Up-to-date after twenty years this new version combines a father/son writer group that spans greater than seventy five years within the petroleum undefined.
R. Dobie Langenkamp bargains a clean set of phrases and words brought to the over the last two decades and nonetheless comprises many ancient references from the early days of the undefined.
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See Whittaker approach. BRUSH HOG A heavy-duty, power-driven brush cutter for clearing rights-of-way of trees, small saplings, and brush. B. S. &W. brief for easy sediment and water frequently present in crude oil. B. S. D. Barrels in keeping with flow day. See move Day. B. S. E. E. U. S. Bureau of safeguard and Environmental Enforcement—a bureau of the dep. of the inner. BTL PIPELINE the most vital foreign pipelines, 1768 km in size sporting nearly 1 Mbd, which runs from Baku, Azerbaijan at the Caspian via Georgia and directly to the Turkish Port and terminal at Ceyhan at the Mediterranean. fifty seven A B C D E F G H I J ok L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 58 BTU | dollar UP BTU British thermal unit (Btu); the volume of warmth required to elevate one pound of water one measure Fahrenheit. BTU ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE A clause through which the gasoline manufacturer gets kind of reckoning on no matter if the fuel is above or under the normal 1,000 BTU consistent with cubic foot. BTU TAX A tax periodically proposed yet but to be handed, in keeping with the BTU or warmth content material of the actual gasoline, oil, gasoline or coal or even wooden. B. T. X. Benzene-toluene-xylene; easy aromatics utilized in the manufacture of paints, man made rubber, agricultural chemical substances, and chemical intermediates. The initials are utilized by refinery employees in designating a unit of the refinery. BUBBLE-CAP TRAYS cabinets or horizontal baffles inside of a fractionating tower or column which are perforated to permit the fluid cost to run all the way down to the ground of the column and the vapors to upward push throughout the trays to the pinnacle the place they're drawn off. The perforations within the trays are made with small, umbrella-like caps known as bubble caps, whose objective is to strength the emerging vapors to bubble in the course of the a number of inches of liquid status on each one tray ahead of the vapors circulation upward to the subsequent tray. the new vapors effervescent during the liquid retain the liquid cost heated. BUBBLE-POINT strain The strain at which gasoline, held in resolution in crude oil, breaks out of resolution as unfastened fuel; saturation strain. BUBBLE-POINT PUMP See Pump, Bubble-Point. BUBBLE TOWER Any of the tall cylindrical towers at an oil refinery. See Fractionator. BUCKING THE TONGS operating in a pipeline gang laying screw pipe, which used to be laid with pipe tongs. Synonym: hitting the hooks. Little used at the moment, as just about all pipe is welded. dollar UP To tighten pipe joints with a wrench. trojan horse, WELDING | BULLET PERFORATION trojan horse, WELDING See Welding computer virus. malicious program BLOWERS huge lovers used on or close to the ground of the drilling rig to maintain mosquitoes and different flying bugs off the rig staff. insects insects, like gremlins, are demanding to pin down or outline, yet each engineer and plant operator understands there are such issues ready to foul up the best-laid plans. They reason plant startup mischief: furnaces flame out, air tanks spring leaks, switches won't open or shut on the right time, engines get out of stability and vibrate, fail-safe units simply fail, and bearings get sizzling. It takes it slow to get the insects out, and the gremlins run off.