Assessment Update
The main objective of the USGS World Energy Assessment of Oil and Gas Project is to assess the potential for undiscovered oil and natural gas resources of the world, exclusive of the United States. The last comprehensive USGS World Energy Assessment was completed by the USGS in 2000, and since 2000 the USGS has assessed several priority basins. The maps ands tables accompanying this introduction represent the update to the World Energy Assessment for Region 6 (Central America, South America, and Caribbean) as of the end of December, 2006. Since 2000, as assessed basin are added to the tables, these new values replace the assessment results from 2000 or represent new assessments by the USGS.
The maps illustrate the mean values for undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources. The tables include the F95 and F5 values of the distributions of undiscovered resources in addition to the mean value.
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