Bonaire Petroleum Corporation N.V.

Germanischer Lloyd (German Class Society)

A piece of wood placed across the head of a boat's rudder, with a rope attached to each end, by which the boat is steered.

Mobile offshore production

Double-Bottom

Light Displacement Ton

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

British Maritime Law Association

Days All Purposes

An alternative path. In a heating duct or pipe, an alternative path for the flow of the heat transfer fluid from one point to another, as determined by the opening or closing of control valves both in the primary line and the bypass line.

Broken Up.

United Kingdom (Flag)

Annual Machinery Survey.

Fuel Adjustment Factor

Binary Coded Decimal. A coding system in which each decimal digit from 0 to 9 is represented by a 4-digit binary number.

Said of a vessel when her keel is close to the bottom and all but touching it.

Intergranular corrosion of an alloy, usually stabilized stainless steel, along a line adjoining or in contact with a weld after heating into the sensitization temperature range.

A receding current.

Alliance of Maritime Regional Interests in Europe.

Offshore Technology Conference