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Global Oil and Gas Reserve Estimate
June 22, 2012 | USGS

“The U.S. Geological Survey has released a new global estimate for potential additions to oil and gas reserves due to reserve growth in discovered fields outside the United States. The USGS estimates that the mean undiscovered, conventional reserve additions in the world total 665 billion barrels of oil, 1,429 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 16 billion barrels of natural gas liquids.”


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