- 行业: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A type of lamp in which the flame impinges on a knitted cup or mantle saturated with certain chemical compounds that are heated to incandescence and emit a bright, white light.
Industry:Energy
Certain parties have advanced the concept of the "Golden Rule" in pipeline rate cases. Under this concept, the pipeline as a merchant must be subject to all of the terms and conditions as other shippers on the pipeline's system. The pipeline, as a merchant, must contract with itself for transportation service and receive a priority for scheduling and curtailment under the same terms as other shippers. See COMPARABILITY OF SERVICE.
Industry:Energy
Last-in, first out method of inventory valuation in which the earliest acquired inventory is assumed to be still on hand; the most recently acquired is assumed to be sold first.
Industry:Energy
That state of matter which has neither independent shape nor volume. It expands to fill the entire container in which it is held. It is one of the three forms of matter, the other two being solid and liquid.
Industry:Energy
The maximum or minimum required operating pressure at a receipt or delivery point as specified in the Service Agreement.
Industry:Energy
The trade name of an instrument used to determine whether or not the well bore is proceeding in a vertical orientation at any point. In most drilling operations, either government bodies or contract stipulations or both, provide a maximum deviation of the well bore from the vertical; commonly, this maximum is three degrees. When deviation is in excess of the allowable, it is necessary to modify drilling procedures to bring it back in line.
Industry:Energy
A deferred credit account representing cash advances paid to the utility by customers requiring the construction of facilities in their behalf. These advances are refundable -- the time or extent of refund is dependent on the contract provisions of the advance (usually dependent on whether or not during a specified period the revenue from the installation warrants the refund). The unrefunded balance, if any, must be transferred to the appropriate plant account.
Industry:Energy
A metre which uses a flexible diaphragm in a bellows-type arrangement to measure the volume of gas. Compare METER, POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT.
Industry:Energy
A substantial enlargement or improvement of existing structures, facilities, or equipment by the replacement or improvement of parts, which has the effect of extending the useful life of the property, increasing its capacity, lowering its operating cost, or otherwise adding to the worth through the benefit it can yield.
Industry:Energy
Any contract, other than a rollover contract, entered into on or after the date of enactment of the NGPA of 1978, for the first sale of natural gas that was previously subject to an existing contract, whether or not there is an identity of parties or terms with those of the previously existing contract.
Industry:Energy
