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(American Petroleum Institute) A collective term for the sum of proved and indicated reserves. Proved reserves are estimated with reasonable certainty to be recovered under current economic conditions. Indicated reserves are economic reserves in known pro

n: The job of packing cave or split to overcome leakaging with concretionary material.

n: (DOE) a federal department set up to provide a frame- work for a complete and balanced national energy plan through coordination and administration of the energy functions of the federal government. It is responsible for longterm, high-risk research and development of energy technology, the marketing of federal power, energy conservation, the nuclear weapons program, energy regulatory programs, and a central energy data collection and analysis program. Address: 1000 Independence Ave. SW;Washington, DC 20585;(202) 586-5000.

n: (DOT) a federal department that develops regulations governing transportation. Each mode of transportation has a different administration. The administrations under DOT include the US Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, and the Research and Special Programs Administration. Address: 400 7th Street SW;Washington, DC 205W;(202) 366-4000.

v: to exhaust a supply. An oil and gas reservoir is depleted when most or all economically recoverable hydrocarbons have been produced.

n: 1. the exhaustion of a resource.2. a reduction in income reflecting the exhaustion of a resource. The concept of depletion recognizes that a natural resource such as oil is used up over several accounting periods and permits the value of this resource to be expensed periodically as the resource is exhausted.

reducing the fluid content of a formation by production of that fluid.

n: a reduction in US taxes for owners of an economic interest in minerals in place to compensate for the exhaustion of an irreplaceable capital asset. This economic interest includes mineral interest, working interest in a lease, royalty, overriding royalty, production payment interest, and net profits interest.

n: 1. decrease in value of an asset such as a plant or equipment due to normal wear or passing of time;real property (land) does not depreciate. 2. an annual reduction of income reflecting the loss in useful value of capitalized investments by reason of wear and tear. The concept of depreciation recognizes that the purchase of an asset other than land will benefit several accounting cycles (periods) and should be expensed periodically over its useful life.

A method of depreciation whereby the asset is depreciated over an estimated life expressed in units of output rather than over an estimated life expressed as a period of time (From AGA).

n: the percentage of the rated power output that a given motor can deliver without being thermally overloaded. deregulation n: see decontrol.