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Industri: Energy
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A facility designated to achieve the recovery of natural gas liquids from the stream of natural gas, which may or may not have been processed through lease separators and field facilities, and to control the quality of the natural gas to be marketed.
Industry:Energy
The injection of a pressurised fluid (such as air, gas, or water) into oil and gas reservoir formations to effect greater ultimate recovery.
Industry:Energy
Surface mining equipment. Used to determine the amount and type of overburden overlying a coal deposit and the extent of the deposit, to delineate major geologic features, and to drill holes for explosives to fragment the overburden for easier removal.
Industry:Energy
Energy supplied to other electric utilities, cooperatives, municipals, and Federal and state electric agencies for resale to ultimate consumers.
Industry:Energy
A company that arranges purchases and sales of natural gas. Unlike pipeline companies or local distribution companies, a marketer does not own physical assets commonly used in the supply of natural gas, such as pipelines or storage fields. A marketer may be an affiliate of another company, such as a local distribution company, natural gas pipeline, or producer, but it operates independently of other segments of the company. In States with residential choice programs, marketers serve as alternative suppliers to residential users of natural gas, which is delivered by a local distribution company.
Industry:Energy
Natural gas liquids recovered from natural gas processing plants (and in some cases from field facilities), including ethane, propane, butane, butane-propane mixtures,natural gasoline, plant condensate, and lease condensate.
Industry:Energy
A structure used primarily as a dwelling for one or more households.
Industry:Energy
Surface mining equipment. A tractor with a digging bucket mounted and operated on the front. It is often used to remove overburden in contour mining and to load coal.
Industry:Energy
The transmission of electric energy sold, or to be sold, in the wholesale electric power market.
Industry:Energy
Those hydrocarbons in natural gas that are separated as liquids at natural gas processing plants, fractionating and cycling plants, and, in some instances, field facilities. Lease condensate is excluded. Products obtained include ethane; liquefied petroleum gases (propane, butanes,propane-butane mixtures, ethane-propane mixtures); isopentane; and other small quantities of finished products, such as motor gasoline, special naphthas, jet fuel, kerosene, and distillate fuel oil.
Industry:Energy