EXHIBIT 10.28
Contract #: 800239R1
SERVICE AGREEMENT
FOR RATE SCHEDULE CDS
This Service Agreement, made and entered into this 31st day of October,
2000, by and between TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION, a Delaware
Corporation (herein called "Pipeline") and UGI UTILITIES, INC. (herein called
"Customer", whether one or more),
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, Customer and Pipeline are parties to an executed service
agreement dated February 23, 1999, under Pipeline's Rate Schedule CDS
(Pipeline's Contract No. 800239R); and
WHEREAS, Pipeline and Customer desire to enter into this Service Agreement
to supersede Pipeline's currently effective Contract No. 8002398 and to extend
the primary term of such service agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual
covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties do covenant and agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
SCOPE OF AGREEMENT
Subject to the terms, conditions and limitations hereof, of Pipeline's
Rate Schedule CDS, and of the General Terms and Conditions, transportation
service hereunder will be firm. Subject to the terms, conditions and limitations
hereof and of Sections 2.3 and 2.4 of Pipeline's Rate Schedule CDS, Pipeline
shall deliver to those points on Pipeline's system as specified in Article IV
herein or available to Customer, pursuant to, Section 14 of the General Terms
and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as Point(s) of Delivery), for
Customer's account, as requested for any day, natural gas quantities up to
Customer's MDQ. Customer's MDQ is as follows:
Maximum Daily Quantity (MDQ) 25,000 dth
Subject to variances as may be permitted by Sections 2.4 of Rate Schedule
CDS or the General Terms and Conditions, Customer shall deliver to Pipeline and
Pipeline shall receive, for Customer's account, at those points on Pipeline's
system as specified in Article IV herein or available to Customer pursuant to
Section 14 of the General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter (Continued) referred
to as Point(s) of Receipt) daily quantities of gas equal to the daily quantities
delivered to Customer. Pursuant to this Service Agreement up to Customer's MDQ,
plus Applicable Shrinkage as specified in the General Terms and Conditions.
Pipeline shall not be obligated to, but may at its discretion, receive at
any Point of Receipt on any day a quantity of gas in excess of the applicable
Maximum Daily Receipt Obligation (MDRO), plus Applicable Shrinkage, but shall
not receive in the aggregate at all Points of Receipt on any day a quantity of
gas in excess of the applicable MDQ, plus Applicable
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Shrinkage. Pipeline shall not be obligated to, but may at its discretion,
deliver at any Point of Delivery on any day a quantity of gas in excess of the
applicable Maximum Daily Delivery Obligation (MDDO), but shall not deliver in
the aggregate at all Points of Delivery on any day a quantity of gas in excess
of the MDQ.
In addition to the MDQ and subject to the terms, conditions and
limitations hereof, Rate Schedule CDS and the General Terms and Conditions,
Pipeline shall deliver within the Access Area under this and all other service
agreements under Rate Schedules CDS, FT-1, and/or SCT, quantities up to
Customer's Operational Segment Capacity Entitlements, excluding those
Operational Segment Capacity Entitlements scheduled to meet Customer's MDQ, for
Customer's account, as requested on any day.
ARTICLE II
TERM OF AGREEMENT
The term of this Service Agreement shall commence on the first day of the
first month after Customer fully executes this Service Agreement and shall
continue in force and effect until October 31, 2004 and year to year thereafter
unless this Service Agreement is terminated as hereinafter provided. This
Service Agreement may be terminated by either Pipeline or Customer upon one (1)
year prior written notice to the other specifying a termination date of October
31, 2004 or any October 31 thereafter. Subject to Section 22 of Pipeline's
General Terms and Conditions and without prejudice to such rights, this Service
Agreement may be terminated at any time by Pipeline in the event Customer fails
to pay part or all of the amount of any bill for service hereunder and such
failure continues for thirty (30) days after payment is due; provided, Pipeline
gives thirty (30) days prior written notice to Customer of such termination and
provided further such termination shall not be effective if, prior to the date
of termination, Customer either pays such outstanding bill or furnishes a good
and sufficient surety bond guaranteeing payment to Pipeline of such outstanding
bill.
THE TERMINATION OF THIS SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH A FIXED CONTRACT TERM OR THE
PROVISION OF A TERMINATION NOTICE BY CUSTOMER TRIGGERS PREGRANTED ABANDONMENT
UNDER SECTION 7 OF THE NATURAL GAS ACT AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE
TERMINATION. PROVISION OF A TERMINATION NOTICE BY PIPELINE ALSO TRIGGERS
CUSTOMER'S RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL UNDER SECTION 3.13 OF THE GENERAL TERMS AND
CONDITIONS ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE TERMINATION.
Any portions of this Service Agreement necessary to correct or cash-out
imbalances under this Service Agreement as required by the General Terms and
Conditions of Pipeline's FERC Gas Tariff, Volume No. 1, shall survive the other
parts of this Service Agreement until such time as such balancing has been
accomplished.
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ARTICLE III
RATE SCHEDULE
This Service Agreement in all respects shall be and remain subject to the
applicable provisions of Rate Schedule CDS and of the General Terms and
Conditions of Pipeline's FERC Gas Tariff on file with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, all of which are by this reference made a part hereof.
Customer shall pay Pipeline, for all services rendered hereunder and for
the availability of such service in the period stated, the applicable prices
established under Pipeline's Rate Schedule CDS as filed with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, and as same may hereafter be legally amended or
superseded.
