The total number of cars in use within a country.

A smaller platform usually installed in the vicinity of a central processing platform (CPP), to allow recovery of oil and gas from a separate structure, reservoir compartment or distant sector of a fi [..]

A small diameter pipeline connecting a production facility to either a hub platform or to a main pipeline leading to the shore.

An area of a structure which is higher up than the point being discussed. For example, the gas/oil contact is updip of the oil/water contact.

A complex mixture of hydrocarbons that are somewhat similar to petroleum and are obtained from coal, synthesis gas, or oil shale and tar sands.

A manufacturing facility for the production of finished lubricants using a combination of base oils and chemical/oil based additives.

A representation of a fiscal system governed by tax law and/or specific contracts such as production sharing contracts.

Term used for development consent in the UK for oil and gas projects.

A steel production method where hot metal (pig iron from the blast furnace) is converted into liquid steel by blowing oxygen into the furnace to remove carbon as carbon monoxide gas.

Principal alumina-bearing ore.