RC. 4471

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 447

SELECTED SOURCES OF INFORMATION 

ON U. S. AND WORLD ENERGY 

RESOURCES: AN ANNOTATED 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 

Thomas B. Nolan, Director

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 447

SELECTED SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON U. S. 

AND WORLD ENERGY RESOURCES: AN 

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

By James Trumbull

Washington, 1961 

Free on application to the Geological Survey, Washington 25, D. C.
CONTENTS

Page Page 

Introduction---___---___-_---___----__---_____ 1 Oil shale-____________---_____--_.___________ 6

General references ___________________________ 1 Electricity and nuclear energy ________________ 7

Coal________________________________________ 4 Author index ________________________________ 8

Petroleum and natural gas_____________________ 4
SELECTED SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON U.S. AND WORLD 

ENERGY RESOURCES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

By James Trumbull

INTRODUCTION

Of late there has been considerable interest in the 

amount and adequacy of energy resources available to 

the United States and to the world, in the shifts in use 

between different energy sources, and in the prospects 

of energy from nonconventional sources.

This bibliography supplies citations and notes the 

general contents of 73 summary reports in the field of 

energy resources of the United States, and to some 

extent those of the free world. Matters that are considered include resources of conventional energy 

materials, the availability and prospects of nonconventional energy sources, overall energy studies of certain 

geographic areas, production and many other types of 

statistics, and the probable future course of energy 

developments.

The bibliographic list is made up largely of general 

reports of recent publication. Many other valuable reports, mainly those giving details of individual or local 

matters, are not listed. Both earlier and more detailed 

reports on any subject can be located by use of the 

bibliographies to be found in most of the reports here 

listed.

The annotations are intended as guides to the type of 

information to be found in the reports, rather than abstracts of the subject matter. Reports concerned with 

more than one of the topic headings, or that do not fall 

within any of them, have been placed under the general 

heading. With few exceptions the listed reports are in 

English.

GENERAL REFERENCES

Abraham, Herbert, 1945, Asphalts and allied substances, 

their occurrences, modes of production, uses in the 

arts and methods of testing: 5th ed., New York, D. Van 

Nostrand Co., 2 v., 2142 p.

An encyclopedic work that covers terminology and 

classification, chemistry, geology and origin of deposits, mining, transporting, refining, descriptions 

of deposits throughout the wdrld,and many other aspects of the subject. Volume 2 includes a 65-page 

bibliography and 294 pages of references.

Ayres, Eugene, and Scarlott, C. A., 1952, Energy

sources the wealth of the world: New York, McGrawHill Book Co., 344 p.

A widely known study that covers all energy sources: 

conventional, nuclear, and nonconventional.

Coal Age, 1960, Fuels policy Battle in '60: Coal Age, 

v. 65, no. 1, p. 72-77.

Quotations from testimony on energy resources 

and technology in Congressional hearings in October 

1959. Includes a graph of predicted United States 

energy requirements (by source) to the year 2000, 

and tables on domestic energy consumption by source 

and by population and gross national product for 1955 

and 1975.

Eldridge, G. H., 1901, The asphalt and bituminous rock 

deposits of the United States: U.S. Geol. Survey 22d 

Ann. Repi.,pt., 1, p. 209-452.

An encyclopedic description of the occurrence and 

geology of deposits throughout the United States, with 

a short .introductory section on classification and 

analyses of the material and the distribution and 

origin of the deposits.

Independent Petroleum Association of America,

[1959?], Maintaining energy supremacy for America: 

Energy Industries Forum Proc., 24 p. Sponsored by 

and conducted as an adjunct to the 1959 midyear 

meeting of the I. P. A. A.

An "overall evaluation of the energy situation and 

policies of the United States. Contains the following 

papers: (1) Introduction, by Minor S. Jameson, Jr., 

executive vice president, I.P.A.A.; (2) Oil report, by 

Morgan J. Davis, president, Humble Oil and Refining 

Co.; (3) Natural gas report, by Paul Kayser, president, El Paso Natural Gas Co.; (4) Nuclear fuels report, by Dean A. McGee, president, Kerr-McGee Oil 

Industries, Inc.; (5) Electric power report, by Edwin 

Vennard, vice president and managing director, 

Edison Electric Institute; (6) Coal report, by Frank 

F. Kolbe, president, National Coal Assoc.

Institute of Fuel, 1961, Fuel abstracts and current titles: 

London, Inst. Fuels. (Published monthly.)

A monthly annotated bibliography of world literature on all technical and scientific aspects of fuel 

and power. Titles and annotations in English. Author 

and detailed subject indexes printed semiannually. 

Prior to May 1960 the title was "Fuel Abstracts."

Nininger, R. D., and others, 1960, Energy from uranium 

and coal reserves: U.S. Atomic Energy Comm., 7 p. 

Available from the U.S. Dept. Commerce, Office 

Tech. Services, Washington.

