Containment boom

a floating, flexible boom placed on the

surface of the sea in order to contain an

oil slick

Oil slick

a layer of oil floating on the surface of the

sea, generally caused by some sort of

accident or spillage, but which is occasionally

caused by natural seepage from

the ocean floor

Engineering plastic resins

a class of petroleum-based materials

which can be molded to form plastic artifacts

or used as the basis of adhesives

Extender oil

an oil used to alter the physical characteristics

of synthetic rubber

Block number

the number assigned to a particular

license block or subdivision

thereof in a given national sector of

the continental shelf

Norwegian trench

the region of extremely deep water that

lies just off the SW and S coasts of

Norway and thus prevents offshore

pipelines being laid to Norway from the

northern North Sea

Desiccation (drying)

the removal of moisture or the prevention

of moisture pick-up from the surrounding

atmosphere

Desalting

the removal of inorganic chloride-type

impurities from crude oils

Foreign exchange

money of a currency other than that of

the company headquarter's country

Stock

see inventory

Pressure equipment

vessels, piping and other equipment

specially designed to operate under

pressure Excessive pressure relief is

provided by safety relief valves, or

bursting discs

Bottom hole assembly (BHA)

the lower end of the drill string comprising

the drill bit, drill collars, heavyweight

drill pipe and ancillary equipment

Platform equipment

the equipment installed on a pro-duction

or drilling platform (drilling equipment,

processing equipment, power plant,

accommodation modules, etc)

Casing

the steel pipe that is cemented into a well

to prevent the wall from caving in and

stop unwanted fluids from entering the

hole from the surrounding rocks

Tax paid cost

the actual cost to an oil company of the

oil it produces in a particular county (all

costs incurred plus amounts paid to the

state in Royalties, rentals and taxes)

Gross tonnage

the volume of the interior of a crude oil

tanker including all spaces which are

permanently closed in (but excluding the

double bottom), expressed in tons per

100 cubic feet

Uplift

the amount of oil that can be recovered

from a field annually before taxes have to

be paid

Obligatory wells

exploration wells that an operator

undertakes to drill in a given area as a

condition for being allocated an exploration

license

Overshot

a fishing tool for recovering lost drill pipe

or casing

Refractory

materials which can stand high temperatures

and resist corrosion and abrasion

Particularly used for furnace linings

Odorant

a substance such as a mercaptan that

is added to natural gas and natural gas

liquids when used as fuel (which are normally

odorless) to give them a

characteristic smell and thus enable

them to be detected

Octane

the saturated hydrocarbon (alkane) with

eight carbon atoms in its molecule

(C8H18), the eighth member of the

paraffin series - a liquid under

normal conditions

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