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BRITISH STANDARD Methods of test for petroleum and its products Ð BS 2000-465: Liquid petroleum products Ð Determination of nickel and vanadium content Ð Atomic absorption spectrometric method (Identical with IP 465/2001) The European Standard EN 13131:2000 has the status of a British Standard ICS 75.080 NO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAW | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BS EN 13131:2000 BS 2000-465:2001 BS EN 13131:2000 National foreword This British Standard is the official English language version of EN 13131:2000 It supersedes BS 2000-288:1993 which is withdrawn The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee PTI/13, Petroleum testing and terminology, which has the responsibility to: Ð aid enquirers to understand the text; Ð present to the responsible European committee any enquiries on the interpretation, or proposals for change, and keep the UK interests informed; Ð monitor related international and European developments and promulgate them in the UK A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary The Institute of Petroleum publishes and sells all parts of BS 2000, and all BS EN petroleum test methods that would be part of BS 2000, both in its annual publication ªStandard methods for analysis and testing of petroleum and related products and British Standard 2000 partsº and individually Further information is available from: The Institute of Petroleum, 61 New Cavendish Street, London W1M 8AR Tel: 020 7467 7100 Fax: 020 7255 1472 Cross-references The British Standards which implement international or European publications referred to in this document may be found in the BSI Standards Catalogue under the section entitled 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