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GATHERING POINT [9 records]

Record 1 2017-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Storage of Oil and Natural Gas
DEF

A group of production tanks located at a point in the field for the storage of crude oil.

CONT

The lease tank battery is the starting point for crude oil on its way to the refinery-via gathering line, pump station, and trunk line to the refinery tank farm. It is at the tank battery where the pipeline gauger measures and tests the oil, and after making out a run ticket... opens the tank valve, turning the oil into the pipeline system.

CONT

... two miles of a Country road providing access to a major oil-field battery ... will be reconstructed ... to safely accommodate heavier trucks ...

OBS

There is a great deal of confusion between "tank farm" and "tank battery." Two sources give them as synonyms while several others define the first as an area or site and the second as a collection or assembly of tanks, or vice versa. However it is the terminologist’s opinion that "tank farm" should be looked at as a site or an area, and "tank battery" as a group, collection, or assembly of storage tanks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stockage du pétrole et du gaz naturel
CONT

L'accès au toit des bacs se fait par échelle à crinolines ou par escalier selon l'importance de l'ouvrage. Quand plusieurs bacs sont groupés en batterie, la circulation de l'un à l'autre se fait par passerelles; une échelle ou un escalier doit être prévu à chaque extrémité. De même, si le parc de stockage est clôturé [...], des issues de secours doivent être ménagées dans la clôture.

CONT

Implantation du parc de stockage [...] Les réservoirs d'une même batterie doivent être de même niveau (facilité de manœuvres, transvasements bac à bac, purges, etc.).

Key term(s)
  • batterie de réservoirs de stockage d'hydrocarbures

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-05-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Atmospheric Physics
OBS

The IOA was formed in 1973 to serve as the focal point for technology transfer and developments on zone-related issues. For this purpose, IOA has served as the central, worldwide gathering and disseminating point on ozone information, bringing together scientists, engineers, systems designers, technologists, equipment manufacturers, and end users to share their experiences and research data on ozone and other related oxygen compounds. The IOA is not-for-profit educational association which performs its information-sharing functions through sponsorship of international symposia, seminars, publications, and the development personal relationships among ozone specialists throughout the world.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
OBS

Appellation confirmée par l'organisme.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Física de la atmósfera
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Record 3 2007-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric, Climatic and Meteorological Phenomena
CONT

There are two types of snow avalanches; loose-snow avalanches which originate in cohesionless snow and which start from one point, gathering more and more snow as they descend and slab avalanches which start when a large area of cohesive snow begins to slide at the same time. Both types occur in wet and dry snow, either sliding down on a layer of snow within the snowpack or along the ground surface.

CONT

Loose snow sliding down a mountainside is called a loose snow avalanche. ... Very few people are killed by loose snow avalanches because they tend to be small and they tend to fracture beneath you as you cross a slope instead of above you as slab avalanches often do. The avalanche culture tends to minimize the danger of loose snow avalanches, sometimes calling them "harmless sluffs."

CONT

New snow produced loose-snow avalanches in steep gully areas. [Example approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.]

OBS

Loose-snow avalanche is sometimes called a point-release avalanche when it starts from a defined point and fans outward as it descends.

OBS

Do not confuse with sluff which is a small loose-snow avalanche running in steep terrain.

OBS

loose-snow avalanche: term officially approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phénomènes météorologiques, climatiques et atmosphériques
CONT

[...] une avalanche de neige sans cohésion peut être sèche (se produisant après une forte chute de neige) ou bien mouillée (intervenant après un début de fonte).

CONT

La neige récente est à l'origine des avalanches de neige sans cohésion qui se sont produites dans les pentes raides des ravines. [Exemple entériné par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.]

OBS

cohésion de la neige : ensemble des liaisons qui maintiennent les cristaux et grains de neige associés les uns aux autres. La cohésion de la neige est à l'origine de sa consistance. Une couche de neige qui a un très bonne cohésion est très dure. Une couche de neige à faible cohésion est poudreuse si elle est sèche, ou molle et pâteuse si elle est mouillée.

