Description:
This four hour course will cover, in detail, the process by which measured location volumes are allocated to transportation and storage contracts. Specifically, the course will start by covering the basic Pre-Determined Allocation (PDA) methods, such as Pro-Rata, Ranked, Swing and Value Scheme. We will also discuss how to set up PDAs so that any difference between scheduled and measured location volumes will swing to an OBA or Storage contract. We will then cover the optional feature to set default PDA rankings, where PDAs will be automatically assigned to any new or late nominations, by default. We will also examine the automated processes which creates current month’s PDAs based on last month’s flow, as well as the process for submitting and processing retroactive PDAs.
This course will review the various screens and reports available to view imbalances, or the difference between scheduled and allocated volumes.
In addition, the course will review the storage transfer process. This can be used to move gas-in-storage among existing and new storage contracts, even if these contracts are involved in capacity release.
Finally, the flowing gas course will cover imbalance trading.
Objective:
The objective of this course is to give students a good working knowledge of the area of gas transmission called flowing gas, or the process by which measured volumes at a location are allocated to the transportation and storage contracts using that location.
Prerequisites, Who should attend:
Students attending this course should have some familiarity with the gas industry, have worked on another pipeline’s electronic bulletin board (EBB), or have attended the Fundamentals of LINK class. To fully appreciate the topics covered in this course, the student should have at least five years of natural gas industry experience.
| Locations: |
| Houston on 10/20/2010 Register |
Description:
This eight hour course will explain how to utilize the LINK system (which is SPECTRA Energy’s primary gas transportation customer interface application) to perform essential gas transportation and storage activities. Specific areas covered by the training include:
· Navigating the LINK system
· Segmentation
· Contracts and requests for service (RFS)
· Nominations and Confirmations
· Flowing Gas (Measurement, PDA, Allocation, Imbalance)
· Capacity Release
· Scheduling
· The Measurement Reporting Center.
The Request for Service, nominations / confirmations, flowing gas, and capacity release sessions will be a combination of lecture and hands-on use of the LINK system, while the other areas will be primarily lecture
Objective:
The objective of this course will be to provide users with an solid foundation for thoroughly understanding standard gas transportation activities on the Spectra Energy pipelines, such as nominating and confirming gas flows. A secondary objective is to provide extensive insight into the various features and functions provided by the LINK system.
Prerequisites, Who should attend:
This course requires a basic understanding of the natural gas industry. Extensive experience with standard gas industry processes (nominations, confirmation, scheduling, etc.) using other pipelines’ EBBs would be helpful.
| Locations: |
| Houston on 10/19/2010 Register |
Description:
This two hour presentation will give students better insight into the content of the invoices used by the various Spectra Energy Gas Transmission business units. This class will also cover the process by which invoices are generated and distributed. Specific areas covered include:
· How to Access Invoices
· Reading Invoices
· On-line retroactive adjustments
· Capacity Release
· Storage
· E-mail Notices
· Electronic Invoices
· Billing Contacts
Objective:
The objective of this course is to give individuals who are responsible for reviewing, processing, and paying invoices a better understanding of the content of and various sub-reports included in Spectra’s gas transmission and storage invoices. In addition, these individuals will better understand what to expect from the current process which generates and distributes invoices.
Prerequisites, Who should attend:
Students attending this course should be familiar with the gas industry, have worked on at least one other pipeline’s electronic bulletin board (EBB), or have attended the Fundamentals of LINK® class. To fully appreciate the topics covered in this course, the student should have at least one year of natural gas industry experience.
| Locations: |
| Houston on 10/21/2010 Register |
Local Security Administrator
Description:
Through a combination of hands on and lecture, this two hour course will provide a better understanding to users assigned to be LINK Security Administrators how to perform security maintenance for their company.
Specific areas reviewed will include:
· Service Requester Configuration
· Processing Agencies and Affiliations
· Establishing Local Security Administrators
· Creating user ids and assigning access rights.
· Understanding associated tariff requirements
Objective:
The objective of this course is assist users who are, or will become LINK Security Administrators, on how to perform their tariff defined functions.
Prerequisites, Who should attend:
Students attending this course must have attended the Fundamentals of LINK class or have equivalent experience.
Other:
Texas CPAs will be eligible to receive 2 hours of continuing professional education (CPE) credit for attending this class.
| Locations: |
| Houston on 10/21/2010 Register |
Description:
Through a combination of hands on and lecture, this course will discuss recent enhancements implemented to the LINK system associated with general processing, measurement, nominations and confirmations, flowing gas, segmentation, capacity release and security.
Objective:
The objective of this course is to inform students of recent LINK application enhancements and provide the background to utilize these enhancements during their daily gas transportation business.
Prerequisites, Who should attend:
Students attending this course must have attended the Fundamentals of LINK class or have equivalent experience.
| Locations: |
| Houston on 10/20/2010 Register |