| B | Boden|| | ground | Boden | sol | Details |
| B | Bale (cargo capacity) | | | | Details |
| B | billion | | | | Details |
| B | bulletin | | | | Details |
| B | Beobachtungssonde | Observation well | | | Details |
| b | bubble point | | | | Details |
| B | B Wartet auf Behandlungsbesprechung | | | | Details |
| b | Bis | untill | | | Details |
| B | Boden | Bottom Hole | | | Details |
| B | Block | | | | Details |
| B | bel | | | | Details |
| b | barn | | | | Details |
| BR | Bruttoraten|| | gross rate | Bruttorate | taux brut | Details |
| m/b | Million Barrels|| | million barrels | Millionen Barrel | millions de barils | Details |
| mbbl | Million Barrels|| | million barrels | Millionen Barrel | millions de barils | Details |
| ABF | Ammonbiflorid|| | Ammonbiflorid | Ammonbiflorid | Ammonbiflorid | Details |
| ABW | Abwältigung|| | Abwältigung | Abwältigung | Abwältigung | Details |
| Bleiabdruck | Impression Block|| | impression block | Eindruck Block | bloc d'impression | Details |
| BEH | Behördenabteilung|| | authorities Division | Behörden Abteilung | Division autorités | Details |
| BET | Behandlungstechnik|| | treatment technology | Aufbereitungstechnik | La technologie de traitement | Details |
| BMWFJ | Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend („Montanbehörde“)|| | Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth ( "Mining Authority") | Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend ( "Bergbau Behörde" genannt) | Ministère fédéral de l'économie, de la famille et de la jeunesse ( «Administration minière») | Details |
| GDB | Gewinnungsdatenbank|| | Recovery database | Recovery-Datenbank | Base de données de récupération | Details |
| SOB | Sondenbehandlung und Bohren|| | Probed and drilling | Sondiert und Bohren | Palpé et de forage | Details |
| MB | Mistelbach Block|| | Mistelbach block | Mistel Block | bloc Mistelbach | Details |
| WBZ | WaschBerg Zone|| | Waschberg Zone | Waschbergzone | Waschberg Zone | Details |
| WBU | WaschBerg Unit|| | Waschberg Unit | Waschberg Einheit | Waschberg Unité | Details |
| HHPb | Hydraulic Horse Power of Bit|| | Hydraulic Horsepower of Bit | Hydraulikleistung von Bit | Puissance hydraulique de Bit | Details |
| Pb | Bit Pressure Losses|| | Bit Pressure Losses | Bit Druckverluste | Les pertes de pression Bit | Details |
| DSB | DruckSchreiber Blatt|| | Pressure recorders Journal | Druck-Recorder Journal | enregistreurs de pression Journal | Details |
| $/lb | U.S. dollars per pound | | | | Details |
| AB | Arbeitsbühne | Drill floor, rig floor, work platform…. | | | Details |
| ABAN | Abandonment | | | | Details |
| ABC | Analysis Behind Casing (using CHDT) | | | | Details |
| ABC | Audit Bureau of Circulation | | | | Details |
| ABCM | Activity Based Costing Model | | | | Details |
| abd | abandoned | | | | Details |
| abd loc | abandoned location | | | | Details |
| abd-gw | abandoned gas well | | | | Details |
| abd-ogw | abandoned oil & gas well | | | | Details |
| abd-ow | abandoned oil well | | | | Details |
| AbEx | Abandonment Expense | | | | Details |
| A-BHC | Amplitude Logging | | | | Details |
| ABHL | absolute bottom hole location | | | | Details |
| ABHL | absolute bottom-hole location | | | | Details |
| ABM | Atlas Bradford modified | | | | Details |
| abnd | abandoned | | | | Details |
| abndt | abundant | | | | Details |
| ABO | Aker Borgestad Operations | | | | Details |
| ABOI | Assn. of British Oceanic Industries UK | | | | Details |
| abrsi | jet abrasive jet | | | | Details |
| ABS | American Bureau of Shipping | | | | Details |
| abs | absolute | | | | Details |
| ABS | acrylonitrile butadiene styrene rubber | | | | Details |
| ABS | Anti Block System | | | | Details |
| ABSA | Alberta Boilers Safety Association | | | | Details |
| absm | absorption | | | | Details |
| ABSORB | Alaska Beaufort Seat Oil Spill Response Body | | | | Details |
| abst | abstract | | | | Details |
| ABT | ABouT | | | | Details |
| ABT | Ambitious Business Target | | | | Details |
| abun | abundant | | | | Details |
| abv | above | | | | Details |
| ABW | Available Bit Weight | | | | Details |
| ABW | ARUBA | | | | Details |
| ADB | Asian Development Bank (—) | | | | Details |
| AECRB | Alberta Energy Conservation Resources Board | | | | Details |
| AEUB | Alberta Energy & Utility Board | | | | Details |
| AGIBA | Agiba Petroleum Company Egypt | | | | Details |
| AHBDF | Along Hole (Depth) Below Derrick Floor | | | | Details |
| AHBDF | Along Hole Below Derrick Floor | | | | Details |
| ALB | ALBANIA | | | | Details |
| Alb | Albany | | | | Details |
| Alba | Aluminium Bahrain BSC | | | | Details |
| ALBPETROL | Albanian Petroleum Corporation Albania | | | | Details |
| amb | ambient | | | | Details |
| ANB | Arab National Bank | | | | Details |
| ANBA | Arab Bankers Association of North America | | | | Details |
| ANUB | annubar | | | | Details |
| AOB | Any Other Business | | | | Details |
| APB | annular pressure build up | | | | Details |
| Arb | Arbuckle | | | | Details |
| Arbift | Arab Bank for Investment and Foreign Trade | | | | Details |
| asb | asbestos | | | | Details |
| asbr | absorber | | | | Details |
| ASFB | Algal, Skeletal Floatstone-Boundstone. | | | | Details |
| ASFB | Algal, Skeletal, Floatstone-Boundstone | | | | Details |
| AstFB | Algal, Stromatoporoid, Skeletal, Floatstone-Boundstone | | | | Details |
| AWB | Annulus Wing Block (XT) | | | | Details |
| AWB/V | annulus wing block/valve (XT) | | | | Details |
| AWSBU | Acoustic well sounder build-up | | | | Details |
| B S S 1/1 | Basis 1 port to 1 port | | | | Details |
| B&B | bell and bell | | | | Details |
| B&B | bent & bowed pipe | | | | Details |
| B&CB | beaded and center beaded | | | | Details |
| B&F | bell and flange | | | | Details |
| B&S | bell and spigot | | | | Details |
| B&S | Brown & Sharpe(gauge) | | | | Details |
| B.Bl | Base Blane | | | | Details |
| B.E. | beveled end | | | | Details |
| B.In. | Big Injun | | | | Details |
| B.Ls | Big Lime | | | | Details |
| B.Riv | Black River | | | | Details |
| B/ | base | | | | Details |
| B/ | bottom of given formation(i.e., B/Frio) | | | | Details |
| B/B | back to back | | | | Details |
| B/B | barrels per barrel | | | | Details |
| B/D | barrels per day | | | | Details |
| B/dry | bailed dry | | | | Details |
| B/hr | barrels per hour | | | | Details |
| B/JT | ball joint | | | | Details |
| B/L | bill of lading | | | | Details |
| B/M | bill of material | | | | Details |
| B/N | Booking Note | | | | Details |
| b/off | buck-off | | | | Details |
| b/on | buck-on | | | | Details |
| B/S | back scuttled | | | | Details |
| B/S | base salt | | | | Details |
| B/S | bending schedule | | | | Details |
| B/S | bill of sale | | | | Details |
| B/SD | barrels per stream(refinery) | | | | Details |
| B/U | Bottom UP (see comment!) | | | | Details |
| B/U | Build UP | | | | Details |
| B/U | Bottom Up (Zirkulation von Meiselteufe auf Surface) | | | | Details |
| B/VESS | bulk vessel | | | | Details |
| B/Vlv | ball valve | | | | Details |
| B2B | Back to Basics | | | | Details |
| b2b | Back to Back (rotational working) | | | | Details |
| BA | Breathing Apparatus | | | | Details |
| BA | Bridging Agreement | | | | Details |
| BA | Bottom Assembly (of a riser) | | | | Details |
| BA | Bachelor of Arts | | | | Details |
| BA | BAHRAIN | | | | Details |
| BA | BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | | | | Details |
| BA | barrels of acid | | | | Details |
| BAA | Business Area Alignment | | | | Details |
| BAC | Blood Alcohol Concentration | | | | Details |
| BACB | British Arab Commercial Bank | | | | Details |
| BACT | Best Available Control Technology | | | | Details |
| BADEA | Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa | | | | Details |
| BADR | Banque de l’Agriculture et du Développement Rural | | | | Details |
| BAe | British Aerospace | | | | Details |
| BAF | Bunker adjusting factor (freight) | | | | Details |
| bail | bail, bailed | | | | Details |
| bail | bail(ed) | | | | Details |
| BAL | Bond Attenuation Log | | | | Details |
| BAL | balance | | | | Details |
| BAL | Bound Attenuation Log | | | | Details |
| Ball | Balltown sand | | | | Details |
| BANAGAS | Bahrain National Gas Co. BSC Bahrain | | | | Details |
| BANANA | Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody | | | | Details |
| Banoco | Bahrain National Oil Company | | | | Details |
| BANOCO | Bahrain National Oil Company Bahrain | | | | Details |
| BAP | Biodiversity Action Plan | | | | Details |
| BAP | Bore/Annular Pressure | | | | Details |
| Bapco | Bahrain Petroleum Company | | | | Details |
| BAPCO | Bahrain Petroleum Company BSC Bahrain | | | | Details |
| Bapetco | Badr al-Din Petroleum Company | | | | Details |
| BAPETCO | Badr El Deen Petroleum Co. Egypt | | | | Details |
| BAPEX | Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration Company Ltd. Bangladesh | | | | Details |
| bar | barite(ic) | | | | Details |
| Bar | Barlow Lime | | | | Details |
| bar | barometer, barometric | | | | Details |
| BAR | barrels acid residue | | | | Details |
| Barge | marine vessel without its own propulsion | | | | Details |
| Bark | Crk Barker Creek | | | | Details |
| BARS | Borehole Acoustic Reflection Survey | | | | Details |
| Bart | Bartlesville | | | | Details |
| base | basement(granite) | | | | Details |
| BASF | Badische Anilin & Soda Frabrik AG Germany | | | | Details |
| BASH | Bourne-Again Shell | | | | Details |
| BASIC | Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code | | | | Details |
| Basin | a large area with a general containment and an often thick accumulation of rock | | | | Details |
| BaSO4 | barium sulfate | | | | Details |
| BAST | Best available and safest technology | | | | Details |
| BAT | Best Available Technology | | | | Details |
| BAT | Bi-Modal Acoustic Tool | | | | Details |
| bat | battery | | | | Details |
| BAT | before acid treatment | | | | Details |
| Bate | Bateman | | | | Details |
| Batelco | Bahrain Telecommunications Co. | | | | Details |
| BATS | Borehole Audio Tracer Survey | | | | Details |
| BAW | barrels acid water | | | | Details |
| BAWPD | barrels acid water per day | | | | Details |
| BAWPH | barrels acid water per hour | | | | Details |
| BAWUL | barrels acid water under load | | | | Details |
| BB | Big Bag | | | | Details |
| Bb | Bareboat | | | | Details |
| BB | Bid Bond | | | | Details |
| BB | BARBADOS | | | | Details |
| BB | bridged back | | | | Details |
| BB | fraction butane-butene fraction | | | | Details |
| BBB | Before Breaking Bulk | | | | Details |
| BBE | bevel both ends | | | | Details |
| BBK | Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait | | | | Details |
| bbl | barrel | | | | Details |
| Bbl | a Standard Oil measure of 42 gallons, originally known as a blue barrel and abbreviated bbl 016 m3 | | | | Details |
| bbl | barrels | | | | Details |
| bbl | Barrels (of oil) | | | | Details |
| bbl/cd | barrels per calendar day | | | | Details |
| bbl/sd | barrels per stream day | | | | Details |
| bbl/yr | barrels per year | | | | Details |
| BBLs | barrels of oil | | | | Details |
| BBME | British Bank of the Middle East | | | | Details |
| BBOSP | Burrowed, Bioturbated, Orbitolinid, Skeletal-Packstone | | | | Details |
| BBOSW | Burrowed, Bioturbated, Orbitolinid, Skeletal Wackestone | | | | Details |
| BBS | Behavior Based Safety (see comment) | | | | Details |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System | | | | Details |
| BBSM | Behavioural Based Safety Management | | | | Details |
| BBSP | Burrowed, Bioturbated, Skeletal Packstone | | | | Details |
| BBSW | Burrowed, Bioturbated, Skeletal Wackestone | | | | Details |
| BC | Barrel Condensate | | | | Details |
| BC | Broken Cone | | | | Details |
| BC | BOTSWANA | | | | Details |
| BC | barrels of condensate | | | | Details |
| BCCI | Bank of Credit and Commerce International | | | | Details |
| Bcf | billion cubic feet (of natural gas) | | | | Details |
| BCF | Billion Cubic Feet | | | | Details |
| Bcf | billions of cubic feet | | | | Details |
| Bcf/d | billion cubic feet per day | | | | Details |
| Bcfd | billion cubic feet per day | | | | Details |
| Bcfe | billion cubic feet (of natural gas equivalent) | | | | Details |
| bcm | Billion Cubic Meters | | | | Details |
| BCM | Banque du Maroc | | | | Details |
| BCP | Banque Centrale Populaire | | | | Details |
| BCPD | Barrels Condensate Per Day | | | | Details |
| BCPD | barrels of condensate per day | | | | Details |
| BCPH | barrels of condensate per hour | | | | Details |
| BCPH | barrels condensate per hour | | | | Details |
| BCPMM | barrels of condensate per million | | | | Details |
| BCPMM | barrels condensate per million | | | | Details |
| BCS | Ballast Control Supervisor | | | | Details |
| BCS | Borehole Compensated Sonic | | | | Details |
| BCSM | Bioturbated, Clay-Rich, Skeletal Mudstone Wackestone | | | | Details |
| BCT | Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology | | | | Details |
| BD | Blow Down | | | | Details |
| BD | BERMUDA | | | | Details |
| BD | BANGLADESH | | | | Details |
| BD | barrels of distillate | | | | Details |
| BD | blowdown | | | | Details |
| bd | board | | | | Details |
| BD | breakdown | | | | Details |
| BD | budgeted depth | | | | Details |
| Bd’A | Bois d’ Arc | | | | Details |
| BDA | Break Down Acid | | | | Details |
| BDA | breakdown acid | | | | Details |
| BDC | Backup Domain Controller | | | | Details |
| BDF | Below Derrick Floor | | | | Details |
| BDF | broke(break) down formation | | | | Details |
| bd-ft | board foot(feet) | | | | Details |
| BDI | Both Dates Inclusive | | | | Details |
| BDI | BURUNDI | | | | Details |
| BDL | Bit Data Log | | | | Details |
| BDL | below detection level | | | | Details |
| BDL | bundle | | | | Details |
| BDM | Bodendruckmessung | | | | Details |
| BD-MLW | barge deck to mean low water | | | | Details |
| BDNG | bedding | | | | Details |
| BDO | barrels diesel oil | | | | Details |
| BDOF | Bank Dhofar al-Omani al-Fransi | | | | Details |
| BDP | Break Down Pressure | | | | Details |
| BDP | breakdown pressure | | | | Details |
| BDPD | barrels of distillate per day | | | | Details |
| BDPD | barrels distillate per day | | | | Details |
| BDPH | barrels of distillate per hour | | | | Details |
| BDPH | barrels distillate per hour | | | | Details |
| BDT | blow-down test | | | | Details |
| BDZ | Bodendruckzementation | | | | Details |
| BE | Both Ends ( Load and discharge ports) | | | | Details |
| BE | BELGIUM | | | | Details |
| Be | beryllium | | | | Details |
| Be | Baumé | | | | Details |
| Be | Berea | | | | Details |
| be | box end | | | | Details |
| Bean | a flow restriction common in downhole chokes, surface chokes and some SSSVs | | | | Details |
| Bear | Riv Bear River | | | | Details |
| BEC | Bid Evaluation Criteria | | | | Details |
| bec | becoming | | | | Details |
| Beck | Beckwith | | | | Details |
| BEG | BEGinning | | | | Details |
| BEI | Biological Exposure Index | | | | Details |
| BEL | BELGIUM | | | | Details |
| Bel | Beldon | | | | Details |
| Bel-C | Belle City | | | | Details |
| Bel-F | Belle Fourche | | | | Details |
| Belm | belemnites | | | | Details |
| BEN | BENIN | | | | Details |
| Ben | Benoist(Bethel) sand | | | | Details |
| Ben | Benton | | | | Details |
| BENDS | Both Ends ( Load and discharge ports) | | | | Details |
| bent | bentonite (itic) | | | | Details |
| Bent | bentonite | | | | Details |
| BEP | Best Efficient Point (ESP related) | | | | Details |
| BEP | Break Even Point | | | | Details |
| BERL | Boral Energy Resources Ltd. Australia | | | | Details |
| berm | berm, sloped wall to keep out flooding | | | | Details |
| BF | Boundary Fault | | | | Details |
| Bf | Bond Failure | | | | Details |
| BF | BAHAMAS | | | | Details |
| BF | BURKINA FASO | | | | Details |
| BF | base flange | | | | Details |
