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Title: Chart Processing Techniques
Author: Mark Bardolph, Jr.
Source: 1971 Appalachian Gas Measurement Short Course
Year Published: 1971
Abstract: This matter of chart processing becomes an increasingly more important function in the gas industry, and there arc several reasons for this increase in importance. Foremost, of course, is the matter of price. Our very first purchase gas contract called for a rate of six cents per thousand cubic feet. One of our most recent contracts. calling for both a Demand and a Commodity Charge, averages out at slightly in excess of forty cents per M.C.F. Another reason for the increased importance for accuracy in the processing of gas meter charts is the huge volumes of gas handled today as compared with days gone by. For example, in 1932, our first full year of operation, we purchased 6.8 billion cubic feet of gas at a cost of slightly more than 468,000. In 1970 we purchased 1,137.6 billion cubic feet of gas for which we paid in excess 205,000,000. The manufacturers of gas measurement equipment, recognizing our need for increased accuracy, have developed the most sophisticated equipment our field measurement men are better trained than ever before the equipment we have to help us calculate the charts is the best we have ever had. However, all these efforts will be to no avail unless the chart processing personnel exercise the same diligence in computing the volumes as the manufacturers of equipment and our own field personnel do in measuring the gas.

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