Glossary

This page explains the words you meet in Oil Voyage. The terms are grouped by topic and sorted from A to Z inside each group. Every entry links to the page that explains it in full.

Basics

• Bot — @OilVoyageBot, the game's bot in Telegram. It opens the game, sends you messages if you allow them, and can take withdrawal requests. See Notifications and the bot.
• Captain — a player. Every player in Oil Voyage is a captain.
• Demo data — the made-up numbers shown during the guide tour. Nothing in the tour is spent or saved.
• Flag — the country you sail for. It decides the crude grade you ship and your routes, and you can change it in Profile. See Flags and countries.
• Guide — this help center. Do not confuse it with the guide tour.
• Guide tour — the short tour of the app's tabs that you are offered after the registration. You can take it again from Profile. See Quick start.
• Mini App — the game itself. It opens inside Telegram and does not work in a normal browser. See Quick start.
• Nickname and avatar — the name and picture other captains see instead of your Telegram name and photo. See Profile.
• Registration — the four welcome steps a new player finishes in the Mini App: language, three confirmations, flag and the tour offer. An invited friend counts only after it. See Quick start.

Voyages

• Awaiting fix — the tanker has arrived, but a daily fix the payout needs is not recorded yet. The voyage is paid as soon as the fix arrives. See Prices and daily fixes.
• Base rate — the fixed part of the payout: the route's daily rate for every day at sea. It is 1% a day on the shortest routes and grows with the route length up to 1.6% a day. The rate is fixed at the voyage's first share. See The payout.
• Benchmark — the reference oil price a destination port is priced with: Brent, Dubai or WTI. The payout follows the benchmark of the destination. See Prices and daily fixes.
• Berth — a place at the destination port where a tanker unloads. Each destination port has a fixed number of berths, 3 now. See The voyage cycle.
• Cancellation fee — the part of a share the game keeps when you cancel it while the tanker is loading: 20%. See Cancelling a share.
• Cargo — the oil on board a tanker: the shares of all captains added up, in 🛢️.
• Daily fix — the price of an oil benchmark recorded once a day, from 00:00 UTC. Voyages are paid on daily fixes, never on the live line of the map. See Prices and daily fixes.
• Destination — the port where a voyage ends and the tanker unloads.
• Expected payout — what a share would pay with the base rate only, before the market move. It is an estimate, not a promise. See Buying a share.
• Free voyage — one share of 1 🛢️ that the game pays for a new player, while it offers one. It cannot be cancelled. See Quick start.
• Grade — a type of crude oil, such as WTI, Urals or Basrah Medium. Your flag decides your grade. See Flags and countries.
• In port — an empty tanker waiting at its loading port for the first share. No timer runs yet.
• Live price — the small moving line on the map. It is decoration only and never used for a payout. See Prices and daily fixes.
• Loading — the time after the first share when other shares can still be added. It lasts 6 hours, or less if the tanker fills up. See The voyage cycle.
• Loading port — the port where a voyage starts.
• Market move (market delta) — the part of the payout that comes from the change of the destination benchmark between the departure day and the arrival day. It can be positive or negative. See The payout.
• My positions — the list of your shares in the Routes tab, active and settled. See Routes and positions.
• Parked — a tanker that arrived on a Saturday or Sunday (UTC). It waits at the port and unloads from Monday. See Weekends.
• Payout — what you receive when a voyage settles: your share, plus the base rate, plus the market move. See The payout.
• Payout floor — the least a share can pay back: 90% of what you put in. See The payout.
• Queue (in queue) — a tanker waiting for a free berth at the destination. Nobody waits longer than 12 hours. See The voyage cycle.
• Route — the sea lane from a loading port to a destination, with a fixed number of sailing days. See Routes and positions.
• Sailing — the tanker is at sea on its route.
• Settled — the voyage is closed and every share on it is paid.
• Share — your part of a tanker's cargo on one voyage, bought with wBarrel. It is not a share of a company. See Buying a share.
• Tanker — an oil tanker ship. Every tanker has a name, such as Baltic Dawn.
• Tanker capacity — the most cargo one tanker can carry: 5,000 🛢️ right now.
• Unloading — the tanker has a berth and is unloading. It takes 6 hours, then the voyage is paid.
• Voyage — one trip of a tanker from the loading port to the destination. Voyages last from 3 days to 36 days. See The voyage cycle.
• Weekend rule — from Saturday 00:00 to Monday 00:00 UTC, exchanges are closed: prices stay at Friday's fix, arriving tankers park, and new withdrawal requests are not accepted. See Weekends.
• World level — progress shared by all players, on two tracks: Population (the number of captains) and Volume (the cargo loaded). New levels open tankers, routes and flags and raise the tanker capacity for everyone. See World progress.

