Glossary

Oil and Gas

(1) Operational Control Center (Petrobras acronym)

(2) Operations Coordination Center (Saudi Aramco acronym)

(3) Operations Control Center (Sanchez Energy acronym)

(4) Onshore Collaboration Center (AkerBP acronym)

Overall Control of Well and Riser (Total acronym)

Open Data Protocol, an open data exchange protocol from Microsoft that provides RESTful APIs

Onshore Drilling Center (ConocoPhillips acronym)

See SPE technical papers 84167-MS and 111372-MS for further technical details

Operations and Design Challenge Process (StepChange Global acronym)

Please see the relevant StepChange Global web page describing ODCP here

Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), the UK oil and gas regulator

The Oil and Gas Technology Centre is located in Aberdeen, UK.

The OGTC was established in October 2016 with the mission to be the go-to technology centre for the oil and gas industry.

The OGTC has seven solution centres focused upon: (1) Asset Integrity, (2)  Wells, (3) Marginal Developments, (4) Decommissioning, (5) Digital Transformation, (6) Subsurface and (7) Net Zero

Operational Intelligence, the ability to analyse information to predict future performance

Please see the StepChange Global page here

Open Mining Format, an open-source file specification to support data interchange across the entire mining community

The OMF project group is a part of the Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG)

Operations management system (often used in mining operations)

Onshore Operations Centre (BP, ConocoPhillips and Odfjell Drilling acronym)

Onshore Project Centre (ConocoPhillips acronym)

Also, see operation centre (OPC), a legacy Hydro (now Equinor) acronym, see SPE technical paper 110399-MS for further details.

Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture from OPC Foundation

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

To Operate by Exception is where you only go to a remote site when you (i) plan a visit or (ii) there is an exception

Onshore Support Center (Statoil / Equinor acronym)

Please see SPE technical paper 90367-MS for further technical details

Onshore Support & Control Center (Exxon acronym)

Please see SPE technical paper OTC-28821-MS for further technical details

Open Subsurface Data Universe, from the Open Group

Oil Supply Planning and Scheduling (Saudi Aramco acronym)

Operational Support System (Sanchez Energy acronym)

(1) Onshore Technical Center (ConocoPhillips acronym)

(2) Offshore Technology Conference