4.2 Abbreviated terms

The abbreviations, acronyms and definitions listed in Table 2 are typical and primarily focused on Subsea projects although some Topsides specific terms are also included.

Table 2 – Abbreviations, Acronyms and Definitions
Abbreviations, Acronyms & Definitions
APIAmerican Petroleum Institute
CIMVChemical Injection Metering Valves
CSVComma Separated Values
DCSDistributed Control System
EPUElectrical Power Unit (Part of PCU)
ERPEnterprise Resource Planning
EUEngineering Units
FEED Front End Engineering Design
HMIHuman Machine Interface
HTTPHypertext Transfer Protocol
IECInternational Electrotechnical Commission
JIPJoint Industry Project
LVDTLinear Variable Displacement (Differential) Transmitter
MCSMaster Control Station (Subsea Process Control System)
MDISMCS-DCS Interface Standardisation (Industry JIP)
MPFMMultiphase Flow Meters
NTPNetwork Time Protocol
OLEObject Linking & Embedding
OPCOpen Process Control (original Classic was OLE for Process Control)
OPC UAOPC Unified Architecture
ROVRemotely Operated Vehicle
SCADASupervisory Control And Data Acquisition
SCVSubsea Controls Vendor
SEMSubsea Electronics Module
SISSafety Instrumented System
SPCSSubsea Production Control System
TCP/IPTransmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
UMLUnified Modelling Language
URLUniform Resource Locator
XMLExtensible Mark-up Language

The OPC UA Specifications are also available from the IEC as IEC 62541