Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One thousand million ( 109 )
joules , abbreviated asGJ .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word gigajoule.
Examples
-
The company also has gas assets offshore Western Australia state and said it achieved an average gas price in the third quarter of A$4.57 a gigajoule, 8% higher than a year ago and a little lower than the second quarter's A$4.61.
Santos Revenue Jumps 27% Ross Kelly 2011
-
Natural gas prices have fallen below $5 per gigajoule, yet Saskatchewan consumers have been paying $8.51 per gigajoule since last October.
-
The value of the deal converts to about 30 cents per gigajoule of gas, which is well above the 10 cents per gigajoule paid by Total SA of France for a stake in Japan-based Inpex Corp. 's nearby Ichthys field in 2006, a person familiar with the matter said.
Santos and GDF Suez Forge Energy Alliance Off Australia 2009
-
Natural gas prices have fallen below $5 per gigajoule, yet Saskatchewan consumers have been paying $8.51 per gigajoule since last October.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
-
On Australia's east coast, where CSG comprises almost a quarter of gas production, prices are generally between A$3 and A$3. 50 per gigajoule, "but the amounts the companies would be hoping to get from exports are significantly higher than that," Mr. Bethune says.
-
The deal with Petronas valued Santos's 3P reserves of CSG at A$1. 65 a gigajoule.
-
"[BG] felt that the assets were appropriately valued at between 50 [Australian] cents and 70 cents [a gigajoule], so I suspect this puts paid to that view," he said.
ConocoPhillips, 2008
-
Merrill Lynch calculated the Shell deal valued Arrow's 3P reserves at A$0. 70 a gigajoule.
-
A gigajoule of gas is enough to produce a bit less than 280 kilowatt-hours of electricity.
ConocoPhillips, 2008
-
Origin Chief Executive Grant King said the pricing of the deal highlights the inadequacy of the BG bid, valuing Origin's proved, probable and possible coal-seam-gas reserves at as much as A$1. 88 per gigajoule.
ConocoPhillips, 2008
nycanthro commented on the word gigajoule
All vowels used once, plus it sounds cool.
January 20, 2009