Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in Tertiary Strata of the Gulf Coast, 2007

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Date of this Version

8-2007

Comments

U.S. Department of the Interior/ U.S. Geological Survey.
Fact Sheet 2007–3066
August 2007

Abstract

Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean of 113.7 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas, a mean of 690 million barrels of undiscovered oil, and a mean of 3.7 billion barrels of undiscovered natural gas liquids in onshore lands and State waters of the Gulf Coast.