Money

• Asset — a coin you send or receive, such as USDT, TRX or SOL. See Deposits.
• Auto-reinvest — a staking switch that adds each day's interest to your stake at once. See Staking.
• Bonus balance — the welcome bonus and every daily streak reward. You can use it in voyages, but it can never be withdrawn. What you earn with it can. See Withdrawals.
• Deposit — a top-up in crypto. It is converted into wBarrel and credited to your balance. See Deposits.
• Deposit address — your own address on one network. A supported asset of that network sent there is credited to you, if it is not below the minimum. See Deposits.
• DOGE — Dogecoin. You get it by exchanging wDOGE, and you can withdraw it to your own wallet. See wDOGE and DOGE.
• Exchange — the wDOGE → DOGE screen, where you turn wDOGE into whole DOGE, a set number of DOGE at each tap. See wDOGE and DOGE.
• History — the list of every movement of your balance, in Profile. See Profile.
• Hold — the amount of a withdrawal request is set aside at once and cannot be spent while the request waits for review. See Withdrawals.
• Lock — the time your stake stays in staking: 90 days from your last top-up. See Staking.
• Minimum — the smallest deposit that is credited, set for each network and asset. A smaller transfer is not credited. See Deposits.
• Network — a blockchain, such as TON, TRON or Solana. See Deposits.
• Network fee — the fee for sending a withdrawal on the blockchain (gas). See Withdrawals.
• Operator — a person on the game's side who reviews withdrawal requests. See Withdrawals.
• Service fee — the game's own fee on a withdrawal, on top of the network fee. Both come out of the amount. See Withdrawals.
• Staking — locking wBarrel for a fixed rate of 10% a month, credited every day. See Staking.
• Unlock — taking your whole stake out of staking. It reaches your balance after 14 days. See Staking.
• wBarrel (🛢️) — the main in-game currency. You use it to buy shares and to stake. See wBarrel.
• wDOGE — the second in-game currency, paid by tasks. 1 DOGE = 1,000,000 wDOGE. See wDOGE and DOGE.
• Withdrawal — a request to send wBarrel or DOGE to your own crypto wallet. An operator reviews every request. See Withdrawals.

Rewards

• Claim — the tap that collects a reward. Task and streak rewards are never paid by themselves. See Tasks.
• Community group — the game's public Telegram group with topics for news, help and chat. See Community.
• Daily streak — a reward in wBarrel for every day in a row that you claim it. The ladder lasts 7 days, then starts again. See Daily streak.
• Invite link — your personal link to the game. Friends who start through it are attached to you. See Referrals.
• Leaderboards — the top 100 captains on five boards. See Leaderboards.
• Line — your place in a friend's chain of invitations. Line 1 is a friend you invited, line 2 is a friend of that friend. See Referrals.
• Partner program — a task that raises your share of your friends' deposits as you bring more captains. It gives a higher rate, not wDOGE. See Partner program.
• Referral reward — your share of a deposit made by a friend on your lines, paid in wBarrel. See Referrals.
• Task (quest) — a goal on the Tasks tab with rewards in wDOGE. See Tasks.
• Tier — one goal on a task's ladder, with its own reward. You claim every reached tier by hand. See Tasks.
• XP — community experience points, earned for messages in the community group. See Community.

Account

• Authenticator app — an app on your phone, such as Google Authenticator, that shows a new six-digit code every 30 seconds. See Security.
• Notifications — the messages the bot sends you. You choose the kinds in Profile. See Notifications and the bot.
• Recovery codes — eight one-time codes you get when you turn on two-factor protection. Each one replaces the app's code once. See Security.
• Recovery email — a Google address linked to your account. It proves the account is yours if you lose access to Telegram. See Security.
• Two-factor protection — an optional code from an authenticator app. While it is on, it confirms every withdrawal. See Security.