Tables of United States and free world uranium 

resources, recoverable coal reserves, heat energy
available from uranium under various operating 

conditions, and heat energy available from uranium 

and coal reserves under various assumptions of 

cost, with a brief explanatory text.

Organisation for European Economic Co-operation,

1960, Towards a new energy pattern in Europe: Paris, 

Organisation for European Econ. Co-op., 125 p..

A report by the Energy Advisory Commission of 

the O. E. E. C. Topics discussed include trends in 

energy consumption, production, and imports; trends 

of demand for individual forms of energy; forecasts 

of aggregate requirements; potential indigenous supplies; prospective developments in the field of nuclear 

energy; and financing and policy problems. Includes 

many brief statistical tables, and projections of data 

for 1965 and 1975.

President's Materials Policy Commission, 1952, The 

outlook for energy sources, v. 3, 43 p., [and] The 

outlook for key commodities, v. 2, p. 127 130, 163 

170, of Resources for freedom, a report to the President by the President's Materials Policy ["Paley"] 

Commission: Washington, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 

5 v.

Volume 3 consists of basic studies of the status of 

and tjutlook for oil, natural gas, coal, and electric 

energy in the United States and the free world. Volume 2 contains data on reserves, and projections of 

United States demand to 1975 for those four items.

Putnam, P. C., 1953, Energy in the future: New York, 

D. Van Nostrand Co., 556 p.

A study of the maximum plausible world demand 

for energy over the next 50 to 100 years, originally 

prepared for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. 

Particular attention is given to population growth.

Schurr, S. H., and Netschert, B. C., 1960, Energy in 

the American economy, 1850 1975; an economic 

study of its history and prospects: Baltimore, The 

Johns Hopkins Press, 774 p. Published for Resources 

for the Future, Inc., Washington.

An exhaustive treatise in 3 parts: energy use 1850 

1955; the future of energy consumption; the future of 

energy supply. Includes consideration of the possible 

impact of atomic energy, and has 120 text tables and 

73 graphs in addition to 255 pages of statistical 

appendices.

Soper, E. K., and Osbon, C. C., 1922. The occurrence 

and uses of peat in the United States: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 728, 207 p.

Includes sections on the origin of peat and the 

classification of peat deposits; peat-forming floras; 

processes and rates of formation; physical and chemical properties; agricultural, fuel, and other uses; 

and the peat industry in the United States. The distribution of peat deposits is shown on a map of the 

Nation, and details of individual peat deposits, areas 

of occurrence, and the quantity of peat available are 

discussed on a county-by-county basis for most peatbearing States.

United Nations, 1956, The world's requirements for 

energy; the role of nuclear energy, v. 1 of Proceedings of the International Conference on the Peaceful 

Uses of Atomic Energy, Geneva, 8 August 20 August, 

1955: New York, United Nations, 479 p.

Includes "World energy requirements in 1975 and 

2000" (p. 3 33) and "Contribution of nuclear energy 

to future world power needs" (p. 85 102), prepared 

by the United Nations. The latter paper contains a 

6-page table of reserves of coal, lignite, petroleum, 

natural gas, waterpower, and per capita energy reserves for every country of the world. Three other 

papers discuss worldwide future energy needs (p. 34 

70), 2 discuss nonconventional energy sources other 

than nuclear energy (p. 71 84), 34 discuss energy 

sources and needs in individual countries, and 24 

discuss various aspects of nuclear energy. The volume is an authoritative source of information.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social 

Affairs, 1957 a, Energy in Latin America Study 

prepared by the Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Latin America: Geneva, United Nations, 

268 p.

A study of many aspects of energy: sources; consumption by source, nation, and end use; trends of 

change in consumption; efficiency in use; resources; 

and institutional structure and finances. Projections 

to 1965 are made for production, consumption, and 

required capacity and investments. Fourteen annexes totaling 138 pages present much statistical 

and reference material, including a 20-page compilation of energy resources by country. Covers all 

South and Central American nations, including Mexico.

-1957b, New Sources of energy and economic

development Solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy, 

geothermic energy, and thermal energy of the seas: 

New York, United Nations, 150 p.

Includes a comparative study of the features and 

possibilities of those five nonconventional energy 

sources, a technical paper on each of them, and an 

annotated bibliography of 480 items.

 1959, Sources of energy and electricity production, [in Africa], in Economic Survey of Africa since 

1950: New York, United Nations, p. 127-133, also 

table 1-XVII, p. 35.

A discussion of reserves and the status (ca. 1957 

58), trends, and new developments in discovery, production, and consumption of coal, petroleum, and 

electricity throughout the continent. The cited table 

gives reserves and 1957 production of crude oil, 

coal, hydroelectricity, and thermal electricity, by 

countries. Other short tables give data on production, exports, imports, and installed generating 

capacity.

United Nations Statistical Office, 1959, Statistical 

yearbook: New York, U.N. Dept. Econ. and Social 

Affairs, Statistical Off. (Published annually.)

A source of world statistics on many subjects. 

