Report Contents 1. Overview of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Background Resource Assessment Glossary
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Potential Oil Production from the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Updated Assessment Glossary ANILCA: Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation ActANS: Alaskan North Slope ANWR: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge BBbls: billion barrels Bbls: barrels Daily Petroleum Production Rate: The amount of petroleum extracted per day from a well, group of wells, region, etc. (usually expressed in barrels per day) EIA: Energy Information Administration MBbls: thousand barrels MMBbls: million barrels NPR-A: National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Petroleum Play: A set of known or postulated petroleum accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties such as source rock, migration, pathway, timing, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type TAPS: Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Technically Recoverable Resources: Resources in accumulations producible using current recovery technology but without reference to economic profitability generally conceived as existing in accumulations of sufficient size to be amenable to the application of existing recovery technology (usually expressed in barrels, for oil) USGS: United States Geological Survey Yearly Petroleum Development Rate: The amount of petroleum potentially made available through the drilling of wells and installation of infrastructure in a region in a year (usually expressed in barrels per year) |