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n: (STB) a measure of the volume of crude oil in a stock tank on a lease or tank farm.

one barrel of stabilized or dead oil at the surface after the gas has escaped.

n: a group of large tanks maintained by a pipeline and used to store oil after it has been transferred from the production tanks and before it is transported to the refinery.

a group of supply or storage tanks.

n: a point to which oil is transported through pipelines. It usually includes a tank farm and may include tanker-loading facilities.

n: (TAPS) the largest long-distance, big-inch pipe- line in the non-Communist world. Stretch- ing approximately 800 miles (1,288 kiIometres) from Deadhorse (near Prudhoe Bay) to Valdez, Alaska, the 48-inch pipeline was completed in 1977 at a cost of $8 billion. Today, it transports from 1 million to 2 million barrels (159 million to 318 million litres) of oil a day from fields on the North Slope of Alaska to tank farms in Valdez.