The 1959 Statistical Yearbook includes for the first
time a table showing world and regional energy production, trade, and consumption, classified by main 

sources coal and lignite, crude petroleum, natural 

gas, and hydroelectricity. All figures are expressed 

as the equivalent number of metric tons of coal.

United Nations Statistical Office, 1960, World energy 

supplies, 1955-1958: New York, U.N. Statistical Off. 

Statistical Papers, ser. J, no. 3, 122 p.

Data by countries on production, trade, and consumption of coal, petroleum (crude and refined), gas, 

electricity, shale oil, and coke. No text other than 

explanation of tables. No resources data. Third in 

a series; the others are Statistical Papers Series J, 

no. 1, 1952, for 1929, 1937, 1949, and 1950; and no. 2, 

1957, for 1951 through 1954.

U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1959, The Bureau of Mines synthetic liquid fuels program, 1944 55, pt. 1 Oil from 

coal: U.S. Bur. Mines Kept. Inv. 5506, 306 p.

A summary of results of the extensive, investigations conducted under authority of the Synthetic Liquid 

Fuels Act of 1944. Covers gasification ancPunderground gasification, hydrogenation, and FischerTropsch synthesis. Includes an 8-page glossary, and 

a bibliography of reports containing more detailed 

descriptions of results.

-1959, Fuels, v. 2 of Minerals yearbook 1958:

U.S. Bur. Mines, 484 p. (Published annually.).

An exhaustive annual statistical review of the domestic industry. Includes both a general summary 

and detailed figures on reserves, mining methods and 

equipment, production, transportation, consumption, 

technology, price and value, stocks, foreign trade, 

and world production of coal, coke and coal chemi - 

cals, fuel briquettes, peat, carbon black, natural gas 

and its liquids, petroleum and its products, and 

helium.

U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 

1960, Review of the international atomic policies and 

programs of the United States, by Robert McKinney 

(v. 1, p. 1 78R), {and] Background material for the 

review of the international atomic policies and programs of the United States.(v. 2, 3, 4, 5, p. 79-2080): 

U.S. 86th Cong., 2d sess.

Volume 1 includes, on pages 29 48, a summary of 

the detailed information in the succeeding volumes 

concerning the status, prospects, costs, and resources 

of atomic power, the supply of conventional fuels, and 

the overall demand for energy in the world. Volume 3 

includes several reports on the progress of nonmilitary atomic energy programs in the world. Volume 4 

contains 14 Yeports of diverse foreign and domestic 

authorship on the status and prospects of nuclearfueled electric generating capacity throughout the 

world, and 24 reports on nonnuclear energy resources. 

Among the latter are reports on the following: World 

consumption and availability of conventional fuels in 

1975 and 2000; resources of coal, petroleum, natural 

gas, oil shale, and tar sands in the free world, by the 

U.S. Department of the Interior; the uranium and 

thorium resources of the free world and the Communist bloc, by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; 

future energy requirements in the United States, Latin

America, Europe, the Sino-Soviet area, and Asia; and 

several reports on nonconventional nonnuclear energy 

sources. Volume 5 includes reports on the direct 

conversion of fission products to electricity, the 

peaceful applications of nuclear power for purposes 

other than central-station electricity generation, and 

progress toward controlled fusion.

U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee 

on Automation and Energy Resources, 1959, Energy 

resources and technology, Hearings: U.S. 86th Cong., 

1st sess., 352 p.

Many authoritative statements and exhibits on a 

great number of aspects of the general subject in the 

United States, with particular emphasis on prospective 

needs and cost relations among the conventional 

energy sources, and the outlook for development of 

newer sources. In a general way this report provides 

an updating of Volume 3 of the President's Materials 

Policy ["Paley") Commission report, "The outlook 

for energy sources."

Weeks, L. G., 1959a, Fuel reserves of the future: Am. 

Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 42, no. 2, p. 431 

441.

Discusses the effects of technologic improvement 

in increasing proved petroleum reserve estimates, 

and the reliability of estimates of ultimate petroleum 

resources. Includes estimates and discussions of 

world petroleum resources; oil derived from oil shale, 

tar sands, and coal; natural-gas resources; and 

atomic-energy prospects and uranium ore reserves.

-1959b, Where will energy come from in 2059?:

The Petroleum Engineer for Management, v. 31, no.. 9, 

p. A-24-31.

A forecast of United States and world energy demand and supply, by source categories, between 1959 

and 2059.

World Power Conference, 5th [Vienna], 1956, Section A, 

Survey of the development of the national power economies from 1950 to 1954: World Power Conf., 5th, 

Vienna.

Forty-two reports on different aspects of energy 

resources in the following countries:

Austria 

Irish 

Rep. 

Algeria 

Brazil 

Japan 

Australia 

Turkey

A number of similar reports of earlier date will be 

found in the Transactions, v. 1, of the Fourth World 

Power Conference, London, 1952, and those of earlier 

conferences.

