a previous unwritten expectation of perpetuity

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Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil giant, was granted exclusive rights for 40 years to drill for the country’s oil, the Financial Times reported. This would replace a previous unwritten expectation of perpetuity. The company continues to insist it will sell a stake to the public when conditions are right, after reports of long delays or even cancellation.

% ?( ]; ~5 f" O$ ja previous unwritten expectation of perpetuity ：之前不成文的永久权的期待？预期？

  N! q) h" t/ J1 W, Texpectation的中文释义
1  what you think or hope will happen 期待, 期望
! K, b( P5 k( }3 f( W2  a feeling or belief about the way something should be or how someone should behave 预期
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" B* {2 O% x. M2 C$ oSaudi Aramco之前的独家采油权1999年到期了，但之后它并未被明文规定不得继续采集，所以大家都预料（expect）这项特许权实际意义上是永久性（perpetuity）的了。但这下好了，规定出台了，它只能继续享受40年的特许权，即40年的特许权取代了之前被预料的不成文永久特许权。
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The previous concession ended in 1999, leaving a legal vacuum. Since then, “Aramco in effect holds an evergreen concession to exploit the reserves of the kingdom in return for a stream of income in the form of taxes, royalties and dividends,” according to a report by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-27/saudi-arabia-is-said-to-grant-aramco-40-year-oil-concession

Aramco has lost unlimited access to Saudi Arabia's oil reserves

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-aramco-loses-unlimited-access-to-oil-reserves-2018-8/

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原来是这样，感谢您的回复