- 行业: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
The geological name of that stratum in the earth's crust within which the storage reservoir is located.
Industry:Energy
The storage of gas underground in porous and permeable rock stratum, the pore space of which was originally filled with water and in which the stored gas is confined by suitable structure, permeability barriers, and hydrostatic water pressure.
Industry:Energy
A device used to clean deposits of paraffin or other foreign substances from tubing or flow lines. See PIG and RABBIT.
Industry:Energy
A moisture-impervious layer applied to the warm side for the purpose of preventing moisture travel.
Industry:Energy
A thermal unit of energy equal to 1,000,000 Btus, that is, the equivalent of 1,000 cubic feet of gas having a heating content of 1,000 Btus per cubic foot, as provided by contract measurement terms. See DEKATHERM.
Industry:Energy
Bargaining between two or more unaffiliated parties carried out in a truly competitive manner.
Industry:Energy
Installing only the lowest cost or easy-to- instal DSM measures while ignoring other cost-effective opportunities.
Industry:Energy
That part of the total cost of service which must be recovered through use of a demand rate; i.e., a rate for each Mcf of gas representing the customer's demand on the Company's system.
Industry:Energy
The maximum actual operating pressure existing in a piping system during a normal annual operating cycle or the maximum pressure for safe operation of a system.
Industry:Energy
The time required to pass one cubic foot of air or gas through a given orifice in a flow prover at stated base conditions. This time is stamped on the prover orifice in seconds.
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