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acumulação

English translation: accumulation

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Portuguese term or phrase:acumulação
English translation:accumulation

18:16 Feb 4, 2016
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2016-02-08 17:54:07 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


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Tech/Engineering - Petroleum Eng/Sci
Portuguese term or phrase: acumulação
Olá colegas,

Preciso de ajuda com esse termo. Trata-se de um documento que descreve dados de alguns campos e plataformas de petróleo. Segue o contexto:

"A acumulação de (Nome do campo) está localizada em águas de aproximadamente XXXX metros de profundidade, a cerca de XXX km ao sul da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Figura X)."

Obrigado pela ajuda!
Luis Antezana
Spain
Local time: 13:34
accumulation
Explanation:
De acordo com o Dicionário do Petróleo em Língua Portuguesa, do Eloi Fernández, Oswaldo Pedrosa Junior e António Correia de Pinho, acumulação =accumulation com o sentido de "termo usado na sedimentologia para representar um volume de sedimento depositado numa determinada posição geográfica em uma bacia sedimentar".
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Natasha Zadorosny
Brazil
Local time: 08:34
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3accumulation
Natasha Zadorosny
3 +1storage reservoir OR build-up (as the case may be)
Mario Freitas


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
storage reservoir OR build-up (as the case may be)


Explanation:
Storage reservoir, if this is about the sotrage area (most likely).
Build-up if it's about the accumulation of material (less likely)

Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 08:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 96

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mauro Lando: agree com reservoir (ou lense, ou play)
17 hrs
  -> Obrigado, Mauro!
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
accumulation


Explanation:
De acordo com o Dicionário do Petróleo em Língua Portuguesa, do Eloi Fernández, Oswaldo Pedrosa Junior e António Correia de Pinho, acumulação =accumulation com o sentido de "termo usado na sedimentologia para representar um volume de sedimento depositado numa determinada posição geográfica em uma bacia sedimentar".

Natasha Zadorosny
Brazil
Local time: 08:34
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
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Notes to answerer
Asker: Obrigado Natasha, escolhi a outra resposta precisamente pq se refere à formação de óleo, bem como o Mauro sugeriu. Um abraço!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
12 mins
  -> Obrigada, Teresa.
agree  T o b i a s: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2013/ph240/malyshev2/
1 hr
  -> Obrigada, Tobias.
agree  Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun: Correto. É o termo utilizado na sedimentologia.
1 hr
  -> Obrigada, Salvador.
neutral  Mauro Lando: A definição do dicionário se refere a sedimento e o texto da colega se refere à formação de óleopropriamente dita.
17 hrs
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