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Abandonment Allowance (AA) A 100% allowance for expenditure incurred in respect of abandoning a field.
 
Appraisal expenditure Costs incurred in survey, exploitation and appraisal of license areas not yet under development or in production.
 
Commercial field Field judged to be capable of producing sufficient net income to be worth developing.
 
Conveying & Treating (C&T) Services provided by a field to other fields in vicinity.
 
Cretaceous Period of geological time about 144 - 65 million years ago.
 
Cross Field Allowance (CFA) An element (up to 10%) of immediate relief for qualifying field development costs where a participator on a new taxable development has, or expects to have, PRT profits in another taxable field.
 
Development expenditure All costs including financing costs, E&A expenditures incurred in bringing a field to commercial production and is defined as tangible assets.
 
Discount rate Used to convert future income / expenditure to its present day value.
 
Exploration expenditure All costs, including premium payments, associated with acquisition of new acreage, drilling of exploratory wells and other costs incurred in evaluating commercial viability of geological entities.
 
Marginal Field A field that may not produce enough net income to make it worth developing at a given time; should technical or economic conditions change, such a field may become commercial.

 



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