Aligne For LDCs, Pipelines and Midstream Gas Companies

Interstate and intrastate construction has opened up competing pathways for delivering gas to customers. Unbundling has enabled new service providers to emerge and offer competing services along those pathways. As an LDC, pipeline operator, midstream gas company or an affiliated marketer, you must adapt quickly to offer tools, capabilities and reliability levels that keep you competitive.

Governments have unbundled transportation services, putting you in the position of a transporter.  However, you may also retain the more traditional responsibilities of the provider of sales services and the insurer of reliability. This requires you to play the broader roles of pipeline transporter, gas purchaser, gas marketer and often gas trader. Juggling all of these responsibilities can be a daunting task. SunGard’s Aligne provides the transaction backbone, operations management tools and reporting to help LDCs, pipelines, and midstream gas companies meet these challenges.

Features

  • Includes all components supporting financial and physical traders 
  • Supports shipper nominations and Web-based shipper interface for customer self-entry
  • Tracks inventory, cycling and valuation using multiple methods
  • Manages imbalances and penalty assessment 
  • Tracks and exchanges data with interconnects for actualization
  • Offers hourly load profiling for service to electric generators
  • Supports multiple pressure bases, units of measure and quantity precision
  • Flexibly handles rules unique to a facility or local agency for transactional reporting, hedge accounting, capacity trades and more

Benefits

  • Streamlines the natural gas distribution process to save time and money
  • Supports compliance for audit, taxation and regulatory reporting
  • Frees the distributor to expand their services by giving direct input control to customers and eliminating manual processes

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