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The The objective of the National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project is
to provide estimates of “potential” additions to oil and gas reserves in
priority geologic provinces of the onshore and State waters portion of
the United States. “Potential” additions mean those undiscovered oil and
gas resources that have geologic potential to be added to the U.S. reserve
base over the next 30 years, a societally meaningful time frame relevant
to all U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessments.
The South
Florida Basin, the focus of this report, is part of the Florida Peninsula
Province (USGS Province 50). The South Florida Basin was assessed for undiscovered
conventional oil and gas resources. New data and interpretations were included
in this assessment, particularly data
on oil geochemistry and petroleum systems of the South Florida Basin. This
report includes the description of the petroleum systems and the geologic
assessment units that were assessed, and the numerical results of the 2000
oil and gas assessment. The 1995 USGS oil and gas assessment of the South
Florida Basin is included for comparison. These reports are accessible
via the “Assessment Reports” button on the previous page and reside in
the REPORTS folder at the root level of this CD-ROM as SFB2000.pdf (the
2000 assessment) and SFB1995.pdf (the 1995 assessment). The 2000 assessment
(titled “Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the onshore and State
waters portion of the South Florida Basin, Florida—USGS Province 50”) is
chapter 1 of this CD-ROM and supersedes USGS Open-File Report 00-317. The
1995 assessment (titled “1995 USGS national oil and gas play-based assessment
of the South Florida Basin, Florida Peninsula Province”) is chapter 2 of
this CD-ROM.
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