World Power Conference, 1956, Statistical yearbook of 

the World Power Conference, no. 8 Data on resources 

and annual statistics for 1952 54, edited by Frederick 

Brown: London, Percy Lund, Humphries and Co., 160 p.

Pakistan

Finland

Sweden

United

Kingdom

United States

Switzerland

Norway

Israel

Saar

Greece

Uruguay

Mexico

(well

covered)

Iceland

India

Canada

Yugoslavia

Federal Re

public of

Germany

Belgium

France

Italy

Chile
(Issued biannually; see also nos. 1 7, dated 1942, 

1944, etc.)

World statistics, solicited from each country and 

uniformly presented, on reserves, production, imports, exports, and stocks of conventional organic 

solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels (including coke, coal, 

wood, petroleum, benzol, alcohol, and natural and 

manufactured gas), waterpower, and electricity. 

Bibliography included. No. 4 (1948) contains a comprehensive table of coal reserves; coal reserves 

figures, in subsequent numbers serve to supplement 

that table.

COAL

Averitt, Paul, 1961, Coal reserves of the United States, 

a progress report, January 1, I960: U.S. Geol. Survey 

Bull. 1136'(in press).

The authoritative estimate of coal resources in the 

United States.

Carlow, C. A., 1947, World coal resources, in Seventyfive years of progress in the mineral industry, 1871 

1946: New York, Am. Inst. Mining Metall. Engineers, 

p. 634-684.

A critique of the 1913 International Geological Congress estimate of world coal reserves.

Eavenson, H. N., 1942, The first century and a quarter 

of American coal industry: Pittsburgh, privately 

printed, 701 p.

A detailed description of the early history of coal 

mining in the United States. Includes many early 

maps, quotations from early documents, and tables 

of coal production by States and (for some States) 

counties, from the beginning of mining.

International Geological Congress, 12th [Toronto], 1913, 

The coal resources of the world An inquiry made 

upon the initiative of the Executive Committee of the 

12th International Geological Congress, Canada, 1913, 

with the assistance of Geological Surveys and mining 

geologists of diffe'rent countries: Toronto, Morang and 

Co., 3 v. and atlas.

A treatise that is still of great value because of the 

extent and detail of its coverage. Most of the reserve 

estimates have been superseded by later ones.

Jaworek, W. G., and Schanz, J. J., Jr., 1960, Estimating 

long-term growth and annual variation in bituminous 

coal consumption: Coal Age, v. 65, no. 5 (May 1960), 

p. 84-90.

A study and prediction of domestic coal consumption 

by use categories to 1970. The authors are with the 

Department of Mineral Economics, Pennsylvania 

State University, University Park, Pa.

McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1958, [The] 1958 Keystone 

coal buyer's manual: New York, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 808 p.

An encyclopedia of the domestic coal-producing 

industry. Includes a directory of coal sales

organizations; a directory of byproduct coke-oven 

plants in the United States and Canada, with the capacity of each; an extensive (about 100 p.) description 

of the characteristics, uses, and range of analyses of 

individual coal beds (by States); a directory (by States) 

of electric utility steam plants; a directory of coal 

docks on the inland waterways; and an extensive 

(about 250 p.) directory of individual coal mines and 

preparation plants in the United States and Canada 

that includes information on company officers, location, method of mining, coal-bed thickness, mining 

and preparation equipment, and production of each

MacKay, B. R., 1947, Coal reserves of Canada Reprint 

of chap. 1 and app. A of Report of the Royal Commission on Coal, 1946, [and four supplemental maps relating to estimates of coal reserves]: Ottawa, King's 

Printer, 113 p.

The authoritative source of information on coal 

reserves in Canada. Describes in detail the occurrences of coal, and includes tables of estimated reserves and many maps showing the coal fields.

National Coal Association, 1960, Bituminous coal facts 

1960: Washington, National Coal Assoc., 129 p.

An illustrated compendium of mainly domestic 

statistics gathered from diverse sources and accompanied by a brief text. Sections on bituminous coal 

in general and in relation to other forms of energy, 

and on production, markets, utilization, transportation, manpower, reserves, and research. Also contains information on the National Coal Association 

and its affiliates, and a list of local Coal Operators 

Associations.

United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the 

Far East, Secretariat, 1952, Coal and iron ore resources of Asia and the Far East: Bangkok, United 

Nations, ISELp.

Contains much detailed information on different 

aspects of coal resources and on the status of surveys, 

and includes many maps. The U.S.S.R. is not included.

U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1960, [Pennsylvania] Anthracite, 

p. 43 60; Bituminous coal, p. 111 140; [and] Lignite 

and'peat, p.~445 461, in Mineral facts and problems, 

1960: U.S. Bur. Mines Bull. 585, 1016 p.

Brief summaries, limited mostly to the United 

States, that cover the following: Background and 

present status of the industries; definitions of terms, 

grades, and specifications; geology, mining, and 

transportation; technology of preparation ^ind use; 

reserves, production, consumption, and foreign trade; 

economic data; research; and industry outlook and 

problems. Each report includes a short bibliography.

PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS

American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1959, 

[Exploratory drilling and oil and gas developments 

iri the United States and Canada in 1958; 32 reports 

with no overall title]: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 43, no. 6, p. 1117-1436. (Published 

annually; appears in June issue.)
Detailed statistics on exploratory drilling in the 

United States, Canada, and Mexico are presented in 

13 tables and are discussed and analysed in the text 

of a report titled "Exploratory drilling in 1958" (p. 

1117 1138). Thirty-one individual papers contain 

many maps and tables that summarize and give a 

wealth of detail on developments in exploration for 

oil and gas in all active States or areas of the United 

States and Canada. Much information on stratigraphy 

and geologic conditions revealed by drilling is included.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1959, 

[The] 1958 developments in foreign petroleum fields: 

Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 43, no. 7, 

p. 1505 1732. (Published annually; appears in July 

issue.)

Summary reports on petroleum exploration throughout the free world, exclusive of the United States and 

Canada, during the calendar year preceding publication. Includes information on concessions, geological 

and geophysical surveys, exploratory and developmental drilling, discoveries, and production of petroleum and natural gas, with many tables and maps. 

The geologic settings of petroleum accumulations are 

described. Includes individually authored reports on 

Mexico, South America and the Caribbean area, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East.

American Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, and Canadian Petroleum Association, 1958, Reports on proved *^serves of crude oil, natural gas 

liquids, and natural gas in the United States and 

Canada: Annual report, published jointly by the 

American Gas Association, 420 Lexington Avenue, 

New York 17, N. Y., The American Petroleum Institute, 50 West 50th Street, New York 20, N. Y., and 

the Canadian Petroleum Association, 330 Ninth Ave. 

West, Calgary, Alberta; v. 13, 23 p.

Contains industry-prepared estimates of proved 

recoverable reserves of crude oil, natural gas liquids, 

and natural gas.

American Petroleum Institute, 1960, Statistical bulletin 

Statistical tables relajtvve to petroleum: New York, Am. 

Petroleum Inst. (Published annually; appears in 

April.)

Presents tables of the following for the United 

States for all years from 1930 through the year preceding publication (figures for the 2 years next preceding publication are given by months): Production, 

consumption, exports, imports, and stocks of crude 

oil (by region or State of origin), natural gas liquids, 

benzol, motor fuel, kerosene, gas, oil and distillate 

fuel oil, residual fuel oil, total fuel oil, and lubricants. Also well completions and wells producing at 

the end of the year, by major areas of the country.

[Canadian] Royal Commission on Energy [Borden Commission], 1958, 1959; First report, Second report: 

Ottawa, Queen's Printer, 129 p.; 250 p.

The Commission was established October 15, 1957 

to inquire into and to make recommendations concerning the "policies which will best serve the national 

interest in relation to the export of energy and sources 

of energy from Canada." The reports contain much

useful basic information about crude oil and natural

Davis, Warren, 1958, A study of the future [crude oil] 

productive capacity and probable reserves of the 

United States: Oil and Gas Jour., v. 56, no. 8-(Feb. 24), 

p. 105-119.

A range of possible values for each of several economic factors, in addition to the usual physical factors, 

was taken into account. Factors considered include 

such things as oil discovered per foot drilled, crude 

prices, petroleum demand, and reserve withdrawal 

rate.

Miller, R. L., 1958, [In two parts] U.S. can long supply 

growing gas demand; A new look at ultimate [U.S.] 

natural gas reserves: World Oil, v. 147, no. 4, p. 136 

140, and no. 5, p. 222-224.

Contains an estimate of the possible range of ultimate natural gas reserves of the United States that 

is higher than previous estimates because it is based 

on increased estimates both of ultimate petroleum 

reserves and of gas-oil ratios. Trends of future 

domestic natural-gas consumption are also discussed.

Netschert, B. C., 1958, The future supply of oil and gas; 

a study of the availability of crude oil, natural gas, 

and natural gas liquids in the United States in the 

period through 1975: Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins 

Press, 134 p. Published for Resources for the Future, 

Inc., Washington.

The footnotes to the tabulations of various estimates 

of potential crude oil (p. 11 12) and natural gas (p. 68) 

reserves are a good source of reference to the many 

estimates made in the last decade.

Oil and Gas Journal, 1959, Experts tell what is ahead 

for oil, other energy: Oil and Gas Journal, v. 57, no. 

47 (Nov. 16), p. 136-139.

Brief comments and opinions from eight experts on 

future trends and developments in energy sources.

 1960a, Review-forecast section: Tulsa, Petroleum Publishing Co. (Published annually; usually appears in a late January issue.)

Includes discussion of the year's developments in 

domestic exploration, drilling, producing, refining, 

transporting, marketing, and importing of oil and 

gas. Many detailed tables give the number, type, and 

footage of wildcat and field wells by county and State; 

the production, number of wells, and estimated proved 

recoverable reserves of crude oil by field and State; 

supply and demand for different products by quarters; 

and refinery runs, exports and imports, and much 

other information.

