James Cust
Data
Datasets, replication packages, and Stata code from published research.
Giant Oil and Gas Field Discoveries, 1868–2018
2021James Cust, David Mihalyi, Alexis Rivera-Ballesteros
A historical dataset of major petroleum discoveries from 1868 through 2018. Extends prior records by adding post-2010 discoveries, correcting existing data, and calculating the NPV of each field based on estimated recoverable reserves valued at discovery-year oil prices.
Associated paper: Cust, Mihalyi & Rivera-Ballesteros (2021). "The Economic Effects of Giant Oil and Gas Discoveries." AAPG Memoir 125: Giant Fields of the Decade 2010–2020, pp. 21–36.
Harvard Dataverse ↗ doi:10.7910/DVN/MEH5CS
Additional replication packages will be listed here as they are released. Code is also available on GitHub ↗.