The deal for Mariner is even larger with 181M proven barrels of oil equivalent (47 percent are oil or other hydrocarbon liquids), but according to the press release there is the potential of 2B barrels of oil equivalent among their 50 deepwater prospects.

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Iraq could do that solo, the only country, that "has the potential to add the equivalent of a Saudi Arabia to the world oil market, " says Burkhard.

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These have the potential to become the equivalent of taxis and will be able to land at thousands of minor and secondary airports around the country, not just at the big, traditional ones.

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Threshold financial assets requirement for potential customers is JPY 30 million equivalent.

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That is equivalent to an increase in Britain's potential growth rate over the same period of 0.3 percentage points a year, an impressive effect.

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First came the remarkable work of Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University, who showed it was possible, by activating just four genes, to take a mature cell (he used a bit of skin but other cells would work) and turn it into the equivalent of an embryonic stem cell with the potential to become any other cell in the body of mouse or human.

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This is equivalent to a total drop in output, relative to potential, of 7%.

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If women's economic potential can be successfully harnessed and leveraged, it would be the equivalent of having an additional one billion individuals in business and in the workforce contributing to the global economy.

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If less than 1% of MTV's potential viewers around the world switched to three energy-efficient light bulbs, it would be equivalent to taking 100, 000 cars off the road, Roedy adds, the well-rehearsed statistics rolling off his tongue.

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