National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation
Fourth Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 04/21/2010, Docket: RP10-504-000, Status: Effective
First Revised Sheet No. 443 First Revised Sheet No. 443
Superseding: Original Sheet No. 443
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
25. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE ONLY TO RATE SCHEDULES SS-1 AND SS-2 (Cont'd.)
25.4 Measuring Equipment
(a) Ownership and Operation. Unless otherwise agreed upon,
Transporter shall install, maintain and operate at or near the
delivery points, measuring stations properly equipped with
displacement or orifice meters and other necessary measuring
equipment by which the Volume of Gas and Quantity of Gas
delivered hereunder shall be measured. Orifice meters shall
be installed and operated in accordance with specifications
recommended in Gas Measurement Committee Report No. 3 of the
American Gas Association, as the same may be amended from time
to time, applied in a practical manner. Displacement meter
dial readings shall be adjusted for varying pressure and
temperature conditions.
(b) Installation. All installations of measuring equipment,
applying to or affecting deliveries by Transporter to Buyer
and by Buyer to Transporter, shall be made in such manner as
to permit an accurate determination of the Volume of Gas and
Quantity of Gas delivered or received and ready verification
of the accuracy of measurement. Reasonable care shall be
exercised in the installation, maintenance and operation of
any pressure regulating equipment so as to avoid, as far as
practicable, any inaccuracy in the determination of the Volume
of Gas and Quantity of Gas delivered or received hereunder.
(c) Measuring Equipment Failures. In the event measurement
equipment is out of service, or registering inaccurately, the
Volume of Gas and/or Quantity of Gas delivered by Transporter
to Buyer or by Buyer to Transporter shall be estimated:
1. by using the registration of any check meter, meters or
other measurement equipment if installed and accurately
registering or, in the absence of 1;
2. by correcting the error if the percentage of error is
ascertainable by calibration, test or mathematical
calculation or, in the absence of both 1 and 2, then;