| BF | barrels of fluid | | | | Details |
| BF | barrels fluid | | | | Details |
| BF | blind flange | | | | Details |
| bf | buff | | | | Details |
| BFA | BURKINA FASO | | | | Details |
| BfD | Basis for Design (Facility Doc) | | | | Details |
| BFE | base flange elevation | | | | Details |
| BFI | Business Frames Implementation | | | | Details |
| BFIT | before federal income tax | | | | Details |
| BFL | baffle | | | | Details |
| BFO | barrels frac oil | | | | Details |
| BFPD | barrels of fluid per day | | | | Details |
| BFPD | barrels fluid per day | | | | Details |
| BFPH | barrels of fluid per hour | | | | Details |
| BFPH | barrels fluid per hour | | | | Details |
| BFT | BareFoot Test | | | | Details |
| BFW | barrels of fresh later | | | | Details |
| BFW | bailer feed water | | | | Details |
| BFW | barrels formation water | | | | Details |
| BFW | barrels fresh water | | | | Details |
| BFW | boiler feed water | | | | Details |
| Bg | Gas Formation Volume Factor | | | | Details |
| BG | British Gas | | | | Details |
| BG | Biomass gassification | | | | Details |
| BG | BANGLADESH | | | | Details |
| BG | BULGARIA | | | | Details |
| BG | bell guide | | | | Details |
| BG | British Gas plc UK | | | | Details |
| BG | E&P BG Exploration and Production Ltd.UK | | | | Details |
| BG | Büro Gebaude | | | | Details |
| BGC | British Gas Council UK | | | | Details |
| BGD | BANGLADESH | | | | Details |
| BGEPIL | British Gas Exploration and Production (India) Limited | | | | Details |
| BGG | Back Ground Gas (reading in mud) | | | | Details |
| BGIT | British Gas International Tunisie | | | | Details |
| BGL | Below ground level (used as a datum for depths in a well) | | | | Details |
| BGL | Borehole Geometry Log | | | | Details |
| BGR | BULGARIA | | | | Details |
| BGS | British Geological Survey | | | | Details |
| BGSM | Bioturbated, Argillaceous, Skeletal Mudstone-Wackestone | | | | Details |
| BGSW | Burrowed, Argillaceous, Skeletal Wackestone. | | | | Details |
| BGT | Borehole Geometry Tool | | | | Details |
| BGT | Bore Hole Geometry Tool | | | | Details |
| BGT | Borehole Geometry Log | | | | Details |
| BGT | Four-Arm Caliber Log | | | | Details |
| BGT | Borehole Geometry Log | | | | Details |
| BGWP | Base of Ground Water Protection | | | | Details |
| BH | Bloodhound | | | | Details |
| BH | Big Hole | | | | Details |
| BH | Baker Hughes | | | | Details |
| BH | BELIZE | | | | Details |
| BH | BAHRAIN | | | | Details |
| BH | bottom hole | | | | Details |
| BH | Buchhaltrisch - Related to records or documents or measurements | | | | Details |
| BHA | Bottom Hole Assembly (toolstring on coiled tubing or drill pipe) | | | | Details |
| BHA | Bottom Hole Assembly | | | | Details |
| BHA | bottom-hole assembly | | | | Details |
| BHB | Behandlung Beschpreschung | | | | Details |
| BHC | Borehole compensated sonic log | | | | Details |
| BHC | BHC Gamma Ray Log | | | | Details |
| BHC | Sonic Log | | | | Details |
| BHC | bottom hole choke | | | | Details |
| BHC | Borehole Compensated | | | | Details |
| BHC | bottom-hole choke | | | | Details |
| BHC | Bore Hole Compensated | | | | Details |
| BHC | BHC sonic Logging | | | | Details |
| BHC | Bottom Hole Contribution | | | | Details |
| BHC AL TC | BHC Acoustilog Caliper (Thru Casing) | | | | Details |
| BHC ALC | BHC Acoustilog Caliper | | | | Details |
| BHC ALC GR | BHC Acoustilog Caliper Gamma Ray | | | | Details |
| BHC ALC GRN | BHC Acoustilog Caliper G/R Neutron | | | | Details |
| BHC ALC N | BHC Acoustilog Caliper Neutron | | | | Details |
| BHC ALGRNTC | BHC Acoustilog Caliper G/R Neutron (Thru Casing) | | | | Details |
| BHCA | BHC Acoustic Log | | | | Details |
| BHC-GR | BHC Sonic-Gamma Ray Logging | | | | Details |
| BHCIP | Bottom Hole Closed In Pressure | | | | Details |
| BHCP | bottom hole circulating pressure | | | | Details |
| BHCS | BHC Sonic Log | | | | Details |
| BHCS | bottom hole compensated sonic | | | | Details |
| BHCS | Borehole Compensated Sonic | | | | Details |
| BHCT | Bottomhole Circulating Temperature | | | | Details |
| BHCT | bottom hole circulating temperature | | | | Details |
| BHC-VD | BHC Sonic-Variable Density | | | | Details |
| BHC-VD | Variable Density Logging | | | | Details |
| BHC-WFD | Wave Form Digitizing | | | | Details |
| BHC-WFL | Wave Form Logging | | | | Details |
| BHF | drop-Bar Hydrostatic Firing head (SLB) | | | | Details |
| BHF | Bradenhead Flange | | | | Details |
| BHFP | bottom hole flowing pressure | | | | Details |
| BHFP | bottom hale flowing pressure | | | | Details |
| BHFP | bottom-hole flowing pressure | | | | Details |
| BHFT | bottom hole flowing temperature | | | | Details |
| BHG | bottom hole gauge | | | | Details |
| BHI | Baker Hughes Inteq | | | | Details |
| BHI | Baker Hughes International | | | | Details |
| BHI | Bore Hole Image (logging tool) | | | | Details |
| BHI | Baker Hughes Incorporated | | | | Details |
| BHIP | bottom hole injection pressure | | | | Details |
| BHJ | Bottom-Hole Junk Shot | | | | Details |
| BHL | Borehole Log | | | | Details |
| BHL | bottom hole location | | | | Details |
| BHL | bottom-hole location | | | | Details |
| BHM | bottom-hole money | | | | Details |
| BHN | Brunel Hardness Number | | | | Details |
| BHn | Big Horn | | | | Details |
| BHN | Brinell hardness number | | | | Details |
| BHO | bottom-hole orientation | | | | Details |
| BHP | Bottom Hole Pressure | | | | Details |
| BHP | Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. | | | | Details |
| BHP | Brake Horse Power | | | | Details |
| BHp | brake horsepower | | | | Details |
| BHP | bottom-hole pressure | | | | Details |
| BHP | Broken Hill Proprietary plc Australia | | | | Details |
| BHPC | bottom-hole pressure closet | | | | Details |
| BHPF | bottom-hole pressure flowing | | | | Details |
| BHPG | Bottom Hole Pressure Gauge | | | | Details |
| bhp-hr | brake horsepower-hour | | | | Details |
| BHPI | borehole pressure integrity | | | | Details |
| BHPRP | Borehole Pressure Report | | | | Details |
| BHPS | bottom-hole pressure survey | | | | Details |
| BHPT | Borehole Properties Tool | | | | Details |
| BHR | BAHRAIN | | | | Details |
| BHS | Bore Hole Stability | | | | Details |
| BHS | Bottom Hole Sampler | | | | Details |
| BHS | BAHAMAS | | | | Details |
| BHS | bottom hole seismic | | | | Details |
| BHS | bottom hole sample | | | | Details |
| BHSIP | Bottom Hole Shut In Pressure | | | | Details |
| BHSIP | bottom hole shut-in pressure | | | | Details |
| BHSIP | bottom hale shut in pressure | | | | Details |
| BHSIP | bottom-hole shutin pressure | | | | Details |
| BHSRE | Bottom Hole Sampling Report | | | | Details |
| BHSS | Borehole Seismic Survey | | | | Details |
| BHST | bottom hole static temperature | | | | Details |
| BHT | Bottomhole Temperature | | | | Details |
| BHT | Bottom Hole Temperature | | | | Details |
| BHT | bottom-hole temperature | | | | Details |
| BHTP | bottom hole treating pressure | | | | Details |
| BHTV | Borehole Television Report | | | | Details |
| BHTV | Borehole Televiewer | | | | Details |
| BHTV | bottom hole televiewer – a sonic caliper tool, not a television | | | | Details |
| BI | Both Inclusive. | | | | Details |
| BI | BURUNDI | | | | Details |
| BIAT | Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie | | | | Details |
| BIB | Bahrain International Bank | | | | Details |
| BiC | Best in Class | | | | Details |
| BID-SUM | bid summary | | | | Details |
| Big. | Bigenerina | | | | Details |
| Big.f. | Bigenerina floridana | | | | Details |
| Big.h. | Bigenerina humblei | | | | Details |
| Big.nod. | Bigenerina nodosaria | | | | Details |
| BIH | BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | | | | Details |
| BIMCO | The Baltic and International Maritime Conference | | | | Details |
| BIN | binary | | | | Details |
| BINXQ | Bond Index Quicklook Log | | | | Details |
| bio | biotite | | | | Details |
| BIOR | Biostratigraphic Range Log | | | | Details |
| BIORE | Biostratigraphy Study Report | | | | Details |
| BIPC | Bandar Imam Petrochemical Complex | | | | Details |
| BIS | Bank for International Settlements | | | | Details |
| BIT | Binary Digit | | | | Details |
| BIT | Bitumen | | | | Details |
| bit | Bitumen, bituminous | | | | Details |
| BITOR | Bitumenes Orinoco S.A. Venezuela | | | | Details |
| BIVDL | BI/DK/WF/Casing Collar Locator/Gamma Ray Log | | | | Details |
| BJ | BENIN | | | | Details |
| BJ | Byron Jackson Service Company | | | | 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 |
| Bl | Bohrloch (borehole…, the hole…) | | | | Details |
| BL | BaLe | | | | Details |
| BL | BOLIVIA | | | | Details |
| BL | SAINT BARTHELEMY | | | | Details |
| BL | balance line | | | | Details |
| BL | barrels load | | | | Details |
| bl | blue | | | | Details |
| BL&AW | barrels load & acid water | | | | Details |
| Bl/Cb | blast cabinet | | | | Details |
| BL/JT | blast joint | | | | Details |
| BLC | Big Lever Club (Contracting) | | | | Details |
| BLC | barrels load condensate | | | | Details |
| BLCPD | barrels load condensate per day | | | | Details |
| BLCPH | barrels load condensate per hour | | | | Details |
| bld | bailed | | | | Details |
| bld | bleeding | | | | Details |
| BLD-FLG | BF blind flange | | | | Details |
| bldg | building | | | | Details |
| bld-gas | bleeding gas | | | | Details |
| bldg-drk | building derrick | | | | Details |
| bldg-rds | building roads | | | | Details |
| bldo | bleeding oil | | | | Details |
| bldrs | boulders | | | | Details |
| BLE | bevel large end | | | | Details |
| bledg | bleeding | | | | Details |
| BLF | Banque Libano-Française | | | | Details |
| blg | bailing | | | | Details |
| BLI | Bottom of Logging Interval | | | | Details |
| Blin | Blinebry | | | | 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 |
| BLM | SAINT BARTHELEMY | | | | Details |
| BLM | US Bureau of Land Management | | | | Details |
| BLM | Bureau of Land Management | | | | Details |
| BLND | blend(ed)(er)(ing) | | | | Details |
| BLO | barrels of load oil | | | | Details |
| BLO | barrels load oil | | | | Details |
| blo | blow | | | | Details |
| BLOM | Banque du Liban et d’Outre-Mer | | | | Details |
| BLOPD | barrels of load oil per day | | | | Details |
| BLOPD | barrels load oil per day | | | | Details |
| BLOPH | barrels of load oil per hour | | | | Details |
| BLOPH | barrels load oil per hour | | | | Details |
| BLOR | barrels load oil recovered | | | | Details |
| Blos | blossom | | | | Details |
| BLOTBR | barrels load oil to be recovered | | | | Details |
| BLOYTR | barrels load oil yet to recover | | | | Details |
| BLPD | Barrel Liquid Per Day | | | | Details |
| BLPD | barrels of liquid per day | | | | Details |
| BLR | BELARUS | | | | Details |
| blr | bailer | | | | Details |
| BLR | boiler | | | | Details |
| BLS | Basic Life Support | | | | Details |
| BLS | Bureau of Labor Statistics | | | | Details |
| BLTR | barrels of load to recover | | | | Details |
| blts | bullets | | | | Details |
| blu | blue | | | | Details |
| BLUE | Best Linear Unbiased Estimator | | | | Details |
| BLW | barrels of load water | | | | Details |
| BLW | barrels load water | | | | Details |
| BLWPD | barrels of load water per day | | | | Details |
| BLWPD | barrels load water per day | | | | Details |
| BLWPH | barrels of load water per hour | | | | Details |
| BLWPH | barrels load water per hour | | | | Details |
| BLWR | blower | | | | Details |
| BLWTR | barrels load water to recover | | | | Details |
| BLZ | BELIZE | | | | Details |
| BM | MYANMAR (SEE BURMA) | | | | Details |
| BM | BERMUDA | | | | Details |
| BM | benchmark | | | | Details |
| BM | barrels mud | | | | Details |
| BM | Black Magic(mud) | | | | Details |
| BMA | Bahrain Monetary Agency | | | | Details |
| BMAO | Bank Muscat al-Ahli al-Omani | | | | Details |
| BMB | Bahrain Middle East Bank | | | | Details |
| BMCE | Banque Marocaine du Commerce Extérieure | | | | Details |
| BMCI | Banque Marocaine pour le Commerce et l’Industrie | | | | Details |
| BMEP | brake mean effective pressure | | | | Details |
| BMI | black malleable iron | | | | Details |
| BML | Below Mud Line (Subsea measurement) | | | | Details |
| BMM | British Marine Mutual | | | | Details |
| BMOP | Build Model On Paper | | | | Details |
| BMP | Balanced Mud Pill | | | | Details |
| BMP | Bitmap | | | | Details |
| BMP | Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum Denmark | | | | Details |
| bmpr | bumper | | | | Details |
| BMS | Building Maintenance Service | | | | Details |
| BMSL | Below Mean Sea Level | | | | Details |
| BMT | base management team | | | | Details |
| BMU | BERMUDA | | | | Details |
| bmwfw | Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft - (Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy) | | | | Details |
| BMX | base management excellence | | | | Details |
| BN | BENIN | | | | Details |
| BN | BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | | | | Details |
| bn | brown | | | | Details |
| bnd | band (ed) | | | | Details |
| BNDE | Banque Nationale pour le Développement Economique | | | | Details |
| bndry | boundary | | | | Details |
| BNGL | Barrels of natural gas liquids | | | | Details |
| BNO | barrels new oil | | | | Details |
| BNOCL | Barbados National Oil Company Ltd. Barbados | | | | Details |
| BNP | Banque Nationale de Paris | | | | Details |
| BNPE | Bureau de Normalisation du Petrole France | | | | Details |
| BNW | barrels new water | | | | Details |
| bnz | benzene | | | | Details |
| BO | Break Out | | | | Details |
| Bo | Oil Formation Volume Factor in Rb/STB | | | | Details |
| BO | Back Off Log | | | | Details |
| BO | Branch Office | | | | Details |
| Bo | Oil Formation Volume Factor | | | | Details |
| BO | Business Objects | | | | Details |
| BO | Explosive Service (Back-off) | | | | Details |
| BO | BELARUS | | | | Details |
| BO | BOLIVIA | | | | Details |
| BO | barrels of oil | | | | Details |
| BO | backed out(off ) | | | | Details |
| BO | barrels oil | | | | Details |
| BO | blew out | | | | Details |
| BO | blocked off | | | | Details |
| BO | free-point back off | | | | Details |
| BO | String Shot –Back Off | | | | Details |
| BO1 | Tubing | | | | Details |
| BO2 | Drill Pipe, Wash Pipe, Casing, Liners | | | | Details |
| BO3 | Drill Collars | | | | Details |
| BOB | Back on bottom | | | | Details |
| BOB | Bunker On Board | | | | Details |
| BOBK | Bank of Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait | | | | Details |
| BOC | Breach of Contract | | | | Details |
| BOC | base operations camp | | | | Details |
| BOCD | barrels oil per calendar day | | | | Details |
| BOCS | Basal Oil Creek Sand | | | | Details |
| BOD | Basis Of Design | | | | Details |
| BOD | Basic Operational Data | | | | Details |
| BOD | Biochemical Oxygen Demand | | | | Details |
| BOD | Biological Oxygen Demand | | | | Details |
| Bod | Bodcaw | | | | Details |
| BOD | Biologic Oxygen Demand | | | | Details |
| BOD5 | 5-day biological oxygen demand | | | | Details |
| BODF | Below Original Drill Floor | | | | Details |
| boe | barrel(s) of oil equivalent | | | | Details |
| BOE | Barrels of oil equivalent | | | | Details |
| BOE | barrels of oil equivalent A method of equating the energy produced by a hydrocarbon gas to a standard oil measurement One barrel of oil has about the same heat producing capacity as 6,000 ft3 of gas at standard conditions | | | | Details |
| BOE | bevel one end | | | | Details |
| BOE | blowout equipment | | | | Details |
| boed | barrel(s) of oil equivalent per day | | | | Details |
| BOEM | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, DOI | | | | Details |
| BOEMRE | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement | | | | Details |
| BOEMRE | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, DOI | | | | Details |
| boepd | barrel(s) of oil equivalent per day | | | | Details |
