U.S.
Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey
Table 1. Publication access table – Hyperlinks to USGS continuous-oil assessment publications and web pages
Age of Continuous Oil
USGS Province
Intervals
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the
Late Devonian - Early Anadarko Basin Province of Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas,
Anadarko Basin
Mississippian and Colorado, 2010 (Higley and others, 2011),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3003/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the
Ordovician Utica Shale of the Appalachian Basin
Appalachian Basin Ordovician
Province, 2012 (Kirschbaum and others, 2012),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3116/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the
Bighorn Basin Province, Wyoming and Montana, 2008
Bighorn Basin Late Cretaceous
(Kirschbaum and others, 2008),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3050/
2002 USGS assessment of oil and gas resource potential
of the Denver Basin Province of Colorado, Kansas,
Denver Basin Late Cretaceous
Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming (Higley and
others, 2003), http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-002-03/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in
Jurassic and Cretaceous Strata of the Gulf Coast, 2010
Gulf Coast Basins Cretaceous
(Dubiel and others, 2011),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3020/
2005 Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources
Hanna, Laramie, and in Hanna, Laramie, Shirley Basins Province, Wyoming
Cretaceous
Shirley Basins (Dyman and others, 2006),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3125/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the
Montana Thrust Belt Late Cretaceous Montana Thrust Belt Province, 2002 (Schenk and
others, 2002), http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-148-02/
Assessment of potential oil and gas resources in source
Triassic, Jurassic,
Northern Alaska rocks of the Alaska North Slope, 2012 (Houseknecht
Cretaceous
and others, 2012), http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3013/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in the
Paradox Basin Province, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico,
Paradox Basin Pennsylvanian
and Arizona, 2011 (Whidden and others, 2012),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3031/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the
Permian Basin Province of West Texas and Southeast
Permian Basin Early Permian
New Mexico, 2007 (Schenk and others, 2008),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3115/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the
Powder River Basin Province of Wyoming and
Powder River Basin Late Cretaceous
Montana—2006 update (Anna and others, 2006),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3135/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the
Southwestern Wyoming Province, 2002 (Kirschbaum,
Southwestern Wyoming Late Cretaceous
Finn and others, 2002), http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-145-
02/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the
Uinta-Piceance Province of Colorado and Utah, 2002
Uinta-Piceance Basin Tertiary
(Kirschbaum, Anna and others, 2002),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0026-02/
Assessment of undiscovered oil resources in the Bakken
and Three Forks Formations, Williston Basin Province,
Devonian - Early
Williston Basin Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 2013
Mississippian
(Gaswirth and others, 2013),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2013/3013/
USGS National Oil and Gas Assessment Publications
Undiscovered petroleum resources for the Woodford Shale and
Thirteen Finger Limestone–Atoka Shale assessment units,
Anadarko Basin (Higley, 2011),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1242/
Assessment of Appalachian Basin oil and gas resources:
Utica—Lower Paleozoic Total Petroleum System (Ryder,
2008), http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1287/
Petroleum systems and geologic assessment of oil and gas in
the Bighorn Basin Province, Wyoming and Montana (U.S.
Geological Survey Bighorn Basin Assessment Team, 2010),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-v/
Petroleum systems and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas
in the Denver Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska,
South Dakota, and Wyoming—USGS Province 39 (Higley,
2007), http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-p/
Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources in
conventional and continuous petroleum systems in the Upper
Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group, U.S. Gulf Coast Region, 2011
(Dubiel and others, 2012), http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3003/
Petroleum systems and geologic assessment of undiscovered oil
and gas, Hanna, Laramie, and Shirley Basins Province,
Wyoming and Colorado (U.S. Geological Survey Hanna,
Laramie, and Shirley Basins Province Assessment Team,
2007), http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-k/
Burial and thermal history of the Paradox Basin, Utah and
Colorado, and petroleum potential of the Middle Pennsylvanian
Paradox Formation (Nuccio and Condon, 1996),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/b2000o/b2000o.html
Total petroleum systems and geologic assessment of oil and gas
resources in the Powder River Basin Province, Wyoming and
Montana (Anna and others, 2009),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-u/
Petroleum systems and geologic assessment of oil and gas in
the Southwestern Wyoming Province, Wyoming, Colorado and
Utah (U.S. Geological Survey Southwestern Wyoming
Province Assessment Team, 2005),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-d/
Petroleum systems and geologic assessment of oil and gas in
the Uinta-Piceance Province, Utah and Colorado (U.S.
Geological Survey Uinta-Piceance Assessment Team, 2003),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-b/
Input-form data for the U.S. Geological Survey assessment of
the Devonian and Mississippian Bakken and Devonian Three
Forks Formations of the U.S. Williston Basin Province, 2013
(U.S. Geological Survey Bakken-Three Forks Assessment
Team, 2013), http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1094/
Digital Data Series 69-JJ
Table 1
USGS National Oil and Gas
Assessment Website
Anadarko Basin
Evolution of overpressured and underpressured oil and
gas reservoirs, Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma, Texas,
and Kansas—overview (Nelson and Gianoutsos, 2011),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1245/
Thermal maturity patterns (CAI and %Ro) in Upper
Appalachian
Ordovician and Devonian rocks of the Appalachian
Basin
Basin: A major revision of USGS Map I–917–E using
new subsurface collections (Repetski and others, 2008),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3006/
Bighorn Basin
Vitrinite reflectance data for Cretaceous marine shales
and coals in the Bighorn Basin, north-central Wyoming
and south-central Montana (Pawlewicz and Finn, 2012),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1254/
Denver Basin
Gas, oil, and water production from Wattenberg Field in
the Denver Basin, Colorado (Nelson and Santus, 2011),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1175/
Hanna, Laramie, Gulf Coast Basins
Geologic models and evaluation of undiscovered
conventional and continuous oil and gas
resources—Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk, U.S. Gulf
Coast (Pearson, 2012),
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5159/
and Shirley
Basins
Montana Thrust
Belt
Northern Alaska
Paradox Basin
Permian deposystems, paleogeography, and
paleoclimate of the Paradox Basin and vicinity (Dubiel
and others, 1996),
http://archives.datapages.com/data/rocky_sepm/data/0
34/034001/427_rocky_mount340427.htm
Permian Basin
Powder River
Assessment of the Mowry Shale and Niobrara
Basin
Formation as continuous hydrocarbon systems, Powder
River Basin, Montana and Wyoming (Anna and Cook,
2008), http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1367/
Southwestern
Wyoming
Uinta-Piceance
Oil shale resources of the Eocene Green River
Formation, Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming,
Basin
Colorado, and Utah (U.S. Geological Survey Oil Shale
Assessment Team, 2011), http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-
069/dds-069-dd/
Williston Basin
Additional information: 2013 Bakken and Three Forks
Assessment (U.S. Geological Survey, 2013),
http://energy.usgs.gov/GeneralInfo/EnergyNewsroomAl
l/TabId/770/ArtMID/3941/ArticleID/985/Bakken-and-
New-Three-Forks-Oil-and-Gas-Assessment.aspx