Glossary PDF
Glossary PDF
Glossary PDF
23 November 2005
Common Acronyms and Abbreviations
Table of Contents
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B . . . C................................................................. 4
D . . . F................................................................. 6
G . . .J.................................................................. 8
K . . . M............................................................... 10
N . . . P............................................................... 12
Q . . . S............................................................... 14
T . . . Z................................................................ 17
A
A/D Analog/Digital
AACE American Association of Cost Engineers
ABHD Abu Hadriya
ABJF Abu Jifan
ABQQ Abqaiq
ABSF Abu Sa'fah
AC Air Conditioning, OR Alternating Current
AC Alternating Current or Air Conditioning
ACI American Concrete Institute
ACS American Construction Society (Obsolete for Aramco Construction
Specifications, which no longer exist)
Activation Activation of all control activities; testing for stability, correctness of set
point and repeatability within the controlled element. System
velocity flushing or blow-out, and level and flow response pressure
testing. Vendor services for equipment testing and, where needed,
correction of deficiencies within their responsibility. Operational
run-in and adjustment of all plant equipment, i.e., conveyors, mills,
filters, etc., without materials and pumps with water
Activity A task, or item of work, represented by a single arrow diagram.
Activities are assigned durations and may or may nor require
resources
Activity Duration The amount of time allotted to complete an activity
Actual Completion The date an activity is actually completed. Used in updating networks
ADM Arrow Diagram Method
ADP Aramco Design Practice (Obsolete: see SADP cancelled in Dec. 1996)
ADS Applications Software Development System
AEDC Award Engineering/Design Contract
AEIC Association of Edison Illuminating Companies
AEP Aramco Engineering Procedure (Obsolete: see SAEP)
AER Arabian Engineering Report
AES Aramco Engineering Standard (Obsolete: see SAES)
AFBMA Anti-Friction Bearing Manufacturers Association
AFC Approved for Construction; Automatic Frequency Control
AFE Authorization for expenditure. (An allocation taken out of a larger sum
of approved money such as a Budget Item, which is to be used for a
specified part of the BI.)
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B...C
BB Budget Brief
BDT Bulk Data Transfer
BFO Beneficial Occupancy
BI Budget Item. (A capital project of one or more jobs approved by the
Board of Directors as an item in the budget and assigned a BI
number)
BI Number Budget Item Number
BI-1900 Miscellaneous Capital Projects $1,000,000 or Less
BISR Budget Item Summary Report
BLIND A Blank Flange
BOPD Barrels of Oil Per Day
BPCD Barrels Per Calendar Day
BPD Barrels Per Day
BPS Bytes Per Second
BRRI Berri
BSI British Standards Institution
BSIT Basit
BWPD Barrels of Water Per Day
C/R Change Request
C/R Construction/Repair
CAD Computer Aided Drafting
CADD Computer Aided Drafting & Design
CAMA Centralized Automatic Message Accounting
CAO Certified Acceptance by Operations
CAO Certified Acceptance by Operations
CAPEX Capital Expenditure
CAPEX Capital Expenditure
Category A particular type of work, earthwork, substructure, etc., within a facility
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CB Control Building
CCC Commodity Classification Code
CCEI Common Class Expansion Indices
CCIR International Radio Consultative Committee
CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCN Catalog Classification Number
CCO Current Cost Outlook
CCOS Construction Camp Office Services
CCS Computer and Communication Services
CDC Central Dispatch Center
CDOI Communications Department Operating Instructions
CDR Critical Design Review
CDS Central Dispatch System
CEC Change Evaluation Committee
CEMA Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CESP Conceptual Estimate Scoping Paper
CESR Computer Equipment Service Request
CFP Capital Facilities Plan
CGA Compressed Gas Association
CGT Combustion Gas Turbine
CGTG Combustion Gas Turbine Generator
CIF Community and Industrial Facility
CIS Contract Information System
CMT Construction Management Team
CO Change Order
COMM OPS Communications Operations Department
COPES Cost Planning and Evaluation System
COS Computer Operations and Support
COT Character Oriented Terminal
CP&B Capital Programs & Budgets
CPC Corporate Planning Committee
CPCP Communications and Process Computer Planning
CPD Corporate Planning Department
