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System Owner

Official responsible for the overall procurement, development, integration, modification, or operation and maintenance of an information system. Source:  DNVGL-RP-G108, Cyber security in the oil and gas industry based on IEC 62443, DNV GL, September 2017. Global Standards

System Owner

Purchaser of flexible pipe system from flexible pipe system provider. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards

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Syntactic Foam

Composite material of hollow spherical fillers in a matrix or binder used in the manufacture of buoyancy modules.

Source: API Specification 16Q, Design, Selection, Operation, and Maintenance of Marine Drilling Riser Systems, Second Edition, April 2017. Global Standards

Syntactic Foam

Composite material consisting of a polymer matrix containing microspheres only. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

Syntactic Foam

Typically a composite material of hollow spherical fillers in a matrix or binder. Source: API RP 16Q, Recommended Practice for Design, Selection, Operation and Maintenance of Marine Drilling Riser Systems, First Edition, November 1993 (Reaffirmed August 2001). Global Standards  

Syntactic Foam

Typically, a composite material of spherical fillers in a matrix or binder. Source: ISO 13624-1:2009, Petroleum and natural gas industries – Drilling and production equipment – Part 1:Design and operation of marine drilling riser equipment. Global Standards

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Supporting pipe

Pipe that supports one or more pipes via a series of piggy-back clamps or guides over a prescribed length. NOTE A supporting pipe can be a flexible pipe. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Supported pipe

Pipe that is attached via a series of piggy-back clamps or guides to a supporting pipe over a prescribed length. NOTE A supported pipe can be a flexible pipe. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Support structure

Structure that supports and transfers loads from a flexible pipe or bend limiter at either the topside, seabed or intermediate connection. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Subsea buoy frame

Structural part of a subsea buoy. Includes the gutters, housings for clamps and buoyancy tanks or buoyancy elements and connection points for tether connection hardware. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Static bend restrictor

Design scenario where bend restrictor is subjected to static loads only, and where there is no or negligible intermittent contact between bend restrictor elements induced by wave and current environmental loads. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Splice

A termination is normally formed by looping the rope around a spool or similar attachment means, separating the rope into strands or groups of strands, and then tucking these strands back into the rope structure. Source: API RP 2SM Design, Manufacture, Installation, and Maintenance of Synthetic Fiber Ropes for Offshore Mooring, Second Edition, July 2014. Global Standards Source: API RP 2SM, Design, Manufacture, Installation, and Maintenance of Synthetic Fiber Ropes for Offshore Mooring, First Edition, July 2014. Global Standards

Splice

Termination normally formed by looping the rope around a spool or similar attachment means, separating the rope into strands or groups or strands, and then tucking these strands back into the rope structure. NOTE Definition taken from API 2SM. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

Splice

Join together component lengths or sub-components to achieve the required production length. Source: API SPEC 17E, Specification for Subsea Umbilicals, Upstream Segment, Fourth Edition, October 2010. Global Standards

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Spacer

Discrete component of which a number in series are used to piggy-back one or more supported pipes to a supporting pipe over a prescribed length. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

Spacer

Fluid containing insoluble weighting materials that is used to separate drilling fluids and cementing slurries. Source: API RP 10B-2, Recommended Practice for Testing Well Cements, First Edition, July 2005 (Reaffirmed: July 2010). Global Standards  

Spacer

Pressure-containing piece of equipment used to connect and provide separation between other pieces of equipment. Source: API SPEC 6A, Specification for Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment, Twentieth Edition, October 2010 (Addendum November 2012). Global Standards  

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Snatch load

Sudden load that acts on a slack tether with resulting dynamic amplification up to several times the applied tension. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Setting time

Time required for polymer or composite component to reside in mould before being removed. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Secant modulus

Slope of line drawn through the origin of a stress strain curve and intersecting a point on the stress strain curve corresponding to specified strain. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Seal element

Part of an I/J-tube seal that provides the seal. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Seabed connection

Connection between flexible riser end fitting and riser base. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

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Scouring

Removal or dissolution of parts of the seabed by bottom currents. Source: API RP 17L2, Recommended Practice for Flexible Pipe Ancillary Equipment, First Edition, March 2013. Global Standards  

Scour

Removal of seabed material from the foundation due to current and waves. Source: ISO 19905-1:202, Petroleum and natural gas industries – Site-specific assessment of mobile offshore units – Part 1: Jack-ups. Global Standards