- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
- Number of blossaries: 1
- Company Profile:
The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
The demand which is used to determine demand charges in accordance with the provisions of a rate schedule or contract. It does not necessarily coincide with the actual measured demand of the billing period.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of (a) income before interest charges, adjusted to exclude income taxes, to (b) interest charges (principally interest on long-term debt). Used as a measure of the interest coverage or safety.
Industry:Energy
Where fuel to the main burner is turned on only by hand and ignited under supervision.
Industry:Energy
A hydraulic device operated by pump pressure for the purpose of cleaning fluid out of the pits and tanks on a rotary drilling location.
Industry:Energy
A requirement that gas entering a pipeline for transportation (receipts) must equal the amount leaving the pipeline (deliveries). This requirement is enforced by levying penalties on any difference between receipts and deliveries on an hourly, daily and monthly basis.
Industry:Energy
Gas burners that are sealed to prevent spillovers from reaching the burner box.
Industry:Energy
Plastics made by combining polyvinylchloride with colorants, fillers, plasticizers, stabilizers, lubricants, other polymers, and other compounding ingredients. Not all of these modifiers are used in pipe compounds.
Industry:Energy