OBS

On nomme coulée une petite avalanche de neige sans cohésion, en terrain raide.

OBS

avalanche de neige sans cohésion : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
  • Hygiene and Health
CONT

Life cycle assessment is a "cradle-to-grave" approach for assessing the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a product. "Cradle-to-grave" begins with the gathering of raw materials from the earth to create the product and ends at the point when all materials are returned to the earth.

OBS

cradle-to-death: from birth to death.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
  • Hygiène et santé
CONT

A l'avenir, les produits devront utiliser moins de ressources et répondre à des exigences environnementales tout au long de leur cycle de vie (approche «du berceau à la tombe» de la politique intégrée de la Commission).

Spanish

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Record 5 2004-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Long-Distance Pipelines
  • Transport of Oil and Natural Gas
DEF

A pipeline, usually of small diameter, used in gathering crude oil from the oil field to a point on a main pipeline.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canalisations à grande distance
  • Transport du pétrole et du gaz naturel
DEF

Pipeline de petit diamètre, utilisé pour amener le pétrole du gisement jusqu'au pipeline principal.

OBS

canalisation de collecte : Renseignement communiqué par l'Office national de l'énergie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tuberías de larga distancia
  • Transporte de petróleo y gas natural
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Record 6 2004-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Rights and Concessions
  • Commercial Utilization (Oil and Natural Gas)
CONT

The USCs of a natural gas stream are methane, ethane, propane, butane and pentanes plus. Each facility at which royalties are calculated is called a royalty trigger point and is typically a gas plant or gathering system. Applied to each trigger facility is the Facility Average Royalty Rate(FARR%), which is the weighted average royalty rate for gas and products subject to Alberta Crown royalties at the facilities at the facility.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit minier
  • Exploitation commerciale (Pétrole et gaz naturel)
CONT

La valeur marchande juste des volumes mis en vente (la «valeur») sera déterminée au Point de Calcul des Redevances, lequel se situera à l'endroit où les volumes mis en vente quitteront les installations de production à l'intérieur de la «ZEE de SPM». La méthodologie générale utilisée pour déterminer la valeur et les volumes mis en vente, sur laquelle les redevances sont basées, sera similaire à celle décrite pour déterminer les redevances de base dans les « Offshore Petroleum Royalty Regulations of Nova Scotia » (règlements pour les redevances sur les produits pétroliers de la Nouvelle Ecosse), et en vigueur à la date de la signature de cet accord cadre. Les redevances seront payées en espèces à SPM sur une base mensuelle.

Spanish

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Record 7 2002-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Merchandising Techniques
CONT

The International Food Wine and Travel Writers Association(IFW&TWA) strives to be a gathering point and resource base for an active membership composed of professionals engaged in the food, wine and travel industries. The association's membership includes professionals in culinary art and sciences, the wine growing and production industry, and in the hotel and hospitaly management industries. Our membership standards include a minimum of 10 published or other media travel articles per year. We enforce a code of professional conduct and periodically auditor more than 300 members.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques marchandes
DEF

Voyage d'affaires organisé par une entreprise ou une société commerciale pour se faire connaître et présenter ses produits.

Spanish

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Record 8 2000-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transport of Oil and Natural Gas
DEF

The pipeline and other equipment required to transport oil, gas, or both oil and gas from the wells to a central point-the gathering station-where the accessory equipment required to deliver a clean and salable product to the market or to a pipeline is located.

OBS

See also "gas-gathering system" and "oil-gathering system."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport du pétrole et du gaz naturel

Spanish

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Record 9 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Refractory Materials (Metallurgy)
  • Glass Manufacturing
OBS

refractory shape introduced into the furnace and partly immersed in glass to protect the gathering point from the furnace gases and the surface scum.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux réfractaires (Métallurgie)
  • Fabrication du verre
OBS

pièce en forme de coquille placée à l'intérieur du four dans l'avant-bassin ou dans l'avant-corps. Elle est en partie immergée dans le verre et protège la zone de cueillage des gaz du four et des impuretés.

Spanish

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