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UOP is an acronym and initialisminitialism that may stand for the following: Urzad Ochrony PanstwaUrząd Ochrony Państwa, the PolandPolish Intelligence agency User operation prohibition, a technique commonly used in commercial DVDs that prohibits user operation at certain times during playback (such as while a copyright notice is displayed) University of the Pacific, located in Stockton, CA UOP LLC, (formerly known as Universal Oil Products), a company delivering technology to the petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries. The company’s roots date back to 1914, when the revolutionary Dubbs thermal cracking process created the technological foundation for today’s modern refining industry. In the ensuing decades, UOP engineers have generated thousands of patents, leading to important advances in process technology, profitability consultation, and equipment design.disambig