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Survey Boosts Technically Recoverable Orinoco Reserves To 513bn bbl

January 2010 | Industry News

A report by the US Geological Survey (USGS) has claimed that Venezuela's Orinoco oil belt could hold a mean volume of 513bn barrels (bbl) of technically recoverable oil.

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