Download or read book Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the U.S. Department of the Interior released its 1989 estimates of how much undiscovered oil and gas remain in the United States, a controversy ensued. Some members of the petroleum industry charged that the estimates were too low. This book evaluates the scientific credibility of the statistical and geological methods underlying the estimates.