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USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project–Resource Allocations for the BLM Carlsbad Planning Area

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2018

Citation

NAGA Project Assessment Team, 2022, USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project–Resource Allocations for the BLM Carlsbad Planning Area: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DEN46C.

Summary

The U.S. Geological Survey Central Energy Science Center (CERSC) was asked to provide allocations of oil and gas resources and numbers of potential wells calculated from these allocated resources for the BLM Carlsbad Planning Area in New Mexico. The resource allocations were based on the most current USGS assessment of continuous (unconventional) oil and gas resources within eleven geologically defined assessment units in the Delaware Basin (Gaswirth and others, 2018).

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Christopher J Schenk
Originator :
NAGA Project Assessment Team
Metadata Contact :
Gregory Gunther
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Central Energy Resources Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals

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Purpose

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Carlsbad Office, New Mexico, requested that the USGS CERSC allocate oil and gas resources from the CERSC oil and gas assessment of the Delaware Basin to the area of the Carlsbad Planning Area as background information for the BLM “Reasonable Foreseeable Development Scenario” document (in progress). Using published data from the 2018 assessment of the Delaware Basin, and up-to-date maps of mineral and oil and gas ownership within the Carlsbad Planning Unit provided by BLM, the USGS allocated oil and gas resources to all eleven assessment units that fall within the Planning Area and estimated the number of potential wells that may be needed to recover this resource.
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