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Comment author: gwern 28 November 2012 06:48:18PM 2 points [-]

Experts estimate that, as an industry, we waste roughly 25%—or approximately US$30 billion—of our annual upstream expenditures.

One possible attack for a citation is, besides the obvious searches for those two figures or looking for related government reports/statistics, is looking for a McKinsey report on that industry written before then; they're widely read but not always cited, and they have industry-wide views because of their prestige and numerous clients.

Comment author: Larks 10 February 2013 03:18:06PM 0 points [-]

Another would be stock broker research, especially from one of the top research banks (Morgan Stanley, Merryl Lynch), though this'd probably be harder to get access to.