| BOL | Back On Line | | | | Details |
| BOL | BOLIVIA | | | | Details |
| Bol. | Bolivarensis | | | | Details |
| Bol.a. | Bolivina a. | | | | Details |
| Bol.flor. | Bolivina floridana | | | | Details |
| Bol.p. | Bolivina perca | | | | Details |
| BOM | Business Opportunity Manager | | | | Details |
| BOM | Bill of Materials | | | | Details |
| BOMA | ball out mud acid | | | | Details |
| BOMINFLOT | KG Bominflot Bunkergas fuer Mineraloele mbH & Co. Germany | | | | Details |
| Bonne | Bonneterre | | | | Details |
| BOOT | Build-Own-Operate-Transfer | | | | Details |
| BOP | Blowout Preventer | | | | Details |
| BOP | Bottom of Pipe | | | | Details |
| BOP | BOP/WH/HP system | | | | Details |
| BOP | Blow Out Preventer | | | | Details |
| bopd | barrel(s) of oil per day | | | | Details |
| BOPD | Barrels of Oil Per Day | | | | Details |
| BOPD | barrels oil per day | | | | Details |
| BOPE | blowout preventer equipment | | | | Details |
| BOPEC | Bonaire Petroleum Corporation Neth. Antilles | | | | Details |
| BOPH | barrels of oil per hour | | | | Details |
| BOPH | barrels oil per hour | | | | Details |
| BOPPD | barrels oil per producing day | | | | Details |
| BOQ | Bill Of Quantities | | | | Details |
| Borb | prefix denoting a number in billions | | | | Details |
| BORCO | Bahamas Oil Refining Co. Venezuela | | | | Details |
| BOREH | Borehole Seismic Analysis | | | | Details |
| Borouge | Abu Dhabi Polymers Company Limited | | | | Details |
| BOS | Bottom Of Screen | | | | Details |
| BOS | brown oil stain | | | | Details |
| BOSIET | Basic Safety Induction & Emergency Training (see comment) | | | | Details |
| BOSIET | Basic Offshore Safety Induction and Emergency Training | | | | Details |
| BOSS | ball operated shear sub | | | | Details |
| BOST | Battery-Operated Shut-In Tool | | | | Details |
| BOT | Build–Operate–Transfer | | | | Details |
| BOT | Baker Oil Tools | | | | Details |
| bot | bottom | | | | Details |
| BOTAS | BOTAS, Petroleum Pipeline Corp. Ltd. Turkey | | | | Details |
| BOTHL | Bottom Hole Locator Log | | | | Details |
| BOTTO | Bottom Hole Pressure/Temperature Report | | | | Details |
| BOUT | Breakout | | | | Details |
| BOV | Bleed Off Valve | | | | Details |
| Box | everyday term for container (or boxed vessel) | | | | Details |
| BOX | test batch test with oxygen addition | | | | Details |
| BP | Before Present (age) | | | | Details |
| BP | Best Practice | | | | Details |
| BP | Bridge Plug | | | | Details |
| BP | British Petroleum | | | | Details |
| BP | Business Plan | | | | Details |
| BP | SOLOMON ISLANDS | | | | Details |
| BP | formerly British Petroleum | | | | Details |
| BP | British Petroleum Company | | | | Details |
| BP | back pressure | | | | Details |
| BP | base Pennsylvania | | | | Details |
| BP | Bearpaw | | | | Details |
| BP | boiling point | | | | Details |
| BP | bulk plant | | | | Details |
| BP | bull plug | | | | Details |
| BP | Mix butane and propane mix | | | | Details |
| BP | Bridge Plug Service | | | | Details |
| BP | Bridge Plus | | | | Details |
| BP | British Petroleum Company plc UK | | | | Details |
| BP/CLR | bypass cooler | | | | Details |
| BPA | Bonneville Power Administration, DOE | | | | Details |
| BPC | British Printing Company | | | | Details |
| BPC | Baker Petrolite Corporation | | | | Details |
| BPC | Balanced Point Control (a company in Europe providing snubbing units) | | | | Details |
| BPC | Bharat Petroleum Corp. India | | | | Details |
| BPCL | Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited | | | | Details |
| BPCV | Below Packer Circulating Valve (new from SLB) | | | | Details |
| bpd | barrels per day | | | | Details |
| BPEO | Best Practicable Environmental Option | | | | Details |
| BPFL | Borehole Profile Log | | | | Details |
| BPFSW | Burrowed, Planktonic, Foraminifera, Skeletal Wackestone-Mudstone | | | | Details |
| BPH | Barrels Per Hour | | | | Details |
| BPLO | barrels of pipeline oil | | | | Details |
| BPLOPD | barrels of pipeline oil per day | | | | Details |
| BPLUG | Baker Plug | | | | Details |
| BPM | Barrels Per Minute | | | | Details |
| BPM | barrel per minute | | | | Details |
| BPO | Before Pay Out | | | | Details |
| BPR | BOP Pipe Rams | | | | Details |
| BPSD | barrels per stream day | | | | Details |
| BPSM | Best Practices Skill Management Team | | | | Details |
| BPT | Best Practicable Control Technology | | | | Details |
| BPV | back pressure valve (goes on the end of coiled tubing a drill pipe tool strings to prevent fluid flow in the wrong direction) | | | | Details |
| BPV | Back Pressure Valve | | | | Details |
| BPV | Bar Pressure Vent | | | | Details |
| BPV | back-pressure valve | | | | Details |
| BPWA | Beam Pump Well Analyzer (Dyno & FL) | | | | Details |
| BPWPD | barrels per well per day | | | | Details |
| BQ | NAVASSA ISLAND | | | | Details |
| BQ | benzene quantity | | | | Details |
| BQL | B/QL Log | | | | Details |
| BQP | MRPS 1 Quartz Gauge Pressure (see comment!) | | | | Details |
| BQQ | NAVASSA ISLAND | | | | Details |
| Br | Breadth | | | | Details |
| BR | Budget Requisition | | | | Details |
| BR | BRAZIL | | | | Details |
| BR | Petrobras | | | | Details |
| BR | building rig | | | | Details |
| BR | building road | | | | Details |
| br | brown | | | | Details |
| BR | Petrobras Internacional S.A. Brazil | | | | Details |
| Br.ld. | Break load | | | | Details |
| BRA | BRAZIL | | | | Details |
| brach | brachiopod | | | | Details |
| brack | brackish | | | | Details |
| BRASPETRO | Petrobras Internacional S.A. Brazil | | | | Details |
| BRB | BARBADOS | | | | Details |
| BRC | brace(ing)(ed) | | | | Details |
| brec | breccia | | | | Details |
| BRFL/V | butterfly valve | | | | Details |
| brg | bearing | | | | Details |
| BRGDS | Best ReGarDS | | | | Details |
| BRGG | Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Geophysique France | | | | Details |
| BRGM | Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres France | | | | Details |
| BRGN | Bureau de Researches Géologiques et Minières | | | | Details |
| bri | bright | | | | Details |
| Brid | bridger | | | | Details |
| brit | brittle | | | | 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 |
| BRN | BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | | | | Details |
| brn | brown | | | | Details |
| Brn Li | brown lime | | | | Details |
| brnsh | brownish | | | | Details |
| brn-sh | brown shale | | | | Details |
| BROB | Bunkers Remaining On Board | | | | Details |
| Brom | bromide | | | | Details |
| BRPLG | Bridge Plug Log | | | | Details |
| BRT | Below Rotary Table (used as a datum for depths in a well) | | | | Details |
| BRT | Below Rotary Table | | | | Details |
| Brt | Gross tonnage | | | | Details |
| brtl | brittle | | | | Details |
| bry | bryozoa | | | | Details |
| BS | Bit Size | | | | Details |
| BS | Bachelor of Science | | | | Details |
| BS | BASSAS DA INDIA | | | | Details |
| BS | BAHAMAS | | | | Details |
| BS | Basic Sediment and Water or BS&W | | | | Details |
| BS | basic sediment | | | | Details |
| BS | ball sealers | | | | Details |
| BS | Bone Spring | | | | Details |
| BS | bottom sediment | | | | Details |
| BS | bottom settlings | | | | Details |
| BS&W | BSW Base/Bottom Sediments & Water | | | | Details |
| BS&W | Basic Sediment and Water | | | | Details |
| BS&W | Bottom Sediment and Water | | | | Details |
| BS&W | Basic Sediment and Water The solids and water entrained in crude oil | | | | Details |
| BS&W | bottom(basic) sediment & water | | | | Details |
| BSB | Bahraini Saudi Bank | | | | Details |
| BSc | Bachelor of Science | | | | Details |
| BSC | Balance Score Card | | | | Details |
| BSCF | Billion Standard Cubic Feet | | | | Details |
| Bscf/d | billion standard cubic feet per day | | | | Details |
| BSE | bevel small end | | | | Details |
| BSEE | US: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (Formerly the MMS) | | | | Details |
| BSEE | Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, DOI | | | | Details |
| BSFC | brake specific fuel consumption | | | | Details |
| BSHG | bushing | | | | Details |
| BSI | British Standards Institute | | | | Details |
| BSI | British Standards Institution | | | | Details |
| BSI | British Standards Institute UK | | | | Details |
| bskt | basket | | | | Details |
| BSL | Below Sea Level | | | | Details |
| Bsl | basal | | | | Details |
| BSL | Borehole Compensated Sonic | | | | Details |
| Bslt | base of the salt | | | | Details |
| BSML | below sea mean level | | | | Details |
| bsmt | basement | | | | Details |
| BSP | Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sendirian Berhad | | | | Details |
| BSP | Bridle Spontaneous Potential | | | | Details |
| BSPD | Barrels Steam Per Day | | | | Details |
| BSPL | base plate | | | | Details |
| BSPP | British Standard Pipe Thread Parallel | | | | Details |
| BSPT | British Standard Pipe Thread Tapered | | | | Details |
| BSR | Bottom Simulating Reflector (seismic) | | | | Details |
| BSR | blind shear rams (blowout preventer) | | | | Details |
| BSR | bending strength ratio | | | | Details |
| BST | Bridge Plug Setting Tool | | | | Details |
| BSTR | booster | | | | Details |
| BSUW | black sulfur water | | | | Details |
| BSW | Basic Sediment and Water | | | | Details |
| BSW | barrels salt water | | | | Details |
| BSWPD | barrels of salt water per day | | | | Details |
| BSWPD | barrels salt water per day | | | | Details |
| BSWPH | barrels of salt water per hour | | | | Details |
| BSWPH | barrels salt water per hour | | | | Details |
| BT | Berth Terms | | | | Details |
| BT | BHUTAN | | | | Details |
| BT | Broken Teeth/Cutters | | | | Details |
| BT | Benoist(Bethel) sand | | | | Details |
| Bt·l | barrels of mud | | | | Details |
| BTA | Basic Travel Allowance | | | | Details |
| BTA | Business Travel Approval | | | | Details |
| BtB | beyond the best | | | | Details |
| BtBcp | beyond the best common process | | | | Details |
| BTC | Best Technical Case | | | | Details |
| BTC | buttress thread coupling | | | | Details |
| BTDC | before top dead center | | | | Details |
| BTEX | Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene and Xylene | | | | Details |
| BTFL/V | butterfly valve | | | | Details |
| BTHF | Below Tubing Head Flange | | | | Details |
| BTHL | Bottom Hole Log | | | | Details |
| BTL | Biomass-to-liquid | | | | Details |
| BTL | Borehole Televiewer | | | | Details |
| BTL | Bantry Terminals Ltd. Ireland | | | | Details |
| BTM | Business Technology Mapping | | | | Details |
| btm | bottom | | | | Details |
| btm | (d) bottom(ed) | | | | Details |
| btm | chk bottom choke | | | | Details |
| BTMS | bottoms | | | | Details |
| BTN | BHUTAN | | | | Details |
| BTO/C | break to open/close (valve torque) | | | | Details |
| btry | battery | | | | Details |
| BTU | British Thermal Unit (see comment!) | | | | Details |
| BTU | British Thermal Unit | | | | Details |
| Btu | British thermal units | | | | Details |
| Btu/lb | British thermal units per pound | | | | Details |
| Btu/scf | British thermal units per standard cubic feet | | | | Details |
| BTUs | British thermal units | | | | Details |
| BTW | By the way | | | | Details |
| btw | between | | | | Details |
| BTWLD | butt weld | | | | Details |
| BTX | benzene, toluene, xylene | | | | Details |
| BTX | benzene, toluene, and xylene | | | | Details |
| BTX | benzene toluenexylene(unit) | | | | Details |
| BU | Bottoms Up | | | | Details |
| BU | Balled Up Bit | | | | Details |
| BU | BULGARIA | | | | Details |
| BU | business unit | | | | Details |
| bu | bushel | | | | Details |
| Buck | Buckner | | | | Details |
| Buckr | buckrange | | | | Details |
| BUL | bottom up lag | | | | Details |
| Bul.text. | Buliminella textularia | | | | Details |
| Bull-W | Bull wagon | | | | Details |
| Bum. | bottom-hole pressure bomb | | | | Details |
| BuMInes | Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior | | | | Details |
| bunr | burner | | | | Details |
| BUR | Build Up Rate (drilling) | | | | Details |
| BUR | Build-Up rate | | | | Details |
| Burg | Burgess | | | | Details |
| butt | buttress thread | | | | Details |
| BUZ | buzzer | | | | Details |
| BV | Bureau Veritas | | | | Details |
| BV | BOUVET ISLAND | | | | Details |
| BV | ball valve | | | | Details |
| BV | block valve | | | | Details |
| BV/WLD | beveled for welding | | | | Details |
| BVC | Bulk Volume Capillary (T2 from 3 to 30 milliseconds) | | | | Details |
| BVI | Bulk Volume Irreducible | | | | Details |
| BVM | Bulk Volume Movable same FFI | | | | Details |
| BVO | ball valve operator | | | | Details |
| BVS | Block Valve isolation Station (for main PL's) | | | | Details |
| BVT | BOUVET ISLAND | | | | Details |
| BVW | Bulk Volume Water (T2 from 0.3 to 300 milliseconds) | | | | Details |
| Bw | Water Formation Volume Factor | | | | Details |
| BW | Biological Weapons | | | | Details |
| BW | Barrels of Water | | | | Details |
| BW | BOTSWANA | | | | Details |
| BW | boiled water | | | | Details |
| BW | butt weld | | | | Details |
| BW | ga Birmingham(or Stubbs) iron wire gauge | | | | Details |
| BW/D | barrels of water per day | | | | Details |
| BWA | BOTSWANA | | | | Details |
| BWAD | Brackish Water Arrival Draft | | | | Details |
| bwd | barrels of water per day (often used in reference to oil production) | | | | Details |
| Bwg | Birmingham wire gauge | | | | Details |
| BWIPD | Barrels Water Injection Per Day | | | | Details |
| BWL | barrel water load | | | | Details |
| BWL | body wall loss | | | | Details |
| BWOB | by weight of the blend | | | | Details |
| BWOC | by weight of cement | | | | Details |
| BWOL | barrels water over load | | | | Details |
| BWON | Benzene Waste Operations NESHAP (40 CFR part 61, subpart FF) | | | | Details |
| BWOW | by weight of water | | | | Details |
| bwpd | barrels of water per day | | | | Details |
| BWPD | barrels water per day | | | | Details |
| BWPH | barrels of water per hour | | | | Details |
| BWPH | barrels water per hour | | | | Details |
| BX | BRUNEI DARUSSALAM | | | | Details |
| BX | BASSAS DA INDIA | | | | Details |
| bx | box(es) | | | | Details |
| BXQ | BASSAS DA INDIA | | | | Details |
| BY | BURUNDI | | | | Details |
| BY | BELARUS | | | | Details |
| BYP | bypass | | | | Details |
| BYTE | 8 bits | | | | Details |
| BZ | Brückenzementation | Plug cementation (balanced cement plug) | | | Details |
| BZ | BELIZE | | | | Details |
| C/B | Crew Boat | | | | Details |
| C/BM | crawl beam | | | | Details |
| CAB | cabinet | | | | Details |
| Cable | one of various braided cables, with or without isolated conductance wires, used for well operations | | | | Details |
| CaBr2 | calcium bromide | | | | Details |
| CALIBR | calibrate, calibration | | | | Details |
| Camb | cambrian | | | | Details |
| carb | carbonaceous | | | | Details |
| carb | test carbontetrachloride | | | | Details |
| CARBESA | Carbon Black Espanola S.A. Spain | | | | Details |
| CB | Crew Boat | | | | Details |
| CB | Core Barrel | | | | Details |
| CB | CAMBODIA | | | | Details |
| CB | changed(ing) bits | | | | Details |
| CB | continuous blowdown | | | | Details |
| CB | counterbalance(pumping equip.) | | | | Details |
| CBA | Commercial Bid Assessment | | | | Details |
| CBD | Competence Based Development | | | | Details |
| CBD | Commercial Bank of Dubai | | | | Details |
| CBE | Commercial Bid Evaluation | | | | Details |
| CBF | Coiled Tubing Firing Head | | | | Details |
| CBFT | CuBic FeeT | | | | Details |
| CBG | Coalbed gas | | | | Details |
| CBHT | circulating bottom hole temperature | | | | Details |
| CBI | confidential business information | | | | Details |
| CBIL | CBIL Log | | | | Details |
| CBIL | Circumferential Borehole Imaging Log | | | | Details |
| CBJ | carbide blast joint | | | | Details |
| CBK | Commercial Bank of Kuwait | | | | Details |
| CBL | Cement Bond Log (measurement of casing cement integrity) | | | | Details |
