K

Definition:

Kelvin (temperature scale)

Abbreviation	Definition	English	German	French
K	Kopf\|\|	head	Kopf	tête	Details
K	Kelvin				Details
k	permeability				Details
K	Kreuz: X-mas tree				Details
K	Kelvin (temperature scale)				Details
K	thousand (like 11K: 11000)				Details
K	Amarada Bourdonrohr (ausgesch)				Details Remarks
K	Shirttail protection				Details
K	Fördert vorgesehen für laufende Behandlung				Details Remarks
K	Kopf	Well Head			Details
K	Permeability Index				Details Remarks
KD	Kontrolldorndurchmesser\|\|	Check mandrel diameter	Überprüfen Dorndurchmesser	Vérifiez diamètre du mandrin	Details
KOH	Kalilauge\|\|	potassium hydroxide	Kaliumhydroxid	l'hydroxyde de potassium	Details
Bleiabdruck	Impression Block\|\|	impression block	Eindruck Block	bloc d'impression	Details
KDM	Kopfdruckmessung\|\|	Column pressure	Säulendruck	pression de la colonne	Details
$/kWh	U.S. dollars per kilowatt hour				Details
AFAIK	As far as I know				Details
AIPK	American International Petroleum Kazakhstan Kazakhstan				Details
AK	Alaska				Details
AK	Anlage Kontrolle				Details
AKA	Also Known As				Details
AKAP	Aker Kvaerner Australia Pty Ltd.				Details
AKO	Adjustable Kick Off				Details
alk	alkaline, alkalinity				Details
Alkyd	a resin formed by reaction of polyhydric alcohols and polybasic salts Saturated or unsaturated oils or fats are involved				Details
alkyl	alkylate, alkylation				Details
ANSDK	Alexandria Iron and Steel Company				Details
ark	arkosic				Details
ark	arkose(ic)				Details
Arka	Arkadelphia				Details
ARKLA	Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co.				Details
Bark	Crk Barker Creek				Details
BBK	Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait				Details
Beck	Beckwith				Details
BK	BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA				Details
BKB	base Kelly bushing				Details
BKFLSH	back flush				Details
BKME	Bank of Kuwait and the Middle East				Details
bkr	breaker				Details
BKWSH	backwash				Details
bldg-drk	building derrick				Details
blK	black				Details
BLK	Block				Details
BLKD	Bulk Density				Details
Blk-Lf	Black Leaf				Details
Blk-Li	Black Lime				Details
blk-lnr	blank liner				Details
BOBK	Bank of Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait				Details
brack	brackish				Details
brk	break(broke)				Details
brkn	broken				Details
brkn-sd	broken sand				Details
BRKR	breaker				Details
BRKS	brakes				Details
brksh	brackish(water)				Details
brkt(s)	brackets(s)				Details
bskt	basket				Details
Buck	Buckner				Details
Buckr	buckrange				Details
C&K	Choke & Kill (BOPs)				Details
CBK	Commercial Bank of Kuwait				Details
CCK	COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS				Details
Cck	casing choke				Details
CHECK	Checkshot and Acoustic Calibration Report				Details
CHK	choke				Details
chk	chalk				Details
Chkbd	checkerboard				Details
chkd	checked				Details
CHKD	PL checkered plate				Details
CHKS	back flow checks				Details
CHKSR	Checkshot Survey Report				Details
CHKSS	Checkshot Survey Log				Details
CHKV	check valve				Details
chky	chalky				Details
CK	Cokriging				Details
CK	COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS				Details
CK	COOK ISLANDS				Details
ck	cake				Details
ck	check				Details
Ck-Mtn	Cook Mountain				Details
cksn	chicksan				Details
CKTA	Central Kazakhstan Territorial Administration for Natural Resource Protection Kazakhstan				Details
Clarks	Clarksville				Details
Clfk	Clearfork				Details
CLKG	caulking				Details
COK	COOK ISLANDS				Details
crk	creek				Details
crkg	cracking				Details
Crkr	cracker				Details
crnk	crinkled				Details
CSK	countersink				Details
CSTAK	Core Sample Taken Log				Details
cutbk	cutback				Details
CYBLK	Cyberlook Log				Details
Dak	Dakota				Details
DBL SKIN	DouBLe SKINned				Details
DC.K	Dual Completion Kreuz				Details
DELEK	Delek the Israel Fuel Corp. Ltd. Israel				Details
