05.07.2009
A refining process using controlled heat and pressure with catalysts to rearrange certain hydrocarbon molecules, thereby converting paraffinic and naphthenic type hydrocarbons (e.g., low octane gasoline boiling range fractions) into petrochemical feedstocks and higher octane stocks suitable for blending into finished gasoline
The refining process of breaking down the larger, heavier, and more complex hydrocarbon molecules into simpler and lighter molecules. Catalytic cracking is accomplished by the use of a catalytic agent and is an effective process for increasing the yield of gasoline from crude oil
A device containing a catalyst for converting automobile exhaust into mostly harmless products.
Those products of the crude distillation process which are further refined through catalytic cracking
This pipeline links oil reserves in western Kazakhstan to the Black Sea, providing access to world markets. The CPC crude pipeline system is the largest operating investment project with foreign participation on the territory of the former USSR. The length of the main pipeline that connects the oil fields in Western Kazakhstan with the new Marine Terminal in Russia is 1,510 km. In fact attempts to get oil out of Kazakhstan through a non-Russia route failed and most of the oil production from the giant field of Tengiz in which Chevron is the largest investor travels through the CPC line to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk
Highly volatile, water-white liquid hydrocarbons separated from casinghead gas by the reduction of pressure at the wellhead or by a separator or an absorption plant
Gas produced with oil from an oil well as distinguished from gas from a gas well. The casinghead gas is taken off at the top of the well or at the separator
The top of the casing set in the well; the part of the casing that protrudes above the surface and to which the control valves and flow pipes are attached.