- Settore: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Any new reserve credited to a previously producing reservoir because of enlargement of its producing area due to new well drilling or completions outside the previously known producing limits of the reservoir.
Industry:Energy
In DSM, an estimate of energy savings based on the assumption that all energy-efficient options will be adopted and all existing equipment will be replaced with the most efficient measure possible whenever it is cost-effective to do so, without regard to market acceptance. Compare ACHIEVABLE POTENTIAL, MARKET POTENTIAL and TECHNICAL POTENTIAL.
Industry:Energy
Same as plastic pipe except that it is usually of small diameter and sized on the same system commonly used for copper tubing.
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Steel pipe generally used to construct pipelines to transport petroleum and natural gas.
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The impervious geological stratum that overlays the reservoir rock and retains gas or oil in a reservoir.
Industry:Energy
The temperature an air parcel would have if cooled adiabatically to saturation at constant pressure by evaporation of water from it, all latent heat being supplied by the parcel.
Industry:Energy
A device designed to regulate the gas, air, water, and/or electrical supply to a gas-consuming or any other device.
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A method of classifying costs as demand or commodity costs promulgated by the FPC in Opinion 225, April 25, 1952. Generally, this method allocates 50% of the pipeline's fixed storage and transmission costs to the demand component and 50% to the commodity component of the rates.
Industry:Energy
A system that uses natural convective currents or other nonmechanical means for collecting, storing, and distributing solar energy.
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Any of 5 isomeric, volatile, liquid, paraffin hydrocarbons C6H14 found in petroleum.
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