Kinder Morgan Louisiana Pipeline LLC
Original Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 03/01/2009, Docket: RP09-257-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 152 Original Sheet No. 152
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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10. IMBALANCES
10.1 RESPONSIBILITY FOR BALANCING
KMLP will attempt to enter into OBAs at Delivery Points
which deal with imbalances. If an OBA is not feasible or the
imbalance is beyond the terms of the OBA, however, in addition to
delivering and receiving volumes of Gas in conformance with
nominations, Shippers are responsible for conforming their takes at
Delivery Points with their deliveries to KMLP at Receipt Points each
Day. KMLP has no obligation to deliver for the account of a Shipper
more volumes of Gas than KMLP has received for the account of the
Shipper or to accept for the account of the Shipper more volumes of
Gas than are being delivered for the account of the Shipper on any
Day. Subject to the remainder of this Section 10, it is generally
the intent that imbalances be rectified by Shipper providing or
taking gas in kind.
10.2 MAXIMUM AGGREGATE IMBALANCE
(a) KMLP's System does not include any storage and only
limited line pack. Consequently, KMLP is able to accommodate only
very limited imbalances between daily receipts and deliveries
beyond, imbalance volumes covered by an OBA. KMLP will post for
each nomination cycle the System Aggregate Imbalance which it can
accommodate over Leg 1, which under normal operating circumstances,
is expected to be approximately 50,000 Dths when Leg 1 is operating
at a 70% load factor. As the utilization level on Leg 1 increases,
it is expected that the System Aggregate Imbalance level would
decrease. Also, if the utilization level on Leg 1 decreases, it is
expected that the System Aggregate Imbalance level would increase.
Previous imbalance or Payback activity will increase or decrease the
available System Aggregate Imbalance level for a given cycle. The
volume posted will represent all the flexibility which KMLP has
available on its System, based on objective engineering models,
without jeopardizing its ability to perform firm services over the
period before Payback would be effectuated as described in this
Section 10. The minimum System Aggregate Imbalance will be 4,000
Dth and shall be available to Shippers allocated based on MDQ.
System Aggregate Imbalance volumes over 4,000 Dth posted during