| CBL | Cement Bond Log | | | | Details |
| CBL | Acoustic Cement Bond | | | | Details |
| CBL | cable(ing) | | | | Details |
| CBL | Cement Bond Logging | | | | Details |
| CBL | Acoustic Cement Bond Log | | | | Details |
| CBL GRN | Acoustic Cement Bond G/R Neutron | | | | Details |
| CBL N | Acoustic Cement Bond Neutron | | | | Details |
| CBL/GR | Acoustic Cement Bond Gamma Ray | | | | Details |
| CBL/GR/NEU | Acoustic Cement Bond G/R Neutron | | | | Details |
| CBL/NEU | Acoustic Cement Bond Neutron | | | | Details |
| CBL-GR | Cement Bond-Gamma Ray Logging | | | | Details |
| CBL-GRN | Cement Bond-Gamma Ray Neutron | | | | Details |
| CBL-N | Cement Bond-Neutron | | | | Details |
| CBL-VD | Variable Density Logging | | | | Details |
| CBL-VD | Cement Bond-Variable Density Logging | | | | Details |
| CBM | Choke Bridge Module XT Choke | | | | Details |
| CBM | Coal Bed Methane | | | | Details |
| CBM | Conventional Buoy Mooring | | | | Details |
| CBM | Choke Bridge Module - XT Choke | | | | Details |
| CBM | choke bridge module XT choke | | | | Details |
| CBND | Cement Bond | | | | Details |
| CBNG | coal bed natural gas | | | | Details |
| CBNG | coalbed natural gas | | | | Details |
| CBO | Commercial Bank of Oman | | | | Details |
| CBP | Composite Bridge Plug | | | | Details |
| CBQ | Commercial Bank of Qatar | | | | Details |
| CBT | Computer Based Training | | | | Details |
| CBT | cement bond tool | | | | Details |
| CBTT | Combinable Borehole Televiewer Tool | | | | Details |
| CBU | Circulate Bottoms Up | | | | Details |
| CBW | Clay Bound Water | | | | Details |
| CBW | Clay Bound Water (T2 from 0.3 to 3 milliseconds), | | | | Details |
| ccBU | circulate bottoms up | | | | Details |
| CDB | cement dump bailer | | | | Details |
| CDB | common data base | | | | Details |
| CDBTF | common data base task force | | | | Details |
| CFB&G | companion flange bolt and gasket | | | | Details |
| CFBO | companion flanges bolted on | | | | Details |
| Chkbd | checkerboard | | | | Details |
| CHMBR | chamber | | | | Details |
| CIB | Commercial International Bank | | | | Details |
| Cib. | Cibicides | | | | Details |
| Cib.h. | Cibicides hazzardi | | | | Details |
| CIBHP | closed in bottom hole pressure | | | | Details |
| CIBP | cast iron bridge plug | | | | Details |
| CIBP | cast-iron bridge plug | | | | Details |
| Claib | Claiborne | | | | Details |
| CLGB | Credit Lyonnais Global Banking | | | | Details |
| CN/BD | control building | | | | Details |
| CNLOPB | Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board | | | | Details |
| CNSOPB | Canada Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board | | | | Details |
| CNSOPB | Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board | | | | Details |
| cob | Close Of Business (day) | | | | Details |
| COBLDN | Closing Of Business LoDoN | | | | Details |
| COBOL | Common Business Oriented Language | | | | Details |
| COBOL | Common Business-Oriented Language | | | | Details |
| comb | combined, combination | | | | Details |
| COMB | combustion | | | | Details |
| contrib | contribution | | | | Details |
| CORIB | Coriband Log | | | | Details |
| CPICB | CPI Coriband Log | | | | Details |
| CRBD | Coriband-Kerogen Analysis | | | | Details |
| crbd | crossbedded | | | | Details |
| CROB | Cargo Remaining OnBoard | | | | Details |
| CSB | Conventional Sample Bottle (SLB) | | | | Details |
| CSBU | Cullender and Smith build-up (wellhead gauge build-up) | | | | Details |
| CSFB | Credit Suisse First Boston | | | | Details |
| CUB | CUBA | | | | Details |
| CUB | cubical | | | | Details |
| Cut B | cut bank | | | | Details |
| cutbk | cutback | | | | Details |
| CYBD | Cyberbond Log | | | | Details |
| CYBLK | Cyberlook Log | | | | Details |
| D & B | Dun & Bradstreet | | | | Details |
| d/b/a | doing business as | | | | Details |
| DAB | Decision Advisory Board | | | | Details |
| DAIB | daily average injection barrels | | | | Details |
| DB | Declining Balance-used for depreciation calculation | | | | Details |
| DB | Database | | | | Details |
| DB | Cement Dump Bailer | | | | Details |
| DB | dump bailer | | | | Details |
| DB | Data Bank | | | | Details |
| db | decibel | | | | Details |
| DB | diamond bit | | | | Details |
| DB | drilling break | | | | Details |
| DB | Cement Dump Bailer Service | | | | Details |
| DB&B | double block and bleed | | | | Details |
| DBA | Database Administrator | | | | Details |
| dba | doing business as | | | | Details |
| DBA | depth bracket allowable | | | | Details |
| DBB | double block and bleed | | | | Details |
| DBE | Detailed Budget Exercise | | | | Details |
| Dbl | Double | | | | Details |
| DBL SKIN | DouBLe SKINned | | | | Details |
| DBMS | Database Management System | | | | Details |
| DBO | dark brown oil | | | | Details |
| DBOS | dark brown oil stains | | | | Details |
| DBP | Dynamic Back Pressure | | | | Details |
| DBSB | double pole single base(switch) | | | | Details |
| DCB | diamond core bit | | | | Details |
| DDB | Double Declining Balance (2nd Order Depreciation Curve) | | | | Details |
| DDB | drive down bailer | | | | Details |
| DDBHC | DDBHC Waveform Log | | | | Details |
| debutzr | debutanizer | | | | Details |
| DEIb | Diamond Enhanced Insert bit | | | | Details |
| deisobut | deisobutanizer | | | | Details |
| desorb | desorbent | | | | Details |
| DHDATSBE | Despatch Half Demurrage on All Time Saved Both Ends | | | | Details |
| DHDWTSBE | Detpatch Half Demurrage on Working Time Saved Both Ends | | | | Details |
| DIB | Dubai Islamic Bank | | | | Details |
| DIBHC | DIS BHC Log | | | | Details |
| DILB | Dual Induction BHC Log | | | | Details |
| DIPBH | Dipmeter Borehole Log | | | | Details |
| DKBR | Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Research | | | | Details |
| DOB | Date Of Birth | | | | Details |
| DOBLDG | dock operating building | | | | Details |
| DPDB | double pole double base(switch) | | | | Details |
| DRB | Decision Review Board | | | | Details |
| DRB | Dual Receiver Bond Log | | | | Details |
| DRBA | Delaware River Basin Authority | | | | Details |
| DRODB | drilling, recompletion and repair data base | | | | Details |
| DSBV | Dual Shut Ball Valve | | | | Details |
| DSTPB | Drill Stem Test True Vertical Depth Playback Log | | | | Details |
| DTPB | CNT True Vertical Depth Playback Log | | | | Details |
| Dubal | Dubai Aluminium Company | | | | Details |
| E&B | Lines Equalisation and Bleed Lines | | | | Details |
| E/BL | east boundary line | | | | Details |
| EAB | Egyptian American Bank | | | | Details |
| EBG | Emirates Bank Group | | | | Details |
| EBI | Emirates Bank International | | | | Details |
| EBIT | Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT = Revenue – Operating expenses (OPEX) + Non-operating income) (See comment!) | | | | Details |
| EBITDA | earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization | | | | Details |
| EBSF | Emirates Banking Stocks Fund | | | | Details |
| EBU | enhanced biodegradation unit | | | | Details |
| ECB | Economic Commission Board | | | | Details |
| EEBA | Emergency Escape Breathing Apparatus | | | | Details |
| EGMBE | Ethylene Glycol Mono-Butyl Ether | | | | Details |
| EGMBE | ethylene glycol mono-butyl ether A mutual solvent | | | | Details |
| EIB | European Investment Bank | | | | Details |
| Elb | Elbert | | | | Details |
| ELB | elbow | | | | Details |
| Emb | Embar | | | | Details |
| EMBL | Emirates Merchant Bank Ltd. | | | | Details |
| ENGEBRAS | Engenharia Especializada Brasileira, S.A. Brazil | | | | Details |
| EOB | End Of Build (Drilling) | | | | Details |
| EOB | end of build (horizontal wellbore) | | | | Details |
| EPB | Exploration & Production - Business | | | | Details |
| EPBM | Explor & Prod Business Management | | | | Details |
| EPIRB | Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon | | | | Details |
| ERCB | Energy Resources Conservation Board | | | | Details |
| ERCB | Energy Resources Conservation Board, Alberta | | | | Details |
| ERCB | Energy Resource Conservation Board (Alberta, Canada) | | | | Details |
| ETBE | ethyl tert-butyl ether | | | | Details |
| F/FAB | field fabricated | | | | Details |
| fab | fabricate(ed)(tion) | | | | Details |
| FAB | faint air blow | | | | Details |
| FB | fresh break | | | | Details |
| FB | Flat-bottom mill or shoes | | | | Details |
| FB FM | Full Bore Flowmeter | | | | Details |
| FBCV | Full Bore Circulating Valve | | | | Details |
| FBE | Fusion Bonded Epoxy | | | | Details |
| FBEJ | Full Bore Expansion Joint | | | | Details |
| FBH | flowing by heads | | | | Details |
| FBHJ | FullBore Hydraulic Jar | | | | Details |
| FBHP | Flowing Bottom Hole Pressure | | | | Details |
| FBHP | flowing bottom-hole pressure | | | | Details |
| FBHPF | final bottom-hole pressure, flowing | | | | Details |
| FBHPSI | final bottom-hole pressure, shut-in | | | | Details |
| Fbio | site-specific fraction of organic compounds biodegraded | | | | Details |
| FBIV | Full Bore Isolation Valve (remote pressure activated bottom of tubing flapper valve) | | | | Details |
| FBP | formation breakdown pressure, The pressure at which the fracture initiates | | | | Details |
| FBP | final boiling point | | | | Details |
| fbrgs | fiberglass | | | | Details |
| FBS | Full Bore Spinner (Prod Logging) | | | | Details |
| FBSD | Fullbore set-down | | | | Details |
| FBST | Fullbore Formation Micro Imager | | | | Details |
| FBU | Flowing/Build UP (Pressure Survey) | | | | Details |
| FCIBHP | Final Closed In Bottom Hole Pressure | | | | Details |
| FDBM | Buoyancy Measurement Fluid Density Log | | | | Details |
| FIB | Faysal Islamic Bank | | | | Details |
| fib | fibrous | | | | Details |
| FL/BD | flammable liquid building | | | | Details |
| FLMB | flammable | | | | Details |
| FLXBX | flexibox | | | | Details |
| FMBK | Basket Flowmeter | | | | Details |
| FOB | Free On Board | | | | Details |
| FPB | Belgian Oil Federation Belgium | | | | Details |
| FSB | flowline support base | | | | Details |
| FSB | Front Side Bus | | | | Details |
| ftBDF | feet Below Drill Floor | | | | Details |
| ftBTHF | feet Below Tubing Head Flange | | | | Details |
| ft-lb | foot-pound | | | | Details |
| ft-lb/hr | foot-pound per hour | | | | Details |
| GAB | GABON | | | | Details |
| GASBEND | Good And Safe (Port) Both ENDs | | | | Details |
| GB | GigaByte | | | | Details |
| GB | GABON | | | | Details |
| GB | UNITED KINGDOM | | | | Details |
| GB | gun barrel | | | | Details |
| GBDA | gallons breakdown acid | | | | Details |
| GBI | Group Basic Index | | | | Details |
| GBR | UNITED KINGDOM | | | | Details |
| GBS | Gravity Based Structure | | | | Details |
| GBT | Gravity Base Tank | | | | Details |
| GCDB | Geographic Coordinate Database | | | | Details |
| GDBs | Government Debt Bonds | | | | Details |
| GGRB | Greater Green River Basin | | | | Details |
| GIB | Gulf International Bank | | | | Details |
| GIB | GIBRALTAR | | | | Details |
| Gib | Gibson | | | | Details |
| GISB | gas industry standards board | | | | Details |
| GISB | Gas Industries Standards Board | | | | Details |
| GLBVV | globe valve | | | | Details |
| Glob | Globigerina | | | | Details |
| GMB | GAMBIA | | | | Details |
| GNB | GUINEA-BISSAU | | | | Details |
| Gouldb | Gouldbusk | | | | Details |
| Grayb | Grayburg | | | | Details |
| GSLIB | Geostatistical Software Library | | | | Details |
| GTB | GTB time (Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria) UTC+2 or +3 summertime (EEC: Eastern European Time) | | | | Details |
| Gumbo | sticky, reactive shale formation | | | | Details |
| Hackb | Hackberry | | | | Details |
| HB | house brand(regular grade of gasoline) | | | | Details |
| HBA | Honors Business Administration | | | | Details |
| HBA | Steigrohrhänger mit Dichtelementen (wird ausschliesslich bei Gassonden verwendet) | | | | Details |
| HBC | High Resolution Borehole Sonic | | | | Details |
| HBF | Harmless Bulk Fertilizer | | | | Details |
| HBI | Hot Briquetted Iron | | | | Details |
| HBP | held by production, a leasehold kept in force by production | | | | Details |
| HBP | Held by Production | | | | Details |
| hbr | harbor | | | | Details |
| HBS | Hadi Bouchamaoui Sons International Ltd. | | | | Details |
| Hburg | Hardinsburg sand(local) | | | | Details |
| HDIL_BA | High-Definition Induction Log | | | | Details |
| HDLTSBENDS | Half Despatch Lay Time Saved Both Ends | | | | Details |
| Heeb | Heebner | | | | Details |
| HNBR | hydrogenated nitrile (bunadiene rubber) | | | | Details |
| HPWBM | High Performance Water Base Mud | | | | Details |
| HS CBL | H2S Cable | | | | Details |
| Humb | Humblei | | | | Details |
| IAB | initial air block | | | | Details |
| IB | impression block | | | | Details |
| IB | iron body(valve) | | | | Details |
| IBBC | iron body brass core(valve) | | | | Details |
| IBBM | iron body brass(bronze) mounted(valve) | | | | Details |
| IBC | Intermediate Bulk Container | | | | Details |
| IBCA | International Banking Credit Agency | | | | Details |
| IBES | International Bureau for Energy Studies | | | | Details |
| IBHP | initial bottom-hole pressure | | | | Details |
| IBHPF | initial bottom-hole pressure, flowing | | | | Details |
| IBHPSI | initial bottom-hole pressure, shut in | | | | Details |
| IBHSP | Initial Bottom Hole Shut-in Pressure | | | | Details |
| IBJ | Industrial Bank of Japan | | | | Details |
| IBK | Industrial Bank of Kuwait | | | | Details |
| IBM | International Business Machines | | | | Details |
| Ibn | Hayyan National Plastic Company | | | | Details |
| Ibn | Rushd Arab Industrial Fibers Company | | | | Details |
| Ibn | Sina National Methanol Company | | | | Details |
| Ibn | Zahr Saudi European Petrochemical Company | | | | Details |
| IBO | Internal Blowout | | | | Details |
| IBOP | Internal Blow Out Preventor | | | | Details |
| IBP | inflatable bridge plug | | | | Details |
| IBP | initial boiling point | | | | Details |
| IBP | Instituto Brasileiro de Petroleo Brazil | | | | Details |
| IBRD | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | | | | Details |
| IDB | Islamic Development Bank | | | | Details |
| IEB | Induction Electro BHC Log | | | | Details |
| IGV/IBV | inlet gate valve/inlet ball valve | | | | Details |
| imdb | imbedded | | | | Details |
| in.-lb | inch-pound | | | | Details |
| Inbded | imbedded | | | | Details |
| inhib | inhibitor | | | | Details |
| interbd | interbedded | | | | Details |
| interbdd | interbedded | | | | Details |
| invrtb | invertebrate | | | | Details |
| IRBP | Institut Royal Belge du Petroles Belgium | | | | Details |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number | | | | Details |
| ISFBG | ISF BHC GR Log | | | | Details |
| ISFPB | ISF True Vertical Depth Playback Log | | | | Details |
| ISSB | Isolation Sub - Spontaneous Potential | | | | Details |
| ITB | Invitation to Bid | | | | Details |
| JB | Junk Basket | | | | Details |
| JB | junction box | | | | Details |
| JB | Junk Catcher | | | | Details |
| jbr | jobber | | | | Details |
| JCBS | Jordanian Central Bureau of Statistics | | | | Details |
| JIB | Joint Interest Billing (Partner billing system) | | | | Details |
| JIB | joint interesting billing | | | | Details |
| kabs | Absolute Permeability. | | | | 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 |
| 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 |
| Keo-Bur | Keokuk-Burlington | | | | Details |
| Kib | Kibbey | | | | Details |
| KREB | Kuwait Real Estate Bank | | | | Details |
| L/Alb | Lower Albany | | | | Details |
| lab | labor | | | | Details |
| lab | laboratory | | | | Details |
| LAFB | Libyan Arab Foreign Bank | | | | Details |
| LB | LEBANON | | | | Details |
| lb | pounds | | | | Details |
| LB | light barrel | | | | Details |
| lb | pound | | | | Details |
| LB | LaBomba 1060 | | | | Details |
| lb/ft | pounds per foot | | | | Details |
