Unidades Móviles de Perforación Costa Afuera (Mobile Offshore Drilling Units – MODUs)

Unidades Móviles de Perforación Costa Afuera (Mobile Offshore Drilling Units – MODUs)

Definition(s)


Unidades Móviles de Perforación Costa Afuera (Mobile Offshore Drilling Units - MODUs)

Instalaciones diseñadas o modificadas para participar en actividades de perforación. El término MODU incluye los barcos de perforación (drill ships), semisumergibles, sumergibles, jack-ups e instalaciones similares que puedan movilizarse sin mayor esfuerzo. Estas instalaciones pueden o no tener equipos de autopropulsión a bordo y pueden requerir equipos de posicionamiento dinámico o sistemas de amarre para mantener su posición.

Source: Resolución Número 40687 de 18 Jul 2017 Por la cual se establecen los criterios técnicos para proyectos de perforación exploratoria de hidrocarburos costa afuera en Colombia. Columbia Ministerio de Minas y Energia, Regulations
Unidentifiable Liquid Hydrocarbons

Unidentifiable Liquid Hydrocarbons

Definition(s)


Unidentifiable Liquid Hydrocarbons

Scrubber oil/skim hydrocarbons received at a gas plant/produced water disposal facility where the origin of such liquid hydrocarbons cannot be identified. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. Regulations
Unit

Unit

Definition(s)


Unit

Unit means any OCS facility, vessel, rig, platform, or other vehicle or structure, domestic or foreign. Source: Outer Continental Shelf Activities, 33 CFR 140-147 (2013). Regulations  

Unit

Is a general term for an offshore installation such as ship shaped, column stabilised, self elevating, tension leg or deep draught floater. Source: Offshore Standard DNV-OS-C101, Design of Offshore Steel Structures, General (LRFD Method, Det Norske Veritas, April 2011. Global Standards  

Unit

Unit―any drilling unit or units created by order of the commissioner. Source: Natural Resources, Office of Conservation – General Operations, Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 43, Part XIX, March 2013. Regulations  

Unit

Unit―any unit(s), whether one or more, established for a particular pool, by order of the Commissioner of Conservation pursuant to authority of Subsection B of Section 9 or Subsection B or C of Section 5 of Title 30 of the Revised Statutes of 1950. Source: Natural Resources, Office of Conservation – General Operations, Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 43, Part XIX, March 2013. Regulations  
Unit Of Proration For Gas

Unit Of Proration For Gas

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Unit Of Proration For Gas

“Unit of proration for gas” consists of such multiples of 40 acres as may be prescribed by division-issued special pool orders. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Unit Of Proration For Oil

Unit Of Proration For Oil

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Unit Of Proration For Oil

“Unit of proration for oil” consists of one 40-acre tract or such multiples of 40-acre tracts as may be prescribed by division-issued special pool orders. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Unit Operations

Unit Operations

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Unit Operation

“Unit operation” means those operations conducted pursuant to a unit agreement or a unitization order; exploitation unitaire. Source: Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act, S.C. 1988, c. 28, Canada, current to May 26, 2013. Legislation Source: Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. O-7, Canada, current to April 29, 2013. Legislation

Unit Operations

"Unit operations" means a unit consisting of a portion of a lease, a lease, or more than one lease or portions thereof which covers contiguous lands containing one or more common sources of supply which has been approved by Commission order as a unit for the purpose of unitized management, after notice and hearing. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. Regulations
United States

United States

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United States

The 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. Regulations
Unitized Sand

Unitized Sand

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Unitized Sand

Unitized Sand―the sand covered by the special order. Source: Natural Resources, Office of Conservation – General Operations, Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 43, Part XIX, March 2013. Regulations  
Unmanned Facility

Unmanned Facility

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Unmanned facility

Unmanned facility means an OCS facility, other than a floating facility or mobile offshore drilling unit, which is not a manned facility even though it may be continuously serviced by an attending vessel. Source: Outer Continental Shelf Activities, 33 CFR 140-147 (2013). Regulations  
Unmanned Installation

Unmanned Installation

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Unmanned Installation

“Unmanned installation” means an installation on which persons are not normally present and in those instances when persons are present on the installation, their presence is for the purpose of performing operational duties, maintenance or inspections that will not necessitate an overnight stay; installation inhabitée. Source: Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Installations Regulations, SOR/95-191, Canada, current to May 31, 2012. Regulations
Unmanned Offshore Installation

Unmanned Offshore Installation

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Unmanned Offshore Installation

“Unmanned offshore installation” means an offshore installation on which persons are not normally present and in those instances when persons are present on the installation, their presence is for the purpose of performing operational duties, maintenance or inspections that will not necessitate an overnight stay (installation inhabitée au large des côtes). Source: Canada Oil and Gas Installations Regulations, SOR/96-111, Canada, current to May 1, 2014. Regulations Source: Canada Oil and Gas Installations Regulations, SOR/96-118, February 2013. Regulations
Unmanned Platform

