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Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Levant Basin Province, Eastern Mediterranean

The U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean of 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and a mean of 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas in the Levant Basin Province using a geology based assessment methodology.

First posted March 12, 2010 Fact Sheet PDF (6.7 MB) For additional information contact: U.S. Geological Survey Central Energy Resources Science Center Box 25046, MS-939 Denver Federal Center Denver, CO 80225-0046 http://energy.cr.usgs.gov/ Part or all of this report is presented in Portable Document Format (PDF); the latest version of Adobe Reader or similar software is required to view it. Download the latest version of Adobe Reader, free of charge.

Suggested citation:

Schenk, C.J., Kirschbaum, M.A., Charpentier, R.R., Klett, T.R., Brownfield, M.E., Pitman, J.K., Cook, T.A., and Tennyson, M.E., 2010, Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Levant Basin Province, Eastern Mediterranean: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2010-3014, 4 p.