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Title: Gas Measurement By Mass AND/OR Energy
Author: Louis W. Mendonsa
Source: 1966 Appalachian Gas Measurement Short Course
Year Published: 1966
Abstract: As specialists in gas measnrenient you may take some satisfaction in the knowledge that your specialty has a strong growth potential. The long term trend in natural gas sales and pricing practices is toward ever more precise gas quality standards, including the aspecis of heat and chemical content. More accurate and sophisticated gas measurements must accompany this trend. There are sound reasons for the trend toward pricing more of the sales of natural gas in heat units rather than volume units. The principal reasons are: 1. The strong probability of discriminalion between customers when gas of varying heat content within a single pipeline system or distribution system is sold to customers under volumetric rates. 2. For effective competition with other fuels gas must be priced in meaningful value terms and heat is the dominant value characteristic of natural gas for more than 99 percent of its customers. Oil and electricity are sold in volume or power units which for the most part can be directly and simply translated into heal units. Most coal for heating and power uses is sold under contract specifications which include Btu content provisions. 3. Public confidence in any product is improved when the customer has precise information on the quality or grade of the product and the unit price expressed in meaningful value terms. One of the reasons American beef enjoys a wide market at home and abroad is because the U. S. Department of Agriculture enforces rigid quality grading standards. 4. Gas statistics and accouniing will become more precise and understandable as the day approaches when all gas quantities are expressed in heat units under a standardized uniform temperature and pressure base.

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