OpenLink

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Market Focus

North American Pipeline Companies

Transporting Opportunities

Since the early days of natural gas deregulations in North America, pipeline companies had been the pioneers investing heavily in technology for their logistic businesses. Over the years, the once tightly regulated transportation business has become more market-oriented, allowing pipeline companies more flexibility to manage their capacity assets. The traditional transportation business has gradually evolved from a pure logistic model into a hybrid logistic-trading environment.

To maximize the returns of their transportation and storage assets, pipeline companies must upgrade from a logistic-centric IT infrastructure to one with more comprehensive solutions covering both logistical and risk capabilities. We designed OpenLink's gMotion/Endur-based On-system Solution specifically for this opportunity. Instead of managing your firm commitments and interruptible schedules in the old-fashioned way, you can now incorporate real-time pricing details across your transportation network and make better decisions to maximize your returns with the OpenLink solution. Leveraging your storage facilities, you can also explore underutilized capacity by moving off-system gas. So clearly, with OpenLink's On-system Solution, you enjoy endless transportation opportunities.

With gMotion's superior On-System support, you can:

Monitor real-time position pages for operational capacity vs. utilization for individual and custom groups of meters
Import and manage estimated and actual measurement data (volumes and energy) for each location, managing adjustments to "frozen" prior periods via a staging process
Access input from date-effective aggregate meters that accumulate data measurement from two or more meters
Automatically allocate estimated and actual measurement data using date-effective methodologies for each location. Any changes to nominations, ranks, or scheduled quantities will trigger reallocation
Track compressor fuel, and lost or unaccounted volumes
Receive standard Invoices for Transportation and Storage services and, OBA settlement with interconnected Service Providers
Review reports specifically designed for managing On-System customers
Automatically offset deals to manage a gas marketing entity's contracts and nominations. Transportation or storage sold to an internal legal entity has both a buy and sell deal that you must keep in synch at all times.