“Implementing Allegro 8 will enable SUEK to manage our exposure to the coal and freight markets and to optimize our growing business.  We needed a scalable system that could handle our current trading activities and enable us to keep pace with market changes.”

SUEK AG

Natural Gas Learning Path (ACP-NG) PDF Print E-mail

This commodity path teaches you how to manage inventory and transportation logistics requirements. Also you will learn how to use the Natural Gas component to perform a variety of natural gas scheduling and storage related activities such as creating and maintaining transmission pipelines, points, transport services, and other key tasks performed by natural gas schedulers.

NG201 Contract

In this course, is designed to be the first course a natural gas professional should take. Participants will first learn how to navigate the Allegro UI as well as how to use the Contracts component to capture and manage all natural gas contract-related information throughout the entire contract management lifecycle. Participants will learn how to:

  • Navigate the Allegro Application
  • Create counterparties
  • Create contracts
  • Perform contract approvals
  • Manage contract changes and amendments
  • Configure key contract parameters
Duration: 70 minutes
NG202 Price

This course explains the setup and use of index pricing including composite indexes. After completing this course, the participant will be able to:

  • Capture a price index
  • Capture price values for
    • Current indexes
    • Forward indexes
    • Option indexes
  • Configure a composite index
  • Configure an index for services
Duration: 25 minutes
NG203 Trade Execution

This course will give participants the knowledge and skills they need to capture natural gas deals. Participants will learn how to:

  • Capture physical gas deals
  • Approve, confirm and generate confirmation for a trade
  • Capture a gas retail trade
  • Capture a option trade
  • Capture a transmission reservation trade
  • Configure trade parameters
Duration: 80 minutes
NG301 Natural Gas

This course provides participants with the skills necessary to set up transmission pipelines, points, interconnects, and transportation services, fees, losses and rates. In addition, Schedulers will learn how to match supply and market transactions as well as make physical movements of gas. Schedulers will learn how to manage imbalances, actualize volumes and analyze counterparty performance via comparative position reports. After completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Configure natural gas pipeline parameters
  • Create natural gas pipelines
  • Assign pipeline services and rates
  • Create a service contract
  • Create an imbalance contract
  • Perform gas scheduling
  • Non-inventory to non-inventory
  • Non-inventory to inventory
  • Use the copy count feature
  • Capture pipeline confirmations
  • Calculate imbalances
  • Utilize gas storage functionality

Version: 8.0
Duration: 80 minutes

NG301.1 Natural Gas 8.1

This course reviews 8.1 version of NG and provides participants with the skills necessary to set up transmission pipelines, points, interconnects, and transportation services, fees, losses and rates. In addition, Schedulers will learn how to match supply and market transactions as well as make physical movements of gas. Schedulers will learn how to manage imbalances, actualize volumes and analyze counterparty performance via comparative position reports.

  • Create natural gas pipelines
  • Assign pipeline services and rates
  • Create a service contract
  • Create an imbalance contract
  • Perform gas scheduling
  • Set up Gas storage Management
  • Create Storage Plans
  • Capture pipeline confirmations
  • Calculate imbalances

Version: 8.1
Duration: 80 minutes

NG302 LNG

In this course, participants will learn how to configure the Allegro LNG component, capture plant details, define process scheduling and capture LNG actuals. After completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Configure LNG parameters
  • Configure LNG plants
  • Capture LNG process schedules
  • Perform LNG process scheduling
  • Capture LNG actuals
Duration: 15 minutes
NG303 Natural Gas Retail

Retail component to support natural gas retail operations for forecasting, sales, usage measurement, allocation, and balancing. Participants will learn how to:

  • Configure gas retail parameters
  • Capture and manage weather consumption
  • Manage demand forecasts
  • Manage imbalances
Duration: 25 minutes
NG304 FERC Connect

This course teaches the participants how to use the FERC Connect component to comply with annual FERC Form 552 Reporting requirements. In this course, participants will learn how to:

