Acquisition

Acquisition
  1) (minerals)
  The procurement of the legal right to explore for and produce discovered minerals, if any, within a specific area; that legal right may be obtained by mineral lease, concession, or purchase of land and mineral rights or of mineral rights alone.
  U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration's Energy Glossary
  2) (foreign crude oil)
  All transfers of ownership of foreign crude oil to a firm, irrespective of the terms of that transfer. Acquisitions thus include all purchases and exchange receipts as well as any and all foreign crude acquired under reciprocal buy-sell agreements or acquired as a result of a buy-back or other preferential agreement with a host government.
  U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration's Energy Glossary

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