thomas S. Ahlbrandt, Richard M. Pollastro, Timothy R. Klett, Christopher J. Schenk, Sandra J. Lindquist², and James E. Fox²
R3	Region 3 (PDF file 1.03MB) – Asia Pacific	Peter J. McCabe, Robert T. Ryder, and Michele G. Bishop²
R4	Region 4 (PDF file 643KB) – Europe	D. L. Gautier
R5	Region 5 (PDF file 814KB) – North America	L. B. Magoon and M. E. Henry
R6	Region 6 (PDF file 700KB) – Central and South America	C. J. Schenk, D. K. Higley, and L. B. Magoon
R7	Region 7 (PDF file 862KB) – Sub-Saharan Africa and Antarctica	R. R. Charpentier, M. E. Brownfield, and M. L. Tuttle
R8	Region 8 (PDF file 518KB) – South Asia	Craig J. Wandrey, Robert Milici, and Ben E. Law
Data Files Archival data described, listed, displayed, downloaded
Spatial Data Files Data Tables Readme Files Maps Monte Carlo Simulation Programs

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For more information on the World Petroleum Assessment 2000 Project contact:

Thomas S. Ahlbrandt: ahlbrandt@usgs.gov
Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, MS939
Denver, CO 80225-0046

USGS World Energy Phone: 303-236-1645

¹ U. S. Geological Survey
² Contractor to the U. S. Geological Survey
^*MEMBERS OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WORLD PETROLEUM ASSESSMENT 2000 TEAM (PDF 765KB)

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