The Barryroe field is now thought to have as much as 500 million barrels of recoverable light oil out of a total reservoir of 1 billion barrels.
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New finds in the Wattenberg Field north of Denver alone could contain more than a billion barrels of recoverable oil and natural gas, essentially matching the huge Eagle Ford or the Bakken Field in western North Dakota.
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The well-established pattern of such development suggests that the natural gas discoveries to date represent only a fraction of the total recoverable resource.
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In addition, unlike a balloon, it is recoverable and re-useable.
Based on other basins, current discoveries in the Israeli Levant Basin likely are only a fraction of the total technically recoverable resources.
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The US Geological Survey estimates that the Arctic has around a quarter of the world's undiscovered and recoverable oil and gas reserves.
Other collaboration platforms create a huge amout of content but none of them make it recoverable.
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In a 2012 update, the USGS put the mean undiscovered estimate of recoverable oil in Russia's Arctic provinces alone at 28 billion barrels, plus about 27 trillion cubic meters of gas.
Brazilian authorities, and national oil giant Petrobras, had been working with global oil companies in order to tap the coveted assets, in a field that is thought to contain about 8 billion barrels of recoverable oil.
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Back on land, mining-company engineers say new techniques, such as dissolving minerals and sucking them up through a pipe or extracting ore with high-powered water jets, could increase recoverable reserves.
An estimated 85.4 trillion cubic feet of "undiscovered, technically recoverable gas" is frozen in the state's North Slope region, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released by the Interior Department.
The unconventional-gas bonanza has roughly doubled the gas resource base, a measure of the total gas in the ground rather than what might be economically recoverable.
With trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, and potentially as much as 250 billion barrels of recoverable shale oil, Israel may be on the verge of joining the wealthiest Arab states as a world class energy producer.
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