- 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.
Electric generating stations operated by industrial establishments and railroads to supply all or part of their own power requirements.
Industry:Energy
Normally settlement rates are developed using actual cost experience of the base period, as adjusted in the test period, allocated to estimated annual sales volumes. The company is at risk for any variations in costs and sales volumes. On rare occasions a pipeline company may settle on the basis of actual costs and sales volumes for a defined period of time called the locked-in period. The company has less downside risk in this type of settlement.
Industry:Energy
The capability of a storage reservoir to deliver gas, expressed in mcf/day at a given flowing wellhead pressure.
Industry:Energy
The pressure on a gas well that has been open long enough for the pressure to stabilize.
Industry:Energy
To remove certain constituents of a gas by passing it through equipment (Scrubber) in which the gas is intimately mixed with a suitable liquid that absorbs or washes out the constituent to be removed from the gas.
Industry:Energy
A gas, the molecule of which is composed of three carbon and eight hydrogen atoms. Propane is present in most natural gas and is the first product refined from crude petroleum. It has many industrial uses and may be used for heating and lighting. Contains approximately 2,500 Btu per cubic foot.
Industry:Energy
A procedure established by the Commission designed to permit the full development of a record for Commission decision, without the need for full adjudication before an Administrative Law Judge. The purpose of "paper hearings" is to shorten the amount of time necessary for the Commission to reach a final decision concerning a complex matter. Generally, the Commission itself requests the filing of information it believes necessary in order to render a decision, and permits parties to file comments on the information provided. "Paper hearings" were first established in Gas Inventory Charge cases.
Industry:Energy
Almost pure amorphous carbon consisting of extremely fine particles, usually produced from gaseous or liquid hydrocarbons by controlled combustion with a restricted air supply or by thermal decomposition.
Industry:Energy
Electrical current (normally DC) from either natural or man-caused source, which could result in corrosion if not drained properly or compensated for by other means.
Industry:Energy
