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pipelinetransporter
for Liquids Suite

PipelineTransporter for Liquids is an integrated suite of applications designed to support the commercial business process of liquid pipelines. The suite provides a single platform from which nomination, scheduling and accounting functions can be integrated and optimized.

By integrating information from shippers, partners, and third-party applications, you get the tools you need to make better decisions—avoiding expensive shutdowns, reducing operational costs and improving customer service.

Supply chain issues don’t have to be complicated even though the business administration of your pipeline is more complex than it was a decade ago. PipelineTransporter integrates your pipeline information, whether liquid or gas, with a single web-enabled application that can help turn demanding market situations into more financially sound decisions.

pipelinenominations

Pipeline commercial staff face a constant challenge. Increasing numbers of shippers, products and pipeline complexity are combining with outdated manual processes to make nominations processing almost unmanageable. The EnergySolutions PipelineNominations module is the solution the industry has been looking for.

The web-based PipelineNominations system is easily configurable to provide pipeline companies with the best of both worlds: the deep functionality that power users and schedulers require internally, with the simple, informative summaries that shippers and connected carriers depend on. PipelineNominations has been designed from the ground up with advanced security and auditing features so you know your data is safe, and any changes to that data are controlled and tracked.

PipelineNominations is delivered with built-in data entry forms to streamline your implementation. It even has the Canadian COLC forms built in so users are immediately familiar with the user interface. Automated nominations processing allows you to accept standard nominations quickly, while flagging outlier nominations for rapid review and processing.

PipelineNominations gives you the power and reliability you need at the beginning of the movement scheduling process when you need it most.

Use PipelineNominations to:

• Provide shippers and interconnecting operator’s access to maintain and view forecasting information.
• Maintain audit trail of revisions
• Support conventional nomination and confirmation process
  • Nomination rules can be customized by pipeline to ensure data integrity.
  • Confirmations screens are designed to capture information from interconnecting parties and resolves differences through confirmation rules.
• Support Crude Oil Logistics Committee Process
• Maintain audit trail of revisions

PipelineNominations provides the following benefits:

• Efficient management of the forecasting process
• Ability to handle large amounts of constantly changing data
• Allows shippers and facility operators to maintain their own data
• Ability to access the latest forecasted volumes at all times
• Audit trail capabilities
• Interface to PipelineScheduler to analyze pipeline capabilities to meet forecasted product movement and creation of batch plans

pipelinescheduler

Pipeline scheduling can be a complex process. With interconnections to other pipelines, delivery and breakout locations, multiple products and blends, the possibilities are endless. If that wasn’t enough, the entire situation is dynamic, varying with equipment maintenance and outages, revised nominations, connected carrier schedule changes, and more.

PipelineScheduler has been designed to help ease the burden. It gives scheduling staff unprecedented visibility into the schedule by handling even the most complex scenarios with ease. Outdated manual and Excel-based processes cannot match the sophistication of the PipelineScheduler algorithms, which are being used every day on numerous pipelines across North America. Modeling your schedule 30 days out or more has never been easier.
While PipelineScheduler’s lengthy feature list supports multiple products, complex pipelines, DRA usage, terminal management and more, by far its greatest benefit to pipeline companies is the ability to rapidly respond to unexpected situations on the pipeline. Whether changes to the schedule are driven by operational or commercial reasons, PipelineScheduler gives you the ability to rapidly assess the impact and recommend a solution.

The visual pipeline representation gives the scheduler a global overview of the entire pipeline at any point in time, making the evaluation and selection of the preferred schedule more intuitive than ever before.

pipelineaccounting

While the operations of the pipeline get the most attention, accounting is where “the rubber meets the road”. All the effort that gets put into scheduling and operating the pipeline needs to be paid for, and PipelineAccounting is there to help companies turn movements into cash as rapidly as possible.

The accounting process can be extremely complex, but PipelineAccounting is up to the challenge. Built meter management and ticket matching bring the raw data into the system, then sophisticated tariff management rules can be applied to the movements to determine amounts due. Reports are delivered with PipelineAccounting for System Balance, Shipper Balance, Over/Short, Gain/Loss, Tickets, Receipts, Deliveries, and more. By using industry standard tools like MS SQL*Server and Business Objects reporting, it is easier than ever to add new reports and adapt the existing ones to your specific needs.

PipelineAccounting integrates seamlessly with PipelineNominations to provide the data to enable automated nominations processing. Rolling average volumes can be used to determine allowable nomination volume ranges per shipper, product, pipeline or route. PipelineAccounting closes the loop and allows pipeline companies to operate as efficiently as possible in today’s demanding business climate.