Unmanned Platform

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Unmanned platform

A platform upon which persons may be employed at any one time, but upon which no living accommodations or quarters are provided. Source: API RP 2FB, Recommended Practice for the Design of Offshore Facilities Against Fire and Blast Loading, First Edition, April 2006. Global Standards

Unmanned platform

Unmanned platform means a fixed, bottom-founded OCS facility which is not a manned facility even though it may be continuously serviced by an attending vessel. Source: Outer Continental Shelf Activities, 33 CFR 140-147 (2013). Regulations
Unorthodox Well Location

Unorthodox Well Location

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Unorthodox Well Location

“Unorthodox well location” means a location that does not conform to the spacing requirements division rules establish. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Unstable Area

Unstable Area

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Unstable Area

“Unstable area” means a location that is susceptible to natural or human-induced events or forces capable of impairing the integrity of some or all of a division-approved facility’s structural components.  Examples of unstable areas are areas of poor foundation conditions, areas susceptible to mass earth movements and karst terrain areas where karst topography is developed as a result of dissolution of limestone, dolomite or other soluble rock.  Characteristic physiographic features of karst terrain include sinkholes, sinking streams, caves, large springs and blind valleys. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Upland Area

Upland Area

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Upland Area

Upland Area―an area which is not identified as a wetland and includes farm land, pasture land, recreational land, and residential land. Source: Natural Resources, Office of Conservation – General Operations, Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 43, Part XIX, March 2013. Regulations  
Upstream Facility

Upstream Facility

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Upstream Facility

“Upstream facility” means a facility or operation associated with the exploration, development, production or storage of oil or gas that is not a downstream facility. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Urbanized Area

Urbanized Area

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Urbanized Area

“Urbanized area” means an area where a well or production facilities of a well are located within a municipal corporation or within a township that has an unincorporated population of more than five thousand in the most recent federal decennial census prior to the issuance of the permit for the well or production facilities. Source: Division of Mineral Resources Management - Oil and Gas, Ohio Administrative Code, Chapter 1501:9, January 2012. Regulations
Usable Quality Water Strata

Usable Quality Water Strata

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Usable Quality Water Strata

All strata determined by the Groundwater Advisory Unit of the Oil and Gas Division to contain usable quality water. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. Regulations
Used Oil

Used Oil

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Used Oil

Any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used and as a result of such use is contaminated by physical or chemical impurities. Source: Oil and Gas Division, Texas Administrative Code, Title 16, Chapter 3, February 2013. Regulations
Vacuum

Vacuum

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Vacuum

"Vacuum" means pressure below the prevailing pressure of the atmosphere. Source: Corporation Commission, Oil and Gas Conservation, Oklahoma Administrative Code 165:10, February 2013. Regulations
Vadose Zone

Vadose Zone

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Upstream Facility

“Vadose zone” means unsaturated earth material below the land surface and above ground water, or in between bodies of ground water. Source: Oil and Gas, New Mexico Administrative Code Title 19, Chapter 15, January 2013. Regulations
Validation

Validation

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Validation

Confirmation that the operational requirements for a specific use or application have been fulfilled through the provision of objective evidence. NOTE Typically validation is achieved by qualification testing and/or system integration testing. Source: API Recommended Practice 17H, Remotely Operated Tools and Interfaces on Subsea Production Systems, Second Edition, June 2013 (Addendum 1, October 2014). Global Standards

Validation

A quality assurance process of establishing evidence that provides a high degree of assurance that a product, service, or system will accomplish its intended purpose. NOTE This often involves acceptance of fit-for-purpose with end users and other product stakeholders. NOTE 2 In this document, the related term “validation” is used only with respect to the initial design of equipment (i.e. capacity calculations and any performance confirmation tests in a lab rather than in the well). Source: API RP 96, Deepwater Well Design and Construction, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

Validation

confirmation through the use of objective evidence that the requirements for a specific intended use or application have been fulfilled Source: ISO/IEC TS 17027:2014, Conformity assessment – Vocabulary related to competence of persons used for certification of persons, Global Standards  

Validation

Confirmation, through the provision of objective evidence, that the requirements for a specific intended use or application have been fulfilled [SOURCE: ISO 9000:2005]. Source: ISO/IEC 27000:2014, Information technology — Security techniques — Information security management systems — Overview and vocabulary, Third Edition, January 2014. Global Standards  

Validation

A validation of a proposed facility is a statement in writing by an independent validator in respect of the design, construction and installation (including instrumentation, process layout and process control systems) of the facility, to the extent that these matters are covered by the scope of the validation agreed between NOPSEMA and the operator. A validation of a proposed significant change to an existing facility is a statement in writing by an independent validator in respect of the proposed change, to the extent required by the scope of the validation agreed between NOPSEMA and the operator. Source: Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Safety) Regulations 2009 (Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 382 as amended), Australia, prepared on 1 January 2012. Regulations
Valve

