Midwestern Gas Transmission Company
Third Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 05/01/2009, Docket: RP09-554-000, Status: Effective
Eighth Revised Sheet No. 203 Eighth Revised Sheet No. 203
Superseding: Sixth Revised Sheet No. 203
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1. DEFINITIONS (Continued)
o The term "Customer" shall be defined as any Person, including Shipper, who has
executed a gas service agreement with Company under any of Company's rate
schedules contained in this Tariff.
o The term "Customer Activity" shall mean the business function categories related
to Nominations, Flowing Gas, Invoicing, Capacity Release, Contracts, and other
business functions on industry web sites. [4.2.10/v1.4]
o The term "day" or "Gas Day" shall mean a period of twenty-four consecutive hours,
beginning and ending at 9:00 A.M. CCT. The reference date for any day shall be
the date of the beginning of such day. [1.3.1/v1.0]
o The term "Dekatherm" shall mean 1,000,000 Btu's. The standard quantity for
nominations, confirmation and scheduling is Dekatherms per Gas Day in the United
States, gigajoules per Gas Day in Canada, and gigacalories per Gas Day in Mexico.
(For reference 1 Dekatherm = 1,000,000 Btu's; and 1 gigajoule; and one
gigacalorie = 1,000,000,000 calories.) For commercial purposes, the standard
conversion factor between Dekatherms and gigajoules is 1.055056 gigajoules per
Dekatherm and between Dekatherms and gigacalories is 0.251996 gigacalories per
Dekatherm. The standard Btu is the International Btu, which is also called the
Btu (IT); the standard joule is the joule specified in the SI system of units.
[1.3.14/v1.3]
o The term "Delivery Point(s)" shall mean the point or points listed on Company's
Informational Postings web site for delivery of gas for the account of Shipper.
o The term "Eastern Mainline" shall mean the approximate 30.9 miles of 16-inch
diameter pipeline commencing at the Company's existing mainline compressor
station located near Portland, Tennessee and traversing southeasterly to two (2)
interstate pipeline interconnections with 1) Columbia Gulf Transmission Company
and 2) East Tennessee Natural Gas Company located near Hartsville, Tennessee in
Trousdale County, Tennessee.
o The term "Elapsed Prorata Capacity" or "EPC" shall mean that portion of the
capacity that would have theoretically been available for use prior to the
effective time of the intra-day recall based upon a cumulative uniform hourly
use of the capacity. [5.2.3/v1.7]
o The term "Equivalent Quantity" unless otherwise stated in the transportation
agreement shall mean, that during any given period of time, the quantities of gas
delivered hereunder at the Delivery Point(s) shall be the thermal equivalent of
the quantities of gas received at the Receipt Point(s) for transportation less
thermal quantities of gas for Shipper's system fuel use and gas lost and
unaccounted for associated with transportation service.