The report further found that "recoverable" resources (accessible with today's technology) were between 1.2-12.2 TW for the conservative and moderate recovery scenarios respectively.

The quantity and quality of recoverable resources improves with drilling depth and proximity to tectonic plate boundaries.

When aborted, all its recoverable resources are put back in their initial states, as before running.

Still, the world's present measured resources of uranium, economically recoverable at a price of 130 USD/kg, are enough to last for between 70 and 100 years.

The world's present measured resources of uranium, economically recoverable at a price of US$130/kg, are enough to last for some 80 years at current consumption.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, the United States has the largest recoverable resources of oil, gas and coal of any nation on the planet.

America's recoverable resources are larger than the combined supply of Saudi Arabia, China and Canada.

Initial exploration would go a long way towards confirming whether the Karoo indeed held the estimated technically recoverable resource of 485 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas.

Technically recoverable resources represent that proportion of assessed in-place petroleum that may be recoverable using current recovery technology, without regard to cost.

Economically recoverable resources are technically recoverable petroleum for which the costs of discovery, development, production, and transport, including a return to capital, can be recovered at a given market price.