Oil is flirting with the lofty price of $60/bbl so it is fitting that I poke around the AAPG Annual Convention being held here in Calgary. I have been struck by the sheer volume of data that has been compiled and made freely available.

I managed to pick up a stack of CD-ROMs from a USGS Global Petroleum Assesment. Their most current assesment is:

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WORLD PETROLEUM ASSESSMENT 2000