Common use of Gross Calorific Value; Clause in Contracts

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including of each such constituent’s isomers that are present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not required for the purposes of this Agreement. Pursuant to section 4.8, the Metering Owner shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 shall be responsible for conveying that Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner shall use reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner upgrades or replacing the Metering at a Receipt Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Party, it shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs incurred by that Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) for each meter at that Receipt Point and for the Receipt Point in aggregate, and the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purpose. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity at a Receipt Point will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at any Receipt Point, provided that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing before the OBA may commence. At the commencement of the OBA the Interconnected Party shall become an OBA Party in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXX, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities in accordance with the Code; and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected Party shall at its cost monitor, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires First Gas to monitor the quality of gas injected by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injected; and the extent to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred to in section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or

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Samples: Existing Interconnection Agreement, Interconnection Agreement

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Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including isomers of each such constituent’s isomers that are a constituent present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not required available to it or which it does not itself require for the purposes of this Agreement. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such the frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing the replaces Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Partyas a result, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately: for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt each Delivery Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month including all Days in that Month, and in the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (format determined in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity gas delivery Controlled Delivery Pressure Where Schedule One stipulates that the Delivery Pressure at a Receipt Delivery Point is “Controlled” (Controlled): First Gas will determine the means of pressure control and over-pressure protection to be used, provided that First Gas shall not use a slam-shut valve for the purpose described in paragraph 1.6(b) of Schedule Two unless: where two pressure control streams are installed, the set-points of the respective slam-shut valves are such that if the valve in the working stream closes the valve in the standby stream should remain open; or where only one pressure control stream is installed, the Interconnected Party can tolerate an immediate and complete stoppage in the flow of Gas if a slam-shut valve or pressure regulating valve closes, and remain without Gas for the reasonable time First Gas may require to reinstate normal pressure control and the ability to take Gas; the normal range within which the Delivery Pressure may vary will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant Pressure Control Settings; the Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that the Delivery Pressure may increase to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine Maximum Delivery Pressure and that: it shall ensure that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at the MAOP of its Pipeline plus any Receipt Point, provided over-pressure allowed under that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point Pipeline’s design code is not less than 40 Business Days’ notice the Maximum Delivery Pressure; and First Gas shall have no liability whatsoever in writing before respect of an increase in Delivery Pressure envisaged under this section 4.1(c) unless the OBA may commence. At Delivery Pressure exceeds the commencement greater of the OBA Maximum Delivery Pressure or the MAOP of the Interconnected Party’s Pipeline; either Party may at any time request a change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure and the other Party shall not unreasonably withhold or delay its agreement, provided that: the Interconnected Party shall become not be required to agree to any request from First Gas to decrease the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially affect the Interconnected Party’s ability to take or utilise Gas; First Gas shall not be obliged to agree to any request of the Interconnected Party to increase the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially reduce First Gas’ ability capacity to provide transmission services to any delivery point; First Gas shall be entitled to make its agreement to any change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure conditional on changes to other Pressure Control Settings (including, where an OBA Party increase in the Nominal Delivery Pressure is requested, to the applicable Maximum Delivery Pressure) that it reasonably considers to be necessary; in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply any request to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXXNominal Delivery Pressure, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party agrees in writing that the MAOP of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities Pipeline is sufficient to allow the increase (and any consequent increase in accordance with the CodeMaximum Delivery Pressure, as determined by First Gas); and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected the requesting Party shall at its cost monitorbe responsible for the reasonable direct costs of any required modifications to the relevant Delivery Point, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires as determined by First Gas to monitor and, where First Gas is the quality of gas injected requesting Party, First Gas shall also be responsible for any reasonable direct costs incurred by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary as a condition of its agreement to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedrequest; and the extent relevant page of Schedule One is replaced to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred reflect any changes pursuant to in this section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or4.1(d).

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including of each such constituent’s isomers that are present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available., provided that the Metering Owner shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not available to it or which is not required for the purposes determination of this Agreementenergy quantities. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its own cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it First Gasit may reasonably request,determine. The recipient of provided that the Metering Owner shall not be obligedThe other Party referred to provide any Data pursuant that is not available to it at a Receipt Point. First Gasin section 4.8 3.8 shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. Before upgrading or replacing the Metering such that it will no longer be able to provide any of the Data which First Gas has previously received, the Metering Owner will notify First Gas and ensure that it is able to continue undertaking the activity described in section 3.13. The Metering Owner shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering or any part thereof is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if If the Metering Owner upgrades or replacing the Metering at a Receipt Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other PartyData, it shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the other Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt PointSubject to the Metering Owner making available (in accordance with section 3.9), such of) the Data as First Gasthat it shall notify the Metering Owner in writing that it requires, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) in accordance with sections 3.14 to 3.16. separately: Separate DDRs and HDRs shall be produced: for each meter at that a Receipt Point and for the each Receipt Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month for all Days in that Month., Each DDR and HDR shall be in the format, and contain the Metering Owner information that First Gas shall reasonably determine from time to time. For each Day or Hour (respectively) such information may include (without limitation): the name and identification number (as determined by First Gas) of the Receipt Point; the date; the time of the Day (HDR only); uncorrected volume (cubic metres at flowing conditions) metering pressure (HDR only); metering temperature (HDR only); compressibility correction factor (HDR only); altitude correction factor (HDR only); corrected volume (standard cubic metres); Gross Calorific Value; and energy quantity (GJ). First Gas will make all DDRs and HDRs available to First Gas (the Interconnected Party on OATIS. in the format determined in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX OATIS Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXXOATIS: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement. The, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX OATIS and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX OATIS set out on XXXXXOATIS. energy injection of gas Pressure The Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that: it is solely responsible for providing all Gas it wishesachieving the pressure required to inject Gas into First Gas’ Pipeline at a pressure sufficient for it to do so, which may be as high as the MAOP of that Pipeline; subject to the operating pressureprovisions of the Code relating to the Target Taranaki Pressure, First Gas’ Pipeline may be as high as the MAOP of such Pipeline; First Gas shall not be obliged to operate its Pipeline to facilitate the injection of Gas by the Interconnected Partyany part of the Transmission System within any particular pressure range; and it shall not cause the MAOP of First Gas’ Pipeline to be exceeded, and, if it does so, shall (subject to clause 16) indemnify First Gas againstfor any and all Loss First Gas may suffer if it does so. Agreed Hourly Profile The Interconnected Party may request an Agreed Hourly Profile in accordance with section 3.24 of the Code. First Gas will consider, but shall not be obligedRate of Injection Subject to approve such request. First Gas section 4.3, the Interconnected Party will use all reasonable endeavours to accommodate any inject Gas Agreed Hourly Profile that it approves but, where it determines that such Agreed Hourly Profile is adversely affecting its operation of the Transmission System or other users of that system, First Gas may cancel that Agreed Hourly Profile without notice and shall have no liability to the Interconnected Party whatsoever if it does so. allocation of gas at A receipt point The Interconnected Party agrees and acknowledges that it is connected to First Gas’ Pipeline at a Receipt Point in order to inject Gas Transfer Agreement Subject into First Gas Pipeline for sale or transfer to one or more Shippers (including where at a constant rate. For the purposes of this section 5.24.2, “constant rate” means an average Hourly energy quantity for the relevant Day that is 1/24th of whatever quantity of Gas the Interconnected Party may itself be a Shipper’s Shipper).has agreed with Shippers to inject on that Day, whether in accordance with section 5.2(a), section 5.2(b) or otherwise. The method usedrequirement set out in section 4.2 may be amended to determine Shippers’ Receipt Quantity Quantitiesthe extent that an Agreed Hourly Profile applies at a Receipt Point will be, at . Nor shall section 4.2 be construed as restricting the Interconnected Party’s election, either:ability to change the rate at which it injects Gas on a Day to reflect its agreement with Shippers in relation to the quantity determined by the of Gas Transfer Agent pursuant to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreementit will inject on that Day. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at any Receipt Point, provided that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing before the OBA may commence. At the commencement of the OBA the Interconnected Party shall become an OBA Party in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work); or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXX, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities in accordance with the Code; and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected Party shall at its cost monitor, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires First Gas to monitor the quality of gas injected by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injected; and the extent to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred to in section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/oror

