MidContinent Express Pipeline LLC
Original Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 04/10/2009, Docket: RP09-136-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 166 Original Sheet No. 166
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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(b) Operational Purchases and Sales
(1) Except in the situations outlined in
subsection (2) below, MEP will post its operational purchases and
sales quantities for bidding on its interactive website in accordance
with the applicable bidding provisions which shall be posted at the
time of the purchase or sale, or some other trading platform such as
the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). MEP reserves the right, in its
sole discretion to:
(i) withdraw its postings at any time;
(ii) reject all bids due to operational
changes; and
(iii) reject any bids which do not meet or
which contain modifications to the terms of the posting or which
contain terms that are operationally unacceptable.
(2) MEP will not be required to post operational
purchases and sales quantities for bidding if MEP has declared a
Critical Time or if such purchases and sales were necessary to avoid
the Critical Time.
(c) MEP will file an annual report on operational
purchases and sales which will indicate the source of the gas, date
of the purchase/sale, volumes, purchase/sale price, costs and
revenues from the purchase/sale, and the disposition of the costs and
revenues. The report will be filed within 90 days of the end of each
calendar year.
10.7 THIRD PARTY BALANCING
At any time during the term of its firm Agreement(s) on
MEP, a firm Shipper may request that MEP enter into a Third Party
Balancing Agreement. A Third Party Balancing Agreement is a contract
executed by MEP, the firm Shipper and one or more third parties which
agree to manage imbalances of that Shipper under specified firm
Agreement(s) on MEP. MEP will enter into a Third Party Balancing
Agreement, subject to the following conditions:
(a) The third party provider(s) is responsible for
obtaining all necessary regulatory approvals of any service
(certification, approval of tariffs, establishment of rates, etc.)
which is being relied upon to perform the imbalance management;