CPO Corporation Planning Organization
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRCC Contract Review and Cost Compliance
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D...F
D-A Digital to Analog
D/C or DC Direct Charge
DASD Direct Access Storage Device
DAV Data Above Voice
dB Decibel
dBA Decibels using the A-Weighted scale
DBM Design Basis Memorandum
DBSP Design Basis Scoping Paper
DC Direct Current
DCC Disaster Control Center
DCLM Direct Charge List of Materials
DCS Distributed Control System
DDD Direct Distance Dial
DEL Direct Exchange Line
DEMA Diesel Engineer Manufacturers Association
DEPCO Dammam Electric Power Company
DHYN Duhaynah
DID Direct Inward Dialing
DILM Dilam
DMMM Dammam
DOBIS/LIBIS Dortmunder Bibliothekssystem/Leuvens Integraal Bibliotheek System
DOD Direct Onward Dialing
DOX Direct Overhead Expense
DP Dial Pulse; Data Processing
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FAB Fabricate
FAT Factory Acceptance Test
FDHL Fadhili
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDS Final Decision Specification
FIT Functional Integration Team
FM Frequency Modulation
FMR Field Material Requisition
FOB Free On Board
Format An Ordering of Fields or Words
FOT Fiber Optic Transmission
FPD Facilities Planning Department
FPE Fair Price Estimate
FR&P Form, Rebar and Pour
FRHH Farhah
FRR Field Receiving Record
FSD Functional Specification Document
FSS Functional System Specification
FZRN Fazran (Ghawar)
G . . .J
Gantt Bar Chart, Time Scaled
GAO Government Affairs Organization
GART Gas Line Abqaiq - Ras Tanura
GASMO Gulf Arab Standards and Measurement Organization
GESC General Engineering Services Contract
GI General Instruction
GIP Gas Injection Plant
GOR Gas to Oil Ratio
GOS Grade of Service
GOSP Gas Oil Separation Plant
GPF General Planning Forecast
GPR General Service Potential Rise
GSPD General Service Plant Depreciation
GTC Good 'Til Cancelled (see Backorder)
H2S Hydrogen Sulfide
HABA El Haba
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HD Heavy Density
HF High Frequency (3-30 Megahertz)
HLWH Hilwah
HOV Hydraulic Operated Valve
HPP Hague Project Proposal
HPPT High-Pressure Production Trap
HPTT High-Pressure Test Trap
HRDH Haradh (Ghawar)
HRML Harmaliyah
HVAC Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning
HWTH Hawtah
HWYH Hawiyah (Ghawar)
Hz Hertz (unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second)
HZMY Hazmiyah
I/O Input/Output
IBN Institute Beige de Normalization
IBPS Intermediate Booster Pump Station
ICD Interface Control Document
ICEA Insulated Cable Engineers Association
ICOM Interleaved Computer Microfiche (report)
IDP Individual Development Plan
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IF Intermediate Frequency
IFB Issue for Bid
IK In-Kingdom
ILD Instrument Loop Diagram
IM Intermodulation
IMS Information Management System (IBM Software Package)
IMTS Improved Mobile Telephone System
IPPT Intermediate-Pressure Production Trap
IPS Intermediate Pump Station
ISA Instrument Society of America
ISLT Indian Spring Low Tide
ITC Industrial Training Course; Indicated Total Cost
ITD Industrial Transportation Department
ITEA Indefinite Term Employment Agreement
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IU Issue Unit
J-Node The Number Assigned to the end of An Activity Arrow
JCC Job Clearance Cards
JCL Job Control Language (Computer Application)
JIS Japanese Standards Association
JO Job Order
JOB Synonym for Project
JPS Job Progress Steps (Saudi 3-10 Training Job Codes)
K...M
KHRS Khurais
KO Drum Knockout Drum
KRSN Khursaniyah
L/M List of Materials
LAN Local Area Network
LDF Laid Down in Field
LDOR Local Delivery Order and Receipt
LED Light Emitting Diode
LLP Last Landed Price
LNG Liquefied Natural Gas
LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Propane and Butane)
LPPT Low-Pressure Production Trap
LRP Long-Range Planning
LS Lump Sum
LSPM Lump Sum Procure/Build
LSTK Lump-Sum Turnkey (Contract)
LT Lead Time
LWHH Lawbah (Marjan)
M/E Mechanical/Electrical
mA Milliampere
MAER Mandatory Aramco Engineering Requirement (Obsolete: see MSAER)
MARS Material Reservation Systems
MATICS Materials Inventory Control System
MBCD Thousand (M) Barrels Per Calendar Day
MBD Thousand Barrels Per Day
MBOD Thousand Barrels Per Operating Day
MBPC Major Bid Package Complete
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N...P
NACE National Association of Corrosion Engineers
NAOO Northern Area Oil Operations
NCR Non-Conformance Report
NDE Net Direct Expenditure or Non-Destructive Examination
NEC National Electric Code
NESC National Electric Safety Code
NFPA National Fire Protection Association
NFU No Foreseeable Use
NGL Natural-Gas Liquids
