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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industry: Energy
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A company primarily engaged in the gathering of natural gas from well or field lines for delivery, for a fee, to a natural gas processing plant or central point. Gathering companies may also provide compression, dehydration, and/or treating services.
Industry:Energy
Total footage for wells in various categories, as reported for any specified period, includes (1)the deepest total depth (length of well bores) of all wells drilled from the surface, (2) the total of all bypassed footage drilled in connection with reported wells, and (3) all new footage drilled for directional sidetrack wells. Footage reported for directional side-track wells does not include footage in the common bore that is reported as footage for the original well. In the case of old wells drilled deeper, the reported footage is that which was drilled below the total depth of the old well.
Industry:Energy
Defined by the FASB as the conventions, rules, and procedures necessary to define accepted accounting practice at a particular time, includes both broad guidelines and relatively detailed practices and procedures.
Industry:Energy
The shut down of a generating unit, transmission line, or other facility for emergency reasons or a condition in which the generating equipment is unavailable for load due to unanticipated break-down.
Industry:Energy
An existing or planned location or site at which electricity is or will be produced.
Industry:Energy
Refers to proved reserves of crude, condensate, and natural gas liquids applicable to long-term supply agreements with foreign governments or authorities in which the company or one of its affiliates acts as producer.
Industry:Energy
A station that consists of electric generators and auxiliary equipment for converting mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy into electric energy.
Industry:Energy
Gains or losses resulting from the effect of exchange rate changes on transactions denominated in currencies other than the functional currency (for example, a U.S. enterprise may borrow Swiss francs or a French subsidiary may have a receivable denominated in kroner from a Danish customer). Gains and losses on those foreign currency transactions are generally included in determining net income for the period in which exchange rates change unless the transaction hedges a foreign currency commitment or a net investment in a foreignentity. Intercompany transactions of a long-term investment nature are considered part of a parent's net investment and hence do not give rise to gains or losses.
Industry:Energy
Any combination of physically connected generators, reactors, boilers, combustion turbines, and other prime movers operated together to produce electric power.
Industry:Energy
Gains or losses resulting from the process of expressing amounts denominated or measured in one currency in terms of another currency by use of the exchange rate between the two currencies. This process is generally required to consolidate the financial statements of foreign affiliates into the total company financial statements and to recognizethe conversion of foreign currency or the settlement of a receivable or payable denominated in foreign currency at a rate different from that atwhich the item is recorded. Translation adjustments are not included indetermining net income, but are disclosed as separate components of consolidated equity.
Industry:Energy