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NEW Oil Shale Assessment in the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Northwestern Colorado
Technical Announcement (4/2/09)
Fact Sheet 2009-3012 | Fact Sheet 2009-3011
Slide Show Slide Presentation (Flash document 5.8 MB)

NEW Geologic Carbon Sequestration Assessment Methodology
Open-File 2009–1035 | Press Release (3/16/09) | Podcast (Episode 89)
Geologic Carbon Sequestration Website

NEW Geochemical Data Quality Control Issue:
Quality control issue identified with some geochemical data produced by the Denver Energy Geochemical Laboratory from 1996-2008.
Learn More. . .
Energy Geochemical Laboratory Website
(provides a list of analyses that have been scheduled for review)

NEW Assessment of Gas Hydrate Resources on the North Slope, Alaska, 2008
Fact Sheet 2008-3073| Press Release (11/12/08) | Podcast (Episode 74)
Slide Show Slide Presentation (Flash document 10.6 MB)
Gas Hydrates Website

Assessment of Moderate- and High-Temperature Geothermal Resources of the United States
Fact Sheet 2008-3082| Press Release (9/29/08)
Slide Show Slide Presentation (Flash document 1.44 MB)
Methodology Summary: Open-File Report 2008-1296
KQED QUEST TV story, "Geothermal Heats Up" featuring USGS Scientist, Colin Williams

Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal: Estimates of Undiscovered Oil and Gas North of the Arctic Circle
Fact Sheet 2008-3049| Press Release (7/23/08)
Podcast (Episode 55) | Slide Show Slide Presentation (Flash document 4.39 MB)
Circum-Arctic Assessment Website

The U.S. Domestic Energy Resource Base – An Overview
A presentation given at the July 16, 2008, USEA Energy Supply Forum.
Slide Show Slide Presentation (Flash document 13.5 MB)

Assessment of Undiscovered Oil Resources in the Devonian-Mississippian Bakken Formation, Williston Basin Province, Montana and North Dakota, 2008:
NEW Read FAQs about the Bakken Formation.
Fact Sheet 2008-3021 | Press Release (4/10/08) | Podcast (Episode 38)
Assessment GIS Data | Slide Show Slide Presentation (Flash document 1.39 MB)
Open-File Report 2008–1353 (Posters)


STUDY AREAS:

National Assessment of Oil and Gas Resources (NOGA)

World Petroleum Assessment

National Coal Assessment

Alaska Studies

Gas Hydrates

Gulf Coast


CURRENT PROJECTS & NEW PUBLICATIONS:

NEW A new map of the Arctic sedimentary successions was assembled (A. Grantz, R.A. Scott, S.S. Drachev, and T.E. Moore, Maps showing the sedimentary successions of the Arctic Region (58°-64° to 90° N) that may be prospective for hydrocarbons (American Association of Petroleum Geologists GIS-UDRIL Open-File Spatial Library, 2009) as the basis for defining CARA assessment units (U.S. Geological Survey, Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (north of the Arctic Circle) Assessment Units GIS Data (2009).
GIS-UDRIL Open-File Spatial Library MAP (Note: Map links to a zip folder containing mutiple files, the following readme file explains the Map and its contents: grantzmap_readme.doc)
Circum-Arctic Assessment Website

NEW Carbon Sequestration to Mitigate Climate Change, 2008
Fact Sheet 2008–3097 |Geologic Carbon Sequestration Website

Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the West Siberian Basin Province, Russia, 2008
Fact Sheet 2008–3064 |Arctic Assessment Website

Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of the Permian Basin Province of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico, 2007
Fact Sheet 2007-3115 | National Oil and Gas Assessment

Areas of Historical Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in the United States
Digital Data Series 069-Q | National Oil and Gas Assessment

Uranium in Surface Waters and Sediments Affected by Historical Mining in the Denver West 1:100,000 Quadrangle, Colorado
Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5246 | Learn More . . .

Assessment of Undiscovered Petroleum Resources of the Laptev Sea Shelf Province, Russian Federation
Fact Sheet 2007-3096 | Arctic Assessment

 

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Fact Sheet 2009-3012: Assessment of In-Place Oil Shale Resources of the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Western Colorado

Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated a total of 1.525 trillion barrels of oil in place in seventeen oil shale zones in the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance Basin, western Colorado.


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USGS Science and the Energy Policy Act of 2005

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58, Sec. 351) established the the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP) in the USGS: Data Preservation Report (PDF - 1.11 MB) | NGGDPP Website

 



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