University of Oxford · World Bank

James Cust

Data

Datasets, replication packages, and Stata code from published research.

Giant Oil and Gas Field Discoveries, 1868–2018

2021

James 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 ↗.