Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the arctic

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5931, 2009, Pages 1175-1179

  Gautier, Donald L ^a   Bird, Kenneth J ^a   Charpentier, Ronald R ^b   Grantz, Arthur ^c   Houseknecht, David W ^d   Klett, Timothy R ^b   Moore, Thomas E ^a   Pitman, Janet K ^b   Schenk, Christopher J ^b   Schuenemeyer, John H ^e   Sørensen, Kai ^f   Tennyson, Marilyn E ^b   Valin, Zenon C ^a   Wandrey, Craig J ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland ^*  (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e Southwest Statistical Consulting   (United States)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GAS SUPPLY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; NATURAL GAS; OIL PRODUCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ENERGY RESOURCE; GAS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66349088247     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1169467     Document Type: Article

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10. We thank P.I. McLabe and R.S. Bishop for their comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.