Gas Nominations System
An operational tool for managing gas contracts, and day-to-day gas nominations and allocations activities.
Gas producers, gas pipeline operators, gas shipping companies, gas distribution companies and end-users of natural gas typically need to collaborate via a gas nominations system to manage gas contracts, and to exchange nominations and allocations.
The Gas Nominations Systems utilises the power of web technology to allow different types of gas companies and their customers to manage the day to day work processes required for production and transmission of natural gas to end-users.
The Gas Nominations System facilitates the efficient and timely handling of all data needed for managing gas contracts and nominations:
- Fully electronic operation, eliminating the handling of faxes and paper-based systems
- Simplicity of operation using a single database and secure web-based access to authorised company personnel and customers
- Real-time operation with interfaces to production systems, where this is available
- Trending of both current and historical information
- Monitoring of imbalance and peaking
- Provides valuable data for business and asset planning
Functions of the system include:
- Enter and maintain details of the pipeline and its configuration of inlets and outlets
- Enter and maintain customer details
- Enter and maintain contract information, which links customers entitlements to gas at selected inlets and outlets
- Prepare and submit nominations and renominations, ranging from weekly to daily to hourly
- Schedule operating facilities and control systems for gas production and transmission
- Monitor production or transmission during the gas day and respond to renominations or unscheduled events which affect gas
- Reconcile metered actuals against nominations and generate allocations, which are then sent to customers using web technology
- Manage peaking and imbalances
- Transfer gas allocations data to the financial system for preparing invoices
The Gas Nominations System is a powerful tool for collating of the information that is required by a company for managing its customer relationships for the supply of transmission of natural gas. Earlier systems were plagued by problems with data integrity, data duplication, complexity, lack of flexibility, and data reconciliation problems.
The Gas Nominations System uses and single back-end database, and together, with the secure web-based client interface, allows companies and their customers to focus on gas operations activities.
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