Federal and Indian lands oil and gas production, value, and royalties by state, 1954-1980 and prior

This data release includes a digitized version of the "Statistics by States, lands, products and years" section of the 1981 edition of the Federal and Indian lands oil and gas production, royalty income, and related statistics publication. These data were published by the Conservation Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, which was tasked with the accounting for Federal lease production and royalties across multiple commodities. That mission was transferred within the Department of the Interior to the Minerals Management Service in 1982 and later to the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) in 2011, where the work is still conducted. Prior to this digitization effort, these data covering Federal lease energy production records from 1954-1980, and also a "prior" years catch all, were not known to be available in a digital format. Paper records were scanned from 250 source tables, totaling approximately 39,000 values. Optical character recognition and table parsing were performed using machine learning software. Due to the less-than-ideal quality of the source material, errors were present in all tables at a rate of approximately 5% of the values. Quality control checks were performed by the authors using sub-totals provided in the original data. The data provide production quantity, production value, and royalty value for oil, condensate, natural gas, liquid petroleum gas, carbon dioxide, sulfur, salt, oil lost, gas lost, geothermal energy, hot water, and totals. The following land types are included: all (a total), public, acquired, outer continental shelf, military and miscellaneous, navy petroleum reserve, and Indian. The authors have also provided the production and royalty value records converted to 2024 indexed dollar values based on consumer price index (CPI) inflation data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.