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Abandoned Well
"An oil or gas well not in use because it was a dry hole originally, or because it has ceased to produce in paying quantities. State statutes and regulations require the plugging of abandoned wells to prevent oil, gas, or water seeping from one stratum of underlying rock to another."
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Abandonment
"Termination of a sale or interstate transportation of natural gas. Abandonment of a service that is subject to FERC jurisdiction requires some type of advance determination by the FERC under Section 7 (b) of the NGA that the ""present or future public convenience and necessity"" requires termination."
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Abandonment, Pregranted
A provision of a FERC certificate of public convenience and necessity that authorizes abandonment on a future condition subsequent or on a date certain.
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Absolute Pressure
See PRESSURE.
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Access
The legal right to use an electrical or gas transmission and /or distribution system as a means of transferring electrical energy or natural gas as set forth in the contract.
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Access Charge
"A charge levied on power supplied, or its customer, for access to a utility's transmission or distribution system. It is a charge for the right to send electricity over another's wires."
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Account No. 191
"Tracking system established by the FERC for unrecovered gas supply costs incurred by interstate pipelines, to be eliminated once pipelines sell gas at market-based rates under blanket sales certificates pursuant to Order No. 636."
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Account No. 858
Tracking system established by the FERC used by interstate pipelines for costs incurred transporting sales gas on upstream pipelines.
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Ace
See Area Control Error.
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Acid Rain
"Also called acid precipitation or acid deposition, acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned. It can be wet precipitation (rain, snow, or fog) or dry precipitation (absorbed gaseous and particulate matter, aerosol particles or dust). Acid rain has a pH below 5.6. Normal rain has a pH of about 5.6, which is slightly acidic. The term pH is a measure of acidity or alkalinity and ranges from 0 to 14. A pH measurement of 7 is regarded as neutral. Measurements below 7 indicate increased acidity, while those above indicate increased alkalinity."