MCF
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- noun
- Specialized
- The natural gas price is often measured in MCF, which represents one thousand cubic feet.
Examples
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You give me normal weather, and I can probably give you $4/Mcf gas.
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Indeed, with prices less than $3.00 per mcf, drilling activity for shale gas has dropped markedly.
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But down the road, when prices go above $8/mcf, the government could tax that at 100%.
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Yes, we think the gas price bottom that we saw earlier this year, $2/Mcf, is well behind us.
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The traditional energy conversion ratio is 5.8 mcf of natural gas to one barrel of oil.
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By 2008, Israel had 170 MCF of gas pouring in from Egypt every day.
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CHK agreed to sell a volume of physical NG to a buyer for $X/mcf for a period of time.
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Shale gas operators have consistently told investors that their projects are profitable at sub-$5/Mcf (thousand cubic feet) natural gas prices.
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Gas Volumes in Trillion Cubic Feet (Tcf) and Oil and Gas Prices in 1986 $/thousand Cubic Feet (Mcf)
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Methanol prices are based on a natural gas wellhead price of $3.08/mcf (see KW), consistent with the oil price assumption.
Academic text (1993)
Surface Forms
Morphology
MCF = M + C + F
MCF is an initialism whose component letters are not English morphemes and do not transparently indicate the meaning 'thousand cubic feet'; the full form must be learned.
Etymology
MCF is an industry abbreviation: M comes from the old Latin word 'mille' or the Roman letter for 1000 meaning 'thousand', and CF stands for 'cubic feet'. So MCF means a thousand cubic feet and is used to measure how much natural gas there is.