DGMK	German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technology				Details
DGMK	German Society for Petroleum & Coal Science & Technology (Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft fur Erdol, Erdgas und Kohle e.V.) Germany				Details
DG-Packer	Double Grip Packer				Details
DIPSK	Dipmeter Stick Log				Details
DK	DecK				Details
DK	DENMARK				Details
dk	dark				Details
Dk	Crk Duck Creek				Details
DKBR	Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Research				Details
DNK	DENMARK				Details
Dr Crk	Dry Creek				Details
drk	derrick				Details
dwks	drawworks				Details
EK	Eruptionskreuz				Details
EK	EQUATORIAL GUINEA				Details
EKTA	East Kazakhstan Territorial Administration for Natural Resource Protection Kazakhstan				Details
EK-UT	E-Kreuz Unterteil				Details
ERC/MK	erection mark				Details
FFKM	Perfluoroelastomers (KalrezTM, ChemrazTM, etc)				Details
FK	Frequency Wavenumber				Details
FK	FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)				Details
FKM	fluoro-elastomers (VitonTM, FluorelTM, etc)				Details
FLK	FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)				Details
flk	flaky				Details
FMBK	Basket Flowmeter				Details
FOK	Filter Oberkante				Details
Forak	Foraker				Details
frwk	framework				Details
FUK	Filter Unterkante				Details
FWKO	Free water knock out				Details
FWKO	see Free Water Knockout				Details
FYKI	For Your Kind Information				Details
G Rk	gas rock				Details
GALUK	Gallon (UK)				Details
GFK	Plaslikrohr-Sorte				Details
GK	GUERNSEY				Details
GK	Gas & condensate				Details
GKP	Gulf Keystone Petroleum				Details
GKW	Gas & condensate & water				Details
gskt	gasket				Details
GVLPK	gravel packet				Details
GWK	Gas Wasser Kontact				Details
gywk	greywacke				Details
Hackb	Hackberry				Details
Hask	Haskell				Details
HDK	Hochdruck-Kreuz				Details
HELDK	HELicopter DecK				Details
Hick	Hickory				Details
HK	HONG KONG				Details
HKG	HONG KONG				Details
HKL	HookLoad (German: Haken Last)				Details
hky	hackly				Details
hock	hockleyensis				Details
HPPK	High Performance Retrievable Packer				Details
IBK	Industrial Bank of Kuwait				Details
IK	Indicator Kriging				Details
INTERTANKO	Intl. Assn. of Independent Tanker Owners (—)				Details
ISO/CKR	isocracker				Details
Jack	Jackson				Details
JKX	JKX Oil and Gas plc UK				Details
jnk	junk(ed)				Details
KA	Kraftaggregat				Details
kabs	Absolute Permeability.				Details
KAC	Kuwait Airways Corporation				Details
KAFCO	Kuwait Aviation Fuelling Company				Details
KAFCO	Kuwait Aviation Fueling Co. KSC Kuwait				Details
Kai	Kaibib				Details
KALREZTM	a brand name for a high temperature seal				Details
kao	kaolin				Details
KAUST	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology				Details
Kay	Kayenta				Details
KAZ	KAZAKHSTAN				Details
KAZGOSNEDRA	Kazakhstan				Details
KB	Kelly Bushing				Details
KB	Kelly bushing on a rig with a rotary table A depth datum				Details
KBB	Kavernen Bau- und Betriebs-GmbH Germany				Details
Kbbl/d	1000 barrels per day				Details
KBD	Thousand Barrels per Day				Details
KBE	Kelly Bushing Elevation (in meters above sea level, or meters above Ground Level)				Details
KBG	Kelly Bushing Height above Ground Level				Details
KBM	kelly bushing measurement				Details
KBS	Kreisblattschreiber				Details Remarks
KC	Kansas City				Details
kc	kilocycle				Details
kcal	kilocalorie				Details
KCC	Kuwait Catalyst Company				Details
KCl	potassium chloride salt				Details
KCOOH	potassium formate				Details
KCS	Kazakstan Caspiishelf				Details
KCS	Kazakhstancaspishelf Joint Stock Co. Kazakhstan				Details
KD	Kelly Down				Details
KD	kiln dried				Details
KD	Kincaid lime				Details
KD	knock down				Details
KDB	kelly drive bushing				Details
KDBE	kelly drive bushing elevation				Details
KDB-LDG	FLG kelly drill bushing to landing flange				Details
KDB-MLW	kelly drill bushing to mean low water				Details