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including of each such constituent’s isomers that are areof a constituent present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not required available to it (or which it does not itself require for the purposes of this Agreement. ).. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such suchthe frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing the replaces Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Partyas a result, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that suchthat Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) in accordance with sections 3.14 to 3.15. separately: Separate DDRs and HDRs shall be produced: for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt each Delivery Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month forincluding all Days in that Month., Each DDR and HDR shall be in the format, and contain the Metering Owner shall make available to information that First Gas shall reasonably determine from time to time. For each Day or Hour (respectively) such information may include (without limitation): the name and identification number of the Delivery Point; the date; the time of the Day (HDR only); uncorrected volume (cubic metres at flowing conditions) metering pressure (HDR only); metering temperature (HDR only); compressibility correction factor (HDR only); altitude correction factor (HDR only); corrected volume (standard cubic metres); Gross Calorific Value; and energy quantity (GJ). in the format determined in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity gas delivery Controlled Delivery Pressure Where Schedule One stipulates that the Delivery Pressure at a Receipt Delivery Point is “Controlled” (Controlled): First Gas will determine the means of pressure control and over-pressure protection to be used, provided that First Gas shall not use a slam-shut valve for the purpose described in paragraph 1.6(b) of Schedule Two unless: where dualtwo pressure control streams are installed, the settingsset-points of the tworespective slam-shut valves are sufficiently far apart such that if the valve in the working stream slam-shut valve closes the valve in the standby stream slam-shut valve should remain open; or where only a singleone pressure control stream is installed, the Interconnected Party is able tocan tolerate an immediate and complete interruption to stoppage in the flow of Gas if a slam-shut valve or pressure regulating valve closes, and remain without Gas for suchthe reasonable time as First Gas may require to reinstate normal pressure control and the availability ofability to take Gas; the normal range within which the Delivery Pressure may vary will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant Pressure Control Settings; the Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that from time to time the Delivery Pressure may increase to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine Maximum Delivery Pressure and that: it shall ensure that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at the MAOP of its Pipeline plus any Receipt Point, provided over-pressure allowed under that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point Pipeline’s design code is not less than 40 Business Days’ notice the Maximum Delivery Pressure; and First Gas shall have no liability whatsoever in writing before respect of an increase in Delivery Pressure envisaged under this section 4.1(c) unless the OBA may commence. At Delivery Pressure exceeds the commencement greater of the OBA Maximum Delivery Pressure or the MAOP of the Interconnected Party’s Pipeline; either Party may at any time request a change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure and the other Party shall not unreasonably withhold or delay its agreement, provided that: the Interconnected Party shall become not be required to agree to any request from First Gas to decrease the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially affect the Interconnected Party’s ability to take or utilise Gas; First Gas shall not be obliged to agree to any request of the Interconnected Party to increase the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially reduce First Gas’ ability capacity to provide transmission services to any delivery point; First Gas shall be entitled to make its agreement to any change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure conditional on such changes to other Pressure Control Settings (including, where an OBA Party increase in the Nominal Delivery Pressure is requested, to the applicable Maximum Delivery Pressure) asthat it reasonably considers to be necessary; in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply any request to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXXNominal Delivery Pressure, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party agrees in writing that the MAOP of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities Pipeline is sufficient to allow suchthe increase (and any consequent increase in accordance with the CodeMaximum Delivery Pressure, as determined by First Gas); and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected the requesting Party shall at its cost monitorbe responsible for the reasonable direct costs of any required modifications to the relevant Delivery Point, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires as determined by First Gas to monitor and, where First Gas is the quality of gas injected requesting Party, First Gas shall also be responsible for any reasonable direct costs incurred by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary as a condition of its agreement to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedsuchits request; and the extent relevant page of Schedule One is replaced to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred reflect any changes pursuant to in this section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or4.1(d).

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including of each such constituent’s isomers that are present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not available to it or which is not required for the purposes determination of this Agreementenergy quantities. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant other Party referred to in section 4.8 3.8 shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner shall use reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if If the Metering Owner upgrades or replacing the Metering at a Receipt Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other PartyData, it shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the other Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt PointSubject to the Metering Owner making available (in accordance with section 3.9) the Data that it shall notify the Metering Owner that it requires, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately: for each meter at that a Receipt Point and for the each Receipt Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month for all Days in that Month, and in the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (format determined in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. injection of gas Pressure The Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that: it is solely responsible for achieving the pressure required to inject Gas into First Gas’ Pipeline, which may be as high as the MAOP of that Pipeline; subject to the provisions of the Code relating to the Target Taranaki Pressure, First Gas shall not be obliged to operate any part of the Transmission System within any particular pressure range; and it shall not cause the MAOP of First Gas’ Pipeline to be exceeded, and shall indemnify First Gas for any Loss First Gas may suffer if it does so. Rate of Injection Subject to section 4.3, the Interconnected Party will use reasonable endeavours to inject Gas at a Receipt Point at a constant rate. For the purposes of this section 4.2, “constant rate” means an average Hourly energy quantity for the relevant Day that is 1/24th of whatever quantity of Gas the Interconnected Party has agreed with Shippers to inject on that Day, whether in accordance with section 5.2(a), section 5.2(b) or otherwise. The requirement set out in section 4.2 may be amended to the extent that an Agreed Hourly Profile applies at a Receipt Point. Nor shall section 4.2 be construed as restricting the Interconnected Party’s ability to change the rate at which it injects Gas on a Day to reflect its agreement with Shippers in relation to the quantity of Gas it will inject on that Day. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity at a Receipt Point will be be: where it is the only Shipper receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, the metered quantity for that Day; or where one or more other Shippers are receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Subject to section 5.3, the Interconnected Party may determine that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will shall apply at any a Receipt Point, provided that it must give First Gas agrees that: it is both an “Interconnected Party” and an “OBA Party” as those terms are defined in the Code; and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing before the OBA may commence. At the commencement provisions of the Code applicable to an Interconnected Party and an OBA Party are deemed to be incorporated into this Agreement and the Interconnected Party shall become an OBA Party in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply to an OBA Partysuch provisions. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able use reasonable endeavours to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP ensure that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected it injects at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in Day matches the same nominations cycle, Scheduled Quantity for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXX, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities in accordance with the Code; and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected Party shall at its cost monitor, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires First Gas to monitor the quality of gas injected by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injected; and the extent to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred to in section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/orand

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including isomers of each such constituent’s isomers that are a constituent present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not required available to it or which it doesis not itself requirerequired for the purposes purposesdetermination of this AgreementAgreementenergy quantities. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such the frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing replaces the Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Partyas a result, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately: for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt each Delivery Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month including all Days in that Month, and in the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (format determined in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX OATIS Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXXOATIS: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX OATIS and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX OATIS set out on XXXXXOATIS. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity gas delivery Controlled Delivery Pressure Where Schedule One stipulates that the Delivery Pressure at a Receipt Delivery Point is “Controlled” (Controlled): First Gas will determine the means of pressure control and over-pressure protection to be used, provided that First Gas shall not use a slam-shut valve for the purpose described in paragraph 1.6(b) of Schedule Two unless: where two pressure control streams are installed, the set-points of the respective slam-shut valves are such that if the valve in the working stream closes the valve in the standby stream should remain open; or where only one pressure control stream is installed, the Interconnected Party can tolerate an immediate and complete stoppage in the flow of Gas if a slam-shut valve or pressure regulating valve closes, and remain without Gas for the reasonable time First Gas may require to reinstate normal pressure control and the ability to take Gas; the normal range within which the Delivery Pressure may vary will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant Pressure Control Settings; the Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that the Delivery Pressure may increase to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine Maximum Delivery Pressure and that: it shall ensure that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at the MAOP of its Pipeline plus any Receipt Point, provided over-pressure allowed under that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point Pipeline’s design code is not less than 40 Business Days’ notice the Maximum Delivery Pressure; and First Gas shall have no liability whatsoever in writing before respect of an increase in Delivery Pressure envisaged under this section 4.1(c) unless the OBA may commence. At Delivery Pressure exceeds the commencement greater of the OBA Maximum Delivery Pressure or the MAOP of the Interconnected Party’s Pipeline; either Party may at any time request a change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure and the other Party shall not unreasonably withhold or delay its agreement, provided that: the Interconnected Party shall become not be required to agree to any request from First Gas to decrease the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially affect the Interconnected Party’s ability to take or utilise Gas; First Gas shall not be obliged to agree to any request of the Interconnected Party to increase the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially reduce First Gas’ ability capacity to provide transmission services to any delivery point; First Gas shall be entitled to make its agreement to any change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure conditional on changes to other Pressure Control Settings (including, where an OBA Party increase in the Nominal Delivery Pressure is requested, to the applicable Maximum Delivery Pressure) that it reasonably considers to be necessary; in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply any request to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXXNominal Delivery Pressure, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party agrees in writing that the MAOP of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities Pipeline is sufficient to allow the increase (and any consequent increase in accordance with the CodeMaximum Delivery Pressure, as determined by First Gas); and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected the requesting Party shall at its cost monitorbe responsible for the reasonable direct costs of any required modifications to the relevant Delivery Point, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires as determined by First Gas to monitor and, where First Gas is the quality of gas injected requesting Party, First Gas shall also be responsible for any reasonable direct costs incurred by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary as a condition of its agreement to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedrequest; and the extent relevant page of Schedule One is replaced to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred reflect any changes pursuant to in this section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or4.1(d).

