The Outlook for Conventional Petroleum Resources,

Abstract

This paper addresses the prospects for conventionally produced petroleum. This includes crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas produced from accumulations where some commercial production can occur without injection or fracturing. It excludes petroleum liquids produced from tar sands, oil shale, coal, and biomass. It excludes natural gas produced from coal, shales, tight (microdarcy permeability) sandstones, and landfills. In some cases, the dividing line between the conventional and nonconventional is fuzzy, for example, between conventionally produced heavy crude oil and some tar sands or between natural gas production from low and very low permeability sandstones. These, however, are rare enough to make the distinction a workable one in practice.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA095051

Entities

People

  • Richard Nehring

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Beaufort Sea
  • Canada
  • Corporations
  • Materials
  • Middle East
  • Mississippi
  • Natural Gas
  • New York
  • North America
  • North Sea
  • Organic Materials
  • Petroleum
  • Petroleum Industry
  • Standards
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Venezuela

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design