1995 National Assessment of United States Oil and Gas Resources Assessment of the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region

摘要

This report documents an assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas resources of the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region of the United States (i.e., the Federal offshore areas of Washington, Oregon, and California). The assessment was performed as part of a national assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources-in which the onshore and State offshore areas of the Nation were assessed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Federal offshore areas of the Nation were assessed by the Minerals Management Service (MMS)-in order to develop an updated appraisal of the location and volume of undiscovered resources. The commodities that have been assessed consist of oil (including crude oil and condensate) and natural gas (including associated and nonassociated gas). Two categories of undiscovered resources have been assessed: undiscovered conventionally recoverable resources are those that can be removed from the subsurface with conventional extraction techniques; undiscovered economically recoverable resources are those undiscovered conventionally recoverable resources that can be extracted profitably under specified economic and technological conditions. Additionally, the total resource endowment-consisting of the sum of discovered and undiscovered resources-has been estimated.