2022

• Petroleum Market Developments – Progress and Actions to Increase Supply and Improve Resilience
• Principles, and Oil & Gas Industry Initiatives and Technologies for Progressing to Net Zero

2019

• Meeting the Dual Challenge: A Roadmap to At-Scale Deployment of Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage

• Dynamic Delivery: America’s Evolving Oil and Natural Gas Transportation Infrastructure

• Supplemental Assessment to the 2015 Report – Arctic Potential: Realizing the Promise of U.S. Arctic Oil and Gas Resources

2016

• Emergency Preparedness Implementation Addendum

• Arctic Potential: Realizing the Promise of U.S. Arctic Oil and Gas Resources

2014

• Enhancing Emergency Preparedness for Natural Disasters – Government and Oil & Natural Gas Industry Actions to Prepare, Respond, and Recover

2012

• Advancing Technology for America's Transportation Future

2011

• Prudent Development: Realizing the Potential of North America's Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Resources
  

2008

• One Year Later: An Update on Facing the Hard Truths about Energy

2007

• Facing the Hard Truths about Energy
  A comprehensive view to 2030 of global oil and natural gas

2004

• Observations on Petroleum Product Supply
  A Supplement to the NPC Reports:
  U.S. Petroleum Product Supply — Inventory Dynamics, 1998, and
  U.S. Petroleum Refining — Assuring the Adequacy and Affordability of Cleaner Fuels, 2000

2003

• Balancing Natural Gas Policy – Fueling the Demands of a Growing Economy

2001

Securing Oil and Natural Gas Infrastructures In the New Economy

U.S. Petroleum Refining – Assuring the Adequacy and Affordability of Cleaner Fuels

Meeting the Challenges of the Nation’s Growing Natural Gas Demand

• U.S. Petroleum Product Supply Inventory Dynamics

• Issues for Interagency Consideration – A Supplement to the NPC’s Report: Future Issues – A View of U.S. Oil & Natural Gas to 2020

• Research, Development, and Demonstration Needs of the Oil and Gas Industry
• Future Issues – A View of U.S. Oil & Natural Gas to 2020

• Marginal Wells
• The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 - Issues and Solutions

• U.S. Petroleum Refining - Meeting Requirements for Cleaner Fuels and Refineries
• Executive Summary
• Volume I - Analyses & Results
• Volume II - General Information Appendices
• Volume III - Financial & Facilities Appendices
• Volume IV - Supply, Demand, & Logistics Appendix
• Volume V - Refining Capability Appendix
• Volume VI - Survey Appendix

• The Potential for Natural Gas in the United States
• Executive Summary
• Volume I - Summary
• Volume II - Source and Supply
• Volume III - Demand and Distribution
• Volume IV - Transmission and Storage
• Volume V - Regulatory and Policy Issues
• Volume VI - Model Documentation and Results

• Industry Assistance to Government - Methods for Providing Petroleum Industry Expertise During Emergencies
• Short-Term Petroleum Outlook - An Examination of Issues and Projections

1989

• Petroleum Storage & Transportation
• Volume I - Executive Summary
• Volume II - System Dynamics
• Volume III - Natural Gas Transportation
• Volume IV - Petroleum Inventories and Storage
• Volume V - Petroleum Liquids Transportation

• Integrating R&D Efforts

• Factors Affecting U.S. Oil & Gas Outlook (10.2 MB)

• U.S. Petroleum Refining
• U.S. Oil & Gas Outlook (Interim Report)

• The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: A Report on the Capability to Distribute SPR Oil
• Enhanced Oil Recovery
• Petroleum Inventories and Storage Capacity (Full Report)

• Petroleum Inventories and Storage Capacity (Interim Report)

• Environmental Conservation (Full Report)
• Third World Petroleum Development: A Statement of Principles

• Emergency Preparedness
• Environmental Conservation (Overview)
• U.S. Arctic Oil & Gas

• Unconventional Gas Sources
• Interim Summary
• Volume I - Executive Summary
• Volume II - Coal Seams
• Volume III - Devonian Shale
• Volume IV - Geopressured Brines
• Volume V, Part 1 - Tight Gas Reservoirs
• Volume V, Part 2 - Tight Gas Reservoirs
• Refinery Flexibility

All of the following documents can be viewed and downloaded directly from this page as PDFs.

1979

• Materials & Manpower Requirements for U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production 1979-1990 (9.6 MB)
• Petroleum Storage & Transportation Capacities
• Volume I - Executive Summary (2.8 MB)
• Volume II - Inventory and Storage (4.9 MB)
• Volume III - Petroleum Pipelines (11.9 MB)
• Volume IV - Tank Cars and Trucks (2.2 MB)
• Volume V - Waterborne (2.8 MB)
• Volume VI - Gas Pipelines (6.6 MB)
• Refinery Flexibility - An Interim Report - Volume I (7.8 MB)
• Refinery Flexibility - An Interim Report - Volume II (41.5 MB)

• Enhanced Oil Recovery (38.2 MB)

• Ocean Petroleum Resources
• Petroleum Storage for National Security (3.8 MB)
• Potential for Energy Conservation in the United States: 1979-1985 (3.7 MB)