KDB-Plat	kelly drill bushing to platform				Details
KDP	Kurdistan Democratic Party				Details
KE	KENYA				Details
Ke	Keener				Details
KE1	Kind of packer in GAE (it is invented in GAE, named after Kren & Edith				Details
KED	Kriging with External Drift				Details
keff	Effective permeability				Details
Keg	Effective permeability to gas				Details
KEN	KENYA				Details
Keo	Effective permeability to oil				Details
Keo-Bur	Keokuk-Burlington				Details
KEPCO	Khazar Exploration and Production Company				Details
KERMAC	Kerr-McGee Corp.				Details
kero	kerosine(kerosene)				Details
ket	ketone				Details
KEV	thousand electron-volts				Details
KEVLARTM	an extremely strong fiber, common in composites				Details
Kew	Effective permeability to water				Details
Key	Keystone				Details
KF	Key Finding				Details
KF	Kolbenfänger				Details
KFAED	Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development				Details
KFH	Kuwait Finance House				Details
KFTCIC	Kuwait Foreign Trading, Contracting and Investment Company				Details
KFUPM	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals				Details
KfW	Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau				Details
Kg	permeability of gravel (in gravel packs and fracs)				Details
Kg	permeability to gas				Details
Kg	Air Permeability				Details
KG	KYRGYZSTAN				Details
kg	kilogram				Details
KG	Kissen Gas ( sama as "Polster Gas" - Cushion gas in gas storage reservoirs)				Details
kg-cal	kilogram-calorie				Details
kg-m	kilogram-meter				Details
KGRA	known geothermal resource area				Details
KGZ	KYRGYZSTAN				Details
Kh	horizontal permeability				Details
KH	CAMBODIA				Details
kh	the permeability times the height; a measure of formation conductivity				Details
KHI	Kinetic Hydrate Inhibitor				Details
Khk	Kinderhook				Details
KHM	CAMBODIA				Details
KHPC	Khorasan Petrochemical Company				Details
kHz	kilohertz				Details
KI	Klappen (Packer)				Details
KI	KIRIBATI				Details
KIA	Kuwait Investment Authority				Details
Kia	Kiamichi				Details
Kib	Kibbey				Details
KIC	Kuwait Investment Company				Details
Kilo	kilogram, 1000 grams				Details
Kin	li Kincaid Lime				Details
kin	kinematic				Details
KIO	Kuwait Investment Office				Details
KIOGA	Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association				Details
KIP	Klappen-Packer				Details
kip	one thousand pounds				Details
KIPCE	Kuwait International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition				Details
KIPCO	Kuwait Investments Projects Company				Details
kip-ft	one thousand foot-pounds				Details
KIR	KIRIBATI				Details
Kirt	Kirtland				Details
KIT	kitchen				Details
kJ	kilojoule				Details
KJ	Knuckle Joint				Details
KL	Kill Line				Details
KL	Klinkenberg corrected gas permeability				Details
kl	kiloliter				Details
Kl/d	1000 liters per day				Details
kld	killed				Details
K-Line	Kawasaki Kishen Kaisha				Details
Kl-Packer	Klappen-Packer				Details
km	kilometer				Details
KM	Knowledge Management				Details
KM	COMOROS				Details
KM	Kerr McGee				Details
KMA	KMA sand				Details
KMC	cargo refrigerating system				Details
KMOC	Khanty Mansiysk Oil Corp.Siberia, Russia				Details
KMW	Kill Mud Weight				Details
KN	KNots				Details
KN	KOREA, NORTH				Details
KN	SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS				Details
KNA	SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS				Details
KNOC	Korean National Oil Corporation Korea				Details
KNPC	Kuwait National Petroleum Company				Details
KNPC	Kuwait National Petroleum Co. KSC Kuwait				Details
Ko	permiability to oil				Details
Ko	Kompressor				Details
Ko	Oil Permeability				Details
KO	kicked off				Details
KO	kick off				Details
KO	knock out				Details
KOC	Kuwait Oil Company				Details
KOC	Kuwait Oil Company KSC Kuwait				Details
KOGA	Kentucky Oil & Gas Association				Details
KOGAS	Korea Gas Corporation				Details
KOGAS	Korean Gas Corp. Korea				Details
