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USGS Oil and Gas Assessment Database

Dataset Summary

Agency Department of the Interior
Sub-Agency US Geological Survey
Category Geography and Environment
Date Released 1/1/1995
Date Updated 5/22/2009
Time Period 1995-2009
Frequency varies
Description The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has assessed undiscovered oil and natural gas potential for 212 geological provinces throughout the world as part of the US Oil and Gas Assessment, Circum-Arctic Oil and Gas Resource Appraisal and World Energy Assessment

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type
Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation Geospatial
Keywords National Assessment of Oil and Gas, USGS, World Energy Assessment, CARA, Circum Arctic Resource Appraisal, Energy Resources, Oil, Natural Gas, Resource Assessment, Earth Science, Natural Resources, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Geology, Assessment Unit, geoscientificInformation, Oil shale resources, Oil sand resources, Coalbed methane resources, Gas hydrate resources, Natural gas resources, Economic geology, conventional, unconventional, undiscovered
Unique ID 94

Contributing Agency Information

Citation
USGS Oil and Gas Assessment Database, http://energy.usgs.gov/oilgas.html
Agency Program Page http://energy.usgs.gov
Agency Data Series Page http://energy.usgs.gov/oilgas.html

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis
assessment units, petroleum systems, provinces, geologic basins
Granularity
Geographic Coverage World

Data Description

Collection Mode
person/computer/paper
Data Collection Instrument n/a
Data Dictionary/Variable List n/a

Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation
http://energy.usgs.gov/oilgas.html
FGDC Compliance (Geospatial Only)
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