Gas Industry Overview

• Natural gas consumers and their needs
• The components of the physical system and how it is designed to deliver gas to end users
• How the physical system is operated for maximum efficiency and safety
• How and why the gas industry is regulated
• What areas of the industry are deregulated and how this affects markets and pricing
• How markets function and the wholesale and retail services offered in them

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• Any employee new to the gas industry
• New managers needing a broader understanding of the gas business
• Professionals moving into the gas industry from another industry
• Engineers working in the gas industry who need to understand how the business operates
• Energy industry employees with experience limited to one or two departments needing a broader business overview
• Sales professionals providing services to the natural gas industry
• Finance, accounting, legal, public relations, or regulatory professionals
• Technical professionals becoming involved in regulatory or business issues

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Introduction

• Course objectives
• Natural gas in our society
• Physical properties of natural gas
• Units used to measure gas

Gas Customers

• The four types of end-use customers (residential, commercial, industrial, electric generation)
• Wholesale customers (utilities, marketers)
• Number of customers and usage by customer class
• Residential gas use
• Commercial gas use
• Industrial gas use
• Electric generation gas use
• Aggregate demand and load curves
• Services available to satisfy customer needs (bundled utility service, unbundled utility service, bypass, alternate fuels, energy efficiency)
• Utility rate alternatives

The Gas Delivery System

• What natural gas is and where it comes from
• The North American supply regions
• Exploration, completion and production
• Gathering and processing
• Gas transmission (pipe, pressure, compressors, hubs)
• The U.S. transmission network
• Hubs
• Gas storage
• The gas distribution system (pipes, pressure, compression, regulators, valves, SCADA, service line, meters, fuel line)

Gas Operations

• The entities responsible for gas operations
• Principles of gas operations (capacity, maximum and minimum pressures, line pack, packing and drafting)
• System modeling for transmission and distribution systems
• Maintenance for transmission and distribution systems
• The four functions of gas control: forecast demand, develop operational plan, implement plan, and record daily activity)
• Nominations and scheduling
• Curtailments and how they are implemented
• Gas balancing
• Operational and emergency flow orders
• Gas accounting
• Emergency operations
• How competitive markets and IT are changing the role of operations

Gas Regulation and Deregulation

• What regulation is and does
• Why the gas industry is regulated
• The regulatory compact
• How regulation affects market participants (LDCs, interstate pipelines, producers, marketers)
• Who the regulators are (federal and state) and what they regulate
• Four types of regulatory proceedings (rulemakings, rate cases, certificate cases, complaint cases)
• How the regulatory process works
• The various steps in the ratemaking process
• What incentive regulation and how it works
• What deregulation is and how it has impacted U.S. markets

Gas Marketplace Overview

• Upstream, midstream and downstream market participants (who they are and what they do)
• Gas market structure and the way in which participants transact business throughout the delivery chain
• Following a typical gas transaction
• How participants make money (regulated vs. competitive)
• Wholesale services (gathering, processing, supply, transportation, storage, hub services, risk management)
• Retail services (LDC and competitive supply services)
• How prices are set through the delivery chain
• Principles of gas supply and demand
• Why prices can be volatile
• Gas market risks and how they can be mitigated

The Future

• The future of the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors
• The future of the workforce
• The gas company of tomorrow

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