Ancillary equipment: equipamento auxiliar.

Breakthrough: A description of reservoir conditions under which a fluid, previously isolated

or separated from production, gains access to a producing wellbore. The term is most
commonly applied to water or gas breakthrough, where the water or gas injected to maintain
reservoir pressure via injection wells breaks through to one or more of the producing wells.
BS&W: basic sediment and water. BS&W is measured from a liquid sample of the
production stream. It includes free water, sediment and emulsion and is measured as a
volume percentage of the production stream.
Cargo tanker (offloading)
Cross exchanger
De-aerator
Debottlenecking: The process of increasing the production capacity of existing facilities
through the modification of existing equipment to remove throughput restrictions.
Degassing/Degasser
Dehydrate
Desalt
Dewatering
Discharge overboard
Electrostatic coalescers
Floating Storage Unit (FSU)
Greenwater load: water flows onto the deck of a ship because of large waves and ship
motions. The term green water is used to distinguish between the spray (small amounts of
water and foam) flying around and the real solid seawater on the deck.
Hydro cyclones
Inlet diverter
Module interfaces
Overflow velocity: flow rate of the continuous phase divided by the area of the interface.
Plate heat exchangers
Production header
Raw: crude oil.

Residence time: retention time, the amount of time a liquid stays in a vessel. The retention
time assures that equilibrium between the liquid and gas has been reached at separator
pressure.
Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP): absolute vapor pressure exerted by a liquid at 100 F (37.8
C). The higher a fuel's RVP, the more quickly it evaporates.
Sand washing
SARA: oil testing that measures saturates, asphaltenes, resins, aromatics in heavy crude oil.
Scrubber: A device to remove dirt, water, foreign matter, or undesired liquids that are part of
the gas flowstream (purificador, depurador).
Shuttle tanker / Shuttle vessel
Storage tank
Swab/Swabbing: pistoneio/pistonear. To reduce pressure in a wellbore by moving pipe,
wireline tools or rubber-cupped seals up the wellbore. If the pressure is reduced sufficiently,
reservoir fluids may flow into the wellbore and towards the surface. Swabbing is generally
considered harmful in drilling operations, because it can lead to kicks and wellbore stability
problems. In production operations, however, the term is used to describe how the flow of
reservoir hydrocarbons is initiated in some completed wells.
Time of residence
Topsides facilities: The surface deck of a platform containing oil & gas drilling, production
and processing equipment.
Topside load
Vessel: embarcao.
Water cut: The ratio of water produced compared to the volume of total liquids produced.