Offshore Safety Glossary Ratings: 0|Views: 2.575|Likes: 24 Publicado porReza Babri Ver ms Page 1 AERP. Acronym AFP.

Acronym ALARP. Acronym ANSI. Acronym API. Acronym for Alert and Emergency Response Plan. for active fire protection. for as low as reasonably practicable. for American National Standards Institute. for

American Petroleum Institute. avg. Abbreviation for average. bbl. The abbreviation for barrel. BDV. Acronym for blow down valve. bergy bit. A piece of floating glacier having a sail greater than 1.5 m but less than 5 m a nd a water planearea greater than 20 m but less than 300 m. Size approximates that of a small house and mass isbetween 120 and 5,400 t. BOP. Acronym for blowout preventer. BVD . Acronym for blow down valve. CCG. Acronym for Canadian Coast Guard. C-CORE. Acronym for Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering. CCR. Acronym for central control room. CEAA. Acronym for Canadian Environmental Assessment Act . Page 2 CERT. Acronym for Corporate Emergency Response Team. christmas tree. Arrangement of valves and fittings attached to the tubing head to control flow a ndprovide access to the tubing string. CIS. Acronym for Canada Ice Sevices. cluster. Wells grouped together to minimize infield flowlines. CMG . Acronym for course made good. C-NOPB. Acronym for Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board.

COT. Acronym for cargo oil tank. CPA. Acronym for closest point of approach. crude oil. Unrefined petroleum. CSA. Acronym for Concept Safety Assessment. d. Abbreviation for day. DA. Acronym for Development Application. DCS. Acronym for distributed control system. DDMT . Acronym for Data and Decision Management Tool. Development (White Rose Oilfield Development). "Development" refers to all phases of the project, fromthe decision to go ahead with construction through to abandonment of the field. Development Application. The official title of the documentation submitted in support of the WhiteRose oi lfield development. The Development Application includes: Project Summary; Canad a-Newfoundland benefits Plan (Volume 1); Development Plan (Volume 2): Environmen tal ImpactStatement (Volume 3 - Comprehensive Study Part One); Socio-Economic Im pact Statement (Volume 4 -Comprehensive Study Part Two); and Concept Safety Anal ysis/Safety Plan (Volume 5). DFO. Acronym for federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans. DND . Acronym for Department of National Defence. Page 3 DNV. Acronym for Det Norske Veritas. DP. Acronym for dynamically positioned. drill centre. Location at which a group of wells is drilled. drilling platform. An offshore structure from which a number of wells are drilled. The legs of thep latform are anchored to the seabed and the platform is built on a large-diameter pipe frame. drilling rig. A ship-shaped or semi-submersible vessel, or a jackup platform, with equipment s uitablefor offshore drilling. DTI. Acronym for UK Department of Trade and Industry. DWT. Dead weight tonnage. EAT. Acronym for Emergency Action Teams. ECERT. Acronym for East Coast Emergency Response Team. ECM. Acronym for environmental compliance monitoring. ECRC. Acronym for Eastern Canada Response Corporation. ECS. Acronym for emergency control system. EEM.

Acronym for environmental effects monitoring. Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). A document that attempts to predict the effects of a majordevelopment might have on the human and natural environments of a given geographic area. An EIS isprep ared to enable industry, government and the public to consider the environmental costs and benefitsof a development project. Based on the information contained in the EIS, decisions an be made onwhether to proceed with the development proje ct. ERP . Acronym for Emergency Response Plan. ERT . Acronym for Emergency Response Team. ESD. Acronym for emergency shut down. ESDV. Acronym for emergency shut down valve. Page 4 FGD. Acronym for fire and gas detection. FGS. Acronym for fire and gas detection system. First Oil. Milestone achieved when the first shuttle tanker has been filled with oil from t he White Roseproduction system and the shuttle tanker disconnects from the offlo ading system. The entire productionsystem is handed over to operations personnel at this point. This is the first quantity of oil to bedelivered from the reserv oir through the complete production and offloading system, including fiscalmeter ing. flaring. Disposal of surplus combustible vapours by burning at the discharge of the flare tower. floating production system. A monohull or semi-submersible vessel with equipment suitable forproducing hydro carbons. flowline. Pipe which conveys crude oil from the well to the riser, or mud, water or gas fr om the riser tothe well. FPF. Acronym for floating production facility. FPSO. Acronym for floating production, storage and offloading facility. FRC . Acronym for fast rescue craft. FSU. Acronym for floating storage unit. FTO. Acronym for failure to operate. glory hole. Hole, excavated in the seabed, in which wellhead facilities are placed for prote ction fromiceberg scour. h. The abbreviation for hour. H 2 S. Abbreviation for hydrogen sulphide. HAZID.

Acronym for Hazard Identification. HMDC . Acronym for Hibernia Management and Development Company. HS&E. Acronym for Health, Safety and Environment. Husky Oil. Abbreviation for Husky Oil Operations Limited. HVAC. Acronym for heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Page 5 iceberg scour. Seafloor trench caused by the ploughing motion of an iceberg grounding on the oc eanfloor. ICS. Acronym for Incident Command System. IDNS. Acronym for Ice Data Network System. IIF. Acronym for input initiating frequency. IIP. Acronym for International Ice Patrol. IMO. Acronym for International Maritime Organization. IR. Acronym for individual risk. ISM . Acronym for International Safety Management. km. The abbreviation for kilometre. km. The abbreviation for square kilometre. kPa. Abbreviation for kiloPascal. KSLO. Acronym for Kvaerner-SNC Lavelin Offshore. kV. The abbreviation for kilovolts. kts. The abbreviation for knots. kW. The abbreviation for kilowatts. L. The abbreviation for litre. m. The abbreviation for a) metre or b) earthquake magnitude. m 2 . The abbreviation for square metre. m. The abbreviation for cubic metre. MANMAR. Acronym for Manual of Marine Weather Observing. Page 6 MARPOL. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships. MFPSV. Acronym for Multifunctional Platform Support Vessel.

min. Abbreviation for minute. mm. The abbreviation for millimetre. MODU. Acronym for mobile offshore drilling units. monohull. A ship-shaped vessel. MRSC. Acronym for Marine Rescue Sub Centre. MSDS . Acronym for Material Safety Data Sheets. OCMS . Acronym for Offshore Chemical Management System. OEC . Acronym for overpressure exceedance curve. OERT. Acronym for Offshore Emergency Response Team. OIM. Acronym for offshore installation manager. On-shore/at-shore hook-op. The installation, testing and commissioning of topsides modules at adesignated h ook-up site. Operations Phase. The period following First Oil until cessation of all oil production from the Wh iteRose oilfield. Includes post-First Oil development drilling, offshore install ation activities, production,operations, maintenance, well abandonment, decommis sioning and removal from the White Roseoilfield of all facilities, equipment and vessels used in the production system. Operator. When capitalized in the Development Application, refers to Husky Oil. OSC. Acronym for On-Scene Commander. OSRL. Acronym for Oil Spill Response Limited. overpressured. A subsurface formation that exerts an abnormally high formation pressure on a we llboredrilled into it. Owner/Operator. When capitalized in the Development Application, refers to Husky Oil.