Gas Gathering Management - Software Solution

Software for natural gas gathering facility operators to manage contracts, scheduling and accounting for gathering systems and intrastate, non-regulated pipelines

Quorum natural gas Gathering Management is a software solution that allows gas gathering facility operators to efficiently manage the entire set of interrelated business processes to support transactions with shippers on their system, including contracts, scheduling and accounting.

Midstream Business / Physical Configuration	Recommended Quorum Solution Set
Gas gathering system (open access²)	Quorum Gathering Management
Multiple gas gathering system combinations (open access²)	Quorum Gathering Management
Gas gathering system (private¹)	Quorum TIPS Gas Plant Accounting
Multiple gas gathering system combinations (private¹)	Quorum TIPS Gas Plant Accounting
Integrated gas gathering systems (open access²) / gas processing plant facilities	Quorum Gathering Management & Quorum TIPS Gas Plant Accounting
Integrated gas gathering systems (private¹) / gas processing plant facilities	Quorum TIPS Gas Plant Accounting

¹ Gas gathering systems (private) - gas gathering systems privately controlled and managed exclusively by operator.

² Gas gathering systems (open access) - gas gathering systems available for open access transportation where shipper nominates.

For pipeline facility operators, including FERC / NAESB regulated interstate pipelines, the Quorum Pipeline Transaction Management software solution is available to address those specific requirements.

Quorum Gathering Management

Input Data

Measurement / SCADA
Shipper data
EBB / Customer Activity Website (CAW) data
Price indexes

Information Managed

EBB / Customer Activity Website (CAW)
Facility details
Contracts, shippers, agents
Location, meter, point, etc. including upstream / downstream
Rates (all types)
Nominations
Confirmations
Imbalance & inventory accounts
Invoices

Processes

EBB / Customer Activity Website (CAW)
Contract administration
Nomination
Revisions
Confirmation
Imbalance & inventory account management
Billing (including PPAs)

Deliverables

Invoice to shipper
Confirmation to shipper
Alerts & notifications
Regulatory reports
Pre-configured reports

Output Data

Informational website data
Ad-hoc inquiries
Journal entries (GL)
Other ERP system integration

Customer Activity Website (CAW)

Web-enabled solution for shippers and point operators to interact directly with the gathering facility operator.

Provides the same functionality and reporting tools used by internal users, with built-in security to allow external

users to manage their own business.

Why Quorum Gathering Management?

The industry's only "purpose built" gas gathering management software solution (not a re-purposed gas marketing or gas pipeline software system)
Prior Period Adjustment (PPA) capability provides flexible framework for tracking and processing PPAs across the system
SOX control compliance
Integrity of design ensures control compliance and support for audit
Support for variety of pre-configured and ad-hoc reports, as well as business intelligence
A component of Quorum's enterprise wide energy software solution portfolio - can be deployed stand-alone or integrated with other enterprise solutions

Quorum Gathering Management is used by various industry participants (large and small) in several sectors across the oil and gas, renewable energy and natural resource value chain.

Gas gathering management is a key function of the Transaction Systems business process. Quorum provides other software solutions to support this and other related business processes.

Contact Quorum Business Solutions to learn more about the Quorum Gathering Management software solution.