KOIV	Knock Out Isolation Valve				Details
KOLNG	Korea LNG Company				Details
KOM	Kick-Off Meeting				Details
Koot	Kootenai				Details
KOP	Kick-Off Point (directional drilling)				Details
KOP	Kick Off Plug				Details
KOP	Kick off Point				Details
KOP	kick-off point				Details
KOP	kickoff point				Details
KOR	KOREA, SOUTH				Details
KOT	kick over tool				Details
KOTC	Kuwait Oil Tanker Company				Details
KOTC	Kuwait Oil Tanker Co. Kuwait				Details
KP	KOREA, NORTH				Details
KP	kill pill				Details
kPa	kilopascal, 69 kPa per psi, 1000 psi = 6900 kPa				Details
kPa	kilopascal				Details
KPC	Kuwait Petroleum Corporation				Details
KPC	Kuwait Petroleum Corp. Kuwait				Details
KPC	Khalda Petroleum Company Egypt/Spain				Details
KPI	Key Performance Indicator				Details
KPI	Key Process Indicators				Details
KPM	Key Performance Measures (same as KPI)				Details
KPS	Kuwait Petroleum Svenska				Details
KQ	KINGMAN REEF				Details
KQQ	KINGMAN REEF				Details
Kr	relative permeability				Details
Kr	Relative Permeability.				Details
KR	KIRIBATI				Details
KR	KOREA, SOUTH				Details
KREB	Kuwait Real Estate Bank				Details
KREIC	Kuwait Real Estate Investment Consortium				Details
Krg	Relative Permeability to Gas				Details
Kri	Krider				Details
Kro	oil relative permiability				Details
Kro	Triphasic Relative Permeability to Oil				Details
Kro	relative permeability to oil				Details
Krog	Relative Permeability to Oil in presence of Gas				Details
Krow	Relative Permeability to Oil in presence of Water				Details
KRP	Kill Rate Pressure				Details
Krw	water relatiie permiability				Details
Krw	Relative Permeability to water				Details
KS	KOREA, SOUTH				Details
KS	Kansas				Details
KSI	kilo pounds per square inch				Details
KT	Kriging with a trend model (Universal” Kriging)				Details
KT	CHRISTMAS ISLAND				Details
KT	Thousand tons (1000 t)				Details
ktle	kettle				Details
KTM	Keel To top of Mast				Details
KTM	Kazakhturmunay Ltd. Joint Petroleum Corp. Turkey/Kazakhstan				Details
KTP	Knowledge Transfer Position				Details
KU	KUWAIT				Details
KUFPEC	Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company				Details
KUFPEC	Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Co. KSC Kuwait				Details
KUS	Kappa Unit System				Details
Kv	vertical permeability				Details
KV	KOSOVO				Details
kv	kilovolt				Details
KV	kinematic viscosity				Details
KV	permeability(vertical direction)				Details
KV	Kosten Voranschlag (Cost estimate)				Details Remarks
KVA	Kilo Volt Ampere				Details
kva	kilovolt-ampere				Details
kvah	kilovolt-ampere-hour				Details
kvar	kilovar; reactive kilovolt-ampere				Details
kvar-hr	kilovar-hour				Details
KVO	Koninklijke Van Ommeren NV Netherlands				Details
kvp	kilovolt peak				Details
KVQ	KOSOVO				Details
Kw	permiability to water				Details
KW	Kohlenwasserstoff	Hydrocarbons			Details
Kw	Brine Permeability				Details
KW	KUWAIT				Details
KW	kill(ed) well				Details
kw	kilowatt				Details
kWh	kilowatt/hours				Details
kWh	kilowatt hour				Details
kwh	kilowatt-hour				Details
kWh/yr	kilowatt-hours per year				Details
kwhm	kilowatt-hour-meter				Details
KWT	KUWAIT				Details
KWV	Kill Wing Valve				Details
Kx	max horizontal permiability				Details
Ky	min horizontal permeability				Details
KY	CAYMAN ISLANDS				Details
KY	Kentucky				Details
KZ	kein Zufluß				Details
KZ	KAZAKHSTAN				Details
Lak	Lakota				Details
L-DK	loading dock				Details
LEAKL	Leak Detection Log				Details
LK	Linerkopf				Details
LK	SRI LANKA				Details
lk	leak				Details
lk	lock				Details
LKA	SRI LANKA				Details
LKG	leakage				Details
LKH	Lowest Known Hydrocarbons (for determining SEC GIIP or *STOIIP)				Details
LKH	Lowest Known Hydrocarbons				Details
LKM	Line Kilo Metre				Details
LKO	Lowest Known Oil				Details
LKP	Langwellenkreisel-Pumpen				Details
LKR	locker				Details
LKV	Lower Kelly Valve				Details
Lock	a mechanism to hold a plug in a profile				Details
