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Assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources of South America and the Caribbean, 2012

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3046/

We estimated means of 126 billion barrels of oil and 679 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered natural gas in 31 geologic provinces of South America and the Caribbean using a geology based assessment methodology.

by Schenk, Christopher J.; Brownfield, Michael E.; Charpentier, Ronald R.; Cook, Troy A.; Klett, Timothy R.; Kirschbaum, Mark A.; Pitman, Janet K.; Pollastro, Richard M.; and Tennyson, Marilyn E.
U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2012-3046
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Economic geology, Natural gas resources, Natural resource assessment, Oil resources, Petroleum, Mineral deposit areas
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Argentina, Bahamas, the, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Caribbean Islands

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