# Petroleum Acronyms

- **Website:** <https://petroleumacronyms.com>
- **Primary alias:** `petroleumacronyms.com`

## Description

Petroleum Acronyms is an independent online reference for acronyms, abbreviations, and technical terminology used across the oil and gas industry. Its searchable glossary contains more than 14,000 entries, covering the full petroleum lifecycle, from exploration and drilling to production, processing, transportation, and decommissioning. The resource serves upstream, midstream, and downstream professionals, including engineers, geoscientists, students, and non-technical staff working with field teams.

Entries are organized into categories such as Drilling and Wells, Geology and Geoscience, HSE and Risk, Production and Operations, Reservoir and Subsurface, Facilities and Process Engineering, Marine and Logistics, Commercial and Finance, and Data, Digital and IT. Visitors can browse terms by category or alphabetically, explore recently added entries, and search for definitions. The glossary draws on published industry standards, regulatory filings, and technical documentation, and is updated as terms are submitted and verified by the community. Petroleum Acronyms also offers guides on topics including drilling acronyms, HSE terminology, reservoir engineering, and upstream, midstream, and downstream categories, while inviting users to contribute missing terms.

## Industries

- 🗺 Reference Materials
- 🗺 Dictionaries and Encyclopedias _(under Reference Materials)_
- 🏭 Heavy Industry and Engineering
- 🏭 Energy Industry _(under Heavy Industry and Engineering)_

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