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BARRELS PER STREAM DAY [5 records]

Record 1 2017-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Refining
CONT

For crude oil processing business, the design crude oil processing capacity is 4 million tons per year. In 1999, the processed crude oil totaled 2.9134 million tons, in which the imported oil was 2.2362 million tons and the stock oil was 121.2 thousand tons.

CONT

The refinery was constructed in the early 1950's and placed on stream October 1953 with a design crude oil capacity of 15, 000 barrels per day. Over the following years facilities have been added and the current crude oil capacity is 80, 000 barrels per day...

CONT

Nigeria’s four refineries have a combined nameplate capacity of 438,750 bbl/d ...

CONT

1994 Commissioning of the new visbreaker and kerosene hydrotreater units. Nominal crude capacity is now 104,000 bpd.

OBS

nameplate capacity : When applied to a refinery, it is the nominal design crude oil processing capacity of a refinery, normally expressed in barrels of crude oil per day.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Raffinage du pétrole
DEF

Unité de référence correspondant à la quantité de pétrole brut que peut traiter une raffinerie en un laps de temps donné (par exemple des barils par jour).

CONT

Réputée l'une des plus efficaces de l'industrie pétrolière, la raffinerie de McKee, située au cœur de l'enclave du Texas, est la plus grande raffinerie entre la côte du golfe et la côte Ouest. De conception moderne et avec une capacité nominale de traitement de brut de 140 000 barils par jour, elle approvisionne les marchés de l'Arizona, du Colorado, du Nouveau Mexique, de l'Oklahoma et du Texas en produits de grande valeur, notamment l'essence, le diesel et le carburéacteur.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
DEF

[The] throughput of oil expressed in barrels processed during one day when the plant is running the whole of the time. [Definition standardized by ISO.]

CONT

BPCD :Barrels per calendar day. Measure of the rated capacity of a process unit or operation. Defined as 1/365 th of the annual throughput. This measure accounts for down time for maintenance, etc. An alternate measure is barrels per stream day [BPSD], the measure of the maximum daily capacity. On-stream factor is the ratio of BPCD to BPSD.

OBS

barrels per stream day : term standardized by ISO.

OBS

barrels per stream day : term rarely used in the singular(barrel per stream day).

Key term(s)
  • barrel per stream day

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
DEF

Quantité de produit pétrolier, exprimée en barils, traitée par jour en régime permanent. [Définition normalisée par l'ISO.]

OBS

barils par jour de marche : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

OBS

barils par jour de marche : terme rarement utilisé au singulier (baril par jour de marche).

Key term(s)
  • baril par jour de marche

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
  • Oil Production
DEF

[The] throughput of oil expressed in barrels processed over a period of time divided by the number of days in that period. [Definition standardized by ISO.]

CONT

BPCD :Barrels per calendar day. Measure of the rated capacity of a process unit or operation. Defined as 1/365 th of the annual throughput. This measure accounts for down time for maintenance, etc. An alternate measure is barrels per stream day [BPSD], the measure of the maximum daily capacity. On-stream factor is the ratio of BPCD to BPSD.

OBS

barrels per calendar day: term standardized by ISO.

OBS

barrels per calendar day: term rarely used in the singular (barrel per calendar day).

Key term(s)
  • barrel per calendar day

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
  • Production pétrolière
DEF

Quantité de produit pétrolier, exprimée en barils, traitée au cours d'une période de temps, divisée par le nombre de jours de cette période. [Définition normalisée par l'ISO.]

OBS

barils par jour calendaire : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

OBS

barils par jour calendaire : terme rarement utilisé au singulier (baril par jour calendaire).

Key term(s)
  • baril par jour calendaire
  • baril par jour civil

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Refining
CONT

Hyundai Corporation and Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd. jointly obtained oil refinery plant order worth US$12 million from Petron of the Philippines on a turnkey basis. Hyundai will repair the light thermal catalytic cracking unit to capacity of 15, 000 BPSD [barrels per stream day] and newly construct mixed xylene unit with the capacity of 7, 200 BPSD.

OBS

Hyundai, recently undertaking the civil engineering role in building a chemical plant for a Petron TCCU [Thermofor catalytic cracking unit] & MX [mixed xylene] project, also plans to actively take part in the construction of other Philippine chemical plants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Raffinage du pétrole
OBS

unité mixte de xylène : terme proposé sur le modèle de «unité de paraxylène», attesté dans l'Internet. (Voir justification qui suit.)

OBS

Coastal : projet conjoint de 200 millions de dollars avec SGF Chimie pour le redémarrage de son unité de paraxylène de Montréal-Est; [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 1981-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Refining
OBS

"stream day crude rate", means the rate, in barrels per day, at which crude oil is processed in a refinery.

OBS

See Consolidated Regulations of Canada (C.R.C.), 1978, chapter 828, s. 2(1).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Raffinage du pétrole
OBS

Voir la Codification des règlements du Canada (C.R.C.), 1978, chapitre 828, art. 2(1).

Spanish

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