- 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.
Equipment installed for the purpose of automatically reducing and regulating the pressure in the downstream pipeline or main to which it is connected. Included are piping auxiliary devices such as valves, control instruments, control lines, the enclosures, and ventilating equipment. See PRESSURE LIMITING STATION and PRESSURE RELIEF STATION.
Industry:Energy
A geographical area which exploration has shown contains sedimentary rocks and structure favorable for the presence of oil or gas.
Industry:Energy
An abbreviated application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity that may be filed under Section 7 of the NGA whenever the proposed action does not require all of the data and information normally filed in a certificate application in order to disclose fully the nature and extent of the proposed undertaking.
Industry:Energy
The computer-to-computer exchange of data for business transactions.
Industry:Energy
A geographical area. A geological zone, however, means an interval of strata of the geologic column that has distinguishing characteristics from surrounding strata. Also, a space or group of spaces within a building with heating and/or cooling requirements sufficiently similar so that comfort conditions can be maintained by a single controlling device.
Industry:Energy
A property of ions or of radicals determining the number of ions with which they can combine in chemical reactions.
Industry:Energy
Equipment or device that extracts or drives out vapors from liquid solutions or gases. Also, equipment that is part of refrigerating systems to permit liquid refrigerants to evaporate in the process of absorbing heat.
Industry:Energy
The concept that the value of a utility service to a consumer cannot be greater than the cost of an equally satisfactory substitute service or the consumer will switch to the substitute.
Industry:Energy
The process of cutting out a portion of a weld in a pipeline for testing as to acceptability.
Industry:Energy
