SA

Definition:

Shear Amplitude

Subject Area 1:

Logging & petrophysics

Abbreviation	Definition	English
SA	Sensitivity Analysis		Details
SA	Sub Assembly		Details
SA	Seal Assembly		Details
SA	SAUDI ARABIA		Details
SA	Shear Amplitude		Details
SA	Sandstone Analysis		Details
ABSA	Alberta Boilers Safety Association		Details
AFSSA	Aviation Fueling Services S.A. Greece		Details
ASA	Advanced Safety Auditing (Shell/BP system)		Details
ASA	American Statistical Association		Details
ASA	American Standards Association		Details
ASA	American Standards Assoc.		Details
ASAP	as soon as possible		Details
ASESA	Asfaltes Espanoles S.A. Spain		Details
ASPO-USA	Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA		Details
Assay	analyze		Details
CAMPSA	Compania Arrendataria del Monopolio de Petroleos, S.A. (sub. of Repsol) Spain		Details
CARBESA	Carbon Black Espanola S.A. Spain		Details
CEDIPSA	Compania Espanola Distribuidora de Petroleos S.A. Spain		Details
Cepsa	Compania Espanola de Petroleos		Details
CEPSA	Compania Espanola de Petroleos, S.A. Spain		Details
CIEPSA	Compania de Investigacion y Exploraciones Petroliferas, S.A. Spain		Details
CINSA	Compania Insular del Nitrogena, S.A. Spain		Details
CODESSAS	Cia. Operadora de Estaciones de Servicio S.A. de CV Mexico		Details
COGSA	Carriage of Goods by Sea Act		Details
COMESA	Cie. Mexicana de Exploraciones S.A. Mexico		Details
COSA	Crude Oil Sales Agreement		Details
CSA	Canadian Standard Association Approval (see comment)		Details Remarks
CSA	casing set at		Details
CSAP	Cake Saver Acid Placement (Baker gravel pack tool)		Details
DERPROSA	Derivados del Propileno S.A. Spain		Details
desalt	deslater		Details
DIPSA	Dipmeter Soda Log		Details
DISPESA	Compania Distribuidora de Productos Petroliferos S.A. Spain		Details
DSA	Double Stud Adaptor		Details
DSA	Downhole Seismic Array		Details
DSA-A	Downhole Seismic Array		Details
EISA	Egyptian Insurance Supervisory Authority		Details
ENFERSA	Empresa Nationale de Fertiliantes S.A. Spain		Details
EPSA	Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement		Details
ESA	Employees Shareholder Association		Details
ESA	Romania & Austria		Details
ESAF	Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility		Details
ESAR	Estimating & Schedule Assurance Review		Details
ESSAF	Esso Standard Societe Anonyme Francaise France		Details
FESA	Front End Studies Americas		Details
GASAN	Gas Analysis Report		Details
GSA	Gas Sales Agreement		Details
GSA	General Service Agreement		Details
HSA	Hydrocarbon Sale Agreement		Details
HYLSA	Hojalata y Lamina, S.A. Mexico		Details
IGSAS	Istanbul Fertiliser Industry Corp. Turkey		Details
ILSA	Iran-Libya Sanctions Act		Details
INTERQUISA	Intercontinental Quimica S.A. Spain		Details
IOSA	International Oil Scouts Association		Details
ISA	International System Alignment		Details
ISA	International Standard Atmosphere (see comment)		Details Remarks
ISA	Instruction Set Architecture		Details
ISA	Instrument Society of America		Details
ISSA	International Slurry Surfacing Association		Details
JSA	Job Safety Analysis		Details
JSA	job safety analysis JT (gas)		Details
Losal	low salt or fresher water		Details
LPSA	laser particle size analysis		Details
LSA	Low Specific Activity scale		Details
MSA	methane sulfonic acid		Details
MSA	multiple service acid		Details
NAABSA	Not Always Afloat But Safely Aground		Details
NASA	Non Active Side Arm (term used in the North Sea for kill wing valve on a Xmas tree)		Details
NASA	Non Active Side Arm		Details
NASA	National Aeronautical and Space Administration		Details
NCPSA	Natural Gas Processors Suppliers Association		Details
NGSA	Natural Gas Supply Association		Details
OCENSA	Oleoducto Central S.A. Colombia		Details
OGSA	Oil and Gas Services Australia		Details
OGSA	OMV Gas Storage Austria GmbH		Details
OHSAS	Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series		Details
OLECASA	Oleoductos Canarios S.A. Spain		Details
ORSANCO	Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission		Details
