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Oil
This category refers to oil as petroleum, a liquid flammable that occurs in nature that has a complex mixture of hydrocarbons and other varying liquid organic compounds. Oil is found in geologic formations under the Earth's surface.
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Maximum continuous speed
Oil & gas; Oil
The highest speed a ship can develop continuously, without any damage to its propeller engines, or better, with those ones developing the same maximum power in a continuous way. The same as maximum ...
Marine police
Oil & gas; Oil
1 - Corporation that guards ports and coast, in charge of avoiding the entrance of smuggled goods in the country. 2 - It is the police troops which act in the port and on board in ships passing by ...
Maritime risk
Oil & gas; Oil
It is said of the dangers to which boats and goods are exposed for damages that can happen, in consequence of accidents at sea. The same as sea fortune.
Set of sails
Oil & gas; Oil
The set of all sails in a ship. It is divided in two classes: round sails, those that cover from BB to EB (port side to starboard), perpendicular to the keel, and fore-and-aft sails, those hanging ...
Maximum operating pressure (mop)
Oil & gas; Oil
Higher pressure that each point of a duct is suject to in normal operating conditions, be it in permanent outflow regimen or in static condition.
Sharp time
Oil & gas; Oil
It refers to the time the agent or isntitutor requests the port administration, in order to perform the movement of its lading, inside the limits of this time.
