Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XI - Office of Conservation-Pipeline Division › Subpart 1 - Natural Gas and Coal › Chapter 1 - Natural Gas and Coal › Section XI-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The words and
				  terms defined herein shall have the following meanings when used in these
				  regulations. All other words and terms so used and not herein defined shall
				  have their usual meanings unless specially defined in Chapter 7 of Title 30 of
				  the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
Act
or
Chapter
- the
					 Natural Resources and Energy Act of 1973, being Act 16 of the Extraordinary
					 Session of 1973, now Chapter 7 of Title 30 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of
					 1950, as amended after 1950.
Commissioner
- the commissioner of
					 conservation of the state of Louisiana who shall be the commissioner of
					 conservation within the Department of Natural Resources.
Excess Capacity of Intrastate Gas
					 Pipelines
- that part of the capability of a pipeline system to
					 transport intrastate natural gas from point to point along its line in excess
					 of the immediate needs of the pipeline company or its subsidiaries or its
					 parent or the subsidiary companies of its parents. In determining excess
					 capacity, the commissioner may disregard existing contracts for the
					 transportation or sale of intrastate natural gas to the extent they are not
					 then being performed or fulfilled. Excess capacity of intrastate pipelines may
					 also be created as a result of intrastate natural gas delivery curtailment
					 orders of the commissioner in the implementation of the allocation, rationing
					 and conservation measures governing the endues of intrastate natural gas
					 provided for in the Act.
Facility
- any component of a pipeline or
					 pipeline system except:
a.
auxiliary installations
- installations which are merely
				  auxiliary or appurtenant to an existing transmission pipeline system and which
				  are installed only for the purpose of obtaining more efficient or more
				  economical operation of authorized transmission facilities, such as: gas
				  cleaning and treating equipment; heaters; cooling and dehydration equipment;
				  residual refining equipment; water pumping treating and cooling production
				  compressors; measurement equipment; pressure or flow regulation or control
				  equipment; electrical and communication equipment and buildings;
b.
replacement of facilities
- facilities which constitute the replacement of existing facilities which have
				  or will soon become physically deteriorated or obsolete to the extent that
				  replacement is deemed advisable, provided, that such replacement will not
				  result in a reduction or abandonment of service rendered by means of such
				  facilities. Provided further, that such replacement shall have substantially
				  equivalent designed delivery capacity as the particular facilities being
				  replaced;
c.
new delivery
				  points
- metering and regulating installations and branch lines
				  necessary to the establishment of new delivery points required for the delivery
				  of gas, coal or lignite to an existing customer;
d.
taps
- taps on existing
				  transporter pipelines which are installed solely for the purpose of enabling a
				  purchaser or transporter to take delivery of gas, coal, or lignite from a
				  producer.
Gas
- any gas derived from or composed of
					 hydrocarbons, including synthetic gas which is produced from coal, lignite, or
					 petroleum coke and the heat content of which synthetic gas does not exceed 800
					 BTUs per standard cubic foot.
Interested Parties
- those persons who
					 have a direct interest in the subject matter for which an application is filed
					 as such persons are specified in these regulations.
Intrastate Coal Slurry Pipeline
- a
					 pipeline located and operated in the state of Louisiana for the transportation
					 of coal or lignite from within or outside state limits or any mixture of
					 substances which includes coal or lignite, in any form, but does not include
					 producer owned producing and gathering lines and facilities located within the
					 mine limits associated and used in connection therewith, provided such lines
					 and facilities are not used for hire in the transportation of coal or lignite
					 for others.
Intrastate Coal Slurry Transporter
- any
					 person owning or operating an intrastate coal slurry pipeline.
Intrastate Natural Gas
- gas produced,
					 transported, and utilized wholly within the State of Louisiana, through the use
					 of intrastate pipelines or of interstate pipelines where such use of interstate
					 pipelines is or may hereafter be exempt from the control of the Federal Energy
					 Regulatory Commission under the Natural Gas Act or rules and regulations
					 promulgated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission thereunder, and gas,
					 wherever produced, which is or may be transported into this state and delivered
					 to an intrastate pipeline in this state to be used or consumed wholly within
					 this state.
Intrastate Natural Gas Pipeline
- a
					 pipeline which is located and operated wholly within the state of Louisiana,
					 which does not extend beyond the boundaries of the state of Louisiana, and
					 which is not merely a local branch of an interstate pipeline system but does
					 not include producer owned producing and gathering lines and facilities
					 associated and used in connection therewith, provided such lines and facilities
					 are not used for hire in the transportation of natural gas for others, except
					 as provided in
					 R.S.
					 30:607.
Intrastate Natural Gas Transporter
- any
					 person owning or operating an intrastate natural gas pipeline.
Natural Gas Company
- a person engaged in
					 the sale of intrastate natural gas beyond the wellhead.
Person
- any natural person, corporation,
					 political subdivision, association, partnership, receiver, tutor, curator,
					 executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of any kind.
Rules of Procedure
- the rules of
					 procedure promulgated by the commissioner and which are stated to be applicable
					 to the Act.
Sale of Intrastate Natural Gas at the
					 Wellhead
- the first transfer for value by the producer of such gas
					 whether at the wellhead, a central gathering facility, or at the tailgate of a
					 gas processing plant.