LOK	Liner Oberkante				Details
LSTK	Lump Sum Turnkey				Details
LUK	Liner Unterkante				Details
LUK	Lukoil Russia				Details
Mack	Mackhank				Details
Mark	Markham				Details
McK	McKee				Details
Meak	Meakin				Details
MEK	methylethylketone				Details
MEKOG	Maatschappij Tot Exploitatie van Kooksovengassen NV Netherlands				Details
MIBank	Misr International Bank				Details
MIK	methylisobutylketone				Details
MK	MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC				Details
mKB	Meters below Kelly Bushing				Details
MKD	MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC				Details
MKG	making				Details
m-kg	meter-kilogram				Details
mkt	market( ing)				Details
Mkta	Minnekahta				Details
mky	milky				Details
MPK	Merged Playback Log				Details
MRK	marking				Details
N.Y.K.Line	Nippon Yusen Kaisha				Details
NBK	National Bank of Kuwait				Details
NFK	NORFOLK ISLAND				Details
NK	Nippon Kaiji Kyokai				Details
NK	NIGER				Details
NKTA	West Kazakhstan Territorial Administration for Natural Resource Protection Kazakhstan				Details
NOCK	National Oil Corporation of Kenya Ltd. Kenya				Details
NOKUS	NOrsk Kontrollert Utenlandsk Selskap i lavskatteland (Norwegian controlled foreign company in lowtax country)				Details
NORSOK	Norsk Sokkels Konkurranseposisjon				Details
NTK	Need to Know (workshops)				Details
NTK	Need to Know				Details
Oakv	Oakville				Details
OCK	Ordinary Cokriging				Details
OK	Oberkante				Details
OK	Ordinary Kriging				Details
OK	Oklahoma				Details
OKGT	Hungarian National Oil & Gas Trust Hungary				Details
OKIOC	Offshore Kazakstan International Operating Company				Details
OKIOC	Offshore Kazakhstan Intl. Operating Co. Kuwait				Details
Orisk	Oriskany				Details
PAK	PAKISTAN				Details
Park	C Park City				Details
PCK	Petrolchemie und Kraftstoffe AG Schwedt Germany				Details
PCKR	Packer Log				Details
PCKR	Packer				Details
PDK	PDK-100				Details
PDK	PDK-100® Log				Details
PDKL	PDK Log				Details
PDKR	PDK 100 Report				Details
PEEK	Polyetheretherketone, (VictrexTM, ArlonTM)				Details
Petrokemya	Arabian Petrochemical Company				Details
PETROKEMYA	Arabian Petrochemical Co. Saudi Arabia				Details
PK	PAKISTAN				Details
pk	pink				Details
PK	Leutert PK 211				Details Remarks
pkg(d)	packing, package(ed)				Details
PKI	Public Key Infrastructure				Details
PKK	Kurdish Workers Party				Details
Pkr	Packer				Details
PKST	Packstone				Details
ppk	part per thousands (kilo)				Details
PPKR	Production Packer				Details
PRK	KOREA, NORTH				Details
PUK	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan				Details
RCKST	Rig Checkshot				Details
Rd Fk	Red Fork				Details
Rd Pk	Red Peak				Details
Rek	Reklaw				Details
RK	rack				Details
rk	rock				Details
RKB	Rotary Kelly Bushing (a datum for measuring depth in an oil well)				Details
RKB	Rotary Kelly Bushings				Details
RKB	reference Kelly bushing or rotary Kelly bushing				Details
RKB	rotary kelly bushing				Details
RKB=BRT	Rotary Kelly Bushing = (below rotary table)				Details
rky	rocky				Details
ROCK	Retention Of Critical Knowledge				Details
Rok	remove				Details
Rok	rock				Details
ROSKO-MNEDRA	Ministry of Fuel & Energy for the Russian Federation Russia				Details
RROCK	Routine Rock Properties Report				Details
RTKB	Rotary Table Kelly Bushing				Details
rwk(d)	rework(ed)				Details
rwkd	reworked				Details
SADCOP-MAHRUKAT	Syrian Storing and Distributing Co., Petroleum Products Syria				Details
SAMTK	Sample Taker Log				Details
SD Ck	side door choke				Details
SDCK	side door choke				Details
SD-DK	Sub-Domain Dual Permeability				Details
sdtkr	sidetrack(ed)(ing)				Details
SHOCK	Shcok Log				Details
SHRK	Shrinkage factor				Details
SK	Sack (of cement)				Details
SK	SENEGAL				Details
SK	SLOVAKIA (SLOVAK REPUBLIC)				Details
sk	sack(s)				Details
SK	sketch				Details
Sk	Crk Skull Creek				Details

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