Terrorism & Oil
Essential for anyone working in oil-related professions or concerned about resource security, this book discusses the vulnerabilities faced by the global petroleum supply and infrastructure in the wake of the war on terror.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Terrorism & Oil
Glossary
- ANWR
- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- API
- American Petroleum Institute
- API gravity
- An arbitrary scale expressing the gravity or density of liquid petroleum products.
- alternative fuel capacity
- The onsite ability to switch between and utilize two or more fuel sources.
- bcf
- Billions of standard cubic feet, generally of gas
- barrel
- A volumetric measure for crude oil and petroleum products equivalent to 42 US gallons.
- basin
- A geographic area in which sediments accumulate.
- battery
- The production handling equipment on a lease. Also called a tank battery.
- bbl/ton
- Barrels per ton
- bit, drill
- An attachment placed on the lower end of a drill string that cuts or grinds rock formations.
- blowout
- An uncontrolled flow of gas, oil, or other fluids from a well.
- bomb
- A container filled with an explosive, incendiary or other chemical for dropping or hurling, or for detonating with a timing mechanism.
- bomb, dirty
- A device using conventional explosives as a dispersing means for radioactive sources.
- bomb, suicide
- A bomb delivered by a human with death as a reasonably certain outcome upon detonation.
- brine
- Water with a large quantity of dissolved salt in it.
- brisance
- A measure of the shock effects produced by explosives.
- btu
- British thermal unit, a measure of heating value of a fuel
- bulk terminal
- A facility used primarily for the storage and/or marketing of petroleum products, which has a total storage capacity of 50,000 barrels or more and/or receives petroleum products by tanker, barge or pipeline.
- C4
- A malleable, highly stable explosive substance,...
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