 1960b, World-wide report issue: Tulsa, Petroleum Publishing Co. (Published annually; usually appears in a late December issue.)

Includes an estimate of proved petroleum reserves, 

a brief statement on the year's developments, amount 

of production and number of wells (by field), and refinery runs (by refinery) for each nation of the free 

world in which oil is being produced or sought.
Simpson, R. A., and Borden, R. L., 1959, A survey of 

the petroleum industry in Canada, 1957 and 1958: 

Ottawa, Canada Dept. Mines and Tech. Surveys, Mineral Resources Div., Mineral Information Bull. MR 

35, 84 p.

" This survey of the petroleum industry in Canada 

covers the main developments in 1957 and 1958 and 

presents an interrelated review of progress in each 

of the four principal sectors of the industry: exploration, developments and production; transportation and 

storage; petroleum processing; and marketing. Historical data are introduced where necessary to set 

1957 58 developments in proper perspective. In 

certain instances, project plans covering the next few 

years are mentioned to give an indication of expected 

trends for the near future." (From the preface.) The 

report includes 33 tables and 7 graphs and maps.

Torrey, P. D., 1960, Can we salvage another 44 billion 

barrels?: Oil and Gas Jour., v. 58, no. 24 (June 13), 

p. 97-102.

The article is based on continuing studies of U.S. 

oil resources by the Secondary Recovery and Pressure 

Maintainance Committee of the Interstate Oil Compact 

Commission, of which Committee the author is chairman. The studies are made to determine the amount 

of oil discovered in the United States and the amount 

that will be recovered, and thus particular attention 

is given to secondary recovery methods. The report 

contains an original tabulation of United States oil 

resources as of January 1, 1960, with figures on the 

following for each oil-producing State: original reservoir content; amount produced to January 1, 1960, 

and 1959 production; proved reserves from American 

Petroleum Institute data, and proved reserves from 

Interstate Oil Compact Commission data; and additional reserves recoverable by gas and water injection and probably recoverable by new methods (e.g., 

thermal and miscible-phase). Information on the 

world distribution of known oil reserves is included.

U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1960, Petroleum and natural gas, 

in Mineral facts and problems I960: U.S. Bur. Mines 

Bull. 585, p. 589-630.

A brief but comprehensive summary, limited mostly 

to the United States. Covers the background and present status of the industry; descriptions of the raw materials and products; the technology of exploring for, 

producing, refining, transporting, and storing them; 

Uses of products and byproducts; reserves and production (United States and the world); consumption, 

conservation, and foreign trade; prices, costs, taxes, 

tariffs, and government policies; research; and industry outlook and problems. Includes a 22-item 

bibliography.

World Oil, 1960a, Forecast-review issue: Houston, 

Gulf Publishing Co. (Published annually; appears in 

February.)

An annual summary of developments in all phases 

of the domestic petroleum industry. Includes many 

tables. Similar in content to the annual ReviewForecast Section of the Oil and Gas Journal.

 1960b, International outlook issue: Houston, Gulf 

Publishing Co. (Published annually; appears in August.)

A summary, by countries (including those of the 

Communist bloc), of the year's developments in exploration, drilling, discoveries, reserves, production, 

and other aspects of the petroleum industry in all 

parts of the world.

World Petroleum Congress, 5th, 1960, Proceedings, 

Section 1, Geology and Geophysics: World Petroleum 

Cong., 5th, New York, 1099 p.

Includes individual reports on the future outlook for 

petroleum exploration, by A. I. Levorsen; on direct 

oil-detection methods and geophysical methods of 

prospecting for oil and gas in the Soviet Union; and 

on the geology, geophysics, and oil and gas possibilities of the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, the 

emerged and submerged Atlantic Coastal Plain and 

the Appalachian area of the United States, eugeosynclines in general, the platform regions of the Soviet 

Union, and Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Turkey, Israel, 

southern Italy, Yugoslavia, Iran, India, the northern 

Sahara, French Equatorial Africa, and the Belgian 

Congo. Proceedings volumes of other Sections include reports on the economics of offshore petroleum 

development in the United States, by Bouwe Dykstra 

(Sec. 2, paper 1); oil shale processing techniques in 

Sweden (Sec. 2, paper 30); the role of petroleum in 

world energy supplies (Sec. 9, paper 4); and a variety 

of other subjects. Similar reports are to be found in 

the Proceedings volumes of earlier World Petroleum 

Congresses.

OIL SHALE

Cadman, W. H., 1948, The oil shale deposits of the world 

and recent developments in their exploitation and utilization, reviewed to May 1947: Inst. Petroleum Jour., 

v. 34, no. 290, p. 109-132.

A summary of the occurrence and development of 

oil shale deposits in Great Britain, France, Estonia, 

Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Czechoslovakia, U.S.&R., 

Turkey, Bulgaria, Germany, Japan, Australia, New 

Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India, Burma, Brazil, 

and the United States.

