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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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Measured tonne

Oil & gas; Oil

Volume unit of forty cubic feet, used exclusively in calculating freight of loads aboard.

Abeam

Oil & gas; Oil

1 - Normal direction on the longitudinal plane of the ship. 2 - Position related to part of the ship. Such position is perpendicular to the line pro-stem, aproximately, in the middle of the ship.

Pre-sling

Oil & gas; Oil

Name given to the special net, manufactured with poliester or similar thread, resistant enough so as to constitute an appropriate element to be used with bagged, packed or similarly condicioned ...

Weighting

Oil & gas; Oil

Special service which the port renders its users, which consists on the weighing of volumes by unit or of bulk lading, transported by trucks or wagons.

Inflexion point

Oil & gas; Oil

Point where the change in guiding sense happens. In the horizontal curves, it is the meeting point of tangent lines taken in the begining and end of the curve.