Glossary
oil and gas reserves
oil and gas reserves is estimated recoverable hydrocarbon volumes attached to a field, asset or country, published alongside production rather than as a separate product. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, EIA International Energy Statistics and Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker are working examples.
What is oil and gas reserves?
Estimated recoverable hydrocarbon volumes attached to a field, asset or country, published alongside production rather than as a separate product.
GOGET, the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels and GMET all ship reserves as columns or row families in their asset-level workbooks and APIs.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - EIA International Energy Statistics — "reserves; proven reserves series by country". - Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker — "each with reserves and annual production records". - Global Registry of Fossil Fuels — "reserves; per-year reserves data points with CO2e conversions". - Global Methane Emitters Tracker — "~2,300 reserve rows".
Why does oil and gas reserves matter when choosing a dataset?
Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and EIA International Energy Statistics lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate oil and gas reserves in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open EIA International Energy Statistics and confirm its record — "reserves; proven reserves series by country" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker and confirm its record — "each with reserves and annual production records" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open Global Registry of Fossil Fuels and confirm its record — "reserves; per-year reserves data points with CO2e conversions" — against the files you actually receive.
See the term applied to real records: oil-gas-exploration-production data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - asset level tracking - crude oil production - field lifecycle status
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of oil and gas reserves?
EIA International Energy Statistics is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "reserves; proven reserves series by country". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "oil and gas reserves" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides oil and gas reserves?
Open EIA International Energy Statistics next to Global Oil and Gas Extraction Tracker and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing oil and gas reserves
6 datasets carry oil and gas reserves in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
EIA International Energy Statistics
Eurostat Energy Database
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