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Fluidized Catalytic Cracking
Process which upgrades vacuum gas oil to lighter more valuable refined products, primarily gasoline.
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API
American Petroleum Institute
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API gravity
Indication of density of crude oil. The higher the density, the lower is the API gravity.
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API Gravity
Indication of density of crude oil. The higher the density, the lower is the API gravity.
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Atmospheric distillation
Process which splits crude oil into its constituent fractions.
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Barrel or bbl
A standard measure for the volume of crude oil.
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bitumen
The residual product of crude oil vacuum distillation. A black or dark brown solid or semi-solid organic compound that gradually softens and turns to liquid when heated.
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Brent
Low sulphur crude oil produced in the North Sea and used as the reference against which other crude oils are priced.
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Catalytic reforming
Process which increases the octane of a heavy naphtha stream.
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cracking
The conversion of large hydrocarbon molecules into smaller ones. Cracking is carried out either at high temperatures (thermal cracking), or with the aid of a catalyst and high pressure (catalytic crac [..]
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