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reservoir

Defined in 2 places across 2 titles of the United States Code.

The term “reservoir” means any producible natural accumulation of natural gas, crude oil, or both, confined—

(A) by impermeable rock or water barriers and characterized by a single natural pressure system; or

(B) by lithologic or structural barriers which prevent pressure communication.

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the term “reservoir” means the physical subsurface geologic structure which forms the natural repository for the undisturbed geothermal resource; and

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