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including of each such constituent’s isomers that are present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not required for the purposes of this Agreement. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its own cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it First Gas may reasonably determinerequest, provided that the Metering Owner shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not available to it at a Receipt Point. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 First Gas shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. Before upgrading or replacing the Metering such that it will no longer be able to provide any of the Data which First Gas has previously received, the Metering Owner will notify First Gas and ensure that it is able to continue undertaking the activity described in section 3.13. The Metering Owner shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering or any part thereof is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Energy Quantity Reports Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner upgrades or replacing the Metering at a Receipt Point and is no longer be able to provide any making available (in accordance with section 3.9), such of the Data previously received by as First Gas shall notify the other Party, Metering Owner in writing that it shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs incurred by that Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Pointrequires, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) in accordance with sections 3.14 to 3.16. Separate DDRs and HDRs shall be produced: for each meter at that a Receipt Point and for the each Receipt Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month for all Days in that Month. Each DDR and HDR shall be in the format, and contain the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as information that First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposereasonably determine from time to time. For each Day or Hour (respectively) such information may include (without limitation): the name and identification number (as determined by First Gas) of the Receipt Point; the date; the time of the Day (HDR only); uncorrected volume (cubic metres at flowing conditions) metering pressure (HDR only); metering temperature (HDR only); compressibility correction factor (HDR only); altitude correction factor (HDR only); corrected volume (standard cubic metres); Gross Calorific Value; and energy quantity (GJ). First Gas will make all DDRs and HDRs available to the Interconnected Party on XXXXX. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the . The Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy injection of gas Pressure The Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that: it is solely responsible for providing all Gas it wishes to inject into First Gas’ Pipeline at a pressure sufficient for it to do so; the operating pressure of First Gas’ Pipeline may be as high as the MAOP of such Pipeline; First Gas shall not be obliged to operate its Pipeline to facilitate the injection of Gas by the Interconnected Party; and it shall not cause the MAOP of First Gas’ Pipeline to be exceeded and, if it does so, shall (subject to clause 16) indemnify First Gas against any and all Loss. Agreed Hourly Profile The Interconnected Party may request an Agreed Hourly Profile in accordance with section 3.24 of the Code. First Gas will consider, but shall not be obliged to approve such request. First Gas will use all reasonable endeavours to accommodate any Agreed Hourly Profile that it approves but, where it determines that such Agreed Hourly Profile is adversely affecting its operation of the Transmission System or other users of that system, First Gas may cancel that Agreed Hourly Profile without notice and shall have no liability to the Interconnected Party whatsoever if it does so. allocation of gas at A receipt point The Interconnected Party agrees and acknowledges that it is connected to First Gas’ Pipeline at a Receipt Point in order to inject Gas Transfer Agreement Subject into First Gas Pipeline for sale or transfer to section 5.2, one or more Shippers (including where the Interconnected Party may itself be a Shipper’s ). The method used to determine Shippers’ Receipt Quantity Quantities at a Receipt Point will be be, at the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine that Party’s election, either: an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply ); or a Gas Transfer Agreement (GTA); and as at any Receipt Point, provided that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that the Commencement Date the applicable method for a Receipt Point not less than 40 Business Days’ notice will be as set out in writing before the OBA may commence. At the commencement of the OBA the Interconnected Party shall become an OBA Party in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply to an OBA PartySchedule One. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point change the method referred to in section 5.2 on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas, provided that, in the case of changing from an OBA to a GTA, such a change will not be effective until First Gas and advises the Interconnected Party that all Shippers receiving using the Receipt Point have signed a Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement Where an OBA applies at that a Receipt Point, provided the Interconnected Party agrees that: it is both an “Interconnected Party” and an “OBA Party” as those terms are defined in the Code; and all provisions of the Code applicable to an Interconnected Party and an OBA Party are deemed to be incorporated into this Agreement and the Interconnected Party shall comply with all such provisions. To the extent that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the Interconnected Party, as an OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation Party or otherwise, requires access to XXXXX to approve or curtail Shippers’ Nominated Quantities at a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day4 of the Code, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it First Gas will be able to inject provide the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt QuantitiesInterconnected Party with the appropriate XXXXX access. The Interconnected party must use Party agrees that, where it is the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence OBA Party at a time corresponding Receipt Point: it will use all reasonable endeavours to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP ensure that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected it injects at that the Receipt Point on a DayDay matches the Scheduled Quantity for that Day and that it is responsible for any difference; and to the extent that fails to comply with part (a) of this section 5.6, it may be liable for, and if so will pay Balancing Charges. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Transfer Agreement Where a GTA applies at a Receipt Point; or unduly increase , the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXX, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where agrees that: it is an OBA “Interconnected Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities ” as defined in accordance with the Code; and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligationall provisions of the Code that apply to an Interconnected Party are deemed to be incorporated into this Agreement. gas quality The Interconnected Party shall at its cost monitor, in accordance with section 6.10, monitor the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Pointto ensure it is able to demonstrate that it is Gas. Nothing in this Agreement requires First Gas to monitor the quality of gas injected by the Interconnected Party at any a Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it it: detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected; or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected, is being injected or is likely to be injected. On If, by notification pursuant to section 6.3 or otherwise becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3)Gas, the Interconnected Party shall shall: immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting ; if Non-Specification GasGas was injected, remedy the Interconnected Party shall: cause before resuming injection of gas; notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with practicable of: the following information: results of its investigation pursuant to part (a) of this section 6.4; the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injected; and the extent to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred to in section 6.106.9, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient adequate facilities, monitoring systems and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects only Gas at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas SpecificationPoint. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 6.5 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does such time as First Gas is satisfied that the Interconnected Party complies with section 6.5; and/or enter upon the Interconnected Party’s premises (including gas processing facilities) at any reasonable time to undertake such inspections, inquiries, sampling or testing as First Gas deems necessary to determine the Interconnected Party’s compliance with section 6.5, provided that when exercising its rights under this section 6.6, First Gas will comply with the Interconnected Party’s normal safety, environmental and security policies and procedures and cause as little inconvenience to the Interconnected Party’s operations as practicable. The Interconnected Party shall pay all First Gas’ reasonable costs incurred in exercising its rights under section 6.6; and/or6.6(b). First Gas shall have no liability to the Interconnected Party, and the Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of its obligations under this Agreement, by reason only that First Gas exercised its rights in accordance with this section 6. Monitoring of Gas Quality Without limiting anything in this section 6, the Interconnected Party shall at its cost monitor the gas it injects into First Gas’ Pipeline as set out in the following table: Characteristic or Component to Measure and/or Determine Required Measurement and/or Determination Frequency

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including of each such constituent’s isomers that are present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not required available to it (or which it does not itself require for the purposes of this Agreement). Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing the replaces Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Partyas a result, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that such Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) in accordance with sections 3.14 to 3.15. Separate DDRs and HDRs shall be produced: for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt each Delivery Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month for all Days in that Month. Each DDR and HDR shall be in the format, and contain the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as information that First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposereasonably determine from time to time. For each Day or Hour (respectively) such information may include (without limitation): the name and identification number of the Delivery Point; the date; the time of the Day (HDR only); uncorrected volume (cubic metres at flowing conditions) metering pressure (HDR only); metering temperature (HDR only); compressibility correction factor (HDR only); altitude correction factor (HDR only); corrected volume (standard cubic metres); Gross Calorific Value; and energy quantity (GJ). XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity gas delivery Controlled Delivery Pressure Where Schedule One stipulates that the Delivery Pressure at a Receipt Delivery Point is “Controlled” (Controlled): First Gas will determine the means of pressure control and over-pressure protection to be used, provided that First Gas shall not use a slam-shut valve for the purpose described in paragraph 1.6(b) of Schedule Two unless: where dual pressure control streams are installed, the settings of the two slam-shut valves are sufficiently far apart such that if the working stream slam-shut valve closes the standby stream slam-shut valve should remain open; or where only a single pressure control stream is installed, the Interconnected Party is able to tolerate an immediate and complete interruption to the flow of Gas, and remain without Gas for such reasonable time as First Gas may require to reinstate normal pressure control and the availability of Gas; the normal range within which the Delivery Pressure may vary will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant Pressure Control Settings; the Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that from time to time the Delivery Pressure may increase to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine Maximum Delivery Pressure and that: it shall ensure that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at the MAOP of its Pipeline plus any Receipt Point, provided over-pressure allowed under that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point Pipeline’s design code is not less than 40 Business Days’ notice the Maximum Delivery Pressure; and First Gas shall have no liability whatsoever in writing before respect of an increase in Delivery Pressure envisaged under this section 4.1(c) unless the OBA may commence. At Delivery Pressure exceeds the commencement greater of the OBA Maximum Delivery Pressure or the MAOP of the Interconnected Party’s Pipeline; either Party may at any time request a change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure and the other Party shall not unreasonably withhold or delay its agreement, provided that: the Interconnected Party shall become not be required to agree to any request from First Gas to decrease the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially affect the Interconnected Party’s ability to take or utilise Gas; First Gas shall not be obliged to agree to any request of the Interconnected Party to increase the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially reduce First Gas’ ability capacity to provide transmission services to any delivery point; First Gas shall be entitled to make its agreement to any change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure conditional on such changes to other Pressure Control Settings (including, where an OBA Party increase in the Nominal Delivery Pressure is requested, to the applicable Maximum Delivery Pressure) as it reasonably considers to be necessary; in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply any request to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXXNominal Delivery Pressure, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party agrees in writing that the MAOP of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities Pipeline is sufficient to allow such increase (and any consequent increase in accordance with the CodeMaximum Delivery Pressure, as determined by First Gas); and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected the requesting Party shall at its cost monitorbe responsible for the reasonable direct costs of any required modifications to the relevant Delivery Point, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires as determined by First Gas to monitor and, where First Gas is the quality of gas injected requesting Party, First Gas shall also be responsible for any reasonable direct costs incurred by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary as a condition of its agreement to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedsuch request; and the extent relevant page of Schedule One is replaced to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred reflect any changes pursuant to in this section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or4.1(d).

