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Italian: stazione di spinta

English translation: Booster station






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Italian term or phrase:stazione di spinta
English translation:Booster station
Entered by:simona dachille
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Petroleum Eng/Sci / other
Italian term or phrase: stazione di spinta
We're talking about oil pipelines here. In the 60's there was a "stazione di spinta" in Chiavasso. I think it's a place where they send off oil from to other parts of Europe. Help...
simona dachille
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:49
Clarification request(s) and response
simona dachille: 20:58 Aug 24, 2007: it goes on with... - "Abbiamo l'oleodotto che viene da Genova." So maybe they receive and send oil.

Booster station
Explanation:
In the oil industry this is a station with "booster pumps" which increase the pressure of the oil/gas.

I found this page: www.comune.genova.it/servlets/resources?contentId=86863&res...

where they refer to what seems the same station with the two terms:

Stazione di spinta di Multedo
Stazione booster di Multeado

They also mention a "bomba di spinta", which seems to corroborate my hypothesis
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Lara Galgani
Mexico
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4 +5Booster stationLara Galgani
4oil depot/terminal
rfmoon


  

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oil depot/terminal


Explanation:
this is what it is according to what I found

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Note added at 6 mins (2007-08-24 21:03:06 GMT)
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www.baysidedepot.com
smh.com.au/news/world/.../2006/08/07/1154802823186.html
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_depot
rfmoon
United States
Local time: 11:49
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral Giovanni Pizzati: That station on an oil pipeline belongs to my ex-Group and I know what I am writing. Bye
17 hrs
  -> a depot has tanks and pumps..still like you dearest!!
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Booster station


Explanation:
In the oil industry this is a station with "booster pumps" which increase the pressure of the oil/gas.

I found this page: www.comune.genova.it/servlets/resources?contentId=86863&res...

where they refer to what seems the same station with the two terms:

Stazione di spinta di Multedo
Stazione booster di Multeado

They also mention a "bomba di spinta", which seems to corroborate my hypothesis


Lara Galgani
Mexico
Specializes in field
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Salloz: www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Italian/stazione+di+spinta
2 hrs
  -> Gracias corazón

agree Umberto Cassano: http://www.eni.it/eni/internal.do?RID=@20s825|0?xoidcmWopk&lang=it&sessionId=21245546 Try copying and pasting the link and you'll find out the glossary entry
7 hrs
  -> Grazie Umberto, anche per il Link, bellissimo!

agree Irena Pizzi
9 hrs
  -> Grazie Irena

agree Alessandra Renna
12 hrs
  -> Grazie Alessandra

agree gmel117608
19 hrs
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