North American Natural Gas Transportation and Storage - NGTS
CPE Credits Awarded: 8
Categories: The Natural Gas Industry
COURSE SUMMARY
This course will provide an understanding of the role of pipelines in the natural gas industry and a broad insight to the dynamics that impact the economic decisions facing industry participants. A Canadian edition of this course runs in Calgary.
Includes Online Pre-study Module
This course is accompanied by a preparatory course available online. Delegates will receive an online voucher as part of their joining instructions upon confirmation of registration. By taking advantage of this "blended" learning approach, in-class time and learning are optimized.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
All facets of an organisation are likely to attend including: human resources, info systems, back-office personnel, credit department, accountants, legal, quantitative analysts, consultants, programmers, trade support staff, secretarial, marketing/sales, risk managers. This course is also perfect for anyone involved in the physical movement of gas, rate-making and capacity issues, transportation representatives that are involved in the pipeline end, and schedulers who are involved in the marketing side.
COURSE CONTENTS
History
- Industry and market development
- Pre-war
- Post-war: big inch, little inch, take or pay
Regulation
- Natural Gas Act
- FERC: NGPA, Open access
Functional Aspects
- Participants
- Interstate transporters
- Shippers: LDC, industrial, marketers, producers
- Storage operators
Agreements
- Firm
- Interruptible
- No Notice
Tariffs
- Rate design
- Requests for service
- Quality specifications
Pipeline and Storage Management
- Operations
- Capacity offerings
- Transportation zones
- Segmentation
- Pooling
Controls
- MDQ
- OFOs
- Imbalances
- Penalties
- Safety
Transactional
- Capacity management
- Trading hubs
- Storage injections and withdrawals
- Scheduling and nominations
- Balancing
Into the Future
- New projects
- Development
- Authority
- Open season
- Economic impacts
- New customers
TESTIMONIALS
“This class was interesting and covered the basics well.” M.C., Sempra