| lb/ft3 | pounds per cubic foot | | | | Details |
| lb/hr | pounds per hour | | | | Details |
| lb/sq | ft pounds per square foot | | | | Details |
| lb/ton | coke burn-off | | | | Details |
| lb/yr | pounds per year | | | | Details |
| LB10 | LaBomba 1370 | | | | Details |
| LB11 | LaBomba 1375 | | | | Details |
| LB13 | LaBomba 1459 | | | | Details |
| LB2 | LaBomba 1062 | | | | Details |
| LB3 | LaBomba 1081 | | | | Details |
| LB4 | LaBomba 1082 | | | | Details |
| LB5 | LaBomba 1083 | | | | Details |
| LB6 | LaBomba 1184 | | | | Details |
| LB7 | LaBomba 1365 | | | | Details |
| LB8 | LaBomba 1447 | | | | Details |
| LB9 | LaBomba 1369 | | | | Details |
| lb-in. | pound-inch | | | | Details |
| LBN | LEBANON | | | | Details |
| LBOS | light brown oil stain | | | | Details |
| LBR | LIBERIA | | | | Details |
| lbr | lumber | | | | Details |
| lbs | pounds | | | | Details |
| LBY | LIBYA | | | | Details |
| LIB | Lead Impression Block (see comment) | | | | Details |
| LIB | lead impression block | | | | Details |
| LIB | light iron barrel | | | | Details |
| Lieb | Liebuscella | | | | Details |
| LIGB | light iron grease barrel | | | | Details |
| LSBGR | Long Spacing BHC GR Log | | | | Details |
| LSOBM | low solids oil base mud | | | | Details |
| LTBS | liner tie back sleeve | | | | Details |
| LTOBM | low toxicity oil based mud | | | | Details |
| LT-OBM | Low Toxicity - Oil Based Mud | | | | Details |
| LUB | lubricator | | | | Details |
| lub | lubricate(ed)(ing)(tion) | | | | Details |
| LUBRIESUR | Lubricantes del Sur S.A. Spain | | | | Details |
| LUBRINER | Lubricantes Nervion S.A. Spain | | | | Details |
| LUBRITURIA | Lubricantes Turia S.A. Spain | | | | Details |
| LUBV | Lubricator Valve | | | | Details |
| LVBR | Low Value Budget Request | | | | Details |
| MABANAFT | Marquard & Bahls AG Germany | | | | Details |
| MAHBRT | metres along hole below rotary table | | | | Details |
| MB | Merchant Broker | | | | Details |
| MB | Material Balance | | | | Details |
| MB | Thousand Barrels | | | | Details |
| Mb | Mega bit | | | | Details |
| MB | Millions of barrels | | | | Details |
| MB | MARTINIQUE | | | | Details |
| MB | methylene blue | | | | Details |
| MB | Moody’s Branch | | | | Details |
| Mbal | material balance calculation of fluid production | | | | Details |
| mbd | thousand barrels per day | | | | Details |
| MBD | Millions of barrels per day | | | | Details |
| MBD | thousands of barrel per day | | | | Details |
| mBDF | meters Below Drill Floor | | | | Details |
| MBE | Material Balance Equation | | | | Details |
| MBF | Main Boundary Fault | | | | Details |
| MBF/D | thousand barrels fluid per day | | | | Details |
| MBGS | Michigan Basin Geological Society | | | | Details |
| MBL | Thousand barrels of petroleum liquids; includes crude, condensate & natural gas liquids | | | | Details |
| Mbl | Fls Marble Falls | | | | Details |
| MBN | Compact Borehole Navigator | | | | Details |
| MBNGL | Thousand Barrels of Natural Gas Liquids | | | | Details |
| MBO | management by objective | | | | Details |
| MBO | Thousand barrels of crude oil | | | | Details |
| Mbo/d | thousand barrels oil per day | | | | Details |
| Mbod | thousand barrels of oil per day | | | | Details |
| mboe | million barrels oil equiv | | | | Details |
| MBOE | Thousand barrels of oil equivalent | | | | Details |
| Mboed | thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day | | | | Details |
| MBPD | Million barrels per day | | | | Details |
| MBPD | thousands of barrels per day | | | | Details |
| Mbr | Member | | | | Details |
| MBR | Minimum Bending Ratio | | | | Details |
| mbr | member(geologic) | | | | Details |
| MBRO | Multi-Bore Restriction Orifices | | | | Details |
| MBT | Methylene Blue Dye test (see comment) | | | | Details |
| MBT | Methylene Blue Test (see comment) | | | | Details |
| MBT | methylene blue test | | | | Details |
| mBTHF | meters Below Tubing Head Flange | | | | Details |
| MBTU | thousand British thermal units | | | | Details |
| MBU | Multi rate Build Up | | | | Details |
| MBW/D | thousand barrels of water per day | | | | Details |
| MBWH | Multi Bowl Wellhead | | | | Details |
| MCB | master circuit board | | | | Details |
| MDBRL | Measured Depth Below Reference Level | | | | Details |
| MEB | Middle East Bank | | | | Details |
| Med B | Medicine Bow | | | | Details |
| MEIB | Middle East Investment Bank | | | | Details |
| meth-bl | methylene blue | | | | Details |
| MFTB | Micro Field Transfer Bench ( | | | | Details |
| MIB | Management Information Base | | | | Details |
| MIBank | Misr International Bank | | | | Details |
| mKB | Meters below Kelly Bushing | | | | Details |
| MM lb | million pounds | | | | Details |
| MMB | Million Barrels | | | | Details |
| MMBBL | Million barrel | | | | Details |
| MMbd | million barrels per day | | | | Details |
| MMBL | Million barrels of petroleum liquids; includes crude, condensate, & natural gas liquids | | | | Details |
| MMbls | million barrels | | | | Details |
| MMBLS | millions of barrels | | | | Details |
| MMBNGL | Million barrels of natural gas liquids | | | | Details |
| MMBO | Million Barrels of crude Oil | | | | Details |
| MMbod | million barrels of oil per day | | | | Details |
| MMboe | million barrels of oil equivalent | | | | Details |
| MMboed | million barrels of oil equivalent per day | | | | Details |
| MMbpd | million barrels per day | | | | Details |
| MMBTU | Million British Thermal Unit (See comment on BT) | | | | Details |
| MMBtu | million British thermal units | | | | Details |
| MMBTU | Million Metric British Thermal Unit | | | | Details |
| MMBtu/hr | million British thermal units per hour | | | | Details |
| MMBtu/scf | million British thermal units per standard cubic foot | | | | Details |
| MMRVB | million reservoir barrels | | | | Details |
| mmstb | million stock tank barrels | | | | Details |
| mmstb | million stock barrels | | | | Details |
| mob | mobile | | | | Details |
| MobiNil | Mobile Nile | | | | Details |
| MPB | metal petal basket | | | | Details |
| MPBT | Mechanical Plug Back Tool (Schlumberger product) | | | | Details |
| MPBT | Posiset Thru-Tubing Mechanical Plug-Back | | | | Details |
| MRBP | Magna Range Bridge Plug | | | | Details |
| MSG-CBL | Micro-Seismogram Log, Cased Hole | | | | Details |
| MSG-CBL-G | Micro-Seismogram Gamma Collar | | | | Details |
| MSG-CBL-N | Micro-Seismogram Neutron Collar | | | | Details |
| Mstb | Thousand Stock Tank Barrels | | | | Details |
| MTAB | Mass Transfer Allocation Balance (meter) | | | | Details |
| MTB | Material Transportation Bureau of the Department of Transportation | | | | Details |
| MTBE | Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether | | | | Details |
| MTBE | methyl tert-butyl ether | | | | Details |
| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failure | | | | Details |
| MTBF | mean time between failures, a measure of reliability | | | | Details |
| MVB | Master Valve Block (XT) | | | | Details |
| MVB | Master Valve Block on Xmas Tree | | | | Details |
| N.B | NotaBene (Note well, Used to direct attention to something particularly important....) | | | | Details |
| NAABSA | Not Always Afloat But Safely Aground | | | | Details |
| NAESB | North American Energy Standards Board | | | | Details |
| NB | Nominal Bore | | | | Details |
| NB | NotaBene (Note well, Used to direct attention to something particularly important....) | | | | Details |
| NB | new bit | | | | Details |
| NB | nitrogen blanket | | | | Details |
| NBAD | National Bank of Abu Dhabi | | | | Details |
| NBB | National Bank of Bahrain | | | | Details |
| NBD | New Business Development | | | | Details |
| NBD | National Bank of Dubai | | | | Details |
| NBE | National Bank of Egypt | | | | Details |
| Nbg | Newburg | | | | Details |
| NBK | National Bank of Kuwait | | | | Details |
| NBO | New Business Opportunities | | | | Details |
| NBO | National Bank of Oman | | | | Details |
| NBP | Nominal Bore Protector | | | | Details |
| NBR | nitrile butadiene rubber The most widely used elastomers in the oil field | | | | Details |
| NBS | Near Bit Stabilizer | | | | Details |
| NCB | National Commercial Bank | | | | Details |
| NCB | National Cargo Bureau | | | | Details |
| NDBOPs | nipple(ed)(ing) down blowout preventers | | | | Details |
| NEB | nation energy board for Canada | | | | Details |
| NEB | National Energy Board of Canada | | | | Details |
| NEB | National Energy Board (Canada) | | | | Details |
| NEBOSH | National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (www.nebosh.com) | | | | Details |
| NetBIOS | Network Basic Input Output System | | | | Details |
| NIMBY | Not In My Backyard | | | | Details |
| Niob | Niobrara | | | | Details |
| NLRB | National Labor Relations Board | | | | Details |
| NOB | not on bottom | | | | Details |
| NRSB | nonreturnable steel barrel | | | | Details |
| NSGB | National Société Générale Bank | | | | Details |
| NUBOPs | nipple(ed)(ing) up blowout prevents | | | | Details |
| NWB | Near Well Bore | | | | Details |
| OAB | Oman Arab Bank | | | | Details |
| OB | OverBalanced (refer to conventional over balanced drilling) | | | | Details |
| OB | Operator Board | | | | Details |
| OB | off bottom | | | | Details |
| OBC | Ocean Bottom Cable (Seismic) | | | | Details |
| OBC | Ocean Bottom Cable | | | | Details |
| OBC | Onboarding Course | | | | Details |
| OBCS | Ocean Bottom Cable System | | | | Details |
| OBDT | Oil Base Mud Dipmeter | | | | Details |
| OBDTL | OBDT Log | | | | Details |
| OBEVA | OBDT Evaluation Report | | | | Details |
| obj | object | | | | Details |
| OBM | Oil-Based Mud | | | | Details |
| OBM | Oil Based Mud | | | | Details |
| OBMI | Oil Base Micro Imager | | | | Details |
| OBMO | outboard motor oil | | | | Details |
| OBMT | Oil Base Mud Formation Imager | | | | Details |
| OBO | Oil Bulk Ore | | | | Details |
| OBP | Over Balanced Perforation | | | | Details |
| OBR | oil | | | | Details |
| OBS | ocean bottom seismic | | | | Details |
| OBS | observation | | | | Details |
| OBS | ocean bottom suspension | | | | Details |
| obsol | obsolete | | | | Details |
| OBUs | Offshore Banking Units | | | | Details |
| OBW & RS | optimum bit weight and rotary speed | | | | Details |
| OCB | oil circuit breaker | | | | Details |
| ODB | Oman Development Bank | | | | Details |
| OEB | other end beveled | | | | Details |
| OEBPS | Open EBook Publication Structure | | | | Details |
| OERB | Oklahoma Energy Resources Board | | | | Details |
| OIAB | Oil Import Appeals Board | | | | Details |
| OIB | Oman International Bank | | | | Details |
| OMB | Office of Management and Budget | | | | Details |
| OODBMS | Object Oriented DBMS | | | | Details |
| OPAB | Oljeprospektering AB Sweden | | | | Details |
| OPB | old plug back | | | | Details |
| OPB | old plugback | | | | Details |
| OPBD | old plugback depth | | | | Details |
| ORB | Oil Record Book | | | | Details |
| OSFB | Oman Savings and Finance Bank | | | | Details |
| overbend | High spot in a pipeline usually installed by field-bending a pipeline joint | | | | Details |
| OWPB | oil well plug back | | | | Details |
| OWPB | old well plugged back | | | | Details |
| P/BLDG | pump building | | | | Details |
| PAB | per-acre bonus | | | | Details |
| PB | Pinched Bit | | | | Details |
| Pb | bubble point Pressure (reservoir) | | | | Details |
| Pb | Bubble Point Pressure | | | | Details |
| PB | pump bailer | | | | Details |
| Pb | lead | | | | Details |
| PB | plug back | | | | Details |
| PB | Pipe Body | | | | Details |
| PB | plugged back | | | | Details |
| PB | pressure base | | | | Details |
| PB-ADA | report available only through National | | | | Details |
| PBD | Pason Billing System | | | | Details |
| PBD | plugged-back depth | | | | Details |
| PBDMS | Playback DMSLS Log | | | | Details |
| PBE | plain both ends | | | | Details |
| PBG | Performance Bank Guarantee | | | | Details |
| PBHL | Proposed Bottom Hole Location | | | | Details |
| PBHL | proposed bottom-hole location | | | | Details |
| PBL | Paul B Lee who invented DP circ tool (for circulation of the mud/LCM during drilling) | | | | Details |
| PBL | Paul B Lee who invented DP circ tool | | | | Details |
| pbl(y) | pebble, pebbly | | | | Details |
| pble | pebble | | | | Details |
| pbls | pebbles | | | | Details |
| pbly | pebbly | | | | Details |
| PBMS | Platform basic measurement sonde in PLT/PSP of SLB (GR+pressure+Temp+CCL) | | | | Details |
| PBO | Plan and Budget Organization | | | | Details |
| PBP | pulled bid pipe | | | | Details |
| PBR | Polished Bore Receptacle (component of a completion string) | | | | Details |
| PBR | Polished Bore Receptacle (component of a completion string) | | | | Details |
| PBR | Polished Bore Receptacle | | | | Details |
| PBR | see Polished Bore Receptacle | | | | Details |
| PBRA | Petrobras | | | | Details |
| PBTD | Plug Back Total Depth | | | | Details |
| PBTD | Plugged-Back Total Depth | | | | Details |
| PBTD | plug back t otal depth | | | | Details |
| PBTD | plugged back total depth | | | | Details |
| PBU | Pressure Build Up (applies to integrity testing on valves) | | | | Details |
| PBU | Pressure Build Up survey (well) | | | | Details |
| PBU | Pressure Build Up | | | | Details |
| PBW | pipe buttweld | | | | Details |
| PBX | private branch exchange | | | | Details |
| PBX | switchboard | | | | Details |
| PBYS | Pipe Body Yield Strength | | | | Details |
| PCB | Poly Chlorinated BiPhenyl | | | | Details |
| PCB | polychlorinated biphenyls | | | | Details |
| PDB | Positive Displacement Dump Bailer | | | | Details |
| PDB | Petronas Dagangan Bhd. Malaysia | | | | Details |
| PEB | plain end beveled | | | | Details |
| PEBI | Perpendicular Bisector (for simulation grids) | | | | Details |
| PESBG | Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain | | | | Details |
| PESGB | Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain UK | | | | Details |
| PETROBANGLA | Bangladesh Oil, Gas & Mineral Corporation Bangladesh | | | | Details |
| Petrobel | Belayim Petroleum Company | | | | Details |
| PETROBEL | Belayim Petroleum Co. Egypt | | | | Details |
| PETROBRAS | Petroleo Brasileiro, S.A. Brazil | | | | Details |
| PETROGAB | Societe Nationale Petroliere -PETROGAB Gabon | | | | Details |
| PGB | Permanent Guide Base | | | | Details |
| PGBU | Bottom-hole pressure gauge build-up | | | | Details |
| PHB | Pre-Hydrated Bentonite | | | | Details |
| PLMB | plumbing | | | | Details |
| POB | Personnel on Board (offshore rig/ship) | | | | Details |
| POB | plug on bottom | | | | Details |
| POB | pump on beam | | | | Details |
| POBM | Pseudo-Oil-Based Mud | | | | Details |
| POT (able) | POTable water | | | | Details |
| ppb | Pound per Barrel (for LCM pills where adding eg. 50-100 pounds of Caco3 to the pill) | | | | Details |
| PPB | parts per billion or pounds per barrel depending on the use | | | | Details |
| ppb | parts per billion | | | | Details |
| PPB | pounds per barrel | | | | Details |
| PPTB | pounds per thousand barrels | | | | Details |
| prefab | prefabricated | | | | Details |
| prob | probable(ly) | | | | Details |
| PSB | pressure seal bonnet | | | | Details |
| ptb | per thousand barrels (pounds per thousand barrels) | | | | Details |
| PTB | Belayim Petroleum Company – PETROBEL Egypt | | | | Details |
| PWB | Production Wing Block (XT) | | | | Details |
| pyrbit | pyrobitumen | | | | Details |
| QABICO | Qatar Hot Briquetted Iron Company | | | | Details |
| QIB | Qatar Islamic Bank | | | | Details |
| QIIB | Qatar International Islamic Bank | | | | Details |
| QNB | Qatar National Bank | | | | Details |
| R/B | Rack back | | | | Details |
| RAB | Resisitivity at Bit;Azimuthal Laterolog - Gamma Ray (aka GVR) | | | | Details |
| RAF-B | Ras Abu Fontas “B” | | | | Details |
| RB | Reservoir Barrel (volume in bbl in reservoir condition) | | | | Details |
