- 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.
Authorizes open access transportation by interstate pipeline companies on behalf of others and certain services by local distribution companies and Hinshaw companies under blanket certificates (of public convenience and necessity) subject to certain conditions and reporting requirements. Blanket certificates pre-grant authority for abandonment of the transportation service upon expiration of the contractual term.
Industry:Energy
Industry term used to refer to the method used to increase the deliverability of a production or underground storage well by pumping a liquid or other substance into a well under pressure to crack (fracture) and prop open the gas-bearing formation.
Industry:Energy
That part of a gas turbine into which fuel is injected and burned.
Industry:Energy
The location in miles along a pipeline from 0.00, usually expressed in hundredths of a mile.
Industry:Energy
The term used by FPC and FERC to indicate the period in which a gas sales contract was made and/or the date drilling was started on a well.
Industry:Energy
A fitted plate held in place by clamps, straps, heat fusion, or welding over a hole punched or drilled in a gas main to which a branch line or service line connection is made. The saddle also may serve as a reinforcing member for repair.
Industry:Energy
A plant in which hydrocarbon components common to the gasoline fractions are removed from "wet" natural gas, leaving a "drier" gas. See EXTRACTION PLANT.
Industry:Energy
A well not in use because it was a dry hole originally, or because it has ceased to produce. Statutes and regulations in many states require the plugging of abandoned wells to prevent the seepage of oil, gas, or water from one stratum to another.
Industry:Energy
Credits provided by FERC Order No.500 which allow the pipeline to credit a quantity of gas it transports against its obligation to take a similar quantity of gas under a take-or-pay contract executed before June 23, 1987.
Industry:Energy
