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proration|prəʊˈreɪʃən|
[f. pro-rate v. + -ion.]
The action or an instance of prorating; spec. allocation of the permitted production of oil or gas between competing operators, fields, etc.
1923Oil Weekly 22 Sept. 12/1 The Eastern fields and those of the Middle West are without proration problems. 1931Economist 20 June 1324/2 Oil proration, copper curtailment agreements, and railroad mergers indicate the swing of the pendulum. 1954R. Cassady Price Making in Petroleum Industry vii. 114 Under a proration scheme..a sort of floor is placed under prices by limiting the amount of oil to be withdrawn on a basis of the needs of the market. 1957Times 11 Dec. 16/5 The Pembina Oilfield is subject to strict proration; but all the wells have produced the maximum allowable since they were completed. 1960Economist 15 Oct. 264/1 The ideas of a petroleum exporters' cartel, miscalled ‘international proration’..are not inherently unfeasible. 1971Nature 28 May p. viii/1 (Advt.), Only a Wang 100 can do side calculations, analyses, prorations and serve as an adding machine.
Hence proˈrationing vbl. n. in the same sense.
1948E. V. Rostow National Policy for Oil Industry iii. 21 In 1932, the Supreme Court declared prorationing legal. 1959de Chazeau & Kahn Integration & Competition in Petroleum Industry vii. 163 Prorationing to market demand has clearly brought about orderly marketing of crude oil with much fewer and less extreme price changes. 1960Guardian 15 Oct. 7/5 The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries..would..try to keep prices stable by regulating production (the system known to the industry as ‘pro-rationing’). 1962W. A. Leeman Price of Middle East Oil ix. 230 In effect the Venezuelans proposed a system of world-wide ‘prorationing’, similar to the arrangements already established in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and a number of other states. |
