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Title: Gas ACCOUNTING-DRY Gas Practices
Author: James L. Griffin
Source: 1941 Southwestern Gas Measurement Short Course (Now called ISHM)
Year Published: 1941
Abstract: A brief review of natural gas history sliowa that when natural gas was first discovered in the United States it was referred to as Ghost Gas and its use limited to advertising or display purposes and later used in a few isolated street ligiits. The value of natural gas as a commodity was soon realized and science and industry immediately began searching for means ot utilizing this fuel. In the earlier stages it was sold on a flat rate basis, the charge being so much per light or burner per year with little or no thought given to the volume of gas that such an appliance would consume or if the revenue derived from the sale would be sufficient to meet the cost of operation and provide sufficient reserve for tlie i-eplenishment of exhausted supplies. It is needless to say that measurement and accounting methods have kept pace with the advancement in other branches of the industry. In the establishment of measurement or accounting methods it is doubtful that any one method will fulfill conditions of all companies. That is, the procedure iliat would bo satisfactory for a small eonfineci company where possibly the owner or a co-partner reads the meter and prepares the bills would fall far short of fulfilling the requirements of a more completely coordinated company. Neither would the method adopted by a small company serving only a few communities within a given state fulfill the requirements of a fully coordinated company involved in producing, transporting and distributmg its product in several states.

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