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PROVED DEVELOPED RESERVES (PDR) Definition & Legal Meaning

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This is the quantity of a natural resource such as coal, oil and gas that is able to be extracted from the wells and mines that are currently operating with the same level of equipment and machinery that is on hand now. These are determined by a test project and the amount of resource that is considered to exist to be mined.

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