to provide a deep water mooring for tankers. Jetties have loading/unloading arms for transferring cargo to/from ship to shore. Facilities for vapor recovery may be provided.

Crude oil terminals

Some oil terminals receive crude oil production from offshore installations. Crude oil received by pipeline may have been 'spiked' with natural gas liquids (NGL), and is known as live crude. Such oil needs to be processed or stabilised to remove the lighter fractions such as ethane,

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