- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A polymer prepared by the polymerization of propylene as the sole monomer.
Industry:Energy
Account(s) shown on a corporation's balance sheet, typically a net liability, that represents a future (deferred) claim by the government against the corporation's assets. Deferred income taxes arise from the use of accelerated or liberalized depreciation for tax purposes instead of straight-line or other non-liberalized depreciation methods used for book purposes, and from other temporary differences in the recognition of revenue and expense items for income tax purposes and for financial reporting purposes.
Industry:Energy
Detailing (in confidence to the appropriate client) the sales and parties in transactions involving units of natural gas, which can be lengthy and complex.
Industry:Energy
Natural gas in high-pressure surface containers that is highly compressed (though not to the point of liquefaction). CNG is used extensively as a trans-portation fuel for automobiles, trucks and buses in some parts of Italy, New Zealand, and in Western Canada, and has recently begun to penetrate some regions of the United States. Small amounts of natural gas are also transported overland in high-pressure containers.
Industry:Energy
The amount of the system's capacity to deliver gas which a natural gas pipeline or distributor agrees to reserve for a particular customer and for which the customer agrees to pay a demand charge as specified in the applicable tariff. Also, the daily quantity of gas which a supplier agrees to furnish and for which the buyer agrees to pay, under a specific contract.
Industry:Energy
Those costs (e.g., supervisory costs) not directly assignable to either construction or operation accounts which are accumulated in clearing accounts to be distributed to appropriate accounts on some reasonable basis. Compare COSTS, COMMON.
Industry:Energy
A device which manually or automatically proportions combustion air to fuel over the whole operating range of the burner or burners.
Industry:Energy
A neutral fluid added to another fluid to reduce the concentration of the second fluid in a mixture.
Industry:Energy
