"Being familiar with the technical jargon in both languages makes the difference"

Por Judith T. Batista Ojeda, Beatriz Arrieta de Meza y Rafael Meza

Fuente: www.scielo.org.ve

...En el caso del vocabulario de la industria petrolera existe una inmensa variedad de términos referidos a nombre de animales, por ejemplo, y que normalmente se utilizan dentro del campo de trabajo. La tabla 1 que se presenta a continuación reporta algunos de estos ejemplos usados en la terminología del campo petrolero...

 

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Source: www.translationdirectory.com

 

How to avoid landing in the “doghouse” when dealing with oil and gas terminology

The entries in this article were taken from my own dictionary released in 2001. The publication was carefully compiled over nearly 20 years of work in the translation business. Although the dictionary contains a good number of terms, it does not constitute a complete list of words and unique expressions that an observer is likely to hear during a visit to an oilfield. Rather, it is intended to serve as a basic reference for understanding the most common terms and is designed merely to assist those who are not familiar with the terminology used in the area of oil and gas.