The Bureau of Economic Geology is a major research entity of The University of Texas at Austin and is one of the largest public-sector geoscience organizations in the United States. The Bureau staff of almost 200 includes 85 geologists, engineers, geophysicists, hydrologists, and resource economists, about 60 percent of whom have a Ph.D. degree. Approximately two-thirds of the Bureau’s work involves hydrocarbon assessment and recovery, a large part of which is being undertaken in Venezuela. The remaining one-third of the Bureau's work is primarily environmental, coastal, and hydrologic studies. Funding sources are from state, federal, nonprofit, and industrial entities. The results of Bureau work are disseminated through contract reports delivered to funding agencies, bulletins, reports, circulars, special publications, and maps published by the Bureau (nearly 2,250), and through numerous articles published in national and international peer-reviewed journals.

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