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The document provides definitions for over 100 common acronyms used in the oilfield services industry. It lists acronyms related to well logging tools and measurements, various business and sales terms, safety and environmental standards, and training programs. Common tool acronyms include GR for Gamma Ray, FDC for Fluid Density Coring, and LWD for Logging While Drilling. Acronyms are also listed for concepts like HSE for Health, Safety, and Environment, ISO for International Organization for Standardization, and OSHA for Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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Sec 1 L&PBasics

The document provides definitions for over 100 common acronyms used in the oilfield services industry. It lists acronyms related to well logging tools and measurements, various business and sales terms, safety and environmental standards, and training programs. Common tool acronyms include GR for Gamma Ray, FDC for Fluid Density Coring, and LWD for Logging While Drilling. Acronyms are also listed for concepts like HSE for Health, Safety, and Environment, ISO for International Organization for Standardization, and OSHA for Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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EXAMPLE C

COMMON ACRONYMS USED IN HES


ACRONYMS DEFINITION

BCS Borehole Compensated Sonic (2 transmitters)


BDA / BDT / BD Business Development Area / Business Development Team / Business
Development (Sales Group related)
BHPT Borehole Properties Tool
BHT Bottom Hole Temperature
CAST V Circumferential Acoustic Scanning Tool - Visualization
CBL Cement Bond Log
CCL Casing Collar Locator
CFB Caged Full Bore Flowmeter
CIT Casing Inspection Tool
CPI Correction Prevention Improvement – a process to fix broken methods
CSNG Compensated Spectral Natural Gamma
CVA Cash Value Added – a way of calculating financials that takes into account asset
values
DBT Dump Bailer Tool
DHTD Down Hole Tension Devise
DHV Down Hole Video
DILT Dual Induction
DLLT Dual Laterolog Tool
DSEN Dual Spaced Epithermal Neutron
DSNT Dual Spaced Neutron Tool
EMI Electric Micro Imager
EPO Equipment - Products - Operations (a.k.a.- Manufacturing)
EVC Economic Value to the Client - What’s in it for him.
FBM Focused Business Market
FDF Flow Diverter Flowmeter (Basket Flowmeter)
FIAC / FACT Four Independent Arm Caliper / Four Arm Caliper Tool
FVI Future Value Indicator Means of seeing if we are on track in our business by
measurements
FWST Fullwave Sonic Tool
GPLT or GPST Gamma Perforator LARGE TOOL or SMALL TOOL
GR Gamma Ray
HFDT High Frequency Dielectric
HMS Halliburton Management System – a big book of documented process for the way
Halliburton works
HRTT High Resolution Temperature Tool
HRI High Resolution Induction Tool
HSE Health, Safety, and Environment
IRJ Irregular Job Report – a memo that documents job problems
LFDT Low Frequency Dipole Tool
LWD Logging While Drilling
MBU Mobile Business Unit
MEL / ML Micro Electric Log / Micro Log
MPI- XACT Magnetic Pulse Incorp. XACT dipole sonic run in unconsolidated sands
MRIL Magnetic Resonance Imaging Log
MSFL Micro Spherical Focused Log
ForXO For “XO” - Measure the flushed zone resistivity
MWD Measurement While Drilling
NGRT Natural Gamma Ray Tool
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NWA Natural Work Area
PDS Performance Development Session
PET Pulse Echo Tool
PIT Pipe Inspection Tool
PLT Production Logging Tool (Temperature/Spinner/Pressure/Hydrometer/Density)
PPE Personal Protective Equipment (Hard Hat, Safety Glasses, Gloves, etc.)
PSGT Pulsed Spectral Gamma Tool
PSL Product Service Line
RMT Reservoir Monitoring Tool
QIP Quality Improvement Process
RED Rig Environment Detonator
RSCT Rotary Sidewall Coring Tool
RWCH Releasable Weak point Cable Head
SED Six Electrode Dipmeter (6 Arm)
SFTT / SFT IV Sequential Formation Test Tool / Sequential Formation Tester (type) IV
SDLT Spectral Density Logging Tool
SpFL Spectra Flow Log
SRO Surface Read Out
SWC Sidewall Coring
TCP Tubing Conveyed Perforating
TMD / TMDL Thermal Multigate Decay / …Lithology
TTBP / TTIBP Thru-Tubing (Inflatable) Bridge Plug
TTTC Thru-Tubing Telemetry Cartridge (with Gamma Ray and CCL)
TPL Tool Pusher Logging
UGR Universal Gamma Ray
UCCL Universal Casing Collar Locator
VSP Vertical Seismic Profile, Checkshot
XL2K EXCEL 2000 Logging System
COMMONLY USED ACRONYMS
AMT Asset Management Team
ABM Asset Based Management
BDT Business Development Team
EPS Early Production System
FPD Focus Product Development
HEI Halliburton Energy Institute
HSE Health Safety and Environment
LQA Log Quality Assurance
OBE Overcome By Events
PDS Product Development Systems
WSE Well Site Engineer
ABM Activity Based Management
BTDT Been There, Done That
CBT Computer Based Training
CPI Correction , Prevention, Improvement
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
DEQ Department of Environmental Quality
DOT Department of Transportation
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERG Emergency Response Guide
H2S Hydrogen Sulfide
HM Hazardous Materials (also HAZ MAT)
HMS Halliburton Management System
HR Human Resources
IDLH Immediately Dangerous to Life and Death
ISO International Standards Organization
JSA Job Safety Analysis
MMS Minerals Management Service
OSHA Occupational Safety & Health Administration
NRR Noise Reduction Rating
PDS Performance Development Supervisor
PEC Petroleum Education Council
PEL Permissible Exposure Limit
RSPA Research & Special Programs Administration
SCBA Self Contained Breathing Apparatus
SOM Standard Operating Procedures
TCM Training Compliance Management
TLV Threshold Limit Value

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