ABBREVIATIONS

A

AC                   Alternating Current

ACR                 Air Circuit Breaker

AGA                 American Gas Association

AHU                Air Handling Unit

ANSI                American National Standards Institute

API                  American Petroleum Institute

ATEX               Atmosphere Explosibles

B

BASEEFA        British Approvals Service for Electrical Equipment in

                        Flammable Atmospheres

BDV                Blow down Valve

BMS                Building Management System

BSI                  British Standards Institution

BVQI               Bureau Veritas Quality International

C

CCR                 Central Control Room

CEN                 Committee European de Normalization (European Committee for

                         Standardization)

CENELEC        European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization

CFL                 Compact fluorescent Lamp

CMS                 Condition Monitoring Systems

COMP              Continues optical monitoring path

CRT                 Cathode Ray Tube

CRU                 Condensate Recovery Unit

CSA                 Canadian Standards Association

CSP                  Collector and Separation Platform

D

DACR              Digital Alarm Communicator Receiver

DACS               Digital Alarm Communicator System

DACT              Digital Alarm Communicator Transmitter

DBUS              Data Binary Unit System

DC                   Direct Current

DCS                 Distributed Control System

DPT                 Differential Pressure Transmitter

DYNPOS          Dynamic Positioning (of rigs and ships)

E

E&P                 Exploration and Production

EC                    European Communities

EECS               Electrical Equipment Certification Service (UK)

EEPROM         Electrically Erasable Programmable read only memory.

EL                    Explosive limit

ELCB               Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker

EOL                 End of Line

EOR                 Enhanced Oil Recovery

ESD                 Emergency Shutdown System

ESDV               Emergency Shutdown Valve

ESP                  Electric Submerged Pump

EU                   The European Union

F

F&G                 Fire & Gas System

FACP               Fire alarm control panel

FCV                 Flow Control Valve

FD                   Filament Detector

FD                   Fire/Flame Detector

FID                  Flame Ionization Detector

FM                   Factory Mutual

FM                   Frequency Modulation

FPD                 Flame photometric Detector

FPSO               Floating Production Storage & Offloading

FT                   Flow Transmitter

G

GB(S)              Gravity Base Structure

GC                   Gas Chromatography

GDF                 Gas Detector Flammable

GDT                Gas Detector Toxic

GOR                 Gas Oil Ratio from the well

GOSP               Gas Oil Separation Plant

GTP                 Gas Treatment Platform

H

HART              Highway Addressable Remote Transducer

HD                   Heat Detector

HID                 High Intensity Discharge

HIPPS              High Integrity Pressure Protection System

HIPS                High Integrity Protection System

HMI                 Humane Machine Interface

HP                   High Pressure

HPS                 High pressure sodium

HPU                 Hydraulic Power Unit 

HVAC              Heat Ventilation & Air Conditioning

I

I/O                  Input/Out put

I/P                   Current to Pneumatic

IEC                  International Electro-technical Commission

ILD                  Instrument loop diagram

IP                     Ingress Protection

IR                    Infra Red

IS                     Intrinsically safe

ISO                  International Standards Organization

J

JB                    Junction Box

L

LAN                 Local Area Net Work

LCD                 Liquid Crystal Display

LCV                 Level Control Valve

LED                 Light emitting diode

LEL                 Lower Explosive Limit

LHD                Linear Heat Detection Cable System

LNG                 Liquefied Natural Gas

LP                    Low Pressure

LPG                 Liquefied Petroleum Gas 

LT                   Level Transmitter

LVDT              Linier Variable Differential Transducer

LVDT              Linier Voltage Differential Transformer

M

MBFU              Mercury vapor

MBTF              Blended mercury vapor

MCB                Miniature Circuit Breaker

MCC                Motor Control Centre

MCCB              Molded Case Circuit Breaker

MICC               Mineral Insulated Copper Cable

MODEM          Modulator & Demodulator

MOS                Metallic Oxide Semi-conductor

MSDS              Material Safety Data Sheet

MTBF              Mean Time between Failure

N

NAC                 Notification Appliance Circuit

NEMA             National Electrical Manufacturers Association (US)

NFPA              National Fire Protection Association

NGL                Natural Gas Liquids 

NRTL              Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (US)

NRTL              Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory 

P

P&ID               Piping instrument diagram

P/I                   Pneumatic to Current

PAGA              Public Announcement General Alarm

PCP                 Progressive Cavity Pump

PCV                 Pressure Control Valve

PD-Meter        Positive Displacement meter

PGP                 Power Generation Platform algorithm

PID                  Proportional Integral Derivate control 

PIMS               Production Information Management System

PLC                 Programmable Logic Control

PMT                photo multiplier tube

POC                 Pimp of controller (for artificial lift)

POSMOR         Position mooring for a floating facility

PPB                 parts per billion

PPE                 Personal Protection Equipment

PPM                parts per million

PROM              Programmable read only memory

PSD                 Process Shutdown System

PT                   Pressure Transmitter

PV                   Process Variable

R

RAM                Random Access Memory

RF                   Radio Frequency

ROM                Read Only Memory

ROV                 Remote Operated Vehicle (for subsea work over)

RTD                 Resistance Temperature Detector

RTU                 Remote Terminal Unit

S

SAP                 Systems Applications and Products

SAS                  Safety and Automation System

SCADA            Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SD                   Smoke Detector

SDI                  Smoke Detector ionization

SDO                 Smoke Detector Optical

SHE                 Safety Health Environment

SIL                   Safety Integrity Level

SOLAS             Safety of Life at Sea (convention)

SP                    Set Point

SRU                 Sulfure Recovery Unit

SWL                Safe Working Load

T

 Ta                   Tamb Ambient Temperature

TCD                 Thermal conductivity detector

TCV                 Temperature control valve

TDSA              Time Domain Signal Analysis

TIP                  Tie in Platform

TLP                 Tension Leg Platform

TT                   Temperature Transmitter

TWA               Time Wait Average

U

UEL                 Upper Explosive Limit

UHF                 Ultra High Frequency

UL                   Underwriters Laboratory Inc.

UMS                Unmanned Machinery Space Classification (marine =E0)

UPS                 Uninterrupted Power Source

USM                Ultra Sonic Meter

UV                   Ultra Violet

V

VCB                 Vacuum Contact Switch

VCR                 Vacuum Circuit Breaker

VESDA            Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus.

W

WHP               Well Head Platform