Nipple up
To put together, connect parts or otherwise make ready for use. Term especially used for the installation of a blowout preventer
Nipples
Short piece of pipe, especially if threaded at both ends with male threads. A tubular pipe fitting threaded on both ends used for making connections between pipe joints and other tools
Nitrogen oxide reduction
Nox reduction methods include the use of “low Nox burners”. These specially designed burners restrict the amount of oxygen available in the hottest part of the combustion chamber where the coal is burned. This minimizes the formation of the gas and requires less post-combustion treatment
Naftogaz NJSC
The National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine is the leading enterprise in Ukraine’s fuel and energy complex, one of the biggest Ukrainian companies. Naftogaz of Ukraine produces one eighth of the gross domestic product of Ukraine and provides one tenth of the State budget revenues. The total number of the Company’s employees is 170 …
National Grid (UK)
National Grid (formerly Transco) is an international electricity and gas company and one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world. UK retail (Centrica), Gas transportation (Transco, subsequently acquired by National Grid) and International production (BG Group) National Grid plays a vital role in delivering gas and electricity to many millions of people across Great Britain …
Natural gas prices
Natural gas and oil prices are influenced by a number of issues, partially psychological in nature (speculative investments, perceived risks, government interference in oil and gas markets in the form of subsidies) and partially due to economic, political or technical factors (higher demand, tight capacity along the whole chain of supply – transport – storage …
Natural gas prices volatility, gas price volatility
Prices of natural gas that move up and down in a volatile manner due to a host of influences, many of which tend to be dictated by supply, demand and climate changes. Just as an example, when an earthquake in 2007 forced a Japanese nuclear plant to close, utilities there ramped up natural gas use …
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Natural gas resource base
The entire volume of natural gas contained and trapped in the earth, before any is extracted and produced. Essentially, the total resource base includes estimations of all of the natural gas that is, or was (before production), trapped in the earth. Most of this natural gas is in forms that are technically non-recoverable. For instance, …
Midstream
A term sometimes used to refer to those industry activities that fall between exploration and production (upstream) and refining and marketing (downstream). The term is most often applied to pipeline transportation of crude oil and natural gas and is thus mostly the sector comprising all those activities relating to the construction and management of the …
Minerals Management Service
The Minerals Management Service is part of the US ministry of the Interior and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It includes two major programs, Offshore Energy and Minerals Management and Minerals Revenue Management. The Offshore program, which manages the mineral resources on the OCS, comprises three regions: Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific. The …