EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


            
 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WORLD PETROLEUM ASSESSMENT 2000
  –DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS
 

By USGS World Energy Assessment Team*
 
 
 

 in
U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series 60

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary

References Cited

Tables
     ES-1.  World level summary of petroleum estimates for undiscovered conventional petroleum and
                             reserve growth for oil, gas, and natural gas liquids (NGL).

Figures
     ES-1.  Graph showing the mean estimate of the world grown conventional endowment of oil, gas 
                             and NGL as from the 2000 World Assessment. Includes cumulative production, remaining 
                             reserves, and, in conventional accumulations, mean estimates of reserve growth and 
                             undiscovered resources. [in Billion Barrels of Oil Equivalent (BBOE); production and reserve 
                             data largely as of 1/1/96, Petroconsultants, 1996, NRG and Associates, 1995]

     ES-2.  Graph comparing the 1994 and 2000 USGS world estimates  exclusive of the U.S. for 
                             undiscovered conventional oil, gas and NGL in BBOE. For each commodity, the estimated 
                             reserve growth from the 2000 World Assessment is also shown. The 1994 assessment by 
                             Masters and others (1994) reported in a 1997 article in the Oil and Gas Journal, v. 95, no. 41, p. 
                             98-104.

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 Executive Summary  -  U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series 60