Trading & Research Applications

Each day, gigabytes of data are generated by the energy industry, providing intricate details about these activities. Making sense of this vast amount data is complex and time consuming. That’s where BENTEK’s Trading and Research Applications can boost your ability to take advantage of events and trends in natural gas markets.

Our applications range from real-time notification of all major market events to real-time assessment of weather forecast changes on natural gas storage balances to the calculation of natural gas transportation costs between any two points. Using our apps, you can analyze firm pipeline capacity contracts on a company-by-company basis, you can view capacity release transactions, and you can access BENTEK’s vast database of pipeline, storage and LNG terminal projects. BENTEK^® is your single source for unraveling the complexities of natural gas market data.

Flash! Notice Service

Within minutes of an announcement being posted on a pipeline company’s web site, you can be alerted by BENTEK’s Flash! Notice Service about the notification so you can take immediate action. BENTEK’s Flash! Notice Service provides you access to information on scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, unexpected disruptions, operational flow orders and other events that impact marketing and moving natural gas.

RouteBuilder

RouteBuilder is a pipeline transportation cost calculation application that uses pipeline tariff rate data from each pipeline’s most recent FERC filings. With BENTEK’s RouteBuilder, you can calculate the cost of moving gas from one location to any other location in seconds. RouteBuilder makes it easy for you to find the optimal, economic cost and route for transporting natural gas.

Capacity Tracker

BENTEK’s Capacity Tracker gives you the ability to see firm capacity holders on all interstate natural gas pipelines in the U.S. You can drill down to the individual companies that hold the capacity, the terms of the capacity contracts, and the changes shippers are making each contract cycle.

StorageCast

Using StorageCAST™ from BENTEK Energy, dynamically changing weather forecasts are instantaneously distilled into a storage number throughout the trading day.

CapRelease Explorer

BENTEK’s Capacity Release Transportation Tool shows which companies are releasing (selling) their firm capacity, who is buying that capacity, and the price being paid. Capacity Release pulls together the information for over 160 pipelines and storage facilities.

ProjectTracker

With its proprietary, data-gathering technology, BENTEK tracks each major pipeline, storage and LNG facility project that is coming up and how these will affect the marketplace. ProjectTracker provides information about each project in a searchable database.

Natgas Price Matrix

BENTEK’s Natgas Price Matrix™ is a product built by natural gas traders, for natural gas traders. It is an Excel spreadsheet generated twice each day providing a comprehensive view of natural gas pricing.