Viking Gas Transmission Company
Original Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 11/01/1993, Docket: RS92- 52-001, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 43 Original Sheet No. 43 : Superseded
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS (Continued)
(a) all gas shall have a total heating value of not less than nine hundred sixty-seven
(967) Btus per cubic foot, and not more than eleven hundred (1100) Btu's per cubic
foot.
(b) all gas shall be commercially free (at prevailing pressure and temperature in
Transporter's pipeline) from objectionable odors, dust, hydrocarbon liquids, water
and any other substance that might become separated from the gas in Transporter's
facilities, and Shipper shall furnish, install, maintain and operate such drips,
separators, heaters, and other mechanical devices as may be necessary to effect
compliance with such requirements (after having secured the prior approval of
Transporter as to the design and construction of such facilities, which approval
shall not be unreasonably withheld);
(c) all gas shall not contain more than twenty (20) grains of total sulphur, nor more
than one fourth (1/4) of one grain of hydrogen sulphide per one hundred (100) cubic
feet;
(d) not contain more than two-tenths of one percent (0.2%) by volume of oxygen, and
Shipper shall make every reasonable effort to keep the gas free of oxygen;
(e) not contain more than four percent (4%) by volume of a combined total of carbon
dioxide and nitrogen components; provided, however, that the total carbon dioxide
content shall not exceed three percent (3%) by volume;
(f) have a temperature of not more than one hundred twenty degrees (120 degrees)
Fahrenheit;
(g) have been dehydrated by Shipper for removal of entrained water present therein in a
vapor state, and in no event contain more than seven (7) pounds of entrained water
per million cubic feet, at a pressure base of fourteen and seventy three hundredths
(14.73) pounds per square inch and a temperature of sixty degrees (60 degrees)
Fahrenheit as determined by dew-point apparatus approved by the Bureau of Mines or
such other apparatus as may be mutually agreed upon.
4. The design and construction of any facilities to be installed by Shipper in order to
comply with the quality specifications in Article II, Section 3 shall be approved by
Transporter prior to such facilities being placed in service, such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld.
5. Tests to determine sulphur, hydrogen sulphide, oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen
content shall be made by approved standard methods in general use in the gas industry.