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Scientists have returned from a 15‑day research expedition in the northern Gulf of Mexico with the best high-resolution seismic data and imagery ever obtained of sediments with high gas hydrate saturations...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Type: Technical Announcement
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Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the USGS estimated mean undiscovered volumes of 7.4 billion barrels of oil, 6.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 0.53 billion barrels of natural gas liquids in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations in the Williston Basin Province of Montana, North... |
Monday, April 29, 2013 Type: Press Release & Publication
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This analysis shows the important contribution that stranded gas from central Asia, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Australia can make in meeting the projected demand for gas imports of China, India, Japan, and South Korea from 2020 to 2040. The estimated delivered costs of pipeline gas from stranded f... |
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Type: Publication
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In response to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a national assessment of potential geologic storage resources for carbon dioxide (CO2). Storage of CO2 in subsurface saline formations is one important method to reduce greenhouse gas... |
Friday, May 10, 2013 Type: Publication
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This report synthesizes the findings of three regional studies in order to evaluate, at the global scale, the contribution that stranded gas resources can make to global natural gas supplies. Stranded gas, as defined for this study, is natural gas in discovered conventional gas and oil fields that i... |
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Type: Publication
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The Ucross-Arvada area is part of the Powder River Basin, a large, north-trending structural depression between the Black Hills on the east and the Bighorn Mountains on the west. Almost all of the study area is within Sheridan and Johnson Counties, Wyoming. |
Monday, April 22, 2013 Type: Publication
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The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled a map of shale-gas assessments in the United States that were completed by 2012 as part of the National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project. Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey quantitatively estimated potential volumes of un... |
Thursday, April 11, 2013 Type: Publication
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The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) focuses on conserving world-class wildlife resources while facilitating responsible energy development in southwestern Wyoming. To further advance the objectives of the WLCI long-term, science-based effort, a comprehensive inventory of energy reso... |
Wednesday, April 03, 2013 Type: Publication
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This map sheet with accompanying Geographic Information System (GIS) project is an update of the existing U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Conterminous U.S. Coal Fields map. This update was compiled using data primarily from the USGS National Coal Resource Assessment (NCRA) and information from... |
Tuesday, April 02, 2013 Type: Publication
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In 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated undiscovered oil and gas resources that have the potential for additions to reserves in the San Juan Basin Province, New Mexico and Colorado. Paleozoic rocks were not appraised. The last oil and gas assessment for the province was in 1995. There a... |
Tuesday, April 02, 2013 Type: Publication
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This analysis shows the important contribution that stranded gas from central Asia, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Australia can make in meeting the projected demand for gas imports of China, India, Japan, and South Korea from 2020 to 2040. The estimated delivered costs of pipeline gas from stranded f... |
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 Type: Publication
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Scientists have returned from a 15‑day research expedition in the northern Gulf of Mexico with the best high-resolution seismic data and imagery ever obtained of sediments with high gas hydrate saturations...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Type: Technical Announcement
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In response to the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a national assessment of potential geologic storage resources for carbon dioxide (CO2). Storage of CO2 in subsurface saline formations is one important method to reduce greenhouse gas... |
Friday, May 10, 2013 Type: Publication
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Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the USGS estimated mean undiscovered volumes of 7.4 billion barrels of oil, 6.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 0.53 billion barrels of natural gas liquids in the Bakken and Three Forks Formations in the Williston Basin Province of Montana, North... |
Monday, April 29, 2013 Type: Press Release & Publication
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This report synthesizes the findings of three regional studies in order to evaluate, at the global scale, the contribution that stranded gas resources can make to global natural gas supplies. Stranded gas, as defined for this study, is natural gas in discovered conventional gas and oil fields that i... |
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 Type: Publication
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The Ucross-Arvada area is part of the Powder River Basin, a large, north-trending structural depression between the Black Hills on the east and the Bighorn Mountains on the west. Almost all of the study area is within Sheridan and Johnson Counties, Wyoming. |
Monday, April 22, 2013 Type: Publication
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The Schwartzwalder deposit is the largest known vein type uranium deposit in the United States. Located about eight miles northwest of Golden, Colorado it occurs in Proterozoic metamorphic rocks and was formed by hydrothermal fluid flow, mineralization, and deformation during the Laramide Orog... |
Thursday, April 18, 2013 Type: Publication
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The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled a map of shale-gas assessments in the United States that were completed by 2012 as part of the National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project. Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey quantitatively estimated potential volumes of un... |
Thursday, April 11, 2013 Type: Publication
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Thirteen stratigraphic cross sections of the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance Basin of northwestern Colorado are presented in this report. Originally published in a much larger and more detailed form by Self and others (2010), they are shown here in simplified, page-size versions that ar... |
Tuesday, April 09, 2013 Type: Publication
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The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) focuses on conserving world-class wildlife resources while facilitating responsible energy development in southwestern Wyoming. To further advance the objectives of the WLCI long-term, science-based effort, a comprehensive inventory of energy reso... |
Wednesday, April 03, 2013 Type: Publication
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Significant Natural Gas Resources Remain to Be Discovered in Cook Inlet, Alaska: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Cook Inlet Region, South-Central Alaska, 2011... |
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Type: Press Release & Publication
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USGS will update its 2008 estimate of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas in the U.S. portion of the Bakken Formation, an important domestic petroleum resource located in North Dakota and Montana. Additional information includes: FAQs, podcast, fact sheet, and presentation. |
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Type: Press Release & Publication
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The U.S. Geological Survey assessment on the economic recoverability of undiscovered, conventional oil and gas resources within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) and adjacent state waters is now available online. |
Wednesday, May 04, 2011 Type: Press Release
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"These new findings underscore the challenge of predicting whether oil or gas will be found in frontier areas and the importance of analyzing the geologic characteristics and history of an area in order to understand the oil and gas resources,” explains USGS Director, Dr. Marcia McNutt. |
Sunday, October 03, 2010 Type: Press Release & Publication
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Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrate Joint Industry Project Leg II (Press Release & Field Report): On May 6, 2009 a government and industry consortium, lead by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) and a group of U.S. and internation... |
Friday, May 29, 2009 Type: Field Report
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This report describes a probabilistic assessment methodology developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for evaluation of the resource potential for storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the subsurface of the United States as authorized by the Energy Independence and Security Act... |
Sunday, March 01, 2009 Type: Press Release
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In 2008, USGS scientists completed the first assessment of the undiscovered, technically recoverable gas-hydrate resources beneath the North Slope of Alaska. This assessment indicates the existence of technically recoverable gas-hydrate resources—that is, resources that can be discovered, developed,... |
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Type: Press Release & Publication
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Geothermal power production could significantly add to the electric power generating capacity in the United States. |
Monday, September 29, 2008 Type: Press Release & Publication
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Northeast Greenland is the prototype for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Circum-Arctic Oil and Gas Resource Appraisal. Using a geology-based methodology, the USGS estimates the mean undiscovered, conventional petroleum resources in the province to be approximately 31,400 MMBOE (million barrels of oil e... |
Monday, August 27, 2007 Type: Press Release & Publication
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Study indicates doubling of coastal erosion rate in past 50 years along a segment of the Arctic coast of Alaska. |
Monday, July 02, 2007 Type: Press Release
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The Bakken Formation
USGS Releases Updated Bakken and New Three Forks Oil and Gas Assessment of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas. The U.S. portion of the Bakken Formation is an important domestic petroleum resource located in North Dakota and Montana. Additional information includes: updated FAQs and new podcast, fact sheet, and presentation.
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