AC Air Conditioning, OR Alternating Current
ACI American Concrete Institute
AEDC Award Engineering/Design Contract
AES Aramco Engineering Standard
AFC Approved for Construction; Automatic Frequency Control
AMS Aramco Materials System Catalog
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API American Petroleum Institute
ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrig. & Air Condit. Engrs
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
AWG American Wire Gauge
AWWA American Water Works Association
AWS American Welding Society
BOPD Barrels of Oil Per Day
BSI British Standards Institution
C/R Change Request
CAD Computer Aided Drafting
CADD Computer Aided Drafting & Design
CGA Compressed Gas Association
CO Change Order
CTI Cooling Tower Institute
Cut-Off-Date The assigned date by which the accumulation of data for a reporting period must be completed
D-A Digitial to Analog
dB Decibel
DC Direct Current
DBSP Design Basis Scoping Paper
ESD Emergency Shutdown
EWO Engineering Work Order
FAT Factory Acceptance Test
FOT Fiber Optic Transmission
Gantt Bar Chart, Time Scaled
GOSP Gas Oil Separation Plant
Hz Hertz (unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second
I/O Input/Output
ILD Instrument Loop Diagram
JIS Japanese Standards Association
JO Job Order
KO Drum Knockout Drum
LS Lump Sum
LSPM Lump Sum Procure/Build
LSTK Lump-SumTurnkey (Contract)
mA Milliampere
MBCD Thousand (M) Barrels Per Calendar Day
MMSCFD Million (MM) Standard Cubic Feet Per Day
MOV Motor Operated Valve
MTO MaterialTake-Off
NACE National Association of Corrosion Engineers
NCR Non-Conformance Report
NEC National Electric Code
NFPA National Fire Protection Association
OOK Out-of-Kingdom
P&ID Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams
P/L Pipeline
PEP Project Execution Plan
PFD Process Flow Diagram
PIB Process Interface Building
PID Proportional Integral Derivative
PLC Power Line Carrier; Programmable Logic Controller
PM Project Manager; Project Management
PO # Purchase Order Number
PPM Parts Per Million
PR Purchase Requisition
PS Pumping Station
PSI Pounds Per Square Inch
PVC Polyvinylchloride
QA Quality Assurance
QC Quality Control
QR Quotation Request; Qualification Record
QTR Quarter (pertaining to segment of year)
RC Reimbursable Cost
RCA Required Corrective Action
RFI Radio Frequency Interference or Request For Inspection
RO Reverse Osmosis
RTD Resistance Temperature Detector
RVL Restricted Vendor List
SADM Saudi Aramco Drafting Manual
SAEP Saudi Aramco Engineering Procedures
SAER Saudi Arabian Engineering Report
SAES Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards
SAMSS Saudi Aramco Materials System Specifications
SASD Saudi Aramco Standard Drawings
SASO Saudi Arabian Standards Organization
SC Sub-Contract or Sanitary Code
SCADA Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition
SPE Senior Project Engineer
T&I Testing and Inspection
UL Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply