[EnviroEngr]

Pup,

This may be useful at some point in time:
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/discover/

I didn't catch whether or not we're already using this information.

[pup55]

Thanks, EE,

This is already one of my favorite sites because they are on the mailing list for most of the discovery announcements.

There is a nice archive so I was able to go back and make a little spreadsheet of all of the 2004 discoveries, per the post below.

Thus far, excluding the Pemex Gulf of Mexico mega-field announcement, and also excluding the announcement of the Chinese of the Bohai field being as big as Iran's fields (both of which are subject to reality check going forward) I count 8.4 gb of new discoveries announced in 2004.

Also, there is occasional commentary and other interesting news.

[pup55]

Actually, EE, as kind of an afterthought,

It would be interesting to ask one or more of the experts how close this 8.4 gb estimate is, for 2004 discoveries, i.e. compare the number to the professionals and see if we are close.

Also, it would be interesting to get an expert comment on the big discoveries announcements from Mexico and China to see what they think is going on in these two cases.

Maybe we will be experts ourselves at some point!

[EnviroEngr]

Got it.