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including isomers of each such constituent’s isomers that are a constituent present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not required available to it or which it doesis not itself requirerequired for the purposes purposesdetermination of this AgreementAgreementenergy quantities. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such the frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing replaces the Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Partyas a result, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately: for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt each Delivery Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month including all Days in that Month, and in the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (format determined in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity gas delivery Controlled Delivery Pressure Where Schedule One stipulates that the Delivery Pressure at a Receipt Delivery Point is “Controlled” (Controlled): First Gas will determine the means of pressure control and over-pressure protection to be used, provided that First Gas shall not use a slam-shut valve for the purpose described in paragraph 1.6(b) of Schedule Two unless: where two pressure control streams are installed, the set-points of the respective slam-shut valves are such that if the valve in the working stream closes the valve in the standby stream should remain open; or where only one pressure control stream is installed, the Interconnected Party can tolerate an immediate and complete stoppage in the flow of Gas if a slam-shut valve or pressure regulating valve closes, and remain without Gas for the reasonable time First Gas may require to reinstate normal pressure control and the ability to take Gas; the normal range within which the Delivery Pressure may vary will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant Pressure Control Settings; the Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that the Delivery Pressure may increase to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine Maximum Delivery Pressure and that: it shall ensure that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at the MAOP of its Pipeline plus any Receipt Point, provided over-pressure allowed under that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point Pipeline’s design code is not less than 40 Business Days’ notice the Maximum Delivery Pressure; and First Gas shall have no liability whatsoever in writing before respect of an increase in Delivery Pressure envisaged under this section 4.1(c) unless the OBA may commence. At Delivery Pressure exceeds the commencement greater of the OBA Maximum Delivery Pressure or the MAOP of the Interconnected Party’s Pipeline; either Party may at any time request a change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure and the other Party shall not unreasonably withhold or delay its agreement, provided that: the Interconnected Party shall become not be required to agree to any request from First Gas to decrease the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially affect the Interconnected Party’s ability to take or utilise Gas; First Gas shall not be obliged to agree to any request of the Interconnected Party to increase the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially reduce First Gas’ ability capacity to provide transmission services to any delivery point; First Gas shall be entitled to make its agreement to any change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure conditional on changes to other Pressure Control Settings (including, where an OBA Party increase in the Nominal Delivery Pressure is requested, to the applicable Maximum Delivery Pressure) that it reasonably considers to be necessary; in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply any request to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXXNominal Delivery Pressure, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party agrees in writing that the MAOP of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities Pipeline is sufficient to allow the increase (and any consequent increase in accordance with the CodeMaximum Delivery Pressure, as determined by First Gas); and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected the requesting Party shall at its cost monitorbe responsible for the reasonable direct costs of any required modifications to the relevant Delivery Point, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires as determined by First Gas to monitor and, where First Gas is the quality of gas injected requesting Party, First Gas shall also be responsible for any reasonable direct costs incurred by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary as a condition of its agreement to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedrequest; and the extent relevant page of Schedule One is replaced to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred reflect any changes pursuant to in this section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or4.1(d).

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including of each such constituent’s isomers that are present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not available to it or which is not required for the purposes determinationpurposes of this energy quantitiesthis Agreement. Pursuant to section 4.834.8, the Metering Owner shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient other Party referredrecipient of Data pursuant to in section 4.8 34.8 shall be responsible for conveying that thethat Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner shall use reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject IfSubject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner upgrades or replacing the Metering at a Receipt Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Party, it shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the otherthat Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For Subject to the Metering Owner making available (in accordance with section 3.9) the Data that it shall notify the Metering Owner that it requiresFor each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately: for each meter at that athat Receipt Point and for the eachthe Receipt Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day;, and at the end the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of each Month for all Days in the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that Month,purpose. in the format determined in accordance with the Code. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. injection of gas Pressure The Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that: it is solely responsible for achieving the pressure required to inject Gas into First Gas’ Pipeline, which may be as high as the MAOP of that Pipeline; subject to the provisions of the Code relating to the Target Taranaki Pressure, First Gas shall not be obliged to operate any part of the Transmission System within any particular pressure range; and it shall not cause the MAOP of First Gas’ Pipeline to be exceeded, and shall indemnify First Gas for any Loss First Gas may suffer if it does so. Rate of Injection Subject to section 4.3, the Interconnected Party will use reasonable endeavours to inject Gas at a Receipt Point at a constant rate. For the purposes of this section 4.2, “constant rate” means an average Hourly energy quantity for the relevant Day that is 1/24th of whatever quantity of Gas the Interconnected Party has agreed with Shippers to inject on that Day, whether in accordance with section 5.2(a), section 5.2(b) or otherwise. The requirement set out in section 4.2 may be amended to the extent that an Agreed Hourly Profile applies at a Receipt Point. Nor shall section 4.2 be construed as restricting the Interconnected Party’s ability to change the rate at which it injects Gas on a Day to reflect its agreement with Shippers in relation to the quantity of Gas it will inject on that Day. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity at a Receipt Point will be be: where it is the only Shipper receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, the metered quantity for that Day; or where one or more other Shippers are receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Subject to section 5.3, theThe Interconnected Party may determine that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will shallwill apply at any aany Receipt Point, provided that it must give First Gas agrees that: it is both an “Interconnected Party” and an “OBA Party” as those terms are defined in the Code; and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing before the OBA may commence. At the commencement provisions of the Code applicable to an Interconnected Party and an OBA Party are deemed to be incorporated into this Agreement and the Interconnected Party shall become an OBA Party in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply to an OBA Partysuch provisions. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able use reasonable endeavours to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP ensure that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected it injects at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in Day matches the same nominations cycle, Scheduled Quantity for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXX, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities in accordance with the Code; and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected Party shall at its cost monitor, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires First Gas to monitor the quality of gas injected by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injected; and the extent to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred to in section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/orand

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including isomers of each such constituent’s isomers that are a constituent present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not required available to it or which it does not itself require for the purposes of this Agreement. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such the frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing the replaces Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Partyas a result, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately: for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt each Delivery Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month including all Days in that Month, and in the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (format determined in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX OATIS Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXXOATIS: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX OATIS and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX OATIS set out on XXXXXOATIS. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity gas delivery Controlled Delivery Pressure Where Schedule One stipulates that the Delivery Pressure at a Receipt Delivery Point is “Controlled” (Controlled): First Gas will determine the means of pressure control and over-pressure protection to be used, provided that First Gas shall not use a slam-shut valve for the purpose described in paragraph 1.6(b) of Schedule Two unless: where two pressure control streams are installed, the set-points of the respective slam-shut valves are such that if the valve in the working stream closes the valve in the standby stream should remain open; or where only one pressure control stream is installed, the Interconnected Party can tolerate an immediate and complete stoppage in the flow of Gas if a slam-shut valve or pressure regulating valve closes, and remain without Gas for the reasonable time First Gas may require to reinstate normal pressure control and the ability to take Gas; the normal range within which the Delivery Pressure may vary will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant Pressure Control Settings; the Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that the Delivery Pressure may increase to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine Maximum Delivery Pressure and that: it shall ensure that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at the MAOP of its Pipeline plus any Receipt Point, provided over-pressure allowed under that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point Pipeline’s design code is not less than 40 Business Days’ notice the Maximum Delivery Pressure; and First Gas shall have no liability whatsoever in writing before respect of an increase in Delivery Pressure envisaged under this section 4.1(c) unless the OBA may commence. At Delivery Pressure exceeds the commencement greater of the OBA Maximum Delivery Pressure or the MAOP of the Interconnected Party’s Pipeline; either Party may at any time request a change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure and the other Party shall not unreasonably withhold or delay its agreement, provided that: the Interconnected Party shall become not be required to agree to any request from First Gas to decrease the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially affect the Interconnected Party’s ability to take or utilise Gas; First Gas shall not be obliged to agree to any request of the Interconnected Party to increase the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially reduce First Gas’ ability capacity to provide transmission services to any delivery point; First Gas shall be entitled to make its agreement to any change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure conditional on changes to other Pressure Control Settings (including, where an OBA Party increase in the Nominal Delivery Pressure is requested, to the applicable Maximum Delivery Pressure) that it reasonably considers to be necessary; in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply any request to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXXNominal Delivery Pressure, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party agrees in writing that the MAOP of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities Pipeline is sufficient to allow the increase (and any consequent increase in accordance with the CodeMaximum Delivery Pressure, as determined by First Gas); and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected the requesting Party shall at its cost monitorbe responsible for the reasonable direct costs of any required modifications to the relevant Delivery Point, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires as determined by First Gas to monitor and, where First Gas is the quality of gas injected requesting Party, First Gas shall also be responsible for any reasonable direct costs incurred by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary as a condition of its agreement to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedrequest; and the extent relevant page of Schedule One is replaced to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred reflect any changes pursuant to in this section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or4.1(d).

