- 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.
A factor which is used to reduce a strength value to obtain an engineering design stress. The factor may vary depending on the service conditions, the hazard, the length of service desired, the uncertainties, and the properties of the pipe.
Industry:Energy
A pilot which is automatically lighted each time there is a call for heat, it burns during the entire period that the main burner is firing.
Industry:Energy
A vertical pipe, either inside or outside a foundation wall, from the grade of the service pipe to the level of the meter.
Industry:Energy
Contract specifying the terms and conditions for the exchange of wellhead gas production between different companies usually within the same producing field.
Industry:Energy
Means of reducing the energy resources required to do a task such as heating a house, transporting freight between two points, or producing steel.
Industry:Energy
The number of cubic feet of gas introduced into the well for gas-lift operations, per barrel of oil lifted.
Industry:Energy
The volume of a unit weight of a substance at specific temperature and pressure conditions.
Industry:Energy
(Definition taken from the FERC Uniform System of Accounts, effective April 1, 1986.) "Retirement Units" means those items of plant which, when retired, with or without replacement, are accounted for by crediting the book cost thereof to the plant account in which included. ("Definitions" Item 32.) Each utility shall use list of retirement units as is in use by it at the effective date hereof or as may be prescribed by the Commission, with the option, however, of using smaller units, provided the utility's practice in this respect is consistent.
Industry:Energy
