Enbridge Offshore Pipelines (Utos) LLC
FIFTH REVISED VOLUME NO. 1
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Effective Date: 08/01/2009, Docket: RP09-815-000, Status: Effective
First Revised Sheet No. 112 First Revised Sheet No. 112
Superseding: Original Sheet No. 112
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(Continued)
3.7 Measuring Equipment. Unless otherwise agreed upon, Shipper
will cause to be provided, maintained, and operated
necessary offshore platforms and measuring and regulating
stations equipped with flow meters, continuous Gas samplers
and other necessary measuring equipment by which its volumes
of Gas delivered to UTOS hereunder shall be determined.
Unless otherwise agreed upon, UTOS shall cause to be
installed, operated and maintained at its expense a
measuring and regulating station or stations equipped with
flow meters, Gas analyzer and other necessary measuring
equipment for the measurement of Gas redelivered to or for
the account of Shipper; such measuring and regulating
stations shall be so installed at the northern terminus of
the System or one shall be installed at the mutually
agreeable points onshore in the vicinity of Johnson's Bayou,
Louisiana to provide measurement on a compatible basis. All
flow, measuring, testing, and related equipment shall be of
standard manufacture and type approved by UTOS, and the
size, type, and specifications of such equipment shall also
be approved by UTOS before same is fabricated and
installed. In the event Shipper fails to comply with UTOS'
measurement standards for installation and or operation and
maintenance of such facilities, as described in Sections
3.6, 3.7 and 6.1, UTOS reserves its right to suspend service
for non compliance at any time during the term of the
agreement, to preserve the control, operation and accurate
Gas measurement on its system. Either of the Parties may
install check measuring equipment, provided that such
equipment shall be so installed as not to interfere with the
operation of the other. Shipper and UTOS, in the presence
of each other, shall have access to all measuring equipment
at all reasonable times, but the reading, calibrating, and
adjusting thereof shall be done by the owner, unless
otherwise agreed upon. Shipper and UTOS shall have the
right to be present at the time of any installing, reading,
cleaning, changing, repairing, inspecting, testing,
calibrating, or adjusting done in connection with all
measuring equipment. The records from such measuring
equipment shall remain the property of their owner, but upon
request, either Party will cause to be submitted to the
other records together with calculations therefrom, for
inspection, subject to return within 30 Days after receipt
thereof. Reasonable care shall be exercised in the
installation, maintenance, and operation of measuring
equipment so as to avoid any inaccuracy in the determination
of the volume of Gas received and delivered.
(a) Turbine Meters. Turbine meters, shall be installed,
and Gas volumes computed, in accordance with
Transmission Measurement Committee Report No. 7 of the
American Gas Association, latest edition. Calibration
of turbine meters shall be at or near normal operating
pressure, against standards adopted by UTOS. The
measured volumes of Gas shall be adjusted to reflect
the deviation of Gas Volumes from the Ideal Gas Law.