Donnell, J. R., 1957, Preliminary report on oil shale 

resources of Piceance Creek basin, northwestern 

Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1042-H, p. 255-271.

A preliminary estimate of the resources of oil 

shale in the largest known deposit in the United States.

Duncan, D. C., 1958, Oil shale deposits in the United 

States: Indep. Petroleum Assoc. America Monthly, 

v. 29, no. 4, p. 22, 49-51.

A summary of the resources of the higher grade 

oil shale deposits of the United States.

Guthrie, Boyd, and Klosky, Simon, 1951, the oil shale 

industries of Europe: U.S. Bur. Mines Rept. Inv. 4776, 

73 p.

Details of the occurrence, resources, mining, retorting, and refining of oil shale and shale oil in 

Scotland, France, Sweden, Spain, Germany, and 

Estonia.
Hartley, F. L., and Brinegar, C. S., 1960, Oil shaleenergy for the future: World Petroleum Cong., 5th, 

New York, 1960, Trans., Sec. 2, paper 4.

A short report on prospects, technology, and resources of oil shale in the United States. The authors 

are officials of the Union Oil Co. of California, which 

has constructed and operated a large pilot plant to 

process oil shale.

Institute of Petroleum, 1938, 1951, Oil shale and cannel 

coal: London, Inst. Petroleum, v. 1, 476 p; v. 2,832 p.

Proceedings of the First and Second Oil Shale and 

Cannel Coal Conferences, organized by The Institute 

of Petroleum and held in Glasgow in 1938 and 1950. 

Eighty-five reports describe many oil shale and cannel coal deposits throughout the world, and the technology of their mining, testing, and utilization. Includes the only substantial English-language description of some deposits.

Swanson, V. E., 1960, Oil yield and uranium content of 

black shales: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 356-A, 

p. 1-44.

Contains results of analyses of organic matter and 

selected chemical constituents of many black shale 

deposits in the United States.

U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1960, Oil shale, in Mineral facts 

and problems 1960: U.S. Bur. Mines Bull. 585, p. 573- 

580.

A brief summary of the history, properties, occurrence, mining, crushing, retorting, refining, resources, 

and other facets of oil shale in the United States. The 

bibliography lists many reports describing the work 

of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in this field.

ELECTRICITY AND NUCLEAR ENERGY

Electrical World, 1960, Annual electrical industry forecast issue: New York, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. 

(Published annually; appears in September.)

Industry predictions, to 1975, of residential, industrial, commercial, other, and total electricity sales, 

as well as new-capacity additions, utility capital 

spending, output, peak load, capability, and construction expenditures of the electric power industry in the 

United States.

-1960, Fifth nuclear power report: Electrical

World; v. 153, no. 20 (May 16), p. 63-82.

A detailed report on the status of civilian nuclear 

power facilities in the United States, including reports on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's 10- 

year program of civilian power reactor development; 

the characteristics of eight types of civilian power 

reactors, with information on the existing or planned 

examples of each type; a list.and table of characteristics of civilian nuclear power reactor projects built 

or planned, and a map of their locations.

Ifubbert, M. K., 1956, Nuclear energy and the fossil 

fuels, in Drilling and production practice 1956: New 

York, Am. Petroleum Inst., p. 7-25. [1957]. Printed

in June 1956 as Publication 95, Shell Development 

Co., Exploration and Production Research Div., Houston, Tex.

"In the present review an attempt has been made to 

obtain an approximate idea of the world situation with 

respect to the requirements and supply of fossil fuels, 

and of whether nuclear energy from uranium and 

thorium will be able to replace that from the fossil 

fuels as the latter approach their inevitable exhaustion." 

(From author's abstract.)

Employs the technique of approximating trends of 

future mineral production by equating ultimate cumulative production to the area below a production curve 

drawn on a graph of annual production versus years.

Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, 1960, 

The electricity supply industry in Europe, 10th 

Enquiry Achievements 1948-1958, Forecasts 1959 

1975: Paris, Organisation for European Econ. Co-op., 

199 p.

Includes a general review of the industry in 1958 59; 

an outline of its development in 1948 58; 1959 64 forecasts of plant, output, exchange, consumption, cost 

and prices, investment, and manpower; and 1955, 1965, 

and 1975 forecasts by countries of installed thermal 

and hydro capacity and production, as well as a discussion of the economics and future prospects of nuclear energy. Statistical annexes totaling 119 pages 

cover many aspects of the subject, including trends 

of electricity consumption compared with that of other 

forms of energy; the present status of nuclear plants 

in western Europe; and electricity capacity, production, and consumption (by type), by countries, for each 

year from 1948 through 1959.

Paone^ James, 1960, Uranium, [and] Thorium, in Mineral facts and problems I960: U.S. Bur. Mines Bull. 

585, p. 919-940, 863-872.

Reviews of present domestic status and technology. 

Include discussions of past production and uses, geology, ore production and refining, present uses, reserves, prices and costs, government policies, research, outlook and problems, and short bibliographies 

for each material.

Teitelbaum, P. D., 1958, Nuclear energy and the U.S. 

fuel economy, 1955-1980: Washington, National Planning Assoc., 187 p.

A projection of the Nation's total energy position, 

the prospective economic relations that may develop 

among energy sources, and the role of nuclear energy.

United Nations, 1958a, Progress in atomic energy, v. 1 

of Proceedings of the Second United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic 

Energy, Geneva, 1 September 13 September 1958: 

Geneva, United Nations, 525 p.

A detailed source of worldwide data on the techniques and costs of nuclear power. Includes a report 

(p. 395 407) on the need for atomic energy in underdeveloped countries (with summary tables of fossilfuel and waterpower resources of the world), and 24 

papers under the general heading, " The future of
nuclear power," including individual reports on nuclear power development and requirements in:

Canada 

France 

U.S.S.R. 

United

Kingdom 

United

States

India

Federal Republic of 

Germany

Italy

Japan

The Netherlands

Poland

Romania 

(People's 

Republic)

Spain

Sweden

Taiwan

Pakistan

Uruguay

Portugal

Burma

Belgium

United Nations, 1958b, Survey of raw material resources 

[for nuclear energy], v. 2 of Proceedings of the Second 

United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Geneva, 1 September 13 

September 1958: Geneva, United Nations, 843 p.

Contains 103 reports on reserves, prospecting, 

mining, geochemistry, mineralogy, geology, and origin of deposits of uranium and thorium throughout 

the world.

U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 1956, 

Peaceful uses of atomic energy Background material for the report of the Panel on the Impact of the 

Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: U.S. 84th Cong., 2d sess., v. 2, 

749 p.

Contains information on many aspects of the peaceful uses of atomic energy, including a forecast of the

growth of domestic nuclear-fueled electric generating capacity (p. 8 30), a discussion of the role of 

energy in the growth of industrial economies (p. 43 

58), and a forecast of the effects of the impact of 

atomic energy on the domestic coal, oil, and natural 

gas industries from the viewpoint of both government 

(p. 68-89) and private industry (p. 89-105).

[U.S.] Federal Power Commission, 1954, Estimated 

future [electrical] power requirements of the United 

States by regions, 1953-1975: Washington, Fed. 

Power Comm. Pub. FPC P-27, 6 p.

Contains estimates of electric power load on the 

major systems (Class I and smaller systems supplied therefrom) at 5-year intervals.

Young, L. L., 1955, Developed and potential waterpower 

of the United States and other countries of the world, 

December 1954: U.S. Geol. Survey Circ. 367, 14 p.

Presents tables of installed waterpower capacity 

for the United States and the .world as a whole for 14 

selected years during 1920 54; capacity, plant factor, potential waterpower at ordinary minimum and 

at mean flow (100 percent efficiency) at the end of 

1944 for all countries of the world; and potential 

waterpower of the United States by States. This report is a widely cited source of information on the 

waterpower resources of the world.

AUTHOR INDEX

Abraham, Herbert ___________________________

American Association of Petroleum Geologists _ 

American Gas Association, American Petroleum Institute, and Canadian Petroleum 

Association _______________________________

American Petroleum Institute_________________

Averitt, Paul._______________________________

Ayres, Eugene, and Scarlott, C. A_____________

Cadman, W. H___._.___-________________

Canadian Royal Commission on Energy ________

Carlow, C. A____.___________________________

Coal Age ___________________________________

Davis, Warren ______________________________

Donnell, J. R______..__-_____________________

Duncan, D. C-__--_-___-__--_________________

Eavenson, H. N______________________________

Eldridge, G. H _____________________

Electrical World ____________________________

Guthrie, Boyd, and Klosky, Simon _____________

Hartley, F. L., and Brinegar, C. S_____________

Hubbert, M. K_________________...____

Independent Petroleum Association of America _ 

Institute of Fuel _____________________________

Institute of Petroleum._______________________

International Geological Congress _____________

Jaworek, W. G., and Schanz, J. J., Jr ___________

MacKay, B. R_______________________________

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McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. (Keystone manual) _ 

Miller, R. L__________________________

National Coal Association.____________________

Netschert, B. C_________________-__________._

Nininger, R. D., and others ___________________

Oil and Gas Journal __________________________

Organisation for European Economic Cooperation _________________________________

Paone, James _______________________________

President's Materials Policy Commission ______

Putnam, P. C________________________________

Schurr, S. H., and Netschert, B. C ____________

Simpson, R. A., and Borden, R. L______________

Soper, E. K., and Osbon, C. C _________________

Swanson, V. E_______________________________

Teitelbaum, P. D ___________________________

Torrey, P. D________________________________

United Nations.__________________________2,3 J

U.S. Bureau of Mines_______________________ 3,

U.S. Congress _______________________________

U.S. Federal Power Commission ______________

Weeks, L. G______________________

World Oil_____._____________________

World Petroleum Congress, 5th _______________

World Power Conference _____________________

Young, L. L_________________________________

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