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Industry: Energy
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A hard, black coal with high energy content, often referred to as hard coal.
Industry:Energy
Refers to a particular grade of polypropylene with around 93-94% purity.
Industry:Energy
Can include ethane, propane, butane, isobutane and natural gasoline/condensate. Not to be confused with LNG, liquefied natural gas. LNG is artificially liquefied methane, not the heavier fractions defined as NGLs.
Industry:Energy
A component combined with other materials to produce a finished refined product.
Industry:Energy
Number equal to the percentage by volume of cetane added to basic diesel fuel to achieve specific ignition performance characteristics.
Industry:Energy
Number of times the same quantity of gas can be injected into and withdrawn from storage in a set period of time. Certain types of storage fields, like aquifer and depleted oil and gas fields, need to be filled and largely emptied during a specific period of time in order to maintain the physical capabilities of the geologic structure.
Industry:Energy
A pricing basis in which the buyer pays the cost of the cargo and the freight costs.
Industry:Energy
Used by commodities traders to describe non-public transactions.
Industry:Energy
The amount of unused available capability that can be applied to the system within ten minutes at peakload for a utility system, expressed as a percentage of total capability.
Industry:Energy
Energy sold on a non-firm basis and subject to recall at the discretion of the selling party.
Industry:Energy