American Midstream (AlaTenn), LLC
Fifth Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 05/01/2010, Docket: RP10-493-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 101 Original Sheet No. 101
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS (Continued)
pressure of thirty-three hundredths (.33) pounds per square inch above an
assumed atmospheric
pressure of fourteen and four tenths (14.4) pounds per square inch (fourteen and
seventy-three
hundredths (14.73) pounds per square inch absolute).
1.8 The term "Mcf" shall mean 1,000 Cubic Feet of gas.
1.9 The term "British thermal unit" or "Btu" shall mean the amount of heat
required to raise the
temperature of one pound of water 1 degree Fahrenheit at 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
1.10 The term "Dekatherm" or "Dth", shall mean the quantity of heat energy
which is 1,000,000
British
thermal units.
1.11 The term "Total Heating Value", when applied to a Cubic Foot of Gas,
means the number
of British
thermal units produced by the complete combustion with air, at a constant
pressure, of one
anhydrous
(dry) Cubic Foot of gas at a pressure of 14.73 psia and a temperature of 60
degrees Fahrenheit
when
the products of combustion are cooled to the initial temperature of the gas and air,
and when the
water
formed by combustion is condensed to the liquid state.
1.12 The term "Load Factor" for any given period of time shall mean the
percentage obtained by
dividing the amount of the average daily Dth delivery of gas during said period by
the contracted
demand during said period.
1.13 The term "Contract Demand", shall mean the quantity of natural gas
specified in such
contract
which Transporter obligates itself to be ready to transport each billing Day on
behalf of Shipper,
and
shall equal the sum of the MDQs at all Primary Delivery Points under the
contract.
1.14 The term "Maximum Daily Quantity," or "MDQ" where used herein or in a
gas
transportation
contract shall mean the Maximum Daily Quantity of natural gas that Transporter
shall be
obligated to
deliver to Shipper at a particular Delivery Point each billing Day or the Maximum
Daily Quantity
of gas,
exclusive of fuel and losses that