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ULTIMATELY RECOVERABLE RESOURCE [1 record]

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Record 1 2002-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Deposits
  • Economic Geology
OBS

The term «ultimately recoverable resource» describes an estimate of how much material will ever be found and extracted (implicitly including an assessment of how effective technology will ever become and how much civilization will ever be willing to pay for the material).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gisements pétrolifères
  • Géologie économique
DEF

[...] le maximum de pétrole prouvé, probable et à découvrir que l'on puisse espérer exploiter.

Spanish

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