- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
- Number of blossaries: 1
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Failure that occurs through essentially microscopic breaks in the pipewall, frequently only at or near the test pressure.
Industry:Energy
Other fuels that can be substituted for the fuel in use. In the case of natural gas, the most common alternative fuels are distillate fuel oils, residual fuel oils, coal and wood.
Industry:Energy
The conversion of a portion or all of a firm sales customer's contract demand to firm transportation. Part 284 of the regulations requires an open access interstate pipeline to offer its firm sales customers a yearly option of converting a specified portion of its sales entitlements under any ELIGIBLE FIRM SALES SERVICE AGREEMENT to transportation.
Industry:Energy
The process whereby heated or unheated plastic forced through a shaping orifice becomes one continuously formed piece.
Industry:Energy
Use of an electrical apparatus transmitting data to a distant point for indicating, recording, or integrating the values of a variable quantity.
Industry:Energy
A business organization performing a service relating to or affecting all of the people within a specified area, usually under provisions of a franchise, charter or "certificate", and subject to special governmental regulations. See SERVICE AREA.
Industry:Energy
A group of balance sheet accounts which includes common capital stock, preferred capital stock, other paid-in capital installments received on capital stock, discount on capital stock, capital stock expense, appropriated retained earnings, unappropriated retained earnings, and reacquired capital stock.
Industry:Energy
A provision included in many prior settlements, and often examined by Staff, that if actual volumes exceed an agreed level during the period of time the rates are in effect, the pipeline agrees to refund the fixed costs received in the commodity rate. The SRO can be offset by increases in certain jurisdictional costs. The SRO has not been used with the Modified Fixed Variable classification method.
Industry:Energy
An adjustable or removable bored steel fitting designed to reduce pressure and/or control production from a gas well or an oil well.
Industry:Energy
