nMarket® Gas – The complete nomination-to-bill transaction management platform with “Out-of-the-Box” Pipeline Configuration

The natural gas market has gone through dramatic changes in the last few years resulting in increased need for volume surety and quality controls. Gas marketers need new tools to provide efficient communications with the hundreds of North American pipelines and to be able to anticipate and validate the expenses incurred on those pipelines. The gas marketer must understand the rules of communication for each of its contracted pipelines, and allocate significant resources to the tracking and monitoring of expenses to facilitate accurate settlements.

Unprecedented price volatility in gas markets means that invoicing and settlement accuracy are more important than ever before. Structure nMarket® supports the shadowing of pipeline invoices. This is something that gas marketers have not focused on in the past due to the lack of available software tools to automate this process, and the demands of simply supporting volume management and counter-party settlement. Structure nMarket’s proven shadow settlement tools can make a major contribution to the profitability of your gas trading operations.

“Out-of-the-Box” Pipeline Configuration

Building on the success of Structure nMarket® Power, the leading transaction management system for North American wholesale power markets, The Structure Group® has introduced Structure nMarket® Gas, the first packaged software product that is pre-configured to comply with specific pipeline transaction requirements. Structure nMarket Gas offers “out-of-the-box” pipeline integration for nominations, scheduled quantities, allocation/balancing statements and invoices.

We Pretest Every Transaction Set

Partnering with one of the largest gas traders in North America, we pretest NAESB transactions sets and proprietary transactions in real-world environments for all supported pipelines. As a result, Structure nMarket Gas customers only have to test connectivity rather than the transactions themselves. Structure nMarket Gas allows you to standardize on a single transaction management platform across multiple pipelines.

Four Software Modules Provide Comprehensive Transaction Management Capabilities

Structure nMarket provides the electronic capabilities for gas marketers to connect with interstate and intrastate pipelines to communicate nomination, scheduling and invoicing transactions. The Structure nMarket suite includes the tools to manage transactions, communicate with pipelines and calculate shadow settlements, whether you nominate with the pipeline through EDI, spreadsheet, by fax, email or via electronic bulletin boards.