• Availability of Materials, Manpower and Equipment for the Exploration,
  Drilling and Production of Oil 1974-1976 - Summary
• Availability of Materials, Manpower and Equipment for the Exploration,
  Drilling and Production of Oil 1974-1976
(4 MB)
• Emergency Preparedness for the Interruption of Petroleum Imports into the United States - Summary
• Emergency Preparedness for the Interruption of Petroleum Imports into the United States
• Petroleum Storage Capacity
• Potential for Energy Conservation in the United States 1974-1978 - Summary Report
• Potential for Energy Conservation in the United States 1974-1978 - Electric Utility
• Potential for Energy Conservation in the United States 1974-1978 - Industrial
• Potential for Energy Conservation in the United States 1974-1978 - Residential/Commercial
• Potential for Energy Conservation in the United States 1974-1978 - Transportation (4.3 MB)
• Short-Term U.S. Petroleum Outlook - A Reappraisal

• Law of the Sea - Particular Aspects Affecting the Petroleum Industry
• Factors Affecting U.S. Petroleum Refining - A Summary (3.9 MB)
• Factors Affecting U.S. Petroleum Refining - Final Report (5.6 MB)
• Factors Affecting U.S. Petroleum Refining - Impact of New Technology
• Emergency Preparedness for Interruption of Petroleum into the United States - Interim Report
• Emergency Preparedness for Interruption of Petroleum into the United States - Supplemental Interim Report
• Emergency Preparedness for Interruption of Petroleum into the United States - Supplemental Interim Report Papers

• Environmental Conservation -The Oil and Gas Industries, Volume II (9.3 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook -A Summary Report of the National Petroleum Council (10.4 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook -A Report of the National Petroleum Council’s Committee on U.S. Energy Outlook (6.5 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook - Coal Availability (6.9 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook - Energy Demand
• U.S. Energy Outlook - Fuels for Electricity
• U.S. Energy Outlook - Gas Demand
• U.S. Energy Outlook - Gas Transportation (19.4 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook - New Energy Forms (8 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook - Nuclear Energy Availability (6.5 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook - Oil and Gas Availability (12.2 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook - Oil Shale Availability (3.9 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook - Water Availability
• Guide to National Petroleum Council Report on U.S. Energy Outlook

• Environmental Conservation -The Oil and Gas Industries, Volume I (32.6 MB)
• Petroleum Resources Under the Ocean Floor - Supplemental Report (9.6 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook - An Initial Appraisal (1971-1985), Volume I (10.4 MB)
• U.S. Energy Outlook - An Initial Appraisal (1971-1985), Volume II (135.3 MB)

• Capacity of Crude Oil Gathering Systems and Deep-Water Terminals (8.2 MB)
• Current Key Issues Relating to Environmental Conservation -The Oil and Gas Industries (3.3 MB)
• Future Petroleum Provinces in the United States -A Summary (21.6 MB)
• Short-Term Fuel Oil Outlook (28.4 MB)
• U.S. Petroleum Inventories and Storage Capacity (7.9 MB)

1969

• Materials Requirements for Petroleum Exploration and Production (22.7 MB)
• List of Key Occupations in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries (8.1 MB)
• Skills and Occupations of People in the United States Oil and Gas Industries (13.8 MB)
• Petroleum Resources Under the Ocean Floor (24.7 MB)
• U.S. Petroleum Imports (7.6 MB)

• Impact of New Technology on the U.S. Petroleum Industry (1946-1965) (60.6 MB)
• Petroleum Resources Under the Ocean Floor (Interim Report)

• Factors Affecting U.S. Exploration, Development and Production (1946-1965) (90.6 MB)
• U.S. Petroleum and Gas Transportation Capacities (24.9 MB)

• Critical Materials Requirements for Petroleum Refining
• Estimated Productive Capacities of Crude Oil, Natural Gas and Natural Gas Liquids in the United States (1965-1970)
• Impact of Electric Power Outages on Petroleum Industry Facilities
• Participation in the Water for Peace Program
• Petroleum Policies for the United States
• What is the Emergency Petroleum and Gas Administration?

• Emergency Fuel Convertibility (3.3 MB)
• Proved Discoveries and Productive Capacity of Crude Oil, Natural Gas and Natural Gas Liquids in the United States (4.2 MB)

• Civil Defense and Emergency Planning for the Petroleum and Gas Industries
• Volume I (49 MB)
• Volume II (12.6 MB)
• Impact of Oil Exports from the Soviet Bloc (Supplement) (24.3 MB)
• Petroleum and Gas in a National Emergency (An Analysis of Government Planning) (17.2 MB)
• Petroleum and Gas in a National Emergency (Supplement) (3.2 MB)

• Chemical Manufacturing Facilities of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries
• Materials Requirements for Oil and Gas Exploration, Drilling and Production
• Petroleum and Gas Industries Manpower Requirements (10.8 MB)
• Petroleum Storage Capacity

• Impact of Oil Exports from the Soviet Bloc
• Volume I (14.8 MB)
• Volume II (33.8 MB)
• Oil and Gas Transportation Facilities (7.3 MB)

