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GAS PLATFORM [9 records]

Record 1 2015-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
OBS

Articulated flare platform.

OBS

articulated platform : An offshore platform, sometimes called on oscillating platform, which combines the advantages of fixed and floating structures... its main applications are in tanker mooring and loading, and flaring unwanted gas from offshore field.

OBS

flaring : The practice of burning unwanted gas or oil. Flaring was once a common sight on oil-fields, but nowadays it most often occurs on an offshore platform when a well is being tested and small quantities of hydrocarbons must be dispersed, or when unwanted refinery gases are burned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

Installation d'une colonne oscillante porte-torchère sur le gisement de Frigg. [...] La fonction de la colonne torche de Frigg est avant tout la fonction sécurité : évacuation du gaz à distance suffisante des installations d'exploitation en cas de déclenchement des sécurités de surpression ou en cas de décompression d'urgence de ces installations.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Technology - Equipment
  • Oil Refining
DEF

A vertical tower erected on an offshore platform for flaring oil or gas.

OBS

The tower supports the burners above the deck of the platform.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareillage (Technologie pétrolière)
  • Raffinage du pétrole

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo (Tecnología petrolera)
  • Refinación del petróleo
DEF

Chimenea en las refinerías de petróleo donde se queman gases que no tienen posibilidades de uso.

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Record 3 2007-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A flowline carrying oil or gas from the base of a production platform to the processing plant on the deck.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Canalisation dans laquelle les fluides s'écoulent dans un mouvement ascendant.

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
CONT

Oil and gas platforms. Since 1981 Gleitbau Salzburg has left its mark on reinforced concrete platform construction projects around the world.... The extreme conditions [in the North Sea projects in the 70s] forced them to create innovations which today are the foundation for geo-metrically complicated and immensely high building structures.... The services include... the heavy lifting technique assists in the raising of pre-cast concrete elements or fabricated steel platforms into both the drilling and utility shafts, onto monolithically cast support brackets.

CONT

After a significant gas leak on a gas platform it was found that drawings did not reflect the actual plant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
CONT

L'Office Canada-Nouvelle-Écosse des hydrocarbures extracôtiers [...] a permis à ExxonMobil de consentir à une firme américaine [...] un gros contrat de construction d'une plate-forme de forage gazier [...]

CONT

L'industrie côtière, une industrie primaire à la base, [...] englobe [aussi] la fabrication de plate-formes de forage pétrolier et gazier et la construction de navire hauturiers de ravitaillement [...]

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme de forage gazier

Spanish

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Record 5 2006-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
  • Interplanetary Space Exploration
  • Research Experiments in Space
CONT

IMP(Interplanetary monitoring platform). A series of NASA probes, managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, aimed at investigating plasma(ionized gas) and magnetic fields in interplanetary space. The placement of IMPs in a variety of solar and Earth orbits enabled the study of spatial and temporal relationships of geophysical and interplanetary phenomena simultaneously by several spacecraft.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Exploration interplanétaire
  • Travaux de recherche dans l'espace
OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme d'observation interplanétaire

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

QP intends to increase the production and efficiency of the offshore Bull Hanine field by drilling new wells and constructing as gas re-injection facility. The EPC [Engineering, Procurement and Construction] Contract... includes the installation of a processing platform with stripping and compression facilities, a stand-alone flare tripod, a utility platform, subsea pipelines, umbilicals connecting production and re-injection wells.

CONT

Offshore, the CPP jackets were installed during this period. The infield pipelines were tied in and the preparations are being made for the installation of the bridges and the flare tripod ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

OBS

plate-forme tripode de support de torche : Proposition approuvée par un spécialiste de l'Institut français du pétrole.

OBS

flare platform = plate-forme support de torche; tripod platform = plate-forme tripode. [Source : Dictionnaire du forage et des puits, de Magdeleine Moureau et Gérald Brace.]

Spanish

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Record 7 2006-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

QP intends to increase the production and efficiency of the offshore Bull Hanine field by drilling new wells and constructing a gas re-injection facility. The EPC [Engineering, Procurement and Construction] Contract... includes the installation of a processing platform with stripping and compression facilities, a stand-alone flare tripod, a utility platform, subsea pipelines, umbilicals connecting production and re-injection wells.

Key term(s)
  • stand alone flare tripod

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

OBS

plate-forme tripode autonome de support de torche : proposition approuvée par un spécialiste de l'Institut français du pétrole.

OBS

flare platform = plate-forme support de torche; tripod platform = plate-forme tripode. [Source : Dictionnaire du forage et des puits, de Magdeleine Moureau et Gérald Brace.]

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
CONT

For smaller fields, rather than being drilled from a large central platform, the wells are drilled from subsea clusters. For these types of wells, the wellhead and Christmas tree is installed directly on the seabed, with production from several wells co-mingled at a subsea manifold. Subsea manifolds are often linked by pipelines and umbilical control lines back to a nearby platform, where engineers can control and monitor the oil and gas production.

Key term(s)
  • sub-sea manifold

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
CONT

Le promoteur se propose d'installer les puits et les collecteurs sous-marins dans des entonnoirs souterrains aménagés au fond de l'océan, à une profondeur suffisante pour que l'équipement ne subisse pas l'action d'affouillement des icebergs en mouvement.

OBS

collecteur : Arrangement de tuyauterie comprenant des vannes et permettant de diviser un écoulement, d'en combiner plusieurs ou d'orienter un écoulement particulier.

Spanish

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Record 9 2002-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
  • Research Experiments in Space
CONT

Biotechnology Cellular operations Support System(BCSS), subrack modules provide semi-automated bioreactors, gas supply, computer control and passive and low-temperature stowage. On Earth, most cultured cells form flat, thin specimens that do not reveal how they work together. BCSS is an interim platform until the permanent Biotechnology Facility is delivered.

OBS

biotechnology cellular operations support system; BCSS: term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group (ISSOAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
  • Travaux de recherche dans l'espace
OBS

plateforme d'appui aux opérations de biotechnologie cellulaire; BCSS : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

Spanish

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