NGLC Natural-Gas Liquids Center
NMC Network Maintenance Center
NOCC Network Operations Control Center
Node The number assigned to an event
NSD National Subscriber Dialing
NYYM Nuayyim
O&R Overhaul and Repair
OAT Operational Availability Test
OCIMF Oil Companies International Marine Forum
OCMA Oil Companies Materials Association
OGOEAD Oil and Gas Operations Exploration Applications Division
OH On Hand Quantity
OIO Operational Investment Overhead
OO On Order Quantity
OOK Out-of-Kingdom
OPAC Online Public Access Catalog
ORGANIGRAM Organization Diagram
OS On-Stream. (Operational and in use)
OSP Outside Project; Oil Supply Planning & Scheduling
OSPAS Oil Supply Planning and Scheduling Department
OTK Oil Tank
P&IC Purchasing and Inventory Control
P&ID Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams
P&T Purchasing and Traffic
P/E Project Engineer or Planning Engineer
P/L Pipeline
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PP Project Proposal
PPM Parts Per Million
PPOSAD Projects, Power & Operations Services Applications Division
PPU Project Planning Update Report
PR Purchase Requisition
PRE-FAT Pre-Factory Acceptance Test
Project A complete and logical grouping of activities and tasks
PS Pumping Station
PSCC Plant Security Computing Center
PSD Project Support Division
PSE Planning/Scheduling Engineer
PSI Pounds Per Square Inch
PSIA Pounds Per Square Inch Atmospheric
PTA Purchasing Traffic and Accounting
PUNCH LIST Exception Item List
PVC Polyvinylchloride
pW pico Watt
PWAC Present Worth of Annual Charges
PWE Present Worth of Expenditures
PWRR Present Worth of Revenue Requirements
Q...S
QA Quality Assurance
QA/QC Quality Assurance/Quality Control
QC Quality Control
QIRD Qirdi
QR Quotation Request; Qualification Record
QTIF Qatif
QTR Quarter (pertaining to segment of year)
QUERY ID A three character transaction ID
R/P Request for Purchase
RAM Random Access Memory
RC Reimbursable Cost
RCA Required Corrective Action
RCS Remote Computer System; Remote Console Software
RFI Radio Frequency Interference or Request For Inspection
RFQ Request for Quotation
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RGHB Raghib
RJE Remote Job Entry (Computer Application)
RMLH Ramlah
RMTN Rimthan
RO Reverse Osmosis
ROM Read Only Memory
RPD Resources Planning Department
RRE Receiving Reference Equivalent
RSB Repair Service Bureau
RSCC Regional Security Computer Center
RSI Request for Shipping Instruction
RTD Resistance Temperature Detector
RTSA Real-Time Security Analysis
RTU Remote Terminal Unit
Run Date The date the network is run on the computer
RVL Restricted Vendor List
SA&E Scheduling Analysis & Evaluation Unit (P&SD-RPD)
SA-POM Stand Alone Pipeline Operations Modules
SACC Saudi Aramco Construction Camp
SACE Saudi Aramco Cost Engineering
SADM Saudi Aramco Drafting Manual
SADP Saudi Aramco Design Practices (Obsolete. All SADPs cancelled in
December, 1996.)
SAEP Saudi Aramco Engineering Procedures (Replaces obsolete AEP)
SAER Saudi Arabian Engineering Report (Replaces obsolete AER)
SAES Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards (Replaces obsolete AES)
SAG Saudi Arab Government
SAIMS Saudi Aramco Information Management System
SAIP Saudi Aramco Inspection Procedures (Replaces obsolete AIP)
SALM Saudi Aramco Lubricating Manual
SAMCOM Saudi Arabian Manpower Committee
SAMS Saudi Aramco Materials System Catalog (Replaces obsolete AMS)
SAMSS Saudi Aramco Materials System Specifications (Replaces obsolete AMSS)
SAO Saudi Arabian Organization
SAOO Southern Area Oil Operations
SAPD Saudi Aramco Purchasing Department
SAPMIS Saudi Aramco Project Management Information System
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T...Z
T&I Testing and Inspection
T/C Thermocouple
T/O Take-Off Sheets for Construction Materials
TAP (Line) Trans Arabian Pipeline
TC Type Code
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TEG Thermo-Electric Generator
TEMA Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association
TFS Total Field Supply
Time Zero First day of a Project upon which work will be accomplished
TLC Total Landed Cost
TLT Total Lead Time
TLX Transportation and Living Expense
TMG Trans Mercator Grid
TPG Thermo-Powered Generator
TPP Texas Project Proposal
TPT Telephone, Posts and Telegraph
TRF Transfer
TRT Technical Review Team
TSI Technical Study Item (Part of the Engineering Study Program)
TSO Time Sharing Option (Computer Application)
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UL Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
UTMN 'Uthmaniyah (Ghawar)
VAC Volts Alternating Current
VDC Volts Direct Current
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