• Maintenance and Chemical Requirements for U.S. Petroleum Refineries and Natural Gasoline Plants (7 MB)
• Proved Discoveries and Productive Capacity of Crude Oil, Natural Gas and Natural Gas Liquids in the United States
• The National Petroleum Council – A Unique Experience in Government-Industry Cooperation:
  The First Seven Years, 1946-1953 (38.2 MB)

• Petroleum Industry Use of the Radio Spectrum(Final Report)
• Petroleum Storage Facilities

1959

• National Emergency Oil and Gas Mobilization
• Petroleum Industry’s Use of the Radio Spectrum (Interim Report)

• Petroleum Transportation

• Availability of Liquefied Petroleum Gas
• Petroleum Productive Capacity
• Petroleum Storage Capacity
• Underground Storage for Petroleum
• United States Refinery Capacity
• World Petroleum Tanker Construction

• Oil and Gas Emergency Defense Organization Communication Facilities
• Oil and Gas Industries Manpower
• Tank Truck Transportation
• Underground Storage for Petroleum
• World Petroleum Tanker Construction

• Disaster Planning for the Oil and Gas Industries
• Oil and Gas Industries Manpower
• Petroleum Imports
• Petroleum Productive Capacity
• Security Principles for the Petroleum and Gas Industries
• Shale Oil Policy
• Use of Radio and Radar

• Oil and Gas Emergency Defense Organization
• Petroleum Storage Capacity

• Federal Lands Oil and Gas Policy
• Government Oil and Gas Organization
• Oil and Gas Exploration, Drilling and Production Requirements
• September
• December
• Petroleum Productive Capacity
• Submerged Lands Productive Capacity
• February
• May
• Synthetic Liquid Fuels Production Costs
• Use of Radio and Radar

• Bunker "C" Fuel Oil
• Oil Country Tubular Goods
• January
• July
• Petroleum Productive Capacity
• Petroleum Storage Capacity
• Synthetic Liquid Fuels Production Costs
• January
• July
• Tank Truck Transportation Census
• Underground Storage for Petroleum

• Capital and Materials Requirements for Increasing Availability of Petroleum Products - Million Barrels
• February
• May
• October
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas
• Materials and Chemicals Requirements of the Oil and Gas Industries
• Oil and Gas Industries Manpower
• Petroleum Productive Capacity
• Quebracho Requirements of the Petroleum Industry
• Synthetic Liquid Fuels Production Costs
• May
• July
• October 15
• October 31
• Transportation and Materials Requirements for Liquefied Petroleum Gas Availability
• Trends in Petroleum Consuming Equipment
• Underground Storage for Petroleum

• Crude Petroleum Reserve Production Capacity
• Federal Oil and Gas Leasing
• Form of Organization for a Government Petroleum Agency in Connection with Present Emergency
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas
• Organization Structure Under the National Defense Production Act
• Petroleum Imports
• January
• July
• Petroleum Industry Manpower
• Petroleum Industry Steel Requirements
• September
• December
• Petroleum Storage Capacity
• Petroleum Transportation
• Proposed Petroleum Policy Council
• Synthetic Liquid Fuels Production Costs

1949

• Advisory Activities - District I
• Advisory Activities - District IV
• Advisory Activities - District V
• Military and Government Petroleum Requirements
• January
• April
• Mineral Industries Census
• A National Oil Policy
• National Petroleum Emergency
• Petroleum Imports
• Petroleum Industry Manpower
• Petroleum Industry Steel Requirements
• Petroleum Refining Capacity
• Quebracho Requirements of the Petroleum Industry

• Advisory Activities - District I
• Advisory Activities - District III
• Advisory Activities - District V
• Analyzation of the Report of Sixteen Nations
• Government Royalty Oil Regulations
• Liquefied Petroleum Gas
• April
• July
• Military and Government Petroleum Requirements
• January
• February
• March 1
• March 25
• April
• June
• July 15
• July 26
• August
• October
• Petroleum Industry Steel Requirements
  • March
  • July
  • October
• Petroleum Production and Crude Availability
• Petroleum Refining Capacity
• Petroleum Storage Capacity
• Voluntary Allocation Agreements
• January
• April

• Barge Transportation
• Illinois River Winter Transportation
• International Standards for Measurement of Liquid Petroleum Fuels
• Materials Requirements by the Oil and Gas Industry
• January
• October
• Military Aircraft Fuels Productive Capacity
• April
• July
• September
• Military and Government Petroleum Requirements
• June
• July
• August
• October
• November
• Petroleum Pipeline Transportation
• Petroleum Production and Crude Availability
• Petroleum Products Supplies and Availability
• November
• December
• Petroleum Rail Transportation
• Petroleum Refining Capacity
• Petroleum Tank Car Steel Requirements
• Petroleum Tanker Transportation
• June
• November
• Petroleum Transportation Facilities
• Petroleum Truck Transportation
• Temporary Statistical Advisory Committee

• Federal Mineral Leasing Act
• High Pressure Tank Cars for the Transportation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas
• Materials Requirements by the Oil and Gas Industry
(November)

updated 6/5/23