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  <dc:contributor>L.J. Drew</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>J.H. Schuenemeyer</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1983</dc:date>
  <dc:description>An estimation technique has been derived to predict the number of small fields in a geologic play or basin. Historically, many small oil and gas fields went unreported because they were not economical. This led to an underestimation of the number of undiscovered small fields. A study of the distributions of reported oil and gas fields in well-explored areas suggests that the large fields when grouped into log base 2 size classes are geometrically distributed. Further, the number of small fields reported is a function of the cost of exploration and development. Thus, the population field-size distribution is conjectured to be log geometric in form. ?? 1983 Plenum Publishing Corporation.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1007/BF01030080</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:title>A procedure to estimate the parent population of the size of oil and gas fields as revealed by a study of economic truncation</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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