USGS Publication: Open-File Report 2011-1086
For the largest producing natural gas fields in the onshore Gulf of Mexico Basin, the relation between temperature versus depth was investigated. Prolific natural gas reservoirs with the highest temperatures were found in the Upper Cretaceous downdip Tuscaloosa trend in Louisiana.

USGS Publication: Digital Data Series 69-X
The USGS assessed both undiscovered technically recoverable conventional oil and gas and continuous (unconventional) coalbed gas in the Western Oregon and Washington Province, resulting in an estimated total mean of 2.2 trillion cubic feet of gas and a mean of 15 million barrels of oil.

USGS Publication: Fact Sheet 2011–3020
Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated means of 147.4 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas, 2.4 billion barrels of undiscovered oil, and 2.96 billion barrels of undiscovered natural gas liquids in Jurassic and Cretaceous strata in onshore lands and State waters of the Gulf Coast.

Outside Publication: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
AAPG Datapages and the GIS Publications Committee wish to thank Janet Pitman and the United States Geological Survey for allowing the Reservoirs and Petroleum Systems of the Gulf Coast map to be posted on GIS-UDRIL's Open Files page, thereby making it available to the public as a free download.

USGS Publication: Fact Sheet 2011–3003
The U.S. Geological Survey, using a geoscience-based assessment methodology, estimated mean technically-recoverable undiscovered continuous and conventional resources that total 495 million barrels of oil, 27.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 410 million barrels of natural gas liquids.

USGS Publication: Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5222
Valley-fill deposits form a significant class of hydrocarbon reservoirs in many basins of the world. Maximizing recovery of fluids from these reservoirs requires an understanding of the scales of fluid-flow heterogeneity present within the valley-fill system.

USGS Publication: Open-File Report 2010–1072
The purpose of this report is to make available to the public RockEval and vitrinite reflectance data from more than 1,900 samples of Mesozoic and Tertiary rock core and coal samples in the Gulf of Mexico area in a format that facilitates inclusion into a geographic information system.

Press Release & Publication
"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.

USGS Publication: Open-File Report 2010-1210
Well tests in Wainwright, Alaska, confirmed the gas content of the coal reservoir within this area. If producible, the Wainwright coal bed contains sufficient gas to serve as a long-term source of energy for the community.