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  • noun One thousand million ( 109 ) joules, abbreviated as GJ.

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giga- + joule

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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.

    Saskatchewan Produces Most Of Canada's Natural Gas YET Sask Residents Pay The Highest Natural Gas Rates! Why? 2009

  • 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.

    Energy Firms See a Bonanza in Australia 2008

  • The deal with Petronas valued Santos's 3P reserves of CSG at A$1. 65 a gigajoule.

    Energy Firms See a Bonanza in Australia 2008

  • "[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.

    Energy Firms See a Bonanza in Australia 2008

  • 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

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  • All vowels used once, plus it sounds cool.

    January 20, 2009