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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources: An Evaluation of the Department of the Interior's 1989 Assessment Procedures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1789.
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UNDISCOVERED OIL AND GAS RESOURCES:

An Evaluation of the Department of the Interior's 1989 Assessment Procedures

Committee on Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources

Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources

National Research Council

National Academy Press
Washington, D.C.
1991

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources: An Evaluation of the Department of the Interior's 1989 Assessment Procedures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1789.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

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The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Samuel O. Thier is president of the Institute of Medicine.

The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and of advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Frank Press and Dr. Robert M. White are chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the National Research Council.

Support for this study by the Committee on Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior under agreements 14-08-0001-A0636.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources: An Evaluation of the Department of the Interior's 1989 Assessment Procedures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1789.
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COMMITTEE ON UNDISCOVERED OIL AND GAS RESOURCES

CHARLES J. MANKIN,

Oklahoma Geological Survey,

Chairman

JOHN J. AMORUSO, Consultant,

Houston, Texas

GEOFFREY S. BAYLISS,

GeoChem-Laboratories Inc.

DORIS M. CURTIS,

Curtis and Echols,

Consultants

RICHARD A. DAVIS,

University of Southern Florida

LLOYD E. ELKINS, Petroleum Consultant,

Tulsa, Oklahoma

ROBERT J. FINLEY,

University of Texas at Austin

JOHN D. HAUN,

Barlow and Haun, Inc.

HARRISON C. JAMISON, Consultant,

Sunriver, Oregon

GORDON KAUFMAN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RICHARD D. NEHRING,

NRG Associates

STEVEN E. PLOTKIN,

United States Congress, Energy and Materials Program

MICHAEL PRATS,

Michael Prats and Associates, Inc.

RICHARD M. PROCTOR,

Institute of Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology

JOSEPH P. RIVA,

Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service

ENDERS A. ROBINSON,

University of Tulsa

PAUL SWITZER,

Stanford University

Liaison Members

CHARLES G. GROAT,

American Geological Institute

HARRY C. KENT,

Colorado School of Mines

National Research Council Staff

INA B. ALTERMAN, Senior Program Officer

JACQUELINE A. MACDONALD, Editorial Consultant

HUONG DANG, Project Secretary

BARBARA WRIGHT, Administrative Secretary

JUDITH ESTEP, Administrative Secretary

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1991. Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources: An Evaluation of the Department of the Interior's 1989 Assessment Procedures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1789.
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BOARD ON EARTH SCIENCES AND RESOURCES

WILLIAM L. FISHER,

University of Texas,

Chairman

SAMUEL S. ADAMS,

Colorado School of Mines

ALBERT W. BALLY,

Rice University

SANDRA L. BLACKSTONE,

University of Denver

DONALD J. DEPAOLO,

University of California, Berkeley

GORDON P. EATON,

Lamont Doherty Geological Observatory

W. GARY ERNST,

Stanford University

ROBERT N. GINSBURG,

University of Miami

PERRY HAGENSTEIN,

Resource Issues, Inc.

HARRISON C. JAMISON,

Consultant, Sunriver, Oregon

THOMAS H. JORDAN,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CHARLES J. MANKIN,

Oklahoma Geological Survey

CAREL OTTE, JR.,

Unocal Corporation

FRANK M. RICHTER,

University of Chicago

STEVEN M. STANLEY,

Case Western Reserve University

IRVIN L. WHITE,

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

Staff

KEVIN C. BURKE, Staff Director

THOMAS M. USSELMAN, Senior Staff Scientist

LALLY A. ANDERSON, Staff Associate

GAYLENE DUMOUCHEL, Administrative Assistant

BARBARA WRIGHT, Administrative Secretary

JUDITH ESTEP, Administrative Secretary

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COMMISSION ON GEOSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES

M. GORDON WOLMAN,

The Johns Hopkins University,

Chairman

ROBERT C. BEARDSLEY,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

B. CLARK BURCHFIEL,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RALPH J. CICERONE,

University of California, Irvine

PETER S. EAGLESON,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

HELEN M. INGRAM,

University of Arizona

GENE E. LIKENS,

New York Botanical Garden

SYUKURO MANABE,

NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

JACK E. OLIVER,

Cornell University

PHILIP A. PALMER,

E.I. duPont de Nemours & Company

FRANK L. PARKER,

Vanderbilt University

DUNCAN T. PATTEN,

Arizona State University

MAXINE L. SAVITZ,

Allied Signal Aerospace Company

LARRY L. SMARR,

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

STEVEN M. STANLEY,

Case Western Reserve University

SIR CRISPIN TICKELL,

Green College at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford

KARL K. TUREKIAN,

Yale University

IRVIN L. WHITE,

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

JAMES H. ZUMBERGE,

University of Southern California

STEPHEN RATTIEN, Executive Director

STEPHEN D. PARKER, Associate Executive Director

JANICE E. GREENE, Assistant Executive Director

JEANETTE SPOON, Financial Officer

CARLITA PERRY, Administrative Assistant

ROBIN LEWIS, Senior Project Assistant

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The members of the Committee on Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources wish to dedicate this volume to the memory of their colleague, Harry C. Kent (1930-1991) of the Colorado School of Mines.

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When the U.S. Department of the Interior released its 1989 estimates of how much undiscovered oil and gas remain in the United States, a controversy ensued. Some members of the petroleum industry charged that the estimates were too low. This book evaluates the scientific credibility of the statistical and geological methods underlying the estimates.

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