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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industri: Energy
Number of terms: 18450
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Gas released into the air on the production site or at processing plants.
Industry:Energy
A wholesale consumer with generating resources insufficient to carry all its load and whose energy seller is a long-term firm power source supplemental to the consumer's own generation or energy received from others. The terms and conditions of sale are similar to those for a full equirements consumer.
Industry:Energy
A plant in which the prime mover is a steam turbine. The steam used to drive the turbine is produced in a boiler where fossil fuels are burned.
Industry:Energy
Gas that is disposed of by releasing (venting) or burning (flaring).
Industry:Energy
A small, discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions. Particulates take the form of aerosol, dust, fume, mist, smoke, or spray. Each of these forms has different properties.
Industry:Energy
Total crude oil(domestic plus foreign) input to crude oil distillation units and other refinery processing units (cokers, etc.).
Industry:Energy
The cost of labor, materials, fuel, and other expenses incurred in production of steam for electric generation.
Industry:Energy
A method for reducing methane concentrations in coal mines to non-explosive levels by blowing air across the mine face and using large exhaust fans to remove methane while mining operations proceed.
Industry:Energy
The total distance travelled by all passengers. It is calculated as the product of the occupancy rate in vehicles and the vehicle miles traveled.
Industry:Energy
The raw materials and intermediate materials processed at refineries to produce finished petroleum products. They include crude oil, products of natural gas processing plants, unfinished oils, other hydrocarbons and oxygenates, motor gasoline and aviation gasoline blending components and finished petroleum products.
Industry:Energy