- Industria: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Curtailment of gas service is a method to balance a utility's natural gas requirements with its natural gas supply. Usually there is a hierarchy of customers for the curtailment plan. A customer may be required to partially cut back or totally eliminate his take of gas depending on the severity of the shortfall between gas supply and demand and the customer's position in the hierarchy.
Industry:Energy
A formal meeting of interested parties in a rate proceeding before an administrative law judge or regulatory commission to obtain a decision on differences in a filing. Hearing may include written testimony, cross-examination of company witnesses, rebuttal testimony, recross-examination of these witnesses by the company, initial briefs, reply briefs addressing arguments raised by other in the initial briefs, and oral arguments.
Industry:Energy
The amount of heat produced by the complete combustion of a unit quantity of fuel. The gross of higher heating value is that which is obtained when all of the products of combustion are cooled to the temperature existing before combustion, the water vapor formed during combustion is condensed, and all the necessary corrections have been made. The net or lower heating value is obtained by subtracting the latent heat of vaporization of the water vapor, formed by the combustion of the hydrogen in the fuel, from the gross or higher heating value.
Industry:Energy
Defines the type of customer. The common classes of service applied to ultimate consumers, and considerably more completely described in the A.G.A. publication "Definitions of a Gas Customer and Classes of Service for Industry Reporting Purposes", are: 1.Residential Service: Covers service to customers for domestic purposes (single, multifamily, or mobile homes, etc.). In residential service, the number of housing units within a structure determines the customer classification. 2.Commercial Service: Covers service to customers engaged in wholesale or retail trade, agriculture, communications, finance, fisheries, forestry, government, insurance, real estate, transportation, etc., and to customers not directly involved in other classes of service. 3.Industrial Service: Covers service to customers engaged primarily in a process which either involves the extraction of raw materials from the earth or a change of raw unfinished materials into another form or product.
Industry:Energy
The period of time during which the flow is averaged in determining demand, such as 60-minute or 30-minute.
Industry:Energy
These are payments for gas made to producers when the transmission company is unable to meet its contractual obligations to buy gas at a specified time. After the transmission companies' facilities are completed, the gas previously paid for is obtained from the producer over the period of the contracts as the producers' capacities permit.
Industry:Energy
Degradation of atmospheric quality due to heat, particulate, or other products from industrial plants, power plants, refineries, or vehicular engines.
Industry:Energy
a. Producer/Producer - When one or more producers sell or utilize a volume of natural gas in excess of their gross working interest. b. Pipeline/Pipeline - When a pipeline receives a volume of natural gas and redelivers a larger or smaller volume of natural gas under the terms of a transportation agreement. c. Producer/Pipeline - When a producer delivers a volume of natural gas that is larger or smaller than the volume of natural gas that the pipeline redelivers for the producer's account to another party.
Industry:Energy
Designates a method of identifying the size of steel pipe without compromising the actual diameter data. Thus nominal 1 inch pipe with the actual external diameter of 1.315 inch (33.40 mm) becomes NPS 1; nominal 14 inch pipe with internal diameter of 13.250 inch (336.55 mm) becomes NPS 14.
Industry:Energy