| RB | Rig Back | | | | Details |
| RB | Rack back | | | | Details |
| RB | Reservoir Barrel | | | | Details |
| RB | SERBIA | | | | Details |
| RB | reservoir barrels | | | | Details |
| RB | rock bit | | | | Details |
| RB | rotary bushing | | | | Details |
| RBA | Risk Based Audit | | | | Details |
| RBG | Richtbohrgarnitur | | | | Details |
| RBGL | Riser Based Gas Lift | | | | Details |
| RBI | Risk Based Inspection | | | | Details |
| RBLR | reboiler | | | | Details |
| Rbls | rubber balls | | | | Details |
| RBM | rotary bushing measurement | | | | Details |
| R-BOP | rotating BOP | | | | Details |
| RBP | Retrievable Bridge Plug | | | | Details |
| rbr | rubber | | | | Details |
| RBSO | rainbow show of oil | | | | Details |
| RBSOF | rubber ball sand oil frac | | | | Details |
| RBSWF | rubber ball sand water frac | | | | Details |
| RCJB | ReCirculating Junk Basket | | | | Details |
| RCnBR | Rudist, Caprinid, Boundstone-Rudstone | | | | Details |
| RCpBF | Rudist, Caprotinid, Boundstone | | | | Details |
| RDB | rotary drive bushing | | | | Details |
| RDB-GD | rotary drive bushing to ground | | | | Details |
| RDBMS | Relational DBMS | | | | Details |
| REABS | reabsorber | | | | Details |
| rebar | reinforcing bar | | | | Details |
| RFG/BD | refrigeration building | | | | Details |
| RGB | Red Green Blue | | | | Details |
| RHOB | Bulk Density | | | | Details |
| Rib | ribbon sand | | | | 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 |
| RMDB | Reservoir Management Data Base | | | | Details |
| ROB | Remaining On Board | | | | Details |
| Rob | Robulus | | | | Details |
| RT CB | round trip changed bit | | | | Details |
| RTKB | Rotary Table Kelly Bushing | | | | Details |
| s,t&b | sides, tops, & bottoms | | | | Details |
| S/FAB | shop fabrication | | | | Details |
| S/R B/L | Signing and Releasing Bill(s) of Lading | | | | Details |
| S2B | Subsea to Beach | | | | Details |
| S7BV | SenTREE 7 Ball Valve | | | | 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 |
| Saib | Saudi Investment Bank | | | | Details |
| Samba | Saudi American Bank | | | | Details |
| SB | SIT-BO Log | | | | Details |
| SB | Sequence Boundary | | | | Details |
| SB | SAINT PIERRE AND MIQUELON | | | | Details |
| SB | SOLOMON ISLANDS | | | | Details |
| Sb | antimony | | | | Details |
| SB | sideboom | | | | Details |
| SB | sleeve bearing | | | | Details |
| SB | stuffing box | | | | Details |
| sb | sub | | | | Details |
| Sb | Sunburst | | | | Details |
| SB | Sinker Bar | | | | Details |
| SBA | Shallow Buried Array | | | | Details |
| SBA | secondary butyl alcohol | | | | Details |
| SBAs | Shallow Buried Arrays | | | | Details |
| SBB&M | San Bernardino base and meridian | | | | Details |
| SBF | Synthetic Base Fluid | | | | Details |
| SBH | Super Big Hole | | | | Details |
| SBHP | static bottom hole pressure May also be called shut-in bottom hole pressure | | | | Details |
| SBHP | static bottom-hole pressure | | | | Details |
| SBHT | static bottom hole temperature | | | | Details |
| SBL | Segment Bond Log | | | | Details |
| SBM | Synthetic Base Mud | | | | Details |
| SBM | Soya Bean Meal | | | | Details |
| SBM | Single Buoy Mooring | | | | Details |
| SBM | Synthetic (oil) Based Mud | | | | Details |
| SBM | synthetic oil based mud | | | | Details |
| SBND | Saraband | | | | Details |
| SBOP | Surface Blow Out Preventer | | | | Details |
| SBP | small-bore piping | | | | Details |
| SBS | Safe Berth | | | | Details |
| SBSV | Single Ball Safety Valve | | | | Details |
| SBT | Segmented Bond Tool | | | | Details |
| SBT | Segregated Ballast Tanks | | | | Details |
| SBT | Cement Bond Tool (BAKER Atlas) | | | | Details |
| SBT | Segmented Bond Log | | | | Details |
| SBV | Safety Ball valve | | | | Details |
| SCBA | Self Contained Breathing Apparatus | | | | Details |
| SCM(MB) | Subsea Control Module (Mounting Base) | | | | Details |
| scrub | scrubber | | | | Details |
| SDPBH | SDP Bottom Hole Pressure Report | | | | Details |
| Semi (or Semi-Sub) | Semi-Submersible Drilling Rig | | | | Details |
| SGCWB | slightly gas cut water blanket | | | | Details |
| SGCWB | slightly gas-cut water blanket | | | | Details |
| SIBHP | Shut-In Bottom Hole Pressure | | | | Details |
| SIBHP | shut in bottom hole pressure | | | | Details |
| SIBHP | shutin bottom-hole pressure | | | | Details |
| Sibneft | Siberian Oil | | | | Details |
| SJB | Bowen Safety Joint | | | | Details |
| SLB | Schlumberger | | | | Details |
| SLB | SOLOMON ISLANDS | | | | Details |
| SNUB | snubber, snubbing | | | | Details |
| SOB | Sondenbehandlung und Bohren | | | | Details |
| SOB | Standard Operations Procedures | | | | Details |
| SOBM | Synthetic Oil Based Mud | | | | Details |
| SOCWB | slightly oil cut water blanket | | | | Details |
| SOCWB | slight oil-cut water blanket | | | | Details |
| SONCB | Sonic Calibration Log | | | | Details |
| SPB | St. PetersBurg | | | | Details |
| SPC BVI | Sonatrach Petroleum Corp. British V.I. | | | | Details |
| SPE AB | Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB Sweden | | | | Details |
| Spiro.b. | Spiroplectammina barrowi | | | | Details |
| SRB | Sulphate Reducing Bacteria (souring of reservoir) | | | | Details |
| SRB | Straight Run Benzene | | | | Details |
| SRB | Sulfate Reducing Bacteria | | | | Details |
| SRB | SERBIA | | | | Details |
| SRB | sulfate bacteria | | | | Details |
| SRB | Single Receiver Bond Log | | | | Details |
| SRBC | Susquehanna River Basin Commission | | | | Details |
| SSB | Single Phase Sample Bottle (SLB) | | | | Details |
| SSBV | Single Shot Ball Valve (RD operated) | | | | Details |
| STAB | Stabiliser | | | | Details |
| Stab | Stabilizer | | | | Details |
| stab | stabilized | | | | Details |
| stab | stabilized(er) | | | | Details |
| stb | stock tank barrel | | | | Details |
| stb, | STB stock tank barrels | | | | Details |
| stb/d, | STBPD stock tank barrels per day | | | | Details |
| STBOPD | Stock Tank Barrels Oil Per Day (oil prod rate) | | | | Details |
| stn/by | stand by | | | | Details |
| stub | Length of small-diameter distribution pipeline form the main line to the customer’s property or meter location | | | | Details |
| sub | subsidiary | | | | Details |
| sub | substance | | | | Details |
| sub | angl subangular | | | | Details |
| Sub | Clarks sub-Clarksville | | | | Details |
| sub | rnd subrounded | | | | Details |
| sub angl | subangular | | | | Details |
| sub rnd | sub rounded | | | | Details |
| sub rnd | subrounded | | | | Details |
| subd | subdivision | | | | Details |
| SUBST | substitute | | | | Details |
| substa | substation | | | | Details |
| Sunb | Sunburst | | | | Details |
| SUT(A/B) | Subsea Umbilical Termination (Assembly/Box) | | | | Details |
| SWABB-PV | Abswabben für Produktionsversuch (swabbing for short production test) | | | | Details |
| SWB | seal-welded bonnet | | | | Details |
| swbd | swabbed | | | | Details |
| swbd | swabbed, swabbing | | | | Details |
| swbd | switchboard | | | | Details |
| swbg | swabbing | | | | Details |
| SWBT | Sea Water Break Through | | | | Details |
| Swbt | water saturation at waterflood breakthrough | | | | Details |
| T&B | top and bottom | | | | Details |
| T&BC | top & bottom chokes | | | | Details |
| T&BC | top and bottom chokes | | | | Details |
| T/Box | terminal box | | | | Details |
| T/BRD | terminal board | | | | Details |
| TAB | total annual benzene | | | | Details |
| tab | tabular, tabulating | | | | Details |
| TAIB | Trans-Arabian Investment Bank | | | | Details |
| TB | Tubing Puncher Log | | | | Details |
| TB | Time Break | | | | Details |
| TB | TeraByte | | | | Details |
| TB | Trillions of barrels | | | | Details |
| TB | SAINT BARTHELEMY | | | | Details |
| TB | tank battery | | | | Details |
| TB | thin bedded | | | | Details |
| tb | tube | | | | Details |
| TB/BDL | tube bundle | | | | Details |
| TBA | To Be Advised | | | | Details |
| TBA | To Be Announced | | | | Details |
| TBA | tertiary butyl alcohol | | | | Details |
| TBA | tires, batteries, and accessories | | | | Details |
| TBA | Thin-Bed Analysis | | | | Details |
| TBC | To Be Confirmed | | | | Details |
| TBC | To Be Continued | | | | Details |
| tbd | To be defined/determined | | | | Details |
| TBD | Thousand Barrel per Day | | | | Details |
| TBE | Technical Bid Evaluation | | | | Details |
| TBE | threaded both ends | | | | Details |
| TBFS | Through-Tubing Borehole Fluid Sampler | | | | Details |
| Tbg | Tubing | | | | Details |
| TBG | Temporary Guide Base | | | | Details |
| tbg | chk tubing choke | | | | Details |
| T-Bills | Treasury Bills | | | | Details |
| TBN | To Be Named | | | | Details |
| TBN | total base number, a reserve alkalinity number | | | | Details |
| TBP | true boiling point | | | | Details |
| TBR | To Be Renamed | | | | Details |
| TBRT | Thin-Bed Resistivity | | | | Details |
| TBS | Tunisia British Services | | | | Details |
| TBT | Tool Box Talk | | | | Details |
| TBT | Through Bore Tree | | | | Details |
| TBT | Thru Tubing Bridge Plug | | | | Details |
| TBT | True Bed Thickness | | | | Details |
| TBT-DB | Thru Tubing Dump Bailer | | | | Details |
| TFB | trip(ped) for bit | | | | Details |
| TFNB | trip for new bit | | | | Details |
| TGB | Temporary Guide Base | | | | Details |
| TIEBK | Tieback Report | | | | Details |
| TMB | Twin Monobore Wellhead (Dual Wellhead) | | | | Details |
| TOBE | thread on both ends | | | | Details |
| TOBENA | To Be Named | | | | Details |
| TRBV | Tubing Retrievable Ball Valve | | | | Details |
| TTBP | Through Tubing Bridge Plug (Baker product) | | | | Details |
| TTBP | Through-Tubing Bridge Plug | | | | Details |
| TTBV | Tubing Test Ball Valve (like TFTV but ball valve) | | | | Details |
| tube turn | Prefabricated piece of pipeline (allows change of direction of a pipeline without field bending the pipeline) | | | | Details |
| TURB | turbo, turbine | | | | Details |
| TV/BIP | Ratio of Total Volume (ore and overburden) to Bitumen In Place | | | | Details |
| TVBDF | True Vertical Depth Below Derrick Floor | | | | Details |
| TVDBSL | True Vertical Depth Below Sea Level | | | | Details |
| TVDPB | True Vertical Depth Playback Log | | | | Details |
| UAB | United Arab Bank | | | | Details |
| UB | Under Balanced | | | | Details |
| UB | underbalance | | | | Details |
| UBD | Under-Balanced Drilling | | | | Details |
| UBD | Underbalance Drilling | | | | Details |
| Übg | übergang (X-over) | | | | Details |
| Übg | Übergang | | | | Details |
| UBHI | Unique Bohr Hole Index | | | | Details |
| UBHO | Universal Bottom Hole Orientation (sub) | | | | Details |
| UBI | Ultrasonic Borehole Imager | | | | Details |
| UBIRE | Ultrasonic Borehole Imager Report | | | | Details |
| UBK | United Bank of Kuwait | | | | Details |
| UBL | United Bank of Lebanon | | | | Details |
| UBO | Under Balanced Operations | | | | Details |
| UBO | Under Balanced Operation | | | | Details |
| UBO | underbalance operations | | | | Details |
| UBP | Under Balanced Perforation | | | | Details |
| UGB | United Gulf Bank | | | | Details |
| ULNB | ultra low NOX burner (high fraction staged fuel) | | | | Details |
| UMB | umbrella(s) | | | | Details |
| UNB | Union National Bank | | | | Details |
| UNBAL | unbalanced | | | | Details |
| unbr | unbranded | | | | Details |
| USB | United Saudi Bank | | | | Details |
| USBM | US Bureau of Mines, Wettability indices | | | | Details |
| USCB | United Saudi Commercial Bank | | | | Details |
| USKB | United Safety Kurdistan Branch | | | | Details |
| UZB | UZBEKISTAN | | | | Details |
| VB | Visual Basic | | | | Details |
| VBR | Variable Bore Rams (annular rams) | | | | Details |
| VEBA | Veba Oel Germany | | | | Details |
| VGB | VIRGIN ISLANDS (BRITISH) | | | | Details |
| VIB | vibrate(tor)(ing) | | | | Details |
| VIBR | Vibrator | | | | Details |
| vrtb | vertebrate | | | | Details |
| W.O.B. | weight on bit | | | | Details |
| WAB | weak air blow | | | | Details |
| Wab | Wabaunsee | | | | Details |
| WABAN | Well Abandonment Report | | | | Details |
| WB | Wear Bushing | | | | Details |
| WB | water blanket | | | | Details |
| WB | wet bulb | | | | Details |
| WB | Woodbine | | | | Details |
| WB | Wavy bottom mill or shoes | | | | Details |
| WBE | Well Barrier Element | | | | Details |
| WBEAC | Well Barrier Element Acceptance Criteria | | | | Details |
| WBIH | went back in hole | | | | Details |
| WBM | Water Base Mud | | | | Details |
| WBM | Water-Based drilling Mud | | | | Details |
| WBM | Water Based Mud | | | | Details |
| WBOSP | Wispy-laminated, Burrowed, Orbitolinid, Skeletal Packstone | | | | Details |
| WBOSW | Wispy-laminated, Burrowed, Orbitolinid, Skeletal Wackestone | | | | Details |
| WBS | Well Barrier Schematic | | | | Details |
| WBSP | Wispy-laminated, Burrowed, Skeletal Packstone | | | | Details |
| WBSW | Wispy-laminated, Burrowed, Skeletal Wackestone | | | | Details |
| WBT | Water Breakthrough | | | | Details |
| WBV | Whole Body Vibration | | | | Details |
| WCSB | Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin | | | | Details |
| Web | Weber | | | | Details |
| WestLB | Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale | | | | Details |
| WIBON | Whether In Berth Or Not | | | | Details |
| Willb | Willberne | | | | Details |
| wlbr | wellbore | | | | Details |
| WOB | Weight On Bit | | | | Details |
| WOB | waiting on battery | | | | Details |
| WP&B | Work Program & Budget | | | | Details |
| WP&B | Work Plan & Budget | | | | Details |
| WP&B | Work Programme & Budget | | | | Details |
| WQCB | Water Quality Control Board | | | | Details |
| WRB | Well Review Board | | | | Details |
| WRTB | wash and ream to bottom | | | | Details |
| WTB | wash to bottom | | | | Details |
| XB | BAKER ISLAND | | | | Details |
| X-bdd(ing) | crossbedded, crossbedding | | | | Details |
| XBI | BASSAS DA INDIA | | | | Details |
| XBK | BAKER ISLAND | | | | Details |
| XO-sub | crossover sub | | | | Details |
| XWB | WEST BANK | | | | Details |
| YPFB | Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos Bolivia | | | | Details |
| ZB | Zementbrücke | Balanced cement plug | | | Details |
| ZKB | Zementkopfbestimmung | Top cement determination | | | Details |
| ZMB | ZAMBIA | | | | Details |
| rb | Radius of Bohrloch | | | | Details |
| BHSS | Buchhalterisch Speischer Stand | | | | Details |
| ABK | Anzeige und Bedienkomponente | | | | Details |
| BUB | Bedien- und Beobachtungsstationen | | | | Details |
| BNK | Benutzernahe Komponente | | | | Details |
| BKK | Bedien- und Beobachterkomponente | | | | Details |
| T-TBP | Thru-Tubing Bridge Plugs | | | | Details |
| Vented T-TBPs | Thru-Tubing Bridge Plugs | | | | Details |
| MBWA | Management By Walking (Wandering) Around | | | | Details |
| Genba | Genba (also romanized as gemba) is a Japanese term meaning "the real place. See comment. | | | | Details |
| Gemba | See Genba | | | | Details |
| BOO | Build-Own-Operate | | | | Details |
| BPO | Budget and Planning Organization | | | | Details |
| PTB | pounds of salt per thousand barrels of crude oil | | | | Details |
| MTBI | Mean Time Between Incidents | | | | Details |
| vorb | Vorbreitung (preparations…) | | | | Details |
| GDB | Gewinung Daten Bank | | | | Details |
| BS | Black Sea | | | | Details |
| BS | Barent sea | | | | Details |
| BEO | Beobachtungssonde | Observation well | | | Details |
| EKB | Elevation, Kelly Bushing | | | | Details |
| CBD | Casing Bottom Driller | | | | Details |
| CBL | Casing Bottom Logger | | | | Details |
| BLI | Bottom Logged Interval | | | | Details |
| BS | Bit Size | | | | Details |
| BSD | Bit Depth | | | | Details |
| TLAB | Time Logger at Bottom | | | | Details |
| DB | Digitized by | | | | Details |
| STTBl | Stability Time Before Log | | | | Details |
| HRLB | Hours Log began | | | | Details |
| BHPS | BHP Static psi | | | | Details |
| BHPD | BHP Dynamic psi | | | | Details |
