Tank: Any large container for holding or transporting a liquid or a gas.

Tanks of one kind or another are used both for storing and transporting petroleum and its products. Tank Car: a railroad freight car specially designed with a tank for transporting petroleum Pipeline: A system designed to transport a liquid or a gas through pipes. Flow line: a pipeline running from a well to a larger line in the field. Gathering Line: A pipeline running from the storage tanks in the field to a mayor pipeline. Trunk Line: A mayor pipeline connecting the oil field with a refinery or shipping point. Pig: a device to clean a pipeline. It is forced along by the pressure or flow of the oil Pipeline walker: A person who patrols the pipeline to look for signs of leaks. Nowadays, much of the walking is done from low-flying airplanes. Product pipeline: A pipeline that carries finished petroleum products- such as gasoline- from the refinery to the points where it can be distributed to customers. Tanker: A ship specially designed to transport petroleum and petroleum products. Some tankers are enormous, weighing as much as 500,000 tons Barge: A flat-bottomed boat designed primarily for use on inland waterways such as rivers or canals. Many barges have been adapted to carry oil or petroleum products. Tank Truck: an automobile truck designed to carry petroleum products. It is ordinarily used to deliver products to customers (highways) Pumping station: at an average distance of 75 (seventy-five) miles apart along a pipeline

Refinery: the industrial plant in which oil is refined processed and purified- into commercially usable products. The process itself is called refining. Atoms: The small particles of matter that make up the chemical elements such as hydrogen and carbon. Molecules: the smallest unit in combination of atoms. A molecule of table salt, for example, contains one atom of sodium and one of chloride. Compound: A compound is a combination of atoms which are chemically joined together into molecules, like water (two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen) or salt. Mixture: A mixture combines several different molecules which are not chemically joined together. Salt water is a mixture of molecules of salt and water Hydrocarbons: Substances made up of molecules formed from hydrogen and carbon. Crude petroleum is a mixture of several different hydrocarbons. Fraction: the amount of each of the different hydrocarbon compounds in a mixture of crude oil. For example, a fraction of the hydrocarbons makes gasoline, and other fraction makes up kerosene. This is also known as cut. Fractioning tower: A cylindrical tower at a refinery which is used to separate the different fractions of crude petroleum. Distillation: The process of separating lighter molecules from heavier molecules in a mixture by heating the mixture. Sulfur: A chemical which is often present as an impurity in crude oil Sweet oil: oil with a low sulfur content. Sour oil: oil with a high sulfur content Cracking: The process of breaking down heavy molecules of some hydrocarbons into lighter molecules. Thermal Cracking: Cracking by the use of heat and pressure Catalytic Cracking: cracking with the aid of catalyst, a substance which speeds up a chemical change without undergoing any change itself. Petrochemicals: Chemicals derived from petroleum which are used to form new substances such as the synthetic, or man-made, plastics. Herbicide, Pesticide, Insecticide: The suffix cide means something that kills. A herbicide kills weeds; a pesticide kills pests; and insecticide kills insects. All of these substances are widely used in modern agriculture.