- Industry: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A dry cooler that passes cooling air over finned tubes, through which some hot fluid is being passed, during the cooling process. A fan is used to create movement of air over the finned tubes. Air movement is regulated in a number of ways, the most common being a variable speed fan.
Industry:Energy
A person concerned with the acquisition of leases, clearing of land titles, payment of lease rentals, and other related activities.
Industry:Energy
A valve for controlling the flow of refrigerant to the cooling element.
Industry:Energy
Company which derives the major portion of its total operating revenue from gas operations. For purposes of A.G.A. statistics, a straight gas utility derives at least 95 percent of its total operating revenues from gas operations.
Industry:Energy
Main transmission line valve designed to close in or shut down gas flow.
Industry:Energy
The act of replacing the atmosphere within a container by an inert substance in such a manner as to prevent the formation of explosive mixtures.
Industry:Energy
The methodology used under the EQUITABLE SHARING MECHANISM to allocate take-or-pay buyout and buydown costs, to be recovered through fixed charges. Each firm sales customer's fixed charge is determined by comparing its cumulative purchase deficiency with that of the system. The intent is for each customer to bear a portion of take-or-pay responsibility commensurate with its reduced purchases during the period take-or-pay was incurred, as the build-up of take-or-pay liability, and the inability of the pipeline to recover it, resulted from the reduced purchases of its firm sales customers. See EQUITABLE SHARING MECHANISM, DEFICIENCY PERIOD and BASE PERIOD.
Industry:Energy
The use of gas in a residence, commercial establishment using less than a set volume (i.e., 50,000 cubic feet per day), school, hospital, or similar institution, any use which, if curtailed, would endanger life, health or maintenance of physical property.
Industry:Energy
A gas resulting from the thermal decomposition of petroleum oils, composed mainly of volatile hydrocarbons and hydrogen. The true heating value of oil gas may vary between 800 and 1600 Btu per cubic foot depending on operating conditions and feedstock properties.
Industry:Energy