Valve

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Valve

Device used to stop or control the rate of flow in a line or vessel or to serve as an automatic or semiautomatic safety device. Common valves include the butterfly, gate, plug, globe, needle, check, and pressure relief. Source: IADC UBO / MPD Glossary, December 2011. Global Standards

Valve

A device for regulating or controlling the flow of material by means of a movable part or parts which open or close a passage. Source: Petroleum Safety Orders--Drilling and Production, Definitions, California Code of Regulations, 8 CCR § 6505, December 2012. Regulations
Valve Drilling Operation

Valve Drilling Operation

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Valve drilling operation

Drilling of a hole through the blocking element of a valve that is stuck in the closed position with pressure on the well side of the valve. The drilling is accomplished through a lubricator assembly that confines the pressure after the blocking element is penetrated. Source: API RP 54, Recommended Practice for Occupational Safety for Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing Operations, Third Edition, August 1999 (2007). Global Standards  

Valve drilling operation

“Valve drilling operation” means the drilling of a hole through the blocking element of a valve that is struck in the closed position with pressure on the well side of the valve. [Mich. Admin. Code R 408 (2013)]. Source: Oil and Gas Drilling and Servicing Operations, Michigan Administrative Code R 408, February 8, 2013. Regulations  
Variance

Variance

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Variance

"Variance" means exception to promulgated standards, rules and regulations. As stated in the Act, 27-11-111 - Variances; "Any person affected by this Act may request a variance to any standard, rule or regulation promulgated under this Act". Source: State of Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Rules and Regulations for Oil and Gas Well Drilling, Revised January 8, 2013. Regulations
Vehicles

Vehicles

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Vehicles

“Vehicles” means all carriages, including animal-drawn carriages for the transportation of petroleum either in bulk or otherwise than in bulk. Source: The Petroleum Rules, 1976, India, 1976. Regulations Source: The Petroleum Rules, 2002, India, 13th March 2002. Regulations
Venteo

Venteo

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Venteo

Liberación intencional controlada de gas no quemado.

Source: Resolución Número 40687 de 18 Jul 2017 Por la cual se establecen los criterios técnicos para proyectos de perforación exploratoria de hidrocarburos costa afuera en Colombia. Columbia Ministerio de Minas y Energia, Regulations
Venting

Venting

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Venting (gases)

The release of unburned gas through a vent or flare stack. Also called cold venting. Source: IADC UBO / MPD Glossary, December 2011. Global Standards

Venting

Venting means the release of gas into the atmosphere without igniting it. This includes gas that is released underwater and bubbles to the atmosphere. Source: Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations in the Outer Continental Shelf, 30 CFR 250 (2013). Regulations
Verification Scheme

Verification Scheme

Definition(s)


Verification Scheme

A written scheme of examination for ensuring that identified HSE-critical activities/tasks and equipment/systems are suitable and remain in good repair and condition. Source: International Association of Drilling Contractors, Appendix 2 to Health, Safety and Environment Case Guidelines for Offshore Drilling Contractors, Issue 3.3.2, February 2010. IADC Guidelines  

Verification Scheme

Any reference in these Regulations to a verification scheme is a reference to a suitable written scheme for ensuring, by means described in paragraph (6), that the safety-critical elements and the specified plant—
  1. are or, where they remain to be provided, will be suitable; and
  2. where they have been provided, remain in good repair and condition.
Source: The Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 2005, UK S.I. 2005/3117, 2005. Regulations  

Verification Scheme

(1) In regulations 55 to 62, verification scheme means a written scheme for ensuring, by the means described in subclause (2), that the safety-critical elements— (a) are or, where they are yet to be provided, will be suitable; and (b) where they have been provided, remain in good repair and condition. (2) The means referred to in subclause (1) are— (a) examination, including testing where appropriate, of the safety-critical elements by an independent and competent person: (b) examination of any design, specification, certificate, or other document, marking, or standard relating to the safety-critical elements: (c) examination of work in progress by independent and competent persons: (d) the taking of appropriate action following a report by an independent and competent person: (e) the taking of such steps as may be properly provided for under regulation 55 and Schedule 6: (f) the taking of any steps incidental to the means described in this subclause. Source: Health and Safety in Employment (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2013, SR 2013/208, New Zealand, as of May 2013. Regulations
Verification/Calibration

Verification/Calibration

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Verification/Calibration:

Testing and correcting, if necessary, a measuring device to ensure compliance with industry accepted, manufacturer's recommended, or regulatory required standard of accuracy. Source: Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations in the Outer Continental Shelf, 30 CFR 250 (2013). Regulations