| Bbl | Barrel = 42 US gallons |
| Bcf | Billion cubic feet |
| Bcfd | Billion cubic feet daily |
| Btu | British thermal unit. As opposed to volume, this measures the heating value of a given fuel. A thousand cubic feet of pipeline standard gas usually contains just over a million Btu’s of heating value. A barrel of west Texas Intermediate crude oil contains about 6MMBtu |
| CFTC | Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
| DOC | Department of Commerce |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DOT | Department of Transportation |
| EIA | Energy Information Administration, part of DOE |
| EPA | U.S. EnergyProtection Angency |
| FERC | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| FSRU | Floating Storage and Regasification Unit |
| LNG | Liquefied Natural Gas. When cooled to minus 260 degrees F (minus 163 degrees C), natural gas becomes a liquid and occupies 1/610th of the space it does as a vapor |
| MAOP | Maximum allowable operating pressure. The upper pressure limit that a pipeline is designed to operate |
| MARAD | Maritime Administration |
| Mcf | Thousand cubic feet; standard volumetric measure for natural gas |
| MMBtu | Million Btu’s |
| MMcf | Million cubic feet |
| NEPA | National Environmental PolicyAct Program |
| NIMBY | Not In My BackYard |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| OPS | Office of Pipeline Safety, a part of DOT |
| PLEM | PipeLine End Manifold |
| Regas | Re-gasification |
| SALM | Single Anchor Leg Mooring |
| SMP | Single Point Mooring |
| Tcf | Trillion cubic feet |
| Therm | 100,000 Btu. A dekatherm is 1 MMBtu |
| USCG | United States Coast Guard |
