World oil and gas resources-future production realities
Abstract
Welcome to uncertainty was the phrase Jack Schanz used to introduce both layman and professionals to the maze of petroleum energy data that must be comprehended to achieve understanding of this critical commodity. Schanz was referring to the variables as he and his colleagues with Resources for the Future saw them in those years soon after the energy-awakening oil embargo of 1973. In some respects, the authors have made progress in removing uncertainty from energy data, but in general, we simply must accept that there are many points of view and many ways for the blindman to describe the elephant. There can be definitive listing of all uncertainties, but for this paper the authors try to underscore those traits of petroleum occurrence and supply that the author's believe bear most heavily on the understanding of production and resource availability. Because oil and gas exist in nature under such variable conditions and because the products themselves are variable in their properties, the authors must first recognize classification divisions of the resource substances, so that the reader might always have a clear perception of just what we are talking about and how it relates to other components of the commodity in question.
- Authors:
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA (US)
- Publication Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5579628
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Annual Review of Energy; (United States)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0362-1626
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 02 PETROLEUM; 03 NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY; GLOBAL ASPECTS; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; AVAILABILITY; EMBARGOES; FORECASTING; NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PLANNING; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE; ENERGY SOURCES; FLUIDS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL GAS; FUELS; GAS FUELS; GASES; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; INDUSTRY; MINERAL RESOURCES; RESOURCES; 294002* - Energy Planning & Policy- Petroleum; 294003 - Energy Planning & Policy- Natural Gas; 020700 - Petroleum- Economics, Industrial, & Business Aspects; 030600 - Natural Gas- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects
Citation Formats
Masters, C D, Root, D H, and Attanasi, E D. World oil and gas resources-future production realities. United States: N. p., 1990.
Web. doi:10.1146/annurev.eg.15.110190.000323.
Masters, C D, Root, D H, & Attanasi, E D. World oil and gas resources-future production realities. United States. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.eg.15.110190.000323
Masters, C D, Root, D H, and Attanasi, E D. 1990.
"World oil and gas resources-future production realities". United States. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.eg.15.110190.000323.
@article{osti_5579628,
title = {World oil and gas resources-future production realities},
author = {Masters, C D and Root, D H and Attanasi, E D},
abstractNote = {Welcome to uncertainty was the phrase Jack Schanz used to introduce both layman and professionals to the maze of petroleum energy data that must be comprehended to achieve understanding of this critical commodity. Schanz was referring to the variables as he and his colleagues with Resources for the Future saw them in those years soon after the energy-awakening oil embargo of 1973. In some respects, the authors have made progress in removing uncertainty from energy data, but in general, we simply must accept that there are many points of view and many ways for the blindman to describe the elephant. There can be definitive listing of all uncertainties, but for this paper the authors try to underscore those traits of petroleum occurrence and supply that the author's believe bear most heavily on the understanding of production and resource availability. Because oil and gas exist in nature under such variable conditions and because the products themselves are variable in their properties, the authors must first recognize classification divisions of the resource substances, so that the reader might always have a clear perception of just what we are talking about and how it relates to other components of the commodity in question.},
doi = {10.1146/annurev.eg.15.110190.000323},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5579628},
journal = {Annual Review of Energy; (United States)},
issn = {0362-1626},
number = ,
volume = 15,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990},
month = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990}
}