Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Licensing and Regulatory Affairs › Public Service Commission › Production And Transmission Of Natural Gas › Section R. 460.852 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 2. For the purposes of these rules the following
				  definitions apply:
(a) The word
				"commission" shall be defined to mean the Michigan public service
				commission.
(b) The words
				"producer" or "operator" shall be defined to mean any corporation, association
				or person now or hereafter controlling or being responsible for the control of
				any well, or of the production of gas therefrom.
(c) The term "well owner" shall mean any
				owner of a full working interest in any well, and the term "fractional well
				owner" shall mean any owner of a fractional working interest in any
				well.
(d) The word "transmitter"
				shall be defined to mean any corporation, association or person, now or
				hereafter engaging in the carrying or transporting of natural gas by pipe line
				or lines.
(e) The term "common
				purchaser" shall be defined to mean any transmitter engaging in the business of
				purchasing and transporting natural gas for hire, compensation or otherwise:
				provided, that factories or industries in this state may transport or transmit
				natural gas through pipe lines for their own use in plants located wholly
				within this state without constituting themselves common purchasers. (See
				sections 3 and 4 of Act No. 9 of the Public Acts of 1929.)
(f) The term "common carrier" shall be
				defined to mean any corporation, association or person purchasing or collecting
				natural gas and conveying or transmitting the same for hire, compensation or
				otherwise by pipe line or lines as a common carrier. (See section 6 of Act No.
				9.)
(g) The words "gas" or "natural
				gas" as used in these rules shall, unless otherwise specifically provided, be
				defined to mean dry, merchantable, natural gas, either dry gas as produced from
				a dry gas well or so-called casinghead gas after removal of gasoline vapors, or
				either such gas after dilution with other gas or gases, as distinguished from
				so-called casinghead gas before treatment for removal of gasoline
				vapors.
(h) The term "cubic foot"
				of gas as used in these rules shall have the following meanings:
(i) In cases where gas is supplied and
				metered to the ultimate consumer at the standard delivery pressure which may
				vary from 3 inches to 10 inches water column, a cubic foot of gas shall be
				defined to be that volume of gas which, at the temperature and pressure
				existing in the meter, occupies 1 cubic foot.
(ii) In cases where gas is supplied to
				purchasers through orifice or positive meters at other than standard delivery
				pressure as defined above, a cubic foot of gas shall be defined to be that
				volume of gas which, at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and at absolute pressure of 14.65
				pounds per square inch, occupies 1 cubic foot; except that in cases where a
				different pressure base that is considered by the commission to be fair and
				reasonable is provided for in gas sales contracts or in rules or practices of a
				distributor such different pressure base shall be effective. (Corrections for
				temperature and pressure shall be made in accordance with
Charles' law and Boyle's law respectively, except that, when
				  the meter pressure is 125 pounds per square inch gauge or greater, correction
				  shall be made for deviation from such laws (supercompressibility) in accordance
				  with American gas association gas measurement committee report no. 3, "Orifice
				  Metering of Natural Gas" dated April, 1955, or other procedures which may be
				  approved by the commission.)
(iii) The cubic foot of gas for the purposes
				of measuring gas produced and purchased at wells shall be defined to be that
				volume of gas which, at an assumed temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and an
				absolute pressure of 15.025 pounds per square inch, occupies 1 cubic foot:
				provided, that contracting parties may agree to any special method or procedure
				in measuring or determining temperatures that is considered by the commission
				to be reasonable. (Corrections for temperature and pressure shall be made in
				accordance with Charles' law and Boyle's law respectively, except that, when
				the meter pressure is 125 pounds per square inch gauge or greater, correction
				shall be made for deviation from such laws (supercompressibility) in accordance
				with American gas association gas measurement committee report no. 3, "Orifice
				Metering of Natural Gas" dated April, 1955, or other procedures which may be
				approved by the commission.)
(iv)
				The standard cubic foot of gas for testing the gas itself for heating value,
				etc., shall be that volume of gas which, when saturated with water vapor and at
				a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit and under a pressure equivalent to that
				of 30 inches of mercury (mercury at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and under standard
				gravity) occupies 1 cubic foot. (Corrections for temperature and pressure shall
				be made in accordance with Charles' law and Boyle's law respectively, except
				that, when the meter pressure is 125 pounds per square inch gauge or greater,
				correction shall be made for deviation from such laws (supercompressibility) in
				accordance with American gas association gas measurement committee report no.
				3, "Orifice Metering of Natural Gas" dated April, 1955, or other procedures
				which may be approved by the commission.)