Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources for State of Montana
Dates
Acquisition
2016-07-01
Citation
Synthesis of USGS and other data sources to represent undiscovered oil and gas resources for the State of Montana. Prepared by Karen Jenni, USGS (kjenni@usgs.gov) July, 2016.
Summary
Synthesis of USGS and other data sources to represent undiscovered oil and gas resources for the State of Montana. Prepared by Karen Jenni, USGS (kjenni@usgs.gov). These datasets were prepared by Karen Jenni (kjenni@usgs.gov) for the purposes of this presentation. See below for data provenance and analysis details. Undiscovered Resources by Province Total undiscovered resources by USGS “Province,” displayed in millions of barrels of oil equivalent (BOE). Province and AU boundaries were downloaded from the National Oil and Gas Assessment web page: http://energy.usgs.gov/OilGas/AssessmentsData/NationalOilGasAssessment.aspx#.V3WTg_krIUG Below are the links for each province. To get the province and AU boundaries: Follow the link [...]
Summary
Synthesis of USGS and other data sources to represent undiscovered oil and gas resources for the State of Montana. Prepared by Karen Jenni, USGS (kjenni@usgs.gov). These datasets were prepared by Karen Jenni (
kjenni@usgs.gov) for the purposes of this presentation. See below for data provenance and analysis details.
Powder River Basin Province Assessment Units (Bundled)
To get the numeric value for
total undiscovered resources by province, the five province boundaries were combined into a single table, and a field was added and populated by hand, summarizing the mean total energy from the undiscovered resources in millions of barrels of oil equivalent. Original data was downloaded in Excel form from the last link (Total Oil and Gas Resources Data Table) from:
http://energy.usgs.gov/OilGas/AssessmentsData/NationalOilGasAssessment/AssessmentUpdates.aspx
Energy Density (EPCA) layers: Original data was downloaded from here:
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/oil_and_gas/EPCA_III/EPCA_III_geodata.html For the three AUs (27, 31, and 33) with recent data, and for the “Extrapolation Model.” Data were clipped to the State of Montana boundary. A total energy density field was added to the data layer, which is calculated that from the existing files for data on Total oil density and Total gas density. Units were converted from the units in the data file (MMBOE/acre) to Thousands of BOE / sq mile to better match the EPCA published maps.
Synthesis of USGS and other data sources to represent undiscovered oil and gas resources for the State of Montana. Prepared by Karen Jenni, USGS (kjenni@usgs.gov)
