FLASH! Pipeline Notice Alerts Service

Each week pipelines post hundreds of System Wide Notices. Many of these Notices provide routine information for scheduling and administrative purposes. But some are CRITICAL ALERTS that will significantly influence energy markets. A new BENport service gives you the ability to receive instant notification of any Pipeline Notice that meet your own pre-set criteria, or you can search for specific events and developments across a range of pipelines.

Our new FLASH! Pipeline Notice Alerts service collects all Pipeline Notices (critical, non-critical and maintenance notices) from approximately 130 pipelines continuously throughout the day. This includes Force Majeure, Operational Flow Orders, maintenance alerts, weather related curtailments, operational problems, tariff changes, etc. Each notice is parsed into its component parts and stored in our Energy Data Warehouse, incorporating all FERC/NAESB data types and definitions. The full text of each notice is also captured as a searchable text document. You can set filters to notify you when important notices are released and review those notices on-line. You can have the system send an email notification to you any time something important happens on a select group of pipelines. And you can “Google” the database in a given time range for any name, point or phrase across any number of pipelines.

Background

All interstate pipelines in the U.S. are required by FERC (per NAESB standards) to post System Wide Notices (also known as SWNs) for the benefit of their customers and other interested parties on their informational web sites. A SWN is a communication from a pipeline about the operational and contractual status of the pipeline.

Each of these notices contains coded information that specifies what kind of notice it is, and what actions are required by shippers on the pipeline. A “Critical Notice Indicator” indicates whether a particular notice is “Critical – conditions on the pipeline that affect scheduling or adversely affect scheduled gas flow, or “Non-critical – notices of an informational nature. Each notice is also tagged with other standardized indicators of content: (a) a “Notice Type” tells the receiver what type of notice it is; (b) a “Notice Identifier” assigns a unique label to each notice; (c) a “Notice Status Indication” specifies whether the notice is new (initiated), superseded, or terminated; (d) a “required response indicator” which indicates that a response is required by impacted shippers. A SWN also usually contains a beginning date and beginning time which indicates the effective date and time of the notice, and various other timing information.

BENTEK’s FLASH! Pipeline Notice Alerts service is designed to collect SWNs from interstate pipelines continuously throughout the day. Each SWN is parsed into its component parts and to the extent possible stored in a standardized relational database structure structured to incorporate all NAESB data types and definitions. The full text of each SWN is also captured as a searchable text document. BENTEK’s FLASH! customers can access SWNs from the BENTEK Pipeline Alert Notices database via a search tool or specify SWN parameters that will initiate an email notice that a SWN meeting specific criteria has been sent by a pipeline.

For more information about BENTEK’s FLASH! Pipeline Notice Alerts service, please contact at 303-988-1320 or click here for more information.

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