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2. Balmoral oil field - Wikipedia

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   The Balmoral oil field is a depleted crude oil field in the UK sector of the central North Sea, 225 km north-east of Aberdeen. Oil was produced from the field reservoir by the Balmoral Floating Production Vessel (FPV) between 1986 and 2020. The Balmoral FPV also processed oil from six minor oil fields in the area.

3. Fuel oil - Wikipedia

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   An oil tanker taking on fuel, or "bunkering". Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil). Such oils include distillates (the lighter fractions) and residues (the heavier fractions). Fuel oils include heavy fuel oil (bunker fuel), marine fuel oil (MFO), furnace oil (FO), gas oil (gasoil), heating ...

4. Merox - Wikipedia

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   Merox is an acronym for mercaptan oxidation. It is a proprietary catalytic chemical process developed by UOP used in oil refineries and natural gas processing plants to remove mercaptans from LPG, propane, butanes, light naphthas, kerosene, and jet fuel by converting them to liquid hydrocarbon disulfides. The Merox process requires an alkaline ...

5. Hydrodesulfurization - Wikipedia

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   Hydrodesulfurization. Chemical process used to remove sulfur in natural gas and oil refining. Hydrodesulfurization (HDS), also called hydrotreatment or hydrotreating, is a catalytic chemical process widely used to remove sulfur (S) from natural gas and from refined petroleum products, such as gasoline or petrol, jet fuel, kerosene, diesel fuel ...

6. Heavy fuel oil - Wikipedia

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   Heavy fuel oil (HFO) is a category of fuel oils of a tar -like consistency. Also known as bunker fuel, or residual fuel oil, HFO is the result or remnant from the distillation and cracking process of petroleum. For this reason, HFO is contaminated with several different compounds including aromatics, sulfur, and nitrogen, making emissions upon ...

7. Naphthenic oil - Wikipedia

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   Naphthenic oils have been proven to be suitable in the tyre oils segment because of their low content of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are hazardous to health and the environment. 3. Lubricating oils. Base oils are needed to manufacture products such as greases and industrial lubricants.