- 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 contributions or donations in cash, property, or services from companies, states, municipalities, other governmental agencies, individuals, and others for construction purposes, now carried as a plant item. Compare ADVANCES FOR CONSTRUCTION.
Industry:Energy
The process of removing liquids and moisture content from gas or other matter.
Industry:Energy
Under traditional sales service agreements, transmission and distribution companies purchase gas from suppliers, transport the gas to customers and sell it to them. Under transportation service agreements, transmission and distribution companies transport gas supplies for customers who have purchased the gas directly from other parties.
Industry:Energy
A box around a drip, accessible at grade level, which protects the drip and pipe.
Industry:Energy
A graphical presentation of survivors at the beginning of each of a consecutive series of age intervals. The area under a complete curve represents the total dollar years or unit years of service. A stub survivor curve is one which does not extend to zero survivors. The curve is plotted from the observed life table.
Industry:Energy
A provision in a gas sales contract that specifies that the price paid for the gas would be the highest allowed regulated price.
Industry:Energy
An acronym for Petroleum Industry Data Exchange. The American Petroleum Institute Subcommittee which is an electronic data interchange action group for the oil and gas industry.
Industry:Energy
Exploding nitroglycerine or other high explosives in a hole to shatter the rock and increase the flow of oil. Same as torpedoing. Also, in seismograph work, this refers to the discharge of explosives to create vibrations in the earth's crust. See SEISMOGRAPH.
Industry:Energy
