- 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.
A device for detecting vibrations in the earth. It is used in prospecting for probable oil or gas bearing structures. In this application, the vibrations are created by discharging explosives in shallow bore holes. The nature and velocity of the vibrations as recorded by the seismograph indicate the general nature of the section of earth through which the vibrations pass.
Industry:Energy
In general, resistance to flow; that property of semi-fluids and gases by virtue of which they resist an instantaneous change of shape or arrangement of molecules.
Industry:Energy
A piece of equipment for separating one substance from another when they are intimately mixed, such as removing oil from water, oil from gas, ash from flue gas, or tramp iron from coal.
Industry:Energy
A DSM program that is generally limited in scope or targeted to a select group of customers and is designed to test or build capability to deliver a full scale program. Compare FULL SCALE PROGRAM.
Industry:Energy
The voltage that will rupture or puncture the material when placed between electrodes of a given size.
Industry:Energy
Contract sale of natural gas by producer to end user or local distribution company, usually for a term of a year or longer.
Industry:Energy