Customer agrees that Pipeline shall have the unilateral right to file with
the appropriate regulatory authority and make changes effective in (a) the rates
and charges applicable to service pursuant to Pipeline's Rate Schedule CDS, (b)
Pipeline's, Rate Schedule CDS pursuant to which service hereunder is rendered or
(c) any provision of the General Terms and Conditions applicable to Rate
Schedule CDS. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Customer does not agree that
Pipeline shall have the unilateral right without the Consent of Customer
subsequent to the execution of this Service Agreement and Pipeline shall not
have the right during the effectiveness of this Service Agreement to make any
filings pursuant to Section 4 of the Natural Gas Act to change the MDQ specified
in Article I, to change the term of the agreement as specified in Article II, to
change Point(s) of Receipt specified in Article IV, to change the Point(s) of
Delivery specified in Article IV, or to change the firm character of the service
hereunder. Pipeline agrees that Customer may protest or contest the
aforementioned filings, and Customer does not waive any rights it may have with
respect to such filings.
ARTICLE IV
POINT(S) OF RECEIPT AND POINT(S) OF DELIVERY
The Point(s) of Receipt and Point(s) of Delivery at which Pipeline shall
receive and deliver gas, respectively, shall be specified in Exhibit(s) A and B
of the executed service agreement. Customer's Zone Boundary Entry Quantity and
Zone Boundary Exit Quantity for each of Pipeline's zones shall be specified in
Exhibit C of the executed service agreement.
Exhibit(s) A, B and C are hereby incorporated as part of this Service
Agreement for all intents and purposes as if fully copied and set forth herein
at length.
ARTICLE V
QUALITY
All natural gas tendered to Pipeline for Customer's account shall conform
to the quality specifications set forth in Section 5 of Pipeline's General Terms
and Conditions. Customer agrees that in the event Customer tenders for service
hereunder and Pipeline agrees to accept natural gas which does not comply with
Pipeline's quality specifications, as expressly provided for in Section 5 of
Pipeline's General Terms and Conditions, Customer shall pay all costs associated
with processing of such gas as necessary to comply with such quality
specifications.
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Customer shall execute or cause its supplier to execute, if such supplier has
retained processing rights to the gas delivered to Customer, the appropriate
agreements prior to the commencement of service for the transportation and
processing of any liquefiable hydrocarbons and any PVR quantities associated
with the processing of gas received by Pipeline at the Point (s) of Receipt
under such Customer's service agreement. In addition, subject to the execution
of appropriate agreements, Pipeline is willing to transport liquids associated
with the gas produced and tendered for transportation hereunder.
ARTICLE VI
ADDRESSES
Except as herein otherwise provided or as provided in the General Terms
and Conditions of Pipeline's FERC Gas Tariff, any notice, request, demand,
statement, bill or payment provided for in this Service Agreement, or any notice
which any party may desire to give to the other, shall be in writing and shall
be considered as duly delivered when mailed by registered, certified, or regular
mail to the post office address of the parties hereto, as the case may be, as
follows:
(a) Pipeline: TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION
5400 Westheimer Court
Houston, TX 77056-5310
(b) Customer: UGI UTILITIES, INC.
100 Kachel Blvd.
P.O. Box 12677
Reading, PA 19612-2677
or such other address as either party shall designate by formal written notice.
ARTICLE VII
ASSIGNMENTS
Any Company which shall succeed by purchase, merger, or consolidation to
the properties, substantially as an entirety, of Customer, or of Pipeline, as
the case may be, shall be entitled to the rights and shall be subject to the
obligations of its predecessor in title under this Service Agreement; and either
Customer or Pipeline may assign or pledge this Service Agreement under the
provisions of any mortgage, deed of trust, indenture, bank credit agreement,
assignment, receivable sale, or similar instrument which it has executed or may
execute hereafter; otherwise, neither Customer nor Pipeline shall assign this
Service Agreement or any of its rights hereunder unless it first shall have
obtained the consent thereto in writing of the other; provided further, however,
that neither Customer nor Pipeline shall be released from its obligations
hereunder without the consent of the other. In addition, Customer may assign its
rights to capacity pursuant to Section 3.14 of the General Terms and Conditions.
To the extent Customer so desires, when it releases capacity pursuant to Section
3.14 of the General Terms and Conditions, Customer may require privity between
Customer and the Replacement Customer, as further provided in the applicable
Capacity Release Umbrella Agreement.
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ARTICLE VIII
INTERPRETATION
The interpretation and performance of this Service Agreement shall be in
accordance with the laws of the State of Texas without recourse to the law
governing conflict of laws.
This Service Agreement and the obligations of the parties are subject to
all present and future valid laws with respect to the subject matter, State and
Federal, and to all valid present and future orders, rules, and regulations of
duly constituted authorities having jurisdiction.
ARTICLE IX
CANCELLATION OF PRIOR CONTRACT(S)
This Service Agreement supersedes and cancels, as of the effective date of
this Service Agreement, the contract(s) between the parties hereto as described
below:
service agreement dated February 23, 1999, between Pipeline and Customer
under Pipeline's Rate Schedule CDS (Pipeline's Contract No. 800239R).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Service Agreement
to be signed by their respective Presidents, Vice Presidents or other duly
authorized agents and their respective corporate seals to be hereto affixed and
attested by their respective Secretaries or Assistant Secretaries, the day and
year first above written.
TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION
BY /s/ Gregory J. Rizzo
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Gregory J. Rizzo
Vice President, Marketing
ATTEST:
(SIGNATURE NOT LEGIBLE)
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UGI UTILITIES, INC.
BY /s/ Vicki O. Ebner
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ATTEST:
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