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

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Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including isomers of each such constituent’s isomers that are a constituent present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not available to it or which is not required for the purposes determination of this Agreementenergy quantities. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such the frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing replaces the Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other PartyData, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately: for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt each Delivery Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month including all Days in that Month, and in the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (format determined in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity gas delivery Controlled Delivery Pressure Where Schedule One stipulates that the Delivery Pressure at a Receipt Delivery Point is “Controlled” (Controlled): First Gas will determine the means of pressure control and over-pressure protection to be used, provided that First Gas shall not use a slam-shut valve for the purpose described in paragraph 1.6(b) of Schedule Two unless: where two pressure control streams are installed, the set-points of the respective slam-shut valves are such that if the valve in the working stream closes the valve in the standby stream should remain open; or where only one pressure control stream is installed, the Interconnected Party can tolerate an immediate and complete stoppage in the flow of Gas if a slam-shut valve or pressure regulating valve closes, and remain without Gas for the reasonable time First Gas may require to reinstate normal pressure control and the ability to take Gas; the normal range within which the Delivery Pressure may vary will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant Pressure Control Settings; the Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that the Delivery Pressure may increase to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine Maximum Delivery Pressure and that: it shall ensure that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at the MAOP of its Pipeline plus any Receipt Point, provided over-pressure allowed under that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point Pipeline’s design code is not less than 40 Business Days’ notice the Maximum Delivery Pressure; and First Gas shall have no liability whatsoever in writing before respect of an increase in Delivery Pressure envisaged under this section 4.1(c) unless the OBA may commence. At Delivery Pressure exceeds the commencement greater of the OBA Maximum Delivery Pressure or the MAOP of the Interconnected Party’s Pipeline; either Party may at any time request a change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure and the other Party shall not unreasonably withhold or delay its agreement, provided that: the Interconnected Party shall become not be required to agree to any request from First Gas to decrease the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially affect the Interconnected Party’s ability to take or utilise Gas; First Gas shall not be obliged to agree to any request of the Interconnected Party to increase the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially reduce First Gas’ ability capacity to provide transmission services to any delivery point; First Gas shall be entitled to make its agreement to any change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure conditional on changes to other Pressure Control Settings (including, where an OBA Party increase in the Nominal Delivery Pressure is requested, to the applicable Maximum Delivery Pressure) that it reasonably considers to be necessary; in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply any request to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXXNominal Delivery Pressure, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party agrees in writing that the MAOP of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities Pipeline is sufficient to allow the increase (and any consequent increase in accordance with the CodeMaximum Delivery Pressure, as determined by First Gas); and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected the requesting Party shall at its cost monitorbe responsible for the reasonable direct costs of any required modifications to the relevant Delivery Point, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires as determined by First Gas to monitor and, where First Gas is the quality of gas injected requesting Party, First Gas shall also be responsible for any reasonable direct costs incurred by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary as a condition of its agreement to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedrequest; and the extent relevant page of Schedule One is replaced to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred reflect any changes pursuant to in this section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or4.1(d).

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including of each such constituent’s isomers that are present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not required available to it (or which it does not itself require for the purposes of this Agreement). Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing the replaces Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Partyas a result, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that such Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) in accordance with sections 3.14 to 3.15. Separate DDRs and HDRs shall be produced: for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt each Delivery Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month for all Days in that Month. Each DDR and HDR shall be in the format, and contain the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as information that First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposereasonably determine from time to time. XXXXX For each Day or Hour (respectively) such information may include (without limitation): the name and identification number of the Delivery Point; the date; the time of the Day (HDR only); uncorrected volume (cubic metres at flowing conditions) metering pressure (HDR only); metering temperature (HDR only); compressibility correction factor (HDR only); altitude correction factor (HDR only); corrected volume (standard cubic metres); Gross Calorific Value; and energy quantity (GJ). OATIS Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXXOATIS: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX OATIS and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX OATIS set out on XXXXXOATIS. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity gas delivery Controlled Delivery Pressure Where Schedule One stipulates that the Delivery Pressure at a Receipt Delivery Point is “Controlled” (Controlled): First Gas will determine the means of pressure control and over-pressure protection to be used, provided that First Gas shall not use a slam-shut valve for the purpose described in paragraph 1.6(b) of Schedule Two unless: where dual pressure control streams are installed, the settings of the two slam-shut valves are sufficiently far apart such that if the working stream slam-shut valve closes the standby stream slam-shut valve should remain open; or where only a single pressure control stream is installed, the Interconnected Party is able to tolerate an immediate and complete interruption to the flow of Gas, and remain without Gas for such reasonable time as First Gas may require to reinstate normal pressure control and the availability of Gas; the normal range within which the Delivery Pressure may vary will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant Pressure Control Settings; the Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that from time to time the Delivery Pressure may increase to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine Maximum Delivery Pressure and that: it shall ensure that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at the MAOP of its Pipeline plus any Receipt Point, provided over-pressure allowed under that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point Pipeline’s design code is not less than 40 Business Days’ notice the Maximum Delivery Pressure; and First Gas shall have no liability whatsoever in writing before respect of an increase in Delivery Pressure envisaged under this section 4.1(c) unless the OBA may commence. At Delivery Pressure exceeds the commencement greater of the OBA Maximum Delivery Pressure or the MAOP of the Interconnected Party’s Pipeline; either Party may at any time request a change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure and the other Party shall not unreasonably withhold or delay its agreement, provided that: the Interconnected Party shall become not be required to agree to any request from First Gas to decrease the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially affect the Interconnected Party’s ability to take or utilise Gas; First Gas shall not be obliged to agree to any request of the Interconnected Party to increase the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially reduce First Gas’ ability capacity to provide transmission services to any delivery point; First Gas shall be entitled to make its agreement to any change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure conditional on such changes to other Pressure Control Settings (including, where an OBA Party increase in the Nominal Delivery Pressure is requested, to the applicable Maximum Delivery Pressure) as it reasonably considers to be necessary; in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply any request to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXXNominal Delivery Pressure, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party agrees in writing that the MAOP of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities Pipeline is sufficient to allow such increase (and any consequent increase in accordance with the CodeMaximum Delivery Pressure, as determined by First Gas); and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected the requesting Party shall at its cost monitorbe responsible for the reasonable direct costs of any required modifications to the relevant Delivery Point, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires as determined by First Gas to monitor and, where First Gas is the quality of gas injected requesting Party, First Gas shall also be responsible for any reasonable direct costs incurred by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary as a condition of its agreement to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedsuch request; and the extent relevant page of Schedule One is replaced to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred reflect any changes pursuant to in this section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or4.1(d).