| FRB | Federal Reserve Board | | | | Details |
| HBF | Heavy Boiler Fuel | | | | Details |
| wbw | well by well | | | | Details |
| wbwr | Well By Well Review | | | | Details |
| BFS | Bay Fill Shales | | | | Details |
| BS_L | Stunden für laufende Behandlung [h] | | | | Details |
| BS_G | Stunden für Generalbehandlung [h] | | | | Details |
| CBM | Controlled Beam Migration | | | | Details |
| BAC | Budget At Completion | | | | Details |
| EB | Executive Board | | | | Details |
| SB | Supervisory Board | | | | Details |
| BLEVE | Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion | | | | Details |
| Abwältigung | In a well when it is needed to change the producing interval back to a deeper interval; needs isolation of upper perfs etc. | | | | Details |
| VBW | Volume of bound water | | | | Details |
| ORB | OPEC Reference Basket | | | | Details |
| BEA | Bureau of Economic Analysis | | | | Details |
| BTT | Bohrhole Televiewer Tool | | | | Details |
| CSB | Continuous Side By Side | | | | Details |
| BGGM | BGS Global Geomagnetic Model | | | | Details |
| BO | Black Oil | | | | Details |
| MAB | March Baumgarten Gasleitung | | | | Details |
| RBS | Romenia & Black Sea region | | | | Details |
| BRV | Bulk Rock Volume | | | | Details |
| EB | Elongation on Break | | | | Details |
| TB | Tensile Stress at Break | | | | Details |
| CRB | Constant Rate Build-up | | | | Details |
| MBH | Matthews, Brons, and Hazebroek | | | | Details |
| DPBT | Dual Profile Build-up Test | | | | Details |
| OB | Ohne Befund | No findings | | | Details |
| WBHP | Well Bottom Hole Pressure | | | | Details |
| Vb | Viberation | | | | Details |
| CMB | Channel Mouth Bar | | | | Details |
| BDF | Boundary Dominated Flow | | | | Details |
| OBQ | On Board Quantity | | | | Details |
| BSD | Bahamian Dollar | | | | Details |
| BHD | Bahraini Dinar | | | | Details |
| BDT | Bangladeshi Taka | | | | Details |
| BBD | Barbados Dollar | | | | Details |
| BYR | Belarussian Ruble | | | | Details |
| BZD | Belize Dollar | | | | Details |
| BMD | Bermudian Dollar | | | | Details |
| BTN | Bhutan Ngultrum | | | | Details |
| BOB | Boliviano | | | | Details |
| BAM | Marka | | | | Details |
| BWP | Botswana Pula | | | | Details |
| BRL | Brazilian Real | | | | Details |
| BND | Brunei Dollar | | | | Details |
| BGN | Bulgarian Lev | | | | Details |
| BIF | Burundi Franc | | | | Details |
| ETB | Ethiopian Birr | | | | Details |
| GBP | Pound Sterling | | | | Details |
| GBP | Pound Sterling | | | | Details |
| GBP | Pound Sterling | | | | Details |
| LBP | Lebanese Pound | | | | Details |
| PAB | Panamanian Balboa | | | | Details |
| RUB | Russian Ruble | | | | Details |
| SBD | Solomon Islands Dollar | | | | Details |
| GBP | Pound Sterling | | | | Details |
| THB | Thai Baht | | | | Details |
| GBP | Pound Sterling | | | | Details |
| ABBR | Abbreviation | | | | Details |
| RHOB | bulk density | | | | Details |
| RHOBdry | bulk density of dry clay | | | | Details |
| RHOBCL | bulk density of clay | | | | Details |
| Pabs | Absolute Pressure | | | | Details |
| ABS | Absatz | Paragraph | | | Details |
| bn | Billion | | | | Details |
| BG | BefüllungsGrad | Filled level | | | Details |
| GLB | A kind of PCP pump | | | | Details |
| bpf | Batch Project File | | | | Details |
| bub | Bubble Map | | | | Details |
| mdb | Microsoft Access | | | | Details |
| wbd | Wellbore Diagram | | | | Details |
| wbt | Wellbore Diagram Template | | | | Details |
| MPB | MonoPin Bus | | | | Details |
| BFF | Bowspring Fullbore Flowmeter | | | | Details |
| FBC | Fullbore Calliper Flowmeter | | | | Details |
| BR | Bruttoraten | Gross rate | | | Details |
| m/b | Million Barrels | | | | Details |
| mbbl | Million Barrels | | | | Details |
| ABF | Ammonbiflorid | Ammonium bifluoride | | | Details |
| ABW | Abwältigung | Recomplete the well in a deeper horizon, meaing the insolation of upper perfs and going down to perforate a previously missed potential layer. | | | Details |
| Bleiabdruck | Impression Block | Impression Block | | | Details |
| BEH | Behördenabteilung | Authority department | | | Details |
| BET | Behandlungstechnik | Work over technics | | | Details |
| BMWFJ | Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend („Montanbehörde“) | ministry of… | | | Details |
| GDB | Gewinnungsdatenbank | Data Base of OMV | | | Details |
| SOB | Sondenbehandlung und Bohren | Well handling & drilling department | | | Details |
| MB | Mistelbach Block | | | | Details |
| WBZ | WaschBerg Zone | | | | Details |
| WBU | WaschBerg Unit | | | | Details |
| HHPb | Hydraulic Horse Power of Bit | | | | Details |
| Pb | Bit Pressure Losses | | | | Details |
| DSB | DruckSchreiber Blatt | Pressure recorder plot (with Barton meter) | | | Details |
| MMBC | Million Barrels Condensate | | | | Details |
| MMBC/D | Million Barrels Condensate per day | | | | Details |
| BC | Barrels Condensate | | | | Details |
| MBC | Thousand Barrels Condensate | | | | Details |
| MBC/D | Thousand Barrels Condensate per day | | | | Details |
| BD | Business Development | | | | Details |
| WP&B | Working Program & Budget | | | | Details |
| WP & B | Working Program & Budget | | | | Details |
| Grubenfeld | License to produce (During and before WWII, no production tax applicable) | | | | Details |
| CWDB | Central Well Database | | | | Details |
| ABC | After Before Compare | | | | Details |
| AB | Abandonment | | | | Details |
| OEB | Oil Equivalent Barrel | | | | Details |
| I.B. | Im Betrieb | up & operational, functioning | | | Details |
| I.B | Im Betrieb | up & operational, functioning | | | Details |
| IB | Im Betrieb | up & operational, functioning | | | Details |
| a.B. | außer Betrieb | Not Operational, defekt | | | Details |
| a.B | außer Betrieb | Not Operational, defekt | | | Details |
| AB | außer Betrieb | Not Operational, defekt | | | Details |
| BM | Bohr Meister | Driller | | | Details |
| vorb. | Vorbereitung | Get it ready | | | Details |
| Überlauf | overflowing | Over flowing | | | Details |
| SBE | Seal Bore Extensions | | | | Details |
| BD | BohrDruck | Weight on Bit | | | Details |
| abtasten | to tag something from below in well like tagging the upper edge of a open hole window opened for OHGP out of the casing with a hydraulic opening under-reamer. | | | | Details |
| abgetastet | to tag something from below in well like tagging the upper edge of a open hole window opened for OHGP out of the casing with a hydraulic opening under-reamer. | | | | Details |
| BOCL | a kind of a weight set packer | | | | Details |
| BSL | Behandlungsstunden Laufend | Well inetvention lost hours | | | Details |
| BSG | Behandlungsstunden General | Workover lost hours | | | Details |
| mb/d | Million Barrel per Day | | | | Details |
| CPUB | Constant Pressure Upper Boundary | | | | Details |
| CPLB | Constant Pressure Lower Boundary | | | | Details |
| BUD | Build-Up using Desuperposition (Slider Method) | | | | Details |
| BU-MDH | Build-Up without Superposition or Desuperposition | | | | Details |
| BUF | Build-Up functioned with Agarwal Equivalent Time | | | | Details |
| byebye | | | | | Details |
| $/lb | U.S. dollars per pound | U.S. dollars per pound | Dollar pro Pfund | dollars US par livre | Details |
| AB | Arbeitsbühne (Drill floor, rig floor, work platform….) | Platforms (floor drill rig floor, work platform ....) | Plattformen (Boden-Bohrgerät Stock, Arbeitsplattform ....) | Plates-formes (Plancher de derrick de forage, plate-forme de travail ....) | Details |
| ABAN | Abandonment, (also as AB) | Abandonment, (also as AB) | Aufgeben, (auch als AB) | Abandon, (aussi comme AB) | Details |
| ABC | Analysis Behind Casing (using CHDT) | Analysis Behind Casing (using CHDT) | Analyse Hinter Gehäuse (mit CHDT) | Analyse Derrière Boîtier (en utilisant CHDT) | Details |
| ABC | Audit Bureau of Circulation | Audit Bureau of Circulation | Audit Bureau of Circulation | Audit Bureau of Circulation | Details |
| ABCM | Activity Based Costing Model | Activity Based Costing Model | Activity Based Costing Modell | Activity Based Costing Model | Details |
| abd | abandoned | abandoned | verlassen | abandonné | Details |
| abd loc | abandoned location | abandoned location | verlassenen Standort | emplacement abandonné | Details |
| abd-gw | abandoned gas well | abandoned gas well | verlassene Gasbrunnen | puits abandonné de gaz | Details |
| abd-ogw | abandoned oil & gas well | abandoned oil & gas well | aufgegeben Öl & Gas gut | pétrole et gaz puits abandonné | Details |
| abd-ow | abandoned oil well | abandoned oil well | verlassenen Ölquelle | abandonné puits de pétrole | Details |
| AbEx | Abandonment Expense | abandonment Expense | Aufgeben Expense | abandon des dépenses | Details |
| A-BHC | Amplitude Logging | amplitude Logging | Amplitude Logging | Logging amplitude | Details |
| ABHL | absolute bottom hole location | absolute bottom hole location | absolute untere Loch Lage | emplacement absolu de fond de trou | Details |
| ABHL | absolute bottom-hole location | absolute bottom-hole location | absolute Lochboden- Lage | emplacement absolu du fond de puits | Details |
| ABM | Atlas Bradford modified | Atlas Bradford modified | Atlas Bradford modifizierte | Atlas Bradford modifié | Details |
| abnd | abandoned | abandoned | verlassen | abandonné | Details |
| abndt | abundant | abundant | reichlich | abondant | Details |
| ABO | Aker Borgestad Operations | Aker Borgestad Operations | Aker Borgestad Operationen | Aker Borgestad Operations | Details |
| ABOI | Assn. of British Oceanic Industries UK | Assn. of British Oceanic Industries UK | Assn. British Oceanic Industries UK | Assoc. de la Colombie-Oceanic Industries UK | Details |
| abrsi | jet abrasive jet | jet abrasive jet | Strahlmittelstrahl | jet jet abrasif | Details |
| ABS | American Bureau of Shipping | American Bureau of Shipping | American Bureau of Shipping | American Bureau of Shipping | Details |
| abs | absolute | absolute | Absolute | absolu | Details |
| ABS | acrylonitrile butadiene styrene rubber | acrylonitrile butadiene styrene rubber | Acrylnitril-Butadien-Styrol-Kautschuk | acrylonitrile, le caoutchouc de styrène-butadiène | Details |
| ABS | Anti Block System | Antiblocking system | Das Antiblocksystem | système antiblocage | Details |
| BBS | Buoyant Ball Sealers | | | | Details |
| BA | Betriebsabteilung | operational department | | | Details |
| Abr | Abrechnung | Invoice | | | Details |
| BK | BetriebsKomitee | Operating committee | | | Details |
| BOFT | Block Oil Flow Total | | | | Details |
| WBHP | Well Bottom Hole Pressure | | | | Details |
| BPR | Block PRessure | | | | Details |
| BOSAT | Block Oil SATuration | | | | Details |
| BAPI | Block API | | | | Details |
| GBH | General Behandlung | General Workover | | | Details |
| BG | Best Guess | | | | Details |
| BSP | British Standard Pipe | | | | Details |
| BULI | Bulimina (teil von Baden) (Geological formation in Austria) | Part of Baden Fm in Austria | | | Details |
| Kanone Abwerfen | Gun release | | | | Details |
| IBN | In Betrieb Nahme | to put in production | | | Details |
| PBT | Pay Back Time | | | | Details |
| BTT | BreakThrough Time | | | | Details |
| BT | Beark Through | | | | Details |
| hlb | Halliburton | | | | Details |
| STBD | starboard | or Starboard side | | | Details |
| BTF | Betriebsfeuerwehr | Plant fire brigade | | | Details |
| FBH | Flowing Bottom Hole… | | | | Details |
| SBH | Static Bottom Hole… | | | | Details |
| MBSL | Meter Below See Level | | | | Details |
| MBSL | Meters Below See Level | | | | Details |
| FMB | Flowing Material Balance | | | | Details |
| BWD | Basic Well Design | | | | Details |
| tBT | time to breakthrough | | | | Details |
| TTB | time to breakthrough | | | | Details |
| SBU | strategic business unit | | | | Details |
| VBA | Visual Basic for Applications | | | | Details |
| BANF | Bestellung Anforderung | | | | Details |
| BUC | Bucharest | | | | Details |
| EOB | End Of Business (day) | | | | Details |
| COB | Close of Business | | | | Details |
| AIBN | Norwegian Accident Investigation Board | | | | Details |
| bbl/d.psi | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| (bbl/d)/(c/s) | (barrel per day) per (cycle per second) | | | | Details |
| (bbl/d)/(rev/s) | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| (STB/d)/ft/psi | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| (STB/d)/psi | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| bbl/ft3 | barrel per thousand cubic feet | | | | Details |
| lbm/gal | pound per thousand gallons | | | | Details |
| lbf/ft2 | pound per hundred square feet | | | | Details |
| lbm/ft2 | pound per hundred square feet | | | | Details |
| 1/bar | inverse bar | | | | Details |
| 1/lbf | inverse pound force | | | | Details |
| 1/lbm | inverse pound | | | | Details |
| B/C3 | barn per cubic centimeter | | | | Details |
| b/cm3 | barn per cubic centimeter | | | | Details |
| B/DF | barrel per day per foot | | | | Details |
| B/E | barn per electron | | | | Details |
| B/e | barn per electron | | | | Details |
| B/F3 | barrel per cubic foot | | | | Details |
| B/FT | barrel per foot | | | | Details |
| B/KM | bar per kilometer | | | | Details |
| B/M | barrel per meter | | | | Details |
| B/ST | barrel per stroke | | | | Details |
| B2CP | bar squared per centipoise | | | | Details |
| BAR | bar | | | | Details |
| bar | bar | | | | Details |
| bar/h | bar per hour | | | | Details |
| bar/km | bar per kilometer | | | | Details |
| bar/m | bar per meter | | | | Details |
| bar-1 | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| BAR2 | bar squared | | | | Details |
| bar2 | bar squared | | | | Details |
| bar2/cp | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| bar2/cP | bar squared per centipoise | | | | Details |
| BARH | bar per hour | | | | Details |
| BARN | barn | | | | Details |
| barn/cm3 | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| BB/A | barrel per acre | | | | Details |
| BB/D | barrel per day | | | | Details |
| bbl.s/(d.c) | (barrel per day) per (cycle per second) | | | | Details |
| bbl/(acre.ft) | barrel per acre per foot | | | | Details |
| bbl/(d.ft) | barrel per day per foot | | | | Details |
| bbl/(d.ft.psi) | barrel per day per foot per (pound per square inch) | | | | Details |
| bbl/(d.kPa) | barrel per day per kilopascal | | | | Details |
| bbl/(d.psi) | barrel per day per (pound per square inch) | | | | Details |
| bbl/acre | barrel per acre | | | | Details |
| bbl/acre.ft | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| BBL/BBL | barrel per barrel | | | | Details |
| bbl/bbl | barrel per barrel | | | | Details |
| BBL/D | barrel per day | | | | Details |
| bbl/d | barrel per day | | | | Details |
| bbl/d.ft | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| bbl/d.ft.psi | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| bbl/d.kPa | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| bbl/ft3 | barrel per cubic foot | | | | Details |
| bbl/h | barrel per hour | | | | Details |
| BBL/HR | barrel per hour | | | | Details |
| bbl/kPa | barrel per kilopascal | | | | Details |
| bbl/Mft3 | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| bbl/min | barrel per minute | | | | Details |
| BBL/PSI | barrel per (pound per square inch) | | | | Details |
| bbl/psi | barrel per (pound per square inch) | | | | Details |
| bbl/SCF | barrel per standard cubic foot | | | | Details |
| bbl/STB | barrel per standard barrel | | | | Details |
| BBLM | barrel per minute | | | | Details |
| BDFP | barrel per day per foot per (pound per square inch) | | | | Details |
| BDKP | barrel per day per kilopascal | | | | Details |
| BDPS | barrel per day per (pound per square inch) | | | | Details |
| BDT | Bangladesh taka | | | | Details |
| BEF | Belgian franc | | | | Details |
| BGL | Bulgarian lev | | | | Details |
| BHFF | BTU per hour per degree fahrenheit per square foot | | | | Details |
