Operational Support - Gas Utility and Gas Storage Service Provider. Provide services and training to operate and support gas utility and storage field operations, such as construction, design, operation and maintenance; field services; operational compliance.
Operational Support - Gas Utility and Gas Storage Service Provider. Provide services and training to operate and support gas utility and storage field operations, such as construction, design, operation and maintenance; field services; operational compliance. • “Provide services and training to operate and support gas utility and storage field operations” means services that a gas utility or storage service provider needs and training that employees need 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 and storage field infrastructure. These services include any service associated with the operation of a gas utility’s or storage service provider’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).
