- Industrie: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
- Number of blossaries: 1
- Company Profile:
The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Market price divided by the annual earnings per share of common stock. The market price used may be a spot price, or an average of closing or the high and low prices for a period; the earnings are for the corresponding period.
Industry:Energy
The actual purpose for which gas is used by the ultimate consumer to whom it is delivered.
Industry:Energy
The net accumulated credit resulting from offsetting charges to income for the pro-rata cost of extracted depletable natural resources such as coal, gas, oil, etc.
Industry:Energy
The very beginning of drilling operations of a well. The term has been handed down from cable tool operations in the early days of the oil industry.
Industry:Energy
(1) A technique to reduce corrosion of a metal surface under some conditions by passing sufficient anodic current to it to cause the electrode potential of the surface to enter and remain in the passive region. (2) An appreciable reduction in corrosion by making a metal an anode and maintaining this highly polarized condition with very little current flow.
Industry:Energy
A gasifier in which coke is fed into the top keeping the gasifier essentially full when operating. Ash is removed at the bottom while the coal is consumed as it moves downward through the bed.
Industry:Energy
A process by which the interconnected operators will transfer a quantity greater or less than the confirmed nominations scheduled quantity for various contracts at a point in an attempt to make the total gas received or delivered at the point as close as possible to the scheduled quantity during a specific billing period.
Industry:Energy
American National Standards Institute X12 Committee - The committee sanctioned by ANSI for developing and maintaining U.S. standards for business-to-business electronic data interchange pertaining to trade transactions, with business-to-business defined broadly to include all organizations but excluding all individual consumers.
Industry:Energy
Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) - a ratio calculated by dividing the cooling capacity in Btu per hour by the power input in watts at any given set of rating conditions. Heating Seasonal Performance Factor (HSPF) - the total heating output of a heat pump during its normal annual usage period for heating divided by the total electric power input in watt-hours during the same period. Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) - the total cooling capacity of a central unitary air conditioner or unitary heat pump in Btu's during its normal annual usage period for cooling divided by the total electric energy input in watt-hours during the same period.
Industry:Energy
