- 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.
The same as "dollar-years" except expressed in terms of units rather than plant dollars.
Industry:Energy
A connection in which an internal threaded fitting and an external threaded piece of pipe or other fitting are screwed together.
Industry:Energy
A measure of permeability. A permeability of one darcy means that the material will pass a fluid of one centipoise viscosity through a section of one cubic centimeter at a rate of one cubic centimeter per second with a drop in pressure of one standard atmosphere.
Industry:Energy
An instrument used to determine the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of a given substance (as water or hydrogen) taken as a standard, when both densities are obtained by weighing in air.
Industry:Energy
Generally, the act of searching for potential subsurface reservoirs of gas or oil. Methods include the use of magnetometers, gravity meters, seismic exploration, surface mapping, exploratory drillings, and other such methods.
Industry:Energy
The fitting that connects to the inlet and the outlet of a small gas meter.
Industry:Energy
The sampling of combustion products to determine the percentage of constituents and their temperature.
Industry:Energy
