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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industri: Energy
Number of terms: 18450
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A trade centre for quoting prices on contracts for the delivery of a specified quantity of a commodity at a specified time and place in the future.
Industry:Energy
A volumetric measure equal to 4 quarts (231 cubic inches) used to measure fuel oil. One barrel equals 42 gallons.
Industry:Energy
Gas
A non-solid, non-liquid combustible energy source that includes natural gas, coke-oven gas, blast-furnace gas, and refinery gas.
Industry:Energy
A fast breeder reactor that is cooled by a gas (usually helium) under pressure.
Industry:Energy
European and Asian designation for No. 2 heating oil and No. 2 diesel fuel.
Industry:Energy
Any firm, including a gas plant owner, which operates a gas plant and keeps the gas plant records. A gas plant is a facility in which natural gas liquids are separated from natural gas or in which natural gas liquids are fractionated or otherwise separated into natural gas liquid products or both.
Industry:Energy
A facility designed to recover natural gas liquids from a stream of natural gas that may or may not have passed through lease separators and/or field separation facilties. Another function of natural gas processing plants is to control the quality of the processed natural gas stream. Cycling plants are considered natural gas processing plants.
Industry:Energy
A process that combines the carbon and hydrogen elements in natural gas molecules to make synthetic liquid petroleum products, such as diesel fuel.
Industry:Energy
A plant in which the prime mover is a gas turbine. A gas turbine consists typically of an axial-flow air compressor and one or more combustion chambers where liquid or gaseous fuel is burned and the hot gases are passed to the turbine and where the hot gases expand drive the generator and are then used to run the compressor.
Industry:Energy
A well completed for production of natural gas from one or more gas zones or reservoirs. Such wells contain no completions for the production of crude oil.
Industry:Energy