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American Gas Association
Industry: 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.
Gas-bearing geologic strata that holds gas too tightly for conventional extraction processes to bring it to the surface at economic rates without special stimulation.
Industry:Energy
Purchases of natural gas for the purchaser's own system supply requirements (i.e., for resale by the purchaser).
Industry:Energy
See STORAGE, UNDERGROUND.
Industry:Energy
The excess of par or stated value over the price paid to the company by the shareholders for original issue shares of its capital stock.
Industry:Energy
The removal of certain impurities from manufactured or natural gas by passing the gas through an oil spray or bubbling the gas through an oil bath.
Industry:Energy
A component of IRP, describing utility actions in the short-term (about two years) to meet the supply and demand objectives of the integrated resource plan.
Industry:Energy
A material having a relatively high resistance to heat transfer.
Industry:Energy
A sleeve-type fitting used to connect two pipes of similar or different materials, providing insulation or continuity.
Industry:Energy
An index used to indicate a gas volume converted to a constant base pressure when used in conjunction with a gas meter operated at a constant pressure other than the contract base pressure.
Industry:Energy
Gases that produce an acidic solution when dissolved in water. Examples of such compounds, often found in natural gas, are hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide.
Industry:Energy