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Tables of Contents for Assessing Natural Gas and Oil Resources
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
iii
Figures
vii
Tables
ix
Maps
xi
Summary
xiii
Acknowledgments
xxi
Glossary and Abbreviations
xxiii
Introduction
1
12
Gas Resources and Production in the Rocky Mountains
1
2
Resource Assessments and Federal Land Management
3
3
Improving Decisionmaking with Comprehensive Resource Assessments
6
2
Federal Land Use Planning
6
1
National Energy Planning
7
1
States, Utilities, and Producers
7
1
Economic Effects of Resource Extraction
8
1
General Methodology and Scope
8
1
Study Area
9
1
Organization of This Report
10
1
Data Availability and Documentation
11
2
Allocation and Spatial Distribution of Resources
13
6
Subplay Definition
13
1
Technically Recoverable Resource Assessments
14
1
Resource Allocation
14
2
Proved Reserves
14
1
Reserve Appreciation
15
1
Undiscovered Conventional Resources
15
1
Undiscovered Tight Sandstone Resources
15
1
Coalbed Methane Resources
16
1
Resource Area Definition
16
3
Economic Analysis
19
14
Wellhead Costs
19
4
Cost Elements
20
2
Discounted Cash flow Model
22
1
Infrastructure Costs
23
3
Assumptions
23
1
Pipeline Capacity Requirement
24
1
Costs
25
1
Economic Results
26
3
Sensitivity of Results to Uncertainties
29
4
Environmental Measures
33
22
Methodology
34
1
Issues and Measures
34
1
Overlay Analysis
35
1
Ecosystem Quality
35
7
Ecological Setting
35
1
Measures of Ecological Function
36
6
Human Environmental Considerations
42
2
Water Quality
44
5
Surface Water Quality
45
2
Groundwater Quality
47
2
Lease Stipulations
49
3
Uncertainty in Overlay Results
52
1
Summary
52
3
Conclusions
55
6
Benefits
55
1
Limitations
56
1
Interpretation of Green River Basin Results
56
2
Implications for the Rockies
58
1
Issues for Further Development
59
2
Develop Environmental Measures
59
1
Refine the Appropriate Scale of Applicability
60
1
Better Incorporate the Methodology into Decisionmaking
60
1
Appendix: Subplays, Areas, and Technically Recoverable Resources Used in the Analysis
61
6
Bibliography
67
4
Maps
71