List of Oil Field Acronyms - W

W

  • W – Watt
  • W/C – Water Cushion
  • WABAN – Well Abandonment Report
  • WAG – Water Alternating Gas (describes an injection well which alternates between water and gas injection)
  • WALKS – Walkaway Seismic Profile
  • WATAN – Water Analysis
  • WAV3 – Amplitude (in Seismics)
  • WAV4 – Two Way Travel Time (in Seismics)
  • WAV5 – Compensate Amplitudes
  • WAVF – Waveform Log
  • WBM – Water-Based drilling Mud
  • WC – Watercut / Wildcat well
  • WE – Well Engineer
  • WEG – Wireline Entry Guide
  • WELDA – Well Data Report
  • WELP – Well Log Plot
  • WEQL – Well Equipment Layout
  • WESTR – Well Status Record
  • WESUR – Well Summary Report
  • WF – Water Flooding
  • WFAC – Waveform Acoustic Log
  • WGEO – Well Geophone Report
  • WGFM – Wet Gas Flow Meter
  • WGUNT – Water Gun Test
  • Wh – White
  • WH – Well History
  • WHIG – Whitehouse Gauge
  • WHM – Wellhead Maintenance
  • WHP – Wellhead Pressure
  • WI – Water Injection
  • WI – Working Interest
  • WIT- Water Investigation Tool
  • WITS – Well Site Information Transfer System
  • WIPSP – WIP Stock Packer
  • WLC – Wireline Composite Log
  • WLL – Wireline Logging
  • WLSUM – Well Summary
  • WLTS Well Log Tracking System
  • WLTS – Well Log Transaction System
  • WHM – Wellhead Maintenance
  • WHMIS – WorkPlace Hazardous Material Information Systems
  • WHP – Wellhead Pressure
  • WO – Well in Work Over
  • WO/O – Waiting on Orders
  • WOA – Well Operations Authorization
  • WOB – Weight On Bit
  • WOC – Wait on Cement
  • WOC – Water Oil Contact (or Oil Water Contact)
  • WOE – Well Operations Engineer (a key person of Well services)
  • WOM – Wait(ing) on Material
  • WOR – Water-Oil Ratio
  • WORKO – Workover
  • WOS – West of Shetland, oil province on the UKCS
  • WOW – Wait(ing) On Weather
  • WP – Well Proposal or Working Pressure
  • WPC – Water Pollution Control
  • WPLAN – Well Course Plan
  • WPQ/S – Weld Procedure Qualification/Specification
  • WPR – Well Prognosis Report
  • WQ – A textural parameter used for CBVWE computations (Halliburton)
  • WQCA – Water Quality Control Act
  • WQCB – Water Quality Control Board
  • WR – Wireline Retrievable (as in a WR Plug)
  • WR – Wet Resistivity
  • WRS – Well Report Sepia
  • WRSCSSV – Wireline Retrievable Surface Controlled Sub-Surface Valve
  • WSCL – Well Site Core Log
  • WSE – Well Seismic Edit
  • WSERE – Well Seismic Edit Report
  • WSHT – Well Shoot
  • WSL – Well Site Log
  • WSO – Water Shut Off
  • WSOG – Well Specific Operation Guidelines
  • WSP – Well Seismic Profile
  • WSR – Well Shoot Report
  • WSS – Well Services Supervisor (leader of Well services at the wellsite)
  • WSS – Working Spread Sheet (for logging)
  • WSSAM – Well Site Sample
  • WSSOF – WSS Offset Profile
  • WSSUR – Well Seismic Survey Plot
  • WSSVP – WSS VSP Raw Shots
  • WSSVS – WSS VSP Stacks
  • WSTL – Well Site Test Log
  • WSU – Well Service Unit
  • WT – Well Test
  • WTI – West Texas Intermediate benchmark crude
  • WUT – Water Up To
  • WVS – Well Velocity Survey

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