- 行业: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Combustible material, as pertaining to material adjacent to or in contact with heat producing appliances, chimney connectors and vent connectors, steam and hot water pipes, and warm air ducts, means material made of or surfaced with wood, compressed paper, plant fibers, or other material that will ignite and burn. Such material shall be considered as combustible even though flameproofed, fire retardant treated, or plastered.
Industry:Energy
Long, heavy iron or concrete sleeves installed on a pipeline to prevent injury to pipe laid in a river bottom and to weight the pipe. Sometimes known as river weights or dogs.
Industry:Energy
The act of bringing under control a well which is blowing out; also applied to the procedure of circulating water and mud into a completed well before starting well operations.
Industry:Energy
The measure of a fluid's tendency to resist flow, without regard to its density. By definition, the product of a fluid's kinematic viscosity times its density.
Industry:Energy
A device designed for removing liquids or solids from a gaseous stream; a low spot in a pipeline or main. Compare DRIP.
Industry:Energy
A method of apportioning costs among utility customers so that users who place a greater value on the service are charged higher rates than the more price sensitive customers.
Industry:Energy
A system of transmission or distribution lines so cross-connected and operated as to permit multiple supply to any principal point on it.
Industry:Energy
Any natural gas company with combined sales for resale and gas transported or stored for a fee exceeding 50 million Mcf at standard conditions in each of the three previous calendar years.
Industry:Energy
In DSM, an efficiency measure that is cost-effective but does not get installed, and which is unlikely to be cost-effective at a later time.
Industry:Energy