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including of each such constituent’s isomers that are present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent available., provided that the Metering Owner shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is not available to it or which is not required for the purposes determination of this Agreementenergy quantities. Pursuant to section 4.83.8, the Metering Owner shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its own cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it First Gasit may reasonably request,determine. The recipient of provided that the Metering Owner shall not be obligedThe other Party referred to provide any Data pursuant that is not available to it at a Receipt Point. First Gasin section 4.8 3.8 shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. Before upgrading or replacing the Metering such that it will no longer be able to provide any of the Data which First Gas has previously received, the Metering Owner will notify First Gas and ensure that it is able to continue undertaking the activity described in section 3.13. The Metering Owner shall use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering or any part thereof is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading, removal or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if If the Metering Owner upgrades or replacing the Metering at a Receipt Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other PartyData, it shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the other Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt PointSubject to the Metering Owner making available (in accordance with section 3.9), such of) the Data as First Gasthat it shall notify the Metering Owner in writing that it requires, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) in accordance with sections 3.14 to 3.16. separately: Separate DDRs and HDRs shall be produced: for each meter at that a Receipt Point and for the each Receipt Point in aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end of each Month for all Days in that Month., Each DDR and HDR shall be in the format, and contain the Metering Owner information that First Gas shall reasonably determine from time to time. For each Day or Hour (respectively) such information may include (without limitation): the name and identification number (as determined by First Gas) of the Receipt Point; the date; the time of the Day (HDR only); uncorrected volume (cubic metres at flowing conditions) metering pressure (HDR only); metering temperature (HDR only); compressibility correction factor (HDR only); altitude correction factor (HDR only); corrected volume (standard cubic metres); Gross Calorific Value; and energy quantity (GJ). First Gas will make all DDRs and HDRs available to First Gas (the Interconnected Party on XXXXX. in the format determined in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement. The, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy injection of gas Pressure The Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that: it is solely responsible for providing all Gas it wishesachieving the pressure required to inject Gas into First Gas’ Pipeline at a pressure sufficient for it to do so, which may be as high as the MAOP of that Pipeline; subject to the operating pressureprovisions of the Code relating to the Target Taranaki Pressure, First Gas’ Pipeline may be as high as the MAOP of such Pipeline; First Gas shall not be obliged to operate its Pipeline to facilitate the injection of Gas by the Interconnected Partyany part of the Transmission System within any particular pressure range; and it shall not cause the MAOP of First Gas’ Pipeline to be exceeded, and, if it does so, shall (subject to clause 16) indemnify First Gas againstfor any and all Loss First Gas may suffer if it does so. Agreed Hourly Profile The Interconnected Party may request an Agreed Hourly Profile in accordance with section 3.24 of the Code. First Gas will consider, but shall not be obligedRate of Injection Subject to approve such request. First Gas section 4.3, the Interconnected Party will use all reasonable endeavours to accommodate any inject Gas Agreed Hourly Profile that it approves but, where it determines that such Agreed Hourly Profile is adversely affecting its operation of the Transmission System or other users of that system, First Gas may cancel that Agreed Hourly Profile without notice and shall have no liability to the Interconnected Party whatsoever if it does so. allocation of gas at A receipt point The Interconnected Party agrees and acknowledges that it is connected to First Gas’ Pipeline at a Receipt Point in order to inject Gas Transfer Agreement Subject into First Gas Pipeline for sale or transfer to one or more Shippers (including where at a constant rate. For the purposes of this section 5.24.2, “constant rate” means an average Hourly energy quantity for the relevant Day that is 1/24th of whatever quantity of Gas the Interconnected Party may itself be a Shipper’s Shipper).has agreed with Shippers to inject on that Day, whether in accordance with section 5.2(a), section 5.2(b) or otherwise. The method usedrequirement set out in section 4.2 may be amended to determine Shippers’ Receipt Quantity Quantitiesthe extent that an Agreed Hourly Profile applies at a Receipt Point will be, at . Nor shall section 4.2 be construed as restricting the Interconnected Party’s election, either:ability to change the rate at which it injects Gas on a Day to reflect its agreement with Shippers in relation to the quantity determined by the of Gas Transfer Agent pursuant to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreementit will inject on that Day. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at any Receipt Point, provided that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing before the OBA may commence. At the commencement of the OBA the Interconnected Party shall become an OBA Party in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work); or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXX, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities in accordance with the Code; and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected Party shall at its cost monitor, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires First Gas to monitor the quality of gas injected by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injected; and the extent to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred to in section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/oror

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including isomers of each such constituent’s isomers that are a constituent present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent extentif available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that isit does not available to it or which is not required requiredrequire for the purposes determinationpurposes of this energy quantities.this Agreement. Pursuant to section 4.834.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such the frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing servicing, upgrading or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any of the Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing replaces the Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Interconnected Party, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs previously incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately: for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt each Delivery Point in the aggregate; not less frequently than each Business Day for all Days since the previous Business Day; and at the end quantities of each Month including all Days in Gas taken at that Month, and in the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (format determinedDelivery Point in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or HDRs; and as may be required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Agreement Subject to section 5.2, a Shipper’s Receipt Quantity gas delivery Controlled Delivery Pressure Where Schedule One stipulates that the Delivery Pressure at a Receipt Delivery Point is “Controlled” (Controlled): First Gas will determine the means of pressure control and over-pressure protection to be used, provided that First Gas shall not use a slam-shut valve for the purpose described in paragraph 1.6(b) of Schedule Two unless: where two pressure control streams are installed, the set-points of the respective slam-shut valves are such that if the valve in the working stream closes the valve in the standby stream should remain open; or where only one pressure control stream is installed, the Interconnected Party can tolerate an immediate and complete stoppage in the flow of Gas if a slam-shut valve or pressure regulating valve closes, and remain without Gas for the reasonable time First Gas may require to reinstate normal pressure control and the ability to take Gas; the normal range within which the Delivery Pressure may vary will be the quantity determined by the Gas Transfer Agent pursuant Pressure Control Settings; the Interconnected Party acknowledges and agrees that the Delivery Pressure may increase to the relevant Gas Transfer Agreement. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine Maximum Delivery Pressure and that: it shall ensure that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) will apply at the MAOP of its Pipeline plus any Receipt Point, provided over-pressure allowed under that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point Pipeline’s design code is not less than 40 Business Days’ notice the Maximum Delivery Pressure; and First Gas shall have no liability whatsoever in writing before respect of an increase in Delivery Pressure envisaged under this section 4.1(c) unless the OBA may commence. At Delivery Pressure exceeds the commencement greater of the OBA Maximum Delivery Pressure or the MAOP of the Interconnected Party’s Pipeline; either Party may at any time request a change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure and the other Party shall not unreasonably withhold or delay its agreement, provided that: the Interconnected Party shall become not be required to agree to any request from First Gas to decrease the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially affect the Interconnected Party’s ability to take or utilise Gas; First Gas shall not be obliged to agree to any request of the Interconnected Party to increase the Nominal Delivery Pressure where that would (in its discretion) materially reduce First Gas’ ability capacity to provide transmission services to any delivery point; First Gas shall be entitled to make its agreement to any change in the Nominal Delivery Pressure conditional on changes to other Pressure Control Settings (including, where an OBA Party increase in the Nominal Delivery Pressure is requested, to the applicable Maximum Delivery Pressure) that it reasonably considers to be necessary; in respect of that Receipt Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply any request to an OBA Party. The Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at that Receipt Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXXNominal Delivery Pressure, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. Where it is an OBA Party, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party agrees in writing that the MAOP of its obligations to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities Pipeline is sufficient to allow the increase (and any consequent increase in accordance with the CodeMaximum Delivery Pressure, as determined by First Gas); and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected the requesting Party shall at its cost monitorbe responsible for the reasonable direct costs of any required modifications to the relevant Delivery Point, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of all gas it injects at a Receipt Point. Nothing in this Agreement requires as determined by First Gas to monitor and, where First Gas is the quality of gas injected requesting Party, First Gas shall also be responsible for any reasonable direct costs incurred by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary as a condition of its agreement to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification Gas). Non-Specification Gas First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects that Non-Specification Gas has been injected or is being injected. On becoming aware that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3), the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection of gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did inject, or was injecting Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedrequest; and the extent relevant page of Schedule One is replaced to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred reflect any changes pursuant to in this section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails to comply with section 6.6 within a reasonable time, First Gas may: require the Interconnected Party to immediately cease injecting gas until it does comply with section 6.6; and/or4.1(d).

