Contents

1 Reserves Definitions
1.1 1997 SPE/WPC Petroleum Reserves Definitions*
1.2 1978 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Oil and Gas Reserves
Definitions[1]
1.3 U.S. SEC Staff Accounting Bulletins (SABs)
1.4 Unproved Oil and Gas Reserves
1.5 Website Release
1.6 Significance of the 1997 SPE/WPC and the 1978 U.S. SEC Reserves
Definitions
1.7 1997 SPE/WPC and 1978 U.S. SEC Definitions Comparison
1.8 Other Reserves Definitions
2 Calculation Procedures
2.1 Deterministic Procedures
2.2 Probabilistic Procedures
3 Estimation Methods
3.1 Analogy Methods
3.2 Volumetric Methods
3.3 Performance Methods
4 Special Problems*
4.1 Coalbed Methane
4.2 Fractured Reservoirs
4.3 Natural Gas From Fracured Scale
4.4 "Tight" Gas Reservoirs
4.5 Heavy Oil
4.6 Thin Oil Columns
4.7 Geopressured Oil/Gas
5 Probabilistic Procedures
5.1 Background
5.2 Probabilistic Classification of Reserves
5.3 Applications
6 Pitfalls*[153]
6.1 Analogy/Statistical Methods
6.2 Volumetric Methods
6.3 Performance Methods
7 Nomenclature
8 References
9 SI Metric Conversion Factors