OSA	oil-soluble acid		Details
PDVSA	Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.		Details
PDVSA	Petroleos de Venezuela Venezuela		Details
PESA	Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association		Details
PETRESA	Petroquimica Espanola, S.A. Spain		Details
PETROQUISA	Petrobras Quimica S.A. Brazil		Details
POLICOLSA	Poliolefinas Colombianas S.A. Colombia		Details
PRODESA	Productos de Estireno, S.A. de C.V. Mexico		Details
PSA	Production Sharing Agreement		Details
PSA	Production Service Agreement		Details
PSA	pressure setting assembly A E-line tool used to set downhole tools Normally uses a gas propellant charge		Details
PSA	pressure swing adsorption		Details
PSA	packer set at		Details
psa	plug set at		Details
PSAC	Petroleum Services Association of Canada		Details
PSANA	Pressure Analysis		Details
PSASV	pressure shut annular standing valve		Details
REGANOSA	Regasification subsidiary of SONATRACH Algeria		Details
RESAN	Reservoir Analysis		Details
RESISA	Resinas Sinteticas S.A. Spain		Details
RSA	Reservoir Sampling Analysis		Details
RSA	Resample		Details
SAAGA	Sociedad Acoreana de Armazenagem de Gas S.A. Portugal		Details
Sab	Sabinetown		Details
SABA	Supplied Air Breathing Apparatus		Details
SABIC	Saudi Basic Industries Corporation		Details
SABIC	Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation		Details
SABIC	Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation Saudi Arabia		Details
Sace	State Export and Guarantee and Insurance Company		Details
sach	saccharoidal		Details
SACROC	Scurry Area Canyon Reef Operators Committee		Details
Sad	Cr Saddle Creek		Details
Sadaf	Saudi Petrochemical Company		Details
SADCOP-MAHRUKAT	Syrian Storing and Distributing Co., Petroleum Products Syria		Details
sadl	saddle		Details
SAE	Society of Automotive Engineers		Details
saf	safety		Details
SAF/DPT	safety/department		Details
SAFAF	Saudi Petrochemical Co. Saudi Arabia		Details
SAFCO	Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Company		Details
SAFE	Slapper Activated Firing Equipment		Details
SAFE	surface approximation and		Details
SAG	Surfactant Alternating Gas (EOR Flood)		Details
SAG	Saudi Arabian government		Details
sag	Low spot in a pipeline usually installed by field bending a pipeline joint		Details
SAGA	Saga Petroleum AS Norway		Details
SAGD	Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage		Details
SAGD	Steam Assisted Gravity Drive		Details
SAGD	steam-assisted gravity drainage		Details
SAGE	Scottish Area Gas Evacuation Pipeline System UK		Details
SAGR	Spectral Azimuthal Gamma Ray		Details
Saib	Saudi Investment Bank		Details
SAIF	Saudi Arabia Investment Fund		Details
SAIT	Slimhole Array Induction		Details
Sal	Salado		Details
sal	salary, salaried		Details
sal	salinity		Details
Sal	Bay Saline Bayou		Details
SALM	Single Anchor Loading Mooring		Details
salv	salvage		Details
SAM	Subsea Accumulator Module		Details
SAMA	Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency		Details
Samarec	Saudi Arabian Marketing and Refining Company		Details
Samba	Saudi American Bank		Details
SAMCOM	Saudi Arab Manpower Committee		Details
Samir	Société Marocaine de Raffinage		Details
SAML	Sample Log		Details
samp	sample sanitary		Details
Samref	Saudi Aramco-Mobil Yanbu Refinery Company		Details
SAMREF	Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Co. Ltd. Saudi Arabia		Details
SAMTK	Sample Taker Log		Details
SAMTM	sensor activated module		Details
SAN	Storage Area Network		Details
SAN	sanitary		Details
San	And San Andres		Details
San	Ang San Angelo		Details
San	Raf San Rafael		Details
Sana	Sanastee		Details
SANDA	Sandstone Analysis Log		Details
sani	sanitary		Details
SAP	Sustainable Annulus Pressure (in case of leak, SAP will be read contineously)		Details
SAP	Sustainable Annulus Pressure		Details
sap	saponification		Details
Sap	No. saponification number		Details
SAPIA	South African Petroleum Industry Assn. South Africa		Details
SAR	System Available Rate		Details
SAR	Search and Rescue		Details
