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book bias

book bias  n.— «The case against former El Paso natural gas trader Todd Geiger, who pleaded guilty last year, includes e-mails in which his colleagues discuss whether to report only real trades or include “book bias”—trader...

chevrolegs

chevrolegs  n.pl.— «When gas is $1.35 around here (which it hasn’t been in years), I just use my Chevro-Legs a little more often.» —“Re: Shipping / Handling—Where do YOU work?” by Isaiah Beard (ibeard@pobox...

gas-brake dipping

gas-brake dipping  n.— «One popular example of kids acting hyphy or “going dumb” is “gas-brake dippin’.” In the Bay, they pile into their cars and, instead of driving normally, they’ll hit the gas, then quickly hit...

elephant

elephant  n.— «Though more than a thousand discoveries are made in the U.S. yearly, “elephant fields”—those containing proven recoverable reserves of 100 million barrels of oil, one trillion cubic feet of gas, or the equivalant...

shut in

shut in  n.— «About 300,000 barrels a day of wellhead capacity, representing about 70 per cent of Western Canada’s potential production, is shut in—a figure that is bound to increase later this year with the commissioning of the Fort...

shut in

shut in  n.— «As it stormed into the Gulf with fierce winds, oil and gas producers moved workers from offshore rigs and platforms located throughout the central and eastern Gulf. This caused a hiatus in production, known as a “shut...

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