Nautilus Pipeline Company, LLC
Original Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 12/01/1997, Docket: CP96-790-003, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 104 Original Sheet No. 104 : Effective
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
5. MEASUREMENT & MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT con't
(g) Calibration and Testing Equipment. All test and
calibration equipment shall be certified to 0.1%
accuracy and traceable back to an NGS primary
standard. Such equipment shall be re-certified
by a third party at least annually. A copy of
any inspection, test or certification report
shall be made available to Shipper upon written
request. Transporter shall provide Shipper with
documentation on the monthly tests and inspection
and the annual certification for the equipment
used to calibrate the EGM equipment. Calibration
equipment must satisfy all applicable safety
codes for the location in which it is being used,
or the area must be checked and confirmed as free
of Natural Gas (less than 5% LEL) prior to and
during use. Full loop (end device through the
RTU) test/calibration shall be required on all
analog inputs. Any adjustments to or calibration
of the equipment shall be documented and kept as
part of the audit trail. The RTU shall freeze
the analog transmitter values during transmitter
calibration and orifice plate removal and use
these frozen values for the flow computation
during calibration and orifice plate removal and
re-installation.
(h) The following information must be kept for a
minimum of two (2) years following the calendar
year of production, unless required by Service
Agreement to be kept longer or by the applicable
requirements of any governmental bodies having or
asserting jurisdiction.
(1) All calculated volumes, energies and daily
averages must be maintained in their
original unaltered form.