SAR	Societe Africaine de Raffinage Senegal		Details
SARA	Saturates, Aromatics, Resins, and Asphaltenes (See comment! "SARA Analysis")		Details Remarks
SARA	Saturates, Aromatics, Resins, Asphaltenes		Details
SARA	Superfund Amendments and Reporting Act		Details
SARA	Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act		Details
Sara	Saratoga		Details
SARA	Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1987		Details
SARAS	Saras S.p.A. Raffinerie Sarde Italy		Details
SARPI	Ste. Algerienne pour la Reparation des Pipelines Algeria		Details
SARPOM	Societa Azionaria Raffinazione Olli Minerali Italy		Details
SART	Search & Rescue Transponder		Details
SAS	Stand Alone Screens (Sand control)		Details
SAS	stand alone screen completion		Details
SAS	Triaxial Seismic Survey		Details
SASC	Saudi Aramco Cino Ltd.		Details
Sasco	Sohar Aluminium Smelter Company		Details
SASOL	South African Coal, Oil and Gas Corp. Ltd. South Africa		Details
Sasref	Saudi Aramco Shell Refining Company		Details
SASREF	Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery Co. Saudi Arabia		Details
SAT	SAT Log		Details
SAT	Saudi Arabian Texaco Inc.		Details
SAT	Site Acceptance Test		Details
sat	saturated, saturation		Details
SAT	Triaxial Seismic Survey		Details
SAT	Automatic		Details
SATA	Serial ATA		Details
SATP	Standard Ambient Temperature and Pressure (see comment)		Details Remarks
SATSHEX	SATurdays, Sundays, Holidays Excepted		Details
SATSHINC	SATurdays, Sundays, Holidays INCluded		Details
SAU	SAUDI ARABIA		Details
Saudi	Aramco Saudi Arabian Oil Company		Details
SAUDI	Saudi Arabian Oil Company ARAMCO Saudi Arabia		Details
Saudi Aramco	Saudi Arabian Oil Company		Details
Saudia	Saudi Arabian Airlines		Details
SAW	barrels of acid water		Details
Saw	Sawatch		Details
SAWR	Slim Array Wave Resistivity/Gamma Ray		Details
Sawth	Sawtooth		Details
Say	Furol Saybolt furol		Details
SSA	spot sales agreement		Details
TAMSA	Tubos de Acero de Mexico, S.A. Mexico		Details
TATSA	Tanques de Acero Trinity, S.A. Mexico		Details
TEPSA	Terminales Portuadias S.A. Spain		Details
TSA	Thermally Sprayed Aluminium		Details
TSA	Tubing Stress Analysis		Details
TSA	Technical Safety Audit		Details
USA	UNITED STATES		Details
USAID	US Agency for International Development		Details
WSSAM	Well Site Sample		Details
SUSA	Safe and UnSafe Acts		Details
SAED	Sarvak Azar Engineering and Development		Details
SAZ	Sollarbeitszeit		Details Remarks
MSA	Multi station analysis		Details
ISCWSA	Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Survey Accuracy		Details
SAG	sag as name means "decline, bending under force", BHA sag means the bent of BHA due to its weight		Details Remarks
NSA	North Sea region		Details
GSA	Gas Anchor		Details
SAARC	South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation		Details
SAR	Saudi Riyal		Details
SAP	Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung	Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing	Details
PSA	Persönliche SchutzAusrüstung	PPE - Personnal Protective Equipment	Details
Sackloch	Rat hole		Details
BOSAT	Block Oil SATuration		Details
EPSAs	Exploration and Production Sharing Agreements		Details
SAR	Saudi riyal		Details Remarks
RSAH	Shallow Attenuation Resistivity from 2 MHZ frequ.		Details Remarks
RSAL	Shallow Attenuation Resistivity from 500 KHZ frequ.		Details Remarks
VSAND	Volume of Sand		Details Remarks
CSA	Controlled Self Assessment		Details
PSA	Project Safety Analysis		Details
SAP	Systems, Applications and Products		Details
desagg	desegregated		Details
LTSA	Long Term Service Agreement		Details
OBSA	Open Book Service Agreement		Details
CSA	Customer Service Agreement		Details
ESA	Environmental Site Assessment		Details
SAP	System Applications & Products		Details
SAS	Safety Alert System		Details
TOSA	Technical Operating Services Agreement		Details
CISA	Certified Information Systems Auditor		Details
FSA	Financial Services Authority		Details
SAAS	Software as a Service		Details

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