- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
The difference between original cost and net salvage value of utility plant.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of gas volume after expansion to the gas volume before expansion.
Industry:Energy
Working interest owner's share of production. This volume may not equal actual sales due to contractual or market conditions. Also, the amount of gas to which a customer is entitled from a seller.
Industry:Energy
A classification method that assigns 100% of fixed costs to the demand component of the rate.
Industry:Energy
A landman whose primary duty is to procure leases on tracts of land for exploration and development of gas and oil products.
Industry:Energy
A rock stratum that can be identified over large areas and from which measurements can be taken to determine geologic structure.
Industry:Energy
An automatic valve designed to discharge when a preset pressure and/or temperature condition is reached. 1. Pressure Relief Valve. An automatic valve which opens and closes a relief vent, depending on whether the pressure is above or below a predetermined value. 2.Temperature Relief Valve. a. Fusible Type. A valve which opens and keeps open a relief vent by the melting or softening of a fusible element at a predetermined temperature. b.Manual Reset Type. A valve which automatically opens a relief vent at a predetermined temperature and which must be manually returned to the closed position. c. Reseating or Self-Closing Type. An automatic valve which opens and closes a relief vent when the temperature reaches a predetermined value. d. Vacuum Relief Valve. An automatic valve which opens or closes a vent for relieving a vacuum, depending on whether the vacuum is above or below a predetermined value. Frequently used in a hot water supply system.
Industry:Energy
Gas in an underground storage field that is available for market. See STORAGE, UNDERGROUND.
Industry:Energy
Point at which gas leaves a transporter's system completing a sale or transportation service transaction between the pipeline company and a sale or trans-portation service customer.
Industry:Energy
