shall have access to the metering equipment at all reasonable
times.
Each party must notify the other party a minimum of twenty four (24)
hours in advance of any planned
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testing, calibrations, or meter provings.
Each party may have a representative
present during any of the foregoing activities.
Representatives of both
parties shall have the right to be present during any repairing, inspecting,
testing, calibrating, or adjusting done in connection with the measuring
equipment. Each party reserves the right at a future date to install additional
check meters; such meters shall be of a type mutually agreeable to both parties
and shall not be installed in such a manner as to interfere with the proper
operation of other existing measurement equipment.
If either party to this Agreement notifies the other party that it desires a
special test of any measuring equipment, the parties shall cooperate to secure a
prompt verification of such equipment, at the expense of the party requesting
such special test.
However, if a meter or other equipment is found to be in
error by more than 1%, MEA shall bear the expense of such special test.
5.6
STANDARDS.
THE MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT SHALL MAINTAINED AND
OPERATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LATEST AMENDED AND REVISED EDITION OF (A) "API
MANUAL OF PETROLEUM MEASUREMENT STANDARDS", CHAPTERS 1, VOCABULARY; CHAPTER 4,
PROVING SYSTEMS; CHAPTER 5, METERING; CHAPTER 12, CALCULATION OF PETROLEUM
QUANTITIES; AND CHAPTER 14, SECTION 6, INSTALLING AND PROVING DENSITY METERS;
(B) GPA PUBLICATION 2145-95, "TABLE OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS OF PARAFFIN
HYDROCARBONS AND OTHER COMPONENTS OF NATURAL GAS"; (C) GPA PUBLICATION 2174,
"METHODS FOR OBTAINING HYDROCARBON FLUID SAMPLES USING A FLOATING PISTON
CYLINDER"; (D) GPA PUBLICATION 2177, "METHODS FOR ANALYSIS OF DEMETHANIZED
NATURAL GAS LIQUID MIXTURES BY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY"; (E) GPA PUBLICATION 8173,
"STANDARD FOR CONVERTING NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS AND VAPORS TO EQUIVALENT LIQUID
VOLUMES"; AND (F) GPA PUBLICATION 8182, "STANDARD FOR THE MASS MEASUREMENT OF
NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS", AND ANY OTHER API AND GPA STANDARDS AND PUBLICATIONS THAT
ARE CONSIDERED INDUSTRY STANDARDS THAT ARE APPLICABLE.
5.7
RECORD RETENTION.
ALL RECORDS SHALL BE RETAINED FOR AUDIT
PURPOSES FOR A PERIOD OF TWO (2) YEARS OR A LONGER PERIOD IF REQUIRED BY ANY
APPLICABLE LAW AND/OR REGULATORY BODY.
EACH PARTY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO
CONTRACT OUTSIDE SERVICES TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY AUDITS OR REVIEW OF DATA.
5.8
FLOW COMPUTER / RTU.
THE CUSTODY TRANSFER FLOW COMPUTER / RTU
SHALL BE MUTUALLY AGREED UPON BY BOTH PARTIES.
MEA SHALL OPERATE AND MAINTAIN
THE CUSTODY TRANSFER FLOW COMPUTER / RTU.
EQUITABLE SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO
INSTALL AN AUDIT FLOW COMPUTER / RTU AND SHARE ANY ELECTRONIC SIGNALS THAT ARE
NECESSARY TO AUDIT THE STATION.
5.9
GALLONS CALCULATION.
FOR PURPOSES OF FEES AND COMPENSATION,
GALLONS OF INDIVIDUAL PLANT PRODUCTS AND NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS SHALL BE CALCULATED
IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER:
DIVIDE THE INDIVIDUAL PLANT PRODUCT OR NATURAL GAS LIQUID MASS (LBM) BY THE
INDIVIDUAL LIQUID ABSOLUTE DENSITY (LBM/GAL).
THE INDIVIDUAL LIQUID ABSOLUTE
DENSITY VALUES SHALL BE TAKEN FROM THE LATEST EDITION