Glossary
- ABS:
- American Bureau of Shipping
- bbls:
- Barrels
- BBC:
- Bare Boat Charter
- bfpd:
- Barrels of Fluid per Day
- bopd:
- Barrels of Oil per Day
- bpd:
- Barrels per Day
- bwpd:
- Barrels of Water per Day
- BV:
- Bureau Veritas
- bwpd:
- Barrels of Water per Day
- CALM:
- Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring
- Capex:
- Capital Expenditure
- CBM:
- Conventional Buoy Mooring
- CP Semi:
- Central Pontoon Semi-Submersible
- dwt:
- Dead Weight Tonnage
- EOR:
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
- EPCI:
- Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation
- FPSO:
- Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading system
- FSO:
- Floating Storage and Offloading system
- FSRU:
- Floating Storage Regasification Unit
- FT GTL processes:
- Fischer-Tropsch, a process invented in the 1920s. The principal purpose of this process is to produce synthetic fuel.
- GTL:
- Gas to Liquids
- HSEQ:
- Health Safety, Environment and Quality
- km:
- kilometers
- LNG:
- Liquefied Natural Gas
- LPG:
- Liquefied Petroleum Gas
- LTI:
- Lost Time Injury
- MMscfd:
- Millions of Standard Cubic Feet per Day
- MODEC:
- MODEC is used in this website as a generic term for MODEC, Inc., MODEC International, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
- MOPU:
- Mobile Offshore Production Unit
- MOSES:
- Minimum Offshore Surface Equipment Structure
- NGH:
- Natural Gas Hydrate
- NGL:
- Natural Gas Liquids
- O&M:
- Operation and Maintenance
- Opex:
- Operation Expenditure
- PLEM:
- Pipe Line End Manifold
- ROV:
- Remotely Operated Vehicle
- SALM:
- Single Anchor Leg Mooring
- Semi-sub:
- Semi-submersible
- SPM:
- Single Point Mooring
- SSIP:
- Self Stable Integrated Platform
- T/C:
- Time Charter
- TLP:
- Tension Leg Platform
- ULCC:
- Ultra Large Crude Carrier
- VLCC:
- Very Large Crude Carrier
