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Receipt, transportation, storage and redelivery of natural gas through pipelines, storage facilities and LDCs

The Natural Gas Pipeline sector involves facilities for receipt, transportation, storage and redelivery of natural gas. The sector includes interstate pipelines, intrastate pipelines, gas storage facilities (on and off-system) and local distribution companies (LDCs) providing open access transportation. Various pipeline asset configurations are found, including: pipelines that transport gas for third party shippers, pipelines that act as a merchants utilizing the assets for their own buy/sell needs, or combinations of both.

Gas Pipeline Processes and Systems

Processes and systems for pipeline operators to efficiently manage operations and commercial activities are critical to success. Key elements include:

• Manage transactions with shippers including contracts, nominations, scheduling, allocations, imbalance, inventory, settlements (invoices) and accounting
• Customer activity website (CAW) for internet communication with shippers
• Capacity trading
• System operations forecasting
• Collect, organize, analyze and edit measurement data to prepare for operational and commercial processing
• Right of way management for pipeline facilities including GIS mapping
• Capital budget management with financial controls, including approval process (AFE) and allocate approved funds to projects
• Reporting and business intelligence, executive dashboard, regulatory reports, etc., including NAESB / FERC compliance for regulated facilities
  
  

Gas Pipeline Software Solutions

Quorum has experience in the Natural Gas Pipeline sector in design, implementation and support of configurable, sustainable, scalable information technology solutions to manage business activities efficiently and cost effectively. In addition to consulting services, we provide a full range of software solutions specific to the Natural Gas Pipeline sector, including: