دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

Technical Advancement of Multi-Laterals. An industry group that has defined multi-lateral junction levels and terminology.

n pl: the settlings in the bottom of a storage tank. See basic sediment and water, bottoms.

the near solid or highly viscous residuals at the bottom of an oil storage tank, generally composed of a large amount of paraffins, silt, heavy ends, etc.

n: a structure erected to contain petroleum or a petroleum-fed fire in case a storage vessel ruptures or collapses. Usually a dike is built around the petroleum storage tank and a steel or stone wall is put up between the prime movers and the oil pumps in a pipeline pumping station. Also called fire wall.

n: a ship designed to transport oil, LPG, LNG, or SNG. Tankers whose capacity is 100,000 deadweight tons (90,720 deadweight tonnes) or more are supertankers, either very large crude carriers or ultralarge crude carriers. Also called a tank ship.

a deposit of very long carbon chain alkanes. May be associated with asphaltenes.

n: a sandstone that contains chiefly heavy, tarlike hydrocarbons. Tar sands are difficult to produce by ordinary methods;thus it is costly to obtain usable hydrocarbons from them.

n pi: certain substances under TSCA that present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or to the environment," for example, asbestos and PCB.

adj: of or relating to the deformation of the earths crust, the forces involved in or producing such deformation, and the resulting rock forms.

any one of several insitu or earth stress forces. May include classic plate tectonics, salt flows, thrust forces, faults, folds, etc. Can be either near-field or far-field.