Blue Stream is a major trans-Black Sea gas pipeline that carries natural gas from Russia into Turkey. The pipeline has been constructed by the Blue Stream Pipeline B.V., the Netherlands based joint ve [..]

The group of hydrocarbon products which include benzene, toluene, etc. and provide feedstocks for many of the main petrochemical processes asa well as high octane rating gasoline blends. So-called fro [..]

Annulus Access Valve

To cease efforts to produce oil or gas from a well, and to plug the wells of a depleted formation and salvage all material and equipment. OR

Acrylonitrile 50 butadiene styrene (a hard, tough thermoplastic).

The ability of gas, liquid or solid to attract and retain another substance without chemical combination. A quantity of such a substance that has absorbed as much of another as is physically possible [..]

A pressure vessel charged with nitrogen gas and used to store hydraulic fluid under pressure for the operation of hydraulic valve actuators.

Also known as a takeover is the buying of one company (the ‘target’) by another. An acquisition may be friendly or hostile. In the former case, the companies cooperate in negotiations; in the latter c [..]

Unit used to measure the rock volume of an oil or gas reservoir structure.

An individual or group that purchases large numbers of a public company's shares and/or tries to obtain seats on the company's board with the goal of effecting a major change in the company. [..]