Westgas Interstate, Inc.
First Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 11/01/1995, Docket: RP95-437-000, Status: Effective
First Revised Sheet No. 30 First Revised Sheet No. 30 : Effective
Superseding: Original Sheet No. 30
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(Continued)
1.9 "FERC" shall mean the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission or any federal commission, agency or other
governmental body or bodies succeeding to, lawfully
exercising or superseding any powers which are
exercisable by the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission.
1.10 "Force Majeure" shall include without limitation
by this recital, acts of God including fires,
explosions, earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions, storms,
floods, extreme cold, freezing, washouts; necessity for
compliance with any court order, law, regulation or
ordinance promulgated by any governmental authority
having jurisdiction, either federal, state or local,
civil or military; acts of a public enemy; wars; civil
disturbances; strikes, lockouts or other industrial
disturbances; shutdowns for purposes of necessary
repairs, relocations, or construction of facilities,
breakage or accident to machinery or lines of pipe; the
necessity for testing (as required by governmental
authority or as deemed necessary for safe operation by
the testing party); inability of either party to obtain
necessary materials supplies, permits, or labor to
perform or comply with any obligation or condition of
this tariff; inability to obtain rights-of-way; and any
other causes, whether of the kind herein recited or
not, which are not reasonably in the control of the
party claiming suspension.
1.11 "Gas" means combustible hydrocarbon gas.
1.12 "Gross heating value" means the number of British
thermal units produced by the combustion at a constant
pressure, of the amount of gas which would occupy a
volume of one cubic foot at a temperature of 60 degrees
Fahrenheit on a water-free basis and under a pressure
equivalent to that of 30.0 inches of mercury at 32
Fahrenheit and under standard gravitational force
(acceleration of 980.665 cm/sec2) with air of the same
temperature and pressure as the gas, when the products of
combustion are cooled to the initial temperature of gas and
air and when the water vapor formed by combustion is
condensed to the liquid state.
1.13 "Inert substances" means noncombustible substances
contained in the gas, including but not limited to
helium, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.