Pipeline column: How should interruptible service be priced?

✍ Scribed by Smead, Richard G.

• Book ID: 102219724
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Weight: 314 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0743-5665
• DOI: 10.1002/gas.3410060404

✦ Synopsis

Next to the pricing of peak services, the noisiest issue involved in pipeline rate redesign is how to charge for interruptible transportation. As everyone probably knows, and as the name implies, interruptible services are those which are only available if capacity happens to be free, with Pipelines are generally ambivalent-some want to increase interruptible rates, some want to decrease them, and some don't care.