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CRUDE OIL STREAM [4 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 2004-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrochemistry
CONT

Crude oil with a similar mix of physical and chemical characteristics, usually produced from a given reservoir, field or sometimes even a region, constitutes a crude oil "stream. "

CONT

Petrochemicals and base oils, namely chemicals derived either directly of indirectly from petroleum streams for use as raw materials or feedstodks in the manufacture of fuels.

OBS

Each petroleum stream, identified by CAS number, has a range of values for boiling point, carbon numbers, and a range for each of its other physicochemical characteristics. All of these characteristics occur in an increasingly complex continuum as the boiling point rises, which varies by the composition of the original crude oil and the methods used to process the crude oil.

PHR

Aromatic petroleum stream.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie du pétrole
CONT

Résidu de la distillation d'un mélange de goudron de houille et de charges pétrolières aromatiques.

PHR

Désulfuration de charges pétrolières.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petroquímica
PHR

Corriente de petróleo aromático.

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Record 3 1991-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Petroleum Asphalts
OBS

10030, 107th St, Edmonton T5J 3E5... Operations : A project to extract synthetic crude oil from the Athabasca oil sands in Alta; located near Fort McMurray, construction began 1973 & came on stream July 31, 1978 at cost of $2. 3 billion. Consists of one of the largest open pit mines in the world(25 km area), with capacity to prod 92 million tonnes oil sand per year.

Key term(s)
  • Syncrude

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Bitumes
OBS

Renseignement obtenu de l'organisme.

Key term(s)
  • Syncrude Canada

Spanish

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Record 4 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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