| BKPA | barrel per kilopascal | | | | Details |
| BMD | Burmuda dollar | | | | Details |
| BND | Brunei dollar | | | | Details |
| BOB | Bolivian boliviano | | | | Details |
| BPSI | barrel per (pound per square inch) | | | | Details |
| Bq | becquerel | | | | Details |
| BR/M | bar per meter | | | | Details |
| BRC | Brazilian cruzado | | | | Details |
| BSD | Bahamian dollar | | | | Details |
| BSDC | (barrel per day) per (cycle per second) | | | | Details |
| BSTB | barrel per stock tank barrel | | | | Details |
| BTFT | barrel per ten feet | | | | Details |
| BTN | Bhutan ngultrum | | | | Details |
| BTU | British thermal unit (international) | | | | Details |
| Btu | British thermal unit (international) | | | | Details |
| Btu/(h.degF.ft2) | BTU per hour per degree fahrenheit per square foot | | | | Details |
| Btu/h.degF.ft2 | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| Btu/h.oF.ft2 | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| BUK | Burmese kyat | | | | Details |
| BWP | Botswanian pula | | | | Details |
| D/BB | day per barrel | | | | Details |
| d/bbl | day per barrel | | | | Details |
| d/STB | day per standard barrel | | | | Details |
| -DB | decibel | | | | Details |
| -dB | decibel | | | | Details |
| dB.mW | decibel milliwatt | | | | Details |
| DB/F | decibel per foot | | | | Details |
| dB/ft | decibel per foot | | | | Details |
| DB/M | decibel per meter | | | | Details |
| dB/m | decibel per meter | | | | Details |
| DBM | decibel milliwatt | | | | Details |
| degC/bar | degree celsius per bar | | | | Details |
| F3/B | cubic foot per barrel | | | | Details |
| FLB | foot-pound mass | | | | Details |
| FLBF | foot-pound force | | | | Details |
| ft.lbf | foot-pound force | | | | Details |
| ft.lbm | foot-pound mass | | | | Details |
| ft/lbm | foot per pound mass | | | | Details |
| FT3/BBL | cubic foot per barrel | | | | Details |
| ft3/bbl | cubic foot per barrel | | | | Details |
| ft-lbs | foot-pound force | | | | Details |
| G/LB | gallon per pound | | | | Details |
| gal/lbm | gallon per pound | | | | Details |
| GBP | British pound sterling | | | | Details |
| GBq | gigabecquerel | | | | Details |
| hbar | hectobar | | | | Details |
| IBAR | inverse bar | | | | Details |
| in.lbf | inch-pound force | | | | Details |
| KB/D | thousand barrels per day | | | | Details |
| KB/S | thousand per second | | | | Details |
| kbbl/d | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| kbbl/d.ft | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| KBFD | thousand (barrel per day)-foot | | | | Details |
| KFLB | thousand foot-pound force | | | | Details |
| KLB | thousand pounds mass | | | | Details |
| KLBF | thousand pounds force | | | | Details |
| KLBI | thousand pounds mass per inch | | | | Details |
| klbs | thousand pounds force | | | | Details |
| km3/h.m.bar | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| KMHB | thousand cubic meters per hour per meter per bar | | | | Details |
| L/bar | liter per bar | | | | Details |
| L/BR | liter per bar | | | | Details |
| LB | pound mass (avoirdupois) | | | | Details |
| LB/D | pound mass per day | | | | Details |
| LB/F | pound mass per foot | | | | Details |
| lb/ft | pound mass per foot (GeoFrame legacy unit) | | | | Details |
| lb/ft3 | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| LB/G | pound per gallon | | | | Details |
| LB/M | pound per minute | | | | Details |
| lb/U.S.gal | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| LB-1 | inverse pound | | | | Details |
| LBF | pound force | | | | Details |
| lbf | pound force | | | | Details |
| lbf.ft | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| lbf.s/ft2 | pound-second per square foot | | | | Details |
| lbf/100ft2 | pound per hundred square feet | | | | Details |
| lbf/lbf | pound force per pound force | | | | Details |
| lbf-1 | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| LBLB | pound force per pound force | | | | Details |
| lbm | pound mass (avoirdupois) | | | | Details |
| lbm.ft | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| lbm/(ft.a) | pound mass per foot per year | | | | Details |
| lbm/(ft.s) | pound mass per foot per second | | | | Details |
| lbm/(ft2.a) | pound mass per square foot per year | | | | Details |
| lbm/(ft2.s) | pound mass per square foot per second | | | | Details |
| lbm/bbl | pound per barrel | | | | Details |
| lbm/d | pound mass per day | | | | Details |
| LBM/FT | pound mass per foot | | | | Details |
| lbm/ft | pound mass per foot | | | | Details |
| lbm/ft2 | pound per square foot | | | | Details |
| lbm/ft3 | pound per cubic foot | | | | Details |
| lbm/gal | pound per gallon | | | | Details |
| lbm/min | pound per minute | | | | Details |
| lbm-1 | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| LBPM | pound mass per meter | | | | Details |
| m3/(d.bar) | cubic meter per day per bar | | | | Details |
| m3/(d.m.bar) | cubic meter per day per meter per bar | | | | Details |
| m3/(h.bar) | cubic meter per hour per bar | | | | Details |
| m3/(h.m.bar) | cubic meter per hour per meter per bar | | | | Details |
| m3/bar | cubic meter per bar | | | | Details |
| m3/d.bar | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| m3/d.m.bar | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| m3/h.bar | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| m3/h.m.bar | GeoFrame legacy unit | | | | Details |
| M3DB | cubic meter per day per bar | | | | Details |
| M3HB | cubic meter per hour per bar | | | | Details |
| mbar | millibar | | | | Details |
| MBq | megabecquerel | | | | Details |
| MDBA | cubic meter per day per meter per bar | | | | Details |
| MHBA | cubic meter per hour per meter per bar | | | | Details |
| mWb | milliweber | | | | Details |
| PAB | Panamanian balboa | | | | Details |
| SCF/STB | cubic foot per barrel (GeoFrame legacy unit) | | | | Details |
| STB/d | barrel per day (GeoFrame legacy unit) | | | | Details |
| STB/MMSCF | standard barrel per million standard cubic feet | | | | Details |
| TBq | terabecquerel | | | | Details |
| ubar | microbar | | | | Details |
| UBCF | barrel per million cubic feet | | | | Details |
| uWb | microweber | | | | Details |
| V/DB | volt per decibel | | | | Details |
| V/dB | volt per decibel | | | | Details |
| VEB | Venezuelan bolivar | | | | Details |
| WB | weber | | | | Details |
| Wb | weber | | | | Details |
| bps | Barrel per Second | | | | Details |
| BDCM | Bulk Densitiy compensated (Memory) | | | | Details |
| BFV | Bound Fluid Volume | | | | Details |
| BS | Bit Size | | | | Details |
| CDBD | Resistivity Deep Button down from RAB | | | | Details |
| CDBU | Resistivity Deep Button up from RAB | | | | Details |
| CILB | Conductivity Induction Backup | | | | Details |
| CMBD | Resistivity Medium Button down from RAB | | | | Details |
| CMBU | Resistivity Medium Button up from RAB | | | | Details |
| CSBD | Resistivity Shallow Button down from RAB | | | | Details |
| CSBU | Resistivity Shallow Button up from RAB | | | | Details |
| HBHK | HNGS Borehole Potassium Concentration | | | | Details |
| PEB | Photoelectric Factor | | | | Details |
| RHOB | Bulk density | | | | Details |
| ROBB | Bulk Density, Bottom Quadrant | | | | Details |
| SP_BS | Spontaneous Potential Baseline shifted | | | | Details |
| BS | Bit Size | | | | Details |
| BDCM | Bulk Densitiy compensated (Memory) | | | | Details |
| RES_BM | Medium Button Resistivity | | | | Details |
| RHOB | Bulk Density | | | | Details |
| ROBB | Bulk Density, Bottom Quadrant | | | | Details |
| BFV | Bound Fluid Volume | | | | Details |
| BVW | Bulk Volume Water | | | | Details |
| BVWSXO | Bulk Volume Water flushed Zone | | | | Details |
| VBW_CPX | Volume of bound Water | | | | Details |
| VXBW | Volume of Bound Water in Flushed Zone | | | | Details |
| BATNEEC | Best Available Technique Not Entailing Excessive Costs | | | | Details |
| BD | Business Development | | | | Details |
| BOO | Build Own Operate | | | | Details |
| BQ | Bills of Quantities | | | | Details |
| BF | Brown Field | | | | Details |
| OBS | Organisational Breakdown Structure | | | | Details |
| OSB | Oil Storage Barge | | | | Details |
| PIB | Project and Investement Budget | | | | Details |
| SBM | Synthetic-Based Mud | | | | Details |
| abdnt | abundant | | | | Details |
| alab | alabastrine | | | | Details |
| BAS | BASALT | | | | Details |
| baux | bauxitic | | | | Details |
| bcm | becoming | | | | Details |
| bd | beds | | | | Details |
| bdd | bedded | | | | Details |
| bdst | boundstone | | | | Details |
| belem | belemnites | | | | Details |
| bent | bentonitic | | | | Details |
| bf | buff | | | | Details |
| bflst | bafflestone | | | | Details |
| bioturb | bioturbated | | | | Details |
| bit | bituminous | | | | Details |
| bkgrd | background | | | | Details |
| blky | blocky | | | | Details |
| blmg | blooming | | | | Details |
| bt | bit | | | | Details |
| bur | burrow | | | | Details |
| Cbl | cobbles | | | | Details |
| Crbly | crumbly | | | | Details |
| embay | embayed | | | | Details |
| hbld | hornblende | | | | Details |
| hydcarb | hydrocarbon | | | | Details |
| intbd | interbeded | | | | Details |
| interbed | interbeds | | | | Details |
| pbl | pebbles | | | | Details |
| rbly | rubbly | | | | Details |
| rhmb | rhombs | | | | Details |
| rhmbc | rhombic | | | | Details |
| sub | sub | | | | Details |
| subang | subangular | | | | Details |
| subrnd | subrounded | | | | Details |
| xbed | cross bedded | | | | Details |
| ABGB | Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch | | | | Details |
| ABR | Approval Budget Release | | | | Details |
| ASB | Accounting Standards Board | | | | Details |
| BANF | Bestellanforderung | | | | Details |
| bbl | Barrel of oil | | | | Details |
| BC | Business Case | | | | Details |
| Bcc | Blind carbon copy | | | | Details |
| BKZ | Betriebskosten Zuschuss | | | | Details |
| BM | Balancing Market | | | | Details |
| BOEPD | Barrels of Oil Equivalent Per Day | | | | Details |
| BOP | Blow Out Preventor | | | | Details |
| BP | Business Partner | | | | Details |
| BR | Betriebsrat/Works Council | | | | Details |
| BSC | Balance Scorecard | | | | Details |
| BSN | Business | | | | Details |
| BTU | Business Travel Unlimited | | | | Details |
| BVW | Betriebliches Vorschlagswesen | | | | Details |
| CMDB | Configuration Management Database | | | | Details |
| COB | Close of business | | | | Details |
| EBIT | Earnings Before Interests and Taxes | | | | Details |
| EBITD | Earnings before interest, tax and depreciation | | | | Details |
| EBRD | European Bank of Reconstruction and Development | | | | Details |
| EOB | End Of Business (day) | | | | Details |
| EOBD | End Of Business Day | | | | Details |
| EstGB | Einkommenssteuer Gesetzbuch | | | | Details |
| EZB | Europäische Zentralbank | | | | Details |
| FASB | Financial Accounting Standards Board | | | | Details |
| HBC | High Resolution Borehole Compensated Sonic Log | | | | Details |
| IBN | Inbetriebnahme | | | | Details |
| MBN | Compact Borehole Navigation | | | | Details |
| MbO | Management by Objectives | | | | Details |
| MMBBL | Million Barrels of Oil Equivalent | | | | Details |
| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failures | | | | Details |
| NBD | Next Business Day | | | | Details |
| NOB | Non Oil Business | | | | Details |
| OBAM | Office-based account manager (TeleSales) | | | | Details |
| OBS | Organizational Breakdown Structure | | | | Details |
| OBSA | Open Book Service Agreement | | | | Details |
| Pb | Chance of Best (Estimate) | | | | Details |
| PMBOK | Project Management Book Of Knowledge | | | | Details |
| RB | Running Business | | | | Details |
| SB | Supervisory Board | | | | Details |
| SCOB | Standard Customer Offer Book | | | | Details |
| SHDB | Stakeholder Database | | | | Details |
| TBD | To Be Discussed / Defined | | | | Details |
| UBD | Underbalanced Drilling | | | | Details |
| UGB | Unternehmensgesetzbuch | | | | Details |
| WBS | Work Breakdown Structure | | | | Details |
| WebI | Web Intelligence | | | | Details |
| ABL | Alternate Borehole Liner | | | | Details |
| ABR | Additional Budget Request | | | | Details |
| AELB | Atomic Energy Licensing Act | | | | Details |
| AHBRT | Along hole below Rotary Table Datum line from which measurements are taken | | | | Details |
| AHBTHF | Along hole below tubing head flange | | | | Details |
| B/O | Break out | | | | Details |
| BAA | Business Alignment Area | | | | Details |
| BALS | Baker Atlas Logging Services | | | | Details |
| BGG | Background gas | | | | Details |
| BHP- | Bottom Hole Pressure | | | | Details |
| BLC | Big Lever Club | | | | Details |
| BOE | Barrel of Oil Equivalent | | | | Details |
| Bpf | Blow per foot | | | | Details |
| BPH | Bbl per hour | | | | Details |
| BPM | Bbl per minute | | | | Details |
| BTI | Big Ticket Item | | | | Details |
| CBP | Country Business Plan | | | | Details |
| COB | Close of Business | | | | Details |
| EPBC | Exploration & Production Business Council | | | | Details |
| EPBM | Exploration & Production Business Model | | | | Details |
| Gfb | Formation breakdown Press. Gradient | | | | Details |
| IBA | Integrated Business Applications | | | | Details |
| IBV | Intrinsic Business Value | | | | Details |
| LIB | Impression tool (Lead Impression Block) | | | | Details |
| MTAB | Measurement, Testing, Allocation & Balancing | | | | Details |
| MTB | Major Tender Board | | | | Details |
| MTB | Managing The Business | | | | Details |
| NBR | Near Bit Reamer | | | | Details |
| OBM | oil-based drilling fluid (mud) | | | | Details |
| OUBP | Operating Unit Business Plan | | | | Details |
| POB | Personnel on Board | | | | Details |
| RBE | Risk Based Estimation | | | | Details |
| RSBOP | Rotating Spherical blow out preventor | | | | Details |
| SBOP | Surface Blow Out Preventor | | | | Details |
| SBOP | Shore Based Operations | | | | Details |
| SBT | Segmented Bond Test Similar to CBL but it is usually not as effective | | | | Details |
| TVDBDF | True vertical depth below derrick floor | | | | Details |
| TVDBRT | True vertical depth below rotary table | | | | Details |
| UBHO | Universal Bottom Hole Assembly | | | | Details |
| BAU | Business As Usual | | | | Details |
| BRU | Business Recovery Unit | | | | Details |
| B2B | Business to business | | | | Details |
| B2C | Business to Consumer | | | | Details |
| B2G | Business to government | | | | Details |
| BUSI | Business | | | | Details |
| CBOE | Chicago Board Options Exchange | | | | Details |
| CBOT | Chicago Board of Trade | | | | Details |
| CMFB | Committee on monetary, finance and balance of payments statistics | | | | Details |
| COB | Close of Business | | | | Details |
| C2B | Consumer to business | | | | Details |
| EBITA | Earnings before interest and taxes and amortization | | | | Details |
| EBITDA | Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization | | | | Details |
| ECB | European Central Bank | | | | Details |
| EOB | End Of the Business | | | | Details |
| FAB | Feature Advantage Benefits | | | | Details |
| FOB | Freight On Board | | | | Details |
| ICB | Industry Classification Benchmark | | | | Details |
| KIBOR | Karachi Interbank Offered Rate | | | | Details |
| LBO | Leveraged Buyout | | | | Details |
| LIBOR | London Interbank Offered Rate | | | | Details |
| MBS | mortgage backed security | | | | Details |
| NCBO | No Change of Beneficial Ownership | | | | Details |
| OIBDA | Operating Income Before Depreciation And Amortization | | | | Details |
| PBT | Profit Before Tax | | | | Details |
| RBI | Reserve Bank of India | | | | Details |
| RBA | Reserve Bank of Australia | | | | Details |
| SCBA | Social Cost Benefit Analysis | | | | Details |
| SEBI | Securities and Exchange Board of India | | | | Details |
| TB | Transaction Banking | | | | Details |
| TBD | To Be Defined | | | | Details |
| TBC | To Be Completed | | | | Details |