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including isomers of each such constituent’s isomers that are a constituent present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent if available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is it does not required require for the purposes of this Agreement. Pursuant to section 4.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such the frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing replaces the Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Interconnected Party, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt aggregate quantities of Gas taken at that Delivery Point in aggregate, and the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or and HDRs; and as required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy Energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Delivery points Downstream Reconciliation Rules At each non-Dedicated Delivery Point used by: more than one Shipper, each Shipper’s Daily Delivery Quantity will be determined by the Allocation Agent under the Downstream Reconciliation Rules and the Code; or only one Shipper, that Xxxxxxx’s Daily Delivery Quantity will be the metered quantity for that Day. Allocation Agreement At each Dedicated Delivery Point other than where an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) applies there shall be an Allocation Agreement, irrespective of the number of Shippers using that Dedicated Delivery Point. Subject to section 5.25.4, where a Dedicated Delivery Point is used by: only one Shipper, First Gas shall be the Allocation Agent and that Xxxxxxx’s Receipt Quantity at a Receipt Point Daily and Hourly Delivery Quantities will be the quantity respective metered quantities; or more than one Shipper, each Shipper’s Daily and Hourly Delivery Quantities will be the respective qualities determined by the Allocation Agent under the applicable Allocation Agreement. The End-user of Gas Transfer taken at a Dedicated Delivery Point shall have the right to determine the rules to be applied by the Allocation Agent pursuant to determine Shippers’ Daily and Hourly Delivery Quantities. The Allocation Agreement must ensure that the relevant Allocation Agent notifies First Gas Transfer Agreementvia XXXXX of each Shipper’s Daily and Hourly Delivery Quantities within the times published by First Gas on XXXXX. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) OBA will apply at any Receipt a Delivery Point, provided that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at using that Receipt Delivery Point not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing before the OBA may commence. At the commencement of the OBA OBA: that Delivery Point will become an Individual Delivery Point; and the Interconnected Party shall become be an OBA Party in respect of that Receipt Delivery Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply to an OBA Party. The Subject to section 5.3(b), an Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Delivery Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at using that Receipt Delivery Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXX, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. gas quality Where it is an OBA PartyEnd-user, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party shall ensure that any contract for the purchase of its obligations gas it has with any party includes a requirement that all such gas must comply with the Gas Specification. First Gas shall ensure that any ICA it enters into at a Receipt Point requires the Interconnected Party to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities in accordance with the Code; and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected Party shall at its cost monitor, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of ensure that all gas it injects at into the Transmission System complies with the Gas Specification; and on request by First Gas, promptly demonstrate that it has adequate facilities, systems, procedures and monitoring to comply with section 6.2(a). Without limiting either Party’s obligation to act as a Receipt Point. Nothing Reasonable and Prudent Operator or to mitigate its Loss arising out of or in this Agreement requires First Gas relation to monitor the quality of gas injected by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification enters, or is in First Gas). Non-Specification Gas ’ Pipeline, First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects is unlikely to be able to prevent that gas from reaching a Delivery Point. If First Gas becomes aware that Non-Specification Gas has been injected flowed at a Receipt Point, or is being injected. On becoming aware suspects that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3)may flow at a Delivery Point, it will notify all Shippers and the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection via XXXXX as soon as practicable and provide any details of which it is aware in relation to: the reason why that gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did injectwas, or was injecting may be Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely period of time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedwas, or may be taken at a Delivery Point; and the nature and extent to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred to in section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with deviation from the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails becomes aware or suspects that Non-Specification Gas has flowed at a Delivery Point, it will notify First Gas as soon as practicable and, to the extent it can, provide the information referred to in section 6.4. First Gas will then promptly notify all Shippers of that event (or suspected event) via XXXXX together with the information provided to it. Subject to section 6.7, First Gas, upon receiving a reasonable written request from the Interconnected Party, shall exercise the rights referred to in section 6.2(b) and publish a report on XXXXX setting out its findings. First Gas shall have no liability to the Interconnected Party in connection with the exercise by First Gas under this section 6.6, of its rights under section 6.2(b). First Gas shall not be obliged to exercise the rights referred to in section 6.2(b) pursuant to a request from the Interconnected Party (or any other Interconnected Party or Shipper) more frequently than once every 9 Months. First Gas will install and maintain equipment at each Delivery Point to ensure that all Gas taken complies with the Gas Specification in respect of dust and/or compressor oil. odorisation Odorised Pipeline If First Gas’ Pipeline is stipulated as “Odorised” in Schedule One, Gas in that Pipeline must be odorised to comply with the detectability requirements set out in New Zealand Standard 5263:2003: Gas Detection and Odorisation. If either Party becomes aware that insufficiently odorised Gas has flowed or is flowing at a Delivery Point on an Odorised Pipeline, it will promptly notify the other Party. First Gas will investigate and, as soon as practicable: restore odorisation of Gas in accordance with section 6.6 within a reasonable time7.1; and notify the Interconnected Party of the reason for the insufficiently odorised Gas, the likely period of time during which insufficiently odorised Gas flowed, and any other relevant information. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, First Gas may: require shall have no liability to the Interconnected Party whatsoever for any Loss incurred by the Interconnected Party arising from the occurrence of insufficiently odorised Gas. Unodorised Pipeline The design, construction, operation and maintenance of Odorisation Facilities shall be the responsibility of their owner. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, First Gas may cease odorising Gas in any Pipeline or at any Delivery Point on expiry of not less than 18 Months’ written notice to immediately cease injecting gas until the Interconnected Party and all Shippers. Curtailment Adverse Events Subject to the balance of this section 9, First Gas will use reasonable endeavours to avoid curtailing the taking of Gas at a Delivery Point. First Gas may curtail the taking of Gas (or the ability to take Gas) at a Delivery Point to the extent it does comply with determines to be necessary, where: an Emergency is occurring or is imminent; a Force Majeure Event has occurred; a breach of any Security Standard Criteria and/or a Critical Contingency would otherwise occur; a Shipper’s TSA or Supplementary Agreement, or the Allocation Agreement expires or is terminated; or this Agreement expires or is terminated, either in total or in relation to that Delivery Point, provided that in relation to the events described in this section 6.69.1(a) or (b), First Gas shall use reasonable endeavours to minimise the period of curtailment. Maintenance Where it requires to carry out scheduled Maintenance that will curtail the taking of Gas, or the ability to take Gas at a Delivery Point (but not any scheduled Maintenance which it believes will not have that effect), First Gas will: notify the Interconnected Party as early as practicable (but not less than 20 Business Days’ prior to commencing work) of the likely duration of that work; and/oradvise the Interconnected Party of the expected impact on its ability to take Gas at that Delivery Point and/or any other effects; and consult the Interconnected Party and use reasonable endeavours to undertake that scheduled Maintenance at an agreed time. Where the start of any scheduled Maintenance notified pursuant to this section 9.2 is delayed, First Gas will promptly notify the Interconnected Party of that delay on XXXXX, but will not be required to re-start the 20 Business Days’ notice period. First Gas may carry out unscheduled Maintenance at a Delivery Point in response to events referred to in section 9.1(a), (b) or (c), but must give the Interconnected Party as much notice as practicable. The Interconnected Party shall reasonably facilitate First Gas’ scheduled or unscheduled Maintenance, as and when requested by First Gas. The Interconnected Party, where it intends to carry out maintenance or other work that will significantly reduce (or increase) its take of Gas (but not any other maintenance or work), shall: give First Gas as much notice as practicable before commencing that maintenance or other work; and advise First Gas of the likely duration of that maintenance or other work and the extent of the expected reduction (or increase) in its take of Gas.

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Samples: Existing Interconnection Agreement

