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Title: Consumerism And The Natural Gas Industry
Author: Richard A. Rosan
Source: 1970 American School of Gas Measurement Technology
Year Published: 1970
Abstract: This is a most happy occasion for me. It is my first opportunity to visit this University, which has trained so many key men in the gas industry. This auditorium, part of the Creative Arts building, is one of the finest auditoriums I have ever seen and a marvelous cultural facility. This meeting also gives me a chance to meet many men of the industry who perform a most essential function -- namely that of measurement. Unless the gas industry can measure accurately what it sells, there would be no economic basis for our industry. It has occurred to me that we frequently fail to appreciate the need for accuracy in the measurement of gas. We speak of 2% (plus or minus) as a permissible tolerance for the accuracy of our measuring equipment. Even within these tolerances, the effect on the economy of our industry can be tremendous. All gas consumed in this country is measured a number of times. In the case of our operations, gas is measured at least six times in the course of movement from the producing areas of Southern Louisiana to the consumers meter in New York State. But, if we assume that the fourteen plus billion Mcf of gas sold by the industry last year was measured only three times and assuming a two percent error at each measurement each going the same way, we would be talking about either a failure to measure or to over measure 840 million Mcf. Assuming an average price of 50-60c per Mcf, we would be talking about almost a half billion dollars. Consequently, no one can overemphasize the importance of the role of gas measurement and the need for the utmost accuracy in such measurement. This gives emphasis to the importance of this Course and I join the other speakers in hoping that you reap new ideas from your attendance.

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