- 行业: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A provision which decreases a shipper's right to capacity if the shipper does not use it at a certain level. The purpose of such a provision is to encourage accurate capacity nominations and full pipeline utilization. Because firm shippers pay a reservation charge for capacity, whether or not they fully utilise that capacity, the Commission has found that no use-or-lose provision may apply to firm transportation.
Industry:Energy
An agency of convection. In heat transfer, a surface designed to transfer its heat to a surrounding fluid largely or wholly by convection. The heated fluid may be moved mechanically or by gravity (gravity convector). Such a surface may or may not be enclosed or concealed.
Industry:Energy
Favoured name for centigrade scale, with freezing points and boiling points of water at 0 degrees and 100 degrees, respectively.
Industry:Energy
The conversion of carbonaceous material into gas or the extraction of gas from another fuel.
Industry:Energy
The products of combustion and excess air before the draught hood or draught regulator consisting principally of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, oxygen, and nitrogen.
Industry:Energy
Useful asset lives (by general categories) as determined and allowed for income tax depreciation charges by The Internal Revenue Service.
Industry:Energy
A capacity allocation method under which the first shipper to have requested service shall be the first to be offered such service. The pipeline is only obligated to provide service to a particular customer to the extent capacity is available.
Industry:Energy
A group of organic chemical compounds containing an SH group having distinctive odours in small concentrations is often added to natural or LP gases to warn of leaks. Compare ODORANT.
Industry:Energy
A purchase agreement where the supplier (producer) agrees to supply a specified volume of natural gas over a specified period of time and warrants that it has sufficient reserves to meet its commitments over the life of the contract.
Industry:Energy
