Operational Support - Gas Utility. Provide services to operate and support gas utility operations, such as construction, design, operation and maintenance; field services.
Operational Support - Gas Utility. Provide services to operate and support gas utility operations, such as construction, design, operation and maintenance; field services. • “Provide services to operate and support gas utility operations” means services that a gas utility needs to operate and the list following this phrase identifies the categories of such services covered by this Agreement. • “construction, design, operation and maintenance” means services needed to develop, maintain and operate gas utility infrastructure. These services include any service associated with the operation of a gas utility’s capital assets such as storage, LNG, LP, transmission and distribution facilities and appurtenant facilities such as gate stations or interconnection facilities. It includes building (constructing) the assets and engineering oversight of building (construction). It includes designing the assets (engineering sketches, drafts, blue prints, specifications, selecting manufacturers and parts to acquire to construct the asset, selecting and contracting with contractors). It includes operating the assets, i.e., the day-to-day tasks associated with running the transmission and distribution system, storage field, LNG or LP plant and delivering gas to retail and, if applicable, wholesale customers consistent with applicable legal and physical requirements. It includes maintaining the assets (scheduled maintenance activities such as those recommended by the manufacturers of parts, those required by regulatory authorities; unscheduled maintenance such as activities required by damage to the assets by third parties, force majeure events or other persons or forces; repairs to the assets).
