Oil & Gas
Glossary
P
PA
Public Address
PA
PARLOC
Pipelines
And Risers Loss of Containment
Pay Zone
PC
Potentially
Commercial
PCBs
Polychlorinated biphenyls
PEDL
PES
Programmable Electronic System
Permeable
Permian
Permit-to-Work (PTW)
Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)
Petroleum
Petroleum products
Petroleum Revenue Tax (PRT)
PFBC
Pressurised Fluidised Bed Combustion
PFDs
Process flow diagrams
Pig
Piling
Pipeline
PIW
Periods of incapacity for work
Plate Tectonics
Plateau
Platform
Fixed structure resting on seabed or
piled
into it.
Play
Pleistocene
Pliocene
Plugging
POB
Personnel On Board
POBM
Pseudo Oil Based Mud
PON
Petroleum Operations Notice
ppb / ppm
parts per billion / parts per million
Precambrian
Preventative maintenance
Maintenance carried out prior to unit or system failure.
Produced Water
Production Drilling
Production Installation
Production string
Propane
psi / Pounds per sq inch
One psi = 6.89
kPa
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