Percentage of total hydrocarbon reserves recovered:

\rm RF = \frac{V_{recovered \ reserves}}{V_{total \ reserves}}


It is related to Depletion Rate (DR) as:

\rm RF = EUR \cdot DR

where EUR is Estimated Ultimate Recovery.

See Also


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