- Industry: Energy
 
- Number of terms: 18218
 
- Number of blossaries: 1
 
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                                                        The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.                             
                                                     
                        The cost of gas as it comes from the well excluding cleaning, compression, transportation, and distribution charges.    
    
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									The quantity of gas that is not normally recovered from storage field operation. The same as BASE GAS, or CUSHION GAS.    
    
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									Utility which supplies both gas and some other utility service (electricity, water, etc.). For purposes of A.G.A. statistics, a combination utility derives at least 5 percent but less than 95 percent of its total operating revenues from gas operation.    
    
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									A central furnace designed for installation in a duct of an air distribution system to supply warm air for heating and which depends for air circulation on a blower not furnished as part of the furnace.    
    
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									A heat disseminating unit located at the lower perimeter of a room. Heat is supplied to these units by hot water, warm air, steam, or hot flue gases.    
    
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									A rate design method which assigns all fixed costs to the demand component and all variable costs to the commodity component of rates. This method was used by the FPC prior to 1952 and was superseded in 1952 by the Atlantic-Seaboard Method. See ATLANTIC SEABOARD, UNITED METHOD, and MODIFIED FIXED VARIABLE METHODS.    
    
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									An agreement to pay the owner of an adjacent tract for a portion of the cost of drilling an exploratory well on his property.    
    
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									First-in, first-out method of inventory valuation by which the earliest-acquired natural gas in storage is assumed to be sold first and the most recently acquired is assumed to be still on hand.    
    
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									Payments made by pipelines to producers to extinguish (buy-out) outstanding take-or-pay liabilities under existing contracts, or to reform (buy-down) the contracts.    
    
    						Industry:Energy