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Title: From Mcf To Mmbtu
Author: Wilford Allen Tate
Source: 1980 Gulf Coast Measurement Short Course (Now called ASGMT)
Year Published: 1980
Abstract: The natural gas industry has, in recent years, continued to increase its emphasis on the use of the MMBtu or dekatherm in transactions involving transfer of title or right to natural gas. Price of domestic natural gas is escalating monthly and especially as foreign governments continue to demand ever-increasing amounts for their gas, in many cases tied to the price of oil, the importance of a fair and equitable transfer of this commodity cannot be overrated. The emphasis on cost has heightened the need for equitability in natural gas transactions and has created the climate in which many companies have switched to MMBtu transactions almost exclusively when only a few years ago, they would have been reluctant to do so. It comes as no surprise to gas measurement personnel that the calculation of MMBtu has become widely acknowledged as the exclusive method for determination of energy transfer. Measurement personnel have recognized the fact that the calculation of Mcf was by itself an incomplete statement, and that wide fluctuations in heating value could exist between equivalent volumes of natural gas. The higher the percentage of heavier llquefiable hydrocarbons the gas composition contained, the richer the gas in heating value. The higher the percentage of inerts and methane in the gas composition, the leaner the gas. Identical volumes of lean gas and rich gas are not energy equivalent. Therefore, inequities often result from Mcf transactions. These inequities were generally ignored when natural gas was cheaper. But the economic impact that higher gas costs have created has made the use of the MMBtu desirable for all gas transactions.

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