WORLD RESOURCE STATISTICS GEARED FOR ELECTRONIC ACCESS

This article describes the first public presentation, by basin, of quantitative, worldwide conventional petroleum and natural gas resource assessments. These assessments are presented in tabular form along with a world petroleum basin map keyed to the tables. The assessments are now available on a US Geological Survey web site, http://energy.er.usgs.gov/products/papers/world{_}oil/index.htm. On the web site, the USGS offers vector digital presentation of the basins and other world geographic outlines. Each basin is numbered and keyed to a table showing basin number, basin name, and resource estimates including: Cumulative Production, Identified Reserves, and Undiscovered Resources of both oil and gas.