Gross Calorific Value;. Nett Calorific Value; the concentration (in mole %) of Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide and all hydrocarbon constituents of the Gas individually (including isomers of each such constituent’s isomers that are a constituent present in the Gas in other than trace amounts) up to and including Pentanes; the concentration (in mole %) of all hydrocarbon constituents in the Gas with a molecular weight greater than that of Pentane, either collectively as Hexanes-plus or individually as total Hexanes, total Heptanes, total Octanes and Nonanes-plus, where the capabilities of the gas analyser for the Metering permits; and Gas quality information including hydrocarbon dewpoint and water content to the extent if available, provided that the Metering Owner First Gas shall not be obliged to provide any Data that is it does not required require for the purposes of this Agreement. Pursuant to section 4.8, the Metering Owner First Gas shall: reasonably determine the source from which any Data is obtained; and at its cost make the Data available at reasonably located termination points in a non-Hazardous area, in the manner and in accordance with such the frequency, communications protocol and format (including units of measurement) as it may reasonably determine. The recipient of Data pursuant to section 4.8 Interconnected Party shall be responsible for conveying that the Data to any other location at its cost. The Metering Owner First Gas shall use reasonable endeavours to maintain the availability of Data, including while the Metering is undergoing repair, re-calibration, testing, servicing or replacement. The Interconnected Party shall not be relieved of any of its obligations under this Agreement due to the unavailability of any Data, for any reason. Subject to section 4.13, if the Metering Owner If First Gas upgrades or replacing replaces the Metering at a Receipt Delivery Point and is no longer be able to provide any of the Data previously received by the other Interconnected Party, it First Gas shall not be obliged to reimburse any costs incurred by that the Interconnected Party in order to receive that Data. Energy Quantity Reports For each Receipt Point, First Gas shall, in accordance with the Code shall produce daily delivery reports (DDRs) and hourly delivery reports (HDRs) separately for each meter at that Receipt a Delivery Point and for the Receipt aggregate quantities of Gas taken at that Delivery Point in aggregate, and the Metering Owner shall make available to First Gas (in accordance with section 4.9 or otherwise) such of the Data as First Gas shall notify it that it requires for that purposeCode. XXXXX Access First Gas will provide the Interconnected Party with access to XXXXX: to enable the Interconnected Party to view and/or download DDRs and/or and HDRs; and as required for any other purpose relating to this Agreement, provided that the Interconnected Party shall be responsible at its cost for ensuring it can access XXXXX and will do so on the terms and conditions of access to, and use of XXXXX set out on XXXXX. energy Energy allocation at A receipt point Gas Transfer Delivery points Downstream Reconciliation Rules At each non-Dedicated Delivery Point used by: more than one Shipper, each Shipper’s Daily Delivery Quantity will be determined by the Allocation Agent under the Downstream Reconciliation Rules and the Code; or only one Shipper, that Shipper’s Daily Delivery Quantity will be the metered quantity for that Day. Allocation Agreement At each Dedicated Delivery Point other than where an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) applies there shall be an Allocation Agreement, irrespective of the number of Shippers using that Dedicated Delivery Point. Subject to section 5.25.4, where a Dedicated Delivery Point is used by: only one Shipper, First Gas shall be the Allocation Agent and that Shipper’s Receipt Quantity at a Receipt Point Daily and Hourly Delivery Quantities will be the quantity respective metered quantities; or more than one Shipper, each Shipper’s Daily and Hourly Delivery Quantities will be the respective qualities determined by the Allocation Agent under the applicable Allocation Agreement. The End-user of Gas Transfer taken at a Dedicated Delivery Point shall have the right to determine the rules to be applied by the Allocation Agent pursuant to determine Shippers’ Daily and Hourly Delivery Quantities. The Allocation Agreement must ensure that the relevant Allocation Agent notifies First Gas Transfer Agreementvia XXXXX of each Shipper’s Daily and Hourly Delivery Quantities within the times published by First Gas on XXXXX. Operational Balancing Agreement The Interconnected Party may determine that an Operational Balancing Agreement (OBA) OBA will apply at any Receipt a Delivery Point, provided that it must give First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at using that Receipt Delivery Point not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing before the OBA may commence. At the commencement of the OBA OBA: that Delivery Point will become an Individual Delivery Point; and the Interconnected Party shall become be an OBA Party in respect of that Receipt Delivery Point, and shall comply with all provisions of this Agreement and the Code that apply to an OBA Party. The Subject to section 5.3(b), an Interconnected Party may terminate an OBA at a Receipt Delivery Point on the expiry of not less than 40 Business Days’ notice in writing to First Gas and all Shippers receiving Gas at using that Receipt Delivery Point, provided that all those Shippers must sign a Gas Transfer Agreement before the OBA terminates. Agreed Injection Profile If in relation to a Receipt Point and a Day the Interconnected Party: plans to, or is undertaking scheduled maintenance or other work; or experiences an unplanned Gas production outage, that will reduce its ability to inject Gas in accordance with section 3.2 on that Day, but nevertheless reasonably expects that in other periods of that Day it will be able to inject the quantities of Gas requested by Shippers (albeit in contravention of section 3.2) it may request an Agreed Injection Profile (AIP) at that, or another, Receipt Point as a means of avoiding having to curtail Shippers’ Receipt Quantities. The Interconnected party must use the relevant functionality provided on XXXXX to request an AIP and may do so in any nominations cycle. An AIP can only be requested in advance. An AIP may be for part of a Day and/or a full Day (or Days) up to a maximum of 7 Days. An AIP must commence at a time corresponding to the start of a nominations cycle. Any AIP that starts on a Day must include all Hours from the time it starts until the end of that Day. No AIP may reduce the amount of Gas injected on a Day below the metered quantity of Gas already injected at that Receipt Point on a Day. First Gas will approve any requested AIP except where that would: require it to curtail any Shipper’s: request, in the same nominations cycle, for DNC; and/or previously approved DNC or Supplementary Capacity; exceed the Physical MHQ of the relevant Receipt Point; or unduly increase the risk of breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit. First Gas may curtail any previously approved AIP where it determines that is necessary to avoid breaching an Acceptable Line Pack Limit or having to curtail DNC or Supplementary Capacity. The Interconnected Party may cancel a previously approved AIP only via XXXXX, provided that it may not, on a Day, cancel an AIP that starts on that Day in respect of that Day. The Interconnected Party may, on any Day, cancel a previously approved AIP in respect of all subsequent Days to which it applies. gas quality Where it is an OBA PartyEnd-user, an AIP shall not relieve the Interconnected Party shall ensure that any contract for the purchase of its obligations gas it has with any party includes a requirement that all such gas must comply with the Gas Specification. First Gas shall ensure that any ICA it enters into at a Receipt Point requires the Interconnected Party to: manage Shippers’ Nominated Quantities in accordance with the Code; and comply with its Primary Balancing Obligation. gas quality The Interconnected Party shall at its cost monitor, in accordance with section 6.10, the quality of ensure that all gas it injects at into the Transmission System complies with the Gas Specification; and on request by First Gas, promptly demonstrate that it has adequate facilities, systems, procedures and monitoring to comply with section 6.2(a). Without limiting either Party’s obligation to act as a Receipt Point. Nothing Reasonable and Prudent Operator or to mitigate its Loss arising out of or in this Agreement requires First Gas relation to monitor the quality of gas injected by the Interconnected Party at any Receipt Point. The Interconnected Party shall not knowingly inject Non-Specification Gas (except for the shortest practicable time necessary to terminate its injection of gas after becoming aware that it has been injecting Non-Specification enters, or is in First Gas). Non-Specification Gas ’ Pipeline, First Gas shall promptly notify the Interconnected Party if it detects or reasonably suspects is unlikely to be able to prevent that gas from reaching a Delivery Point. If First Gas becomes aware that Non-Specification Gas has been injected flowed at a Receipt Point, or is being injected. On becoming aware suspects that it has injected or is injecting Non-Specification Gas (including pursuant to section 6.3)may flow at a Delivery Point, it will notify all Shippers and the Interconnected Party shall immediately halt further injection via XXXXX as soon as practicable and provide any details of which it is aware in relation to: the reason why that gas until it has investigated the matter. Where it finds that it did injectwas, or was injecting may be Non-Specification Gas, the Interconnected Party shall: notify First Gas as soon as practicable, together with the following information: the reason why Non-Specification Gas was injected; the likely period of time during which Non-Specification Gas was injected and the estimated quantities of Non-Specification Gas injectedwas, or may be taken at a Delivery Point; and the nature and extent to which, in terms of the gas characteristics and components referred to in section 6.10, the gas it injected was Non-Specification Gas; assist First Gas to the maximum extent practicable to mitigate the effects of any Non-Specification Gas injected; and remedy the cause of the injection of Non-Specification Gas before injecting any further gas at that Receipt Point, and take all practicable steps to prevent further injection of Non-Specification Gas. Demonstration of Gas Quality Upon First Gas’ written request at any time, the Interconnected Party shall promptly demonstrate to First Gas that it has sufficient facilities, monitoring and procedures in place to ensure that all gas it injects at a Receipt Point complies with deviation from the Gas Specification. If the Interconnected Party fails becomes aware or suspects that Non-Specification Gas has flowed at a Delivery Point, it will notify First Gas as soon as practicable and, to the extent it can, provide the information referred to in section 6.4. First Gas will then promptly notify all Shippers of that event (or suspected event) via XXXXX together with the information provided to it. Subject to section 6.7, First Gas, upon receiving a reasonable written request from the Interconnected Party, shall exercise the rights referred to in section 6.2(b) and publish a report on XXXXX setting out its findings. First Gas shall have no liability to the Interconnected Party in connection with the exercise by First Gas under this section 6.6, of its rights under section 6.2(b). First Gas shall not be obliged to exercise the rights referred to in section 6.2(b) pursuant to a request from the Interconnected Party (or any other Interconnected Party or Shipper) more frequently than once every 9 Months. First Gas will install and maintain equipment at each Delivery Point to ensure that all Gas taken complies with the Gas Specification in respect of dust and/or compressor oil. odorisation Odorised Pipeline If First Gas’ Pipeline is stipulated as “Odorised” in Schedule One, Gas in that Pipeline must be odorised to comply with the detectability requirements set out in New Zealand Standard 5263:2003: Gas Detection and Odorisation. If either Party becomes aware that insufficiently odorised Gas has flowed or is flowing at a Delivery Point on an Odorised Pipeline, it will promptly notify the other Party. First Gas will investigate and, as soon as practicable: restore odorisation of Gas in accordance with section 6.6 within a reasonable time7.1; and notify the Interconnected Party of the reason for the insufficiently odorised Gas, the likely period of time during which insufficiently odorised Gas flowed, and any other relevant information. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, First Gas may: require shall have no liability to the Interconnected Party whatsoever for any Loss incurred by the Interconnected Party arising from the occurrence of insufficiently odorised Gas. Unodorised Pipeline The design, construction, operation and maintenance of Odorisation Facilities shall be the responsibility of their owner. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, First Gas may cease odorising Gas in any Pipeline or at any Delivery Point on expiry of not less than 18 Months’ written notice to immediately cease injecting gas until it does the Interconnected Party and all Shippers. health and safety At any Delivery Point, each Party shall (as applicable) ensure that its personnel: comply with all applicable health and safety law; comply with its own and other Party’s health and safety plan, as provided to each Party; take all practicable steps to identify and eliminate risks to health and safety or, where elimination of a risk is impractical, take all practicable steps to minimise it; immediately advise the other Party verbally of any incident affecting, or which may affect, that Delivery Point and which must be reported or notified to the relevant authority pursuant to the relevant law, and as soon as possible afterwards, provide the other Party with: written details of the incident; a copy of any notice given to the relevant authority; and details of steps taken or to be taken to eliminate or minimise any risk associated with that incident; and provide all information and assistance reasonably requested by the other Party to ensure that no harm comes to any persons. For the purposes of this section 6.6; and/or8 “all practicable steps” shall be deemed to have been taken where the relevant Party has taken all those steps required under applicable law. Curtailment

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Samples: Interconnection Agreement

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