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Summary: U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Proved Reserves 2008 October 2009 Energy Information Administration Office of Oil and Gas U.S. Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 This sum mary was pre pared by the En ergy In for ma tion Ad min is tra tion, the in de pend ent sta tis ti cal and an a lyt i cal agency within the De part ment of En ergy. The in for ma tion con tained herein should not be con strued as ad vo cat ing or re flect ing any pol icy po si tion of the De part ment of En ergy or any other or ga ni za tion. U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Proved Reserves, 2008 The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) estimates of proved reserves of natural gas and crude oil as of the end of 2008 tell very different stories about apparent changes in the availability of these two energy resources in the United States. Proved reserves are those volumes of oil and natural gas that geological and engineering data demonstrate with reasonable certainty to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs under existing economic and operating conditions. Proved reserves of natural gas rose enough not only to replace production, but also to grow by almost 3 percent over 2007, largely due to continued development of unconventional gas from shales (see Table 1). In contrast, even though discoveries of crude oil rose for the third year in a row, proved reserves of crude oil fell by more than 10 percent. Under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules for determining reserves that have been in effect since 1982, operators assessed the