(ECGD) The government department which helps companies finance exports, mainly by insuring them against the.

Carries supplies to drilling units or installations during field de-velopment or production.

Same as atmometer.

An adsorption type material used in compressed air dryers. Industry standards are activated alumina, silica gel and molecular sieves.(2) A material used to desiccate (dry) or dehumidify air.

A vessel is in soundings when she is in sufficiently shallow water for soundings to be made and used as an aid in the vessel's navigation.

High Pressure Turbine

The top of a wave.

Period of time a system or appliance (or component of) is expected to function at its nominal or design capacity without major repair.

Thermodynamic change of state of a system in which there is transfer of heat across the boundaries of the system. Compare to adiabatic process.

States that equal volumes of all gases under the same conditions of pressure and temperature contain the same number of molecules.

A published rate that is never assessed because no freight moves under it.

Said of a vessel when the depth of water can be measured by the lead (within the 100 fathom curve).

Heavy latch by which doors, hatches, portholes, etc., are secured; verb - to latch

Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory. Programable read-only memory which can be erased, usually by ultraviolet light, and re-programmed.

Personal Protective Equipment

The black line parallel with ship's keel marked on the inner surface of the bowl of a compass, indicating the compass direction of the ship's head.

Any point of sailing away from the wind.

The value of a business to a purchaser over and above its net asset value. It reflects the value.

The inability of a person or company to settle debts when they become.

A direct-vision nephoscope constructed in the following manner: A grid-work of bars is mounted horizontally on the end of a vertical column and made free to rotate about the vertical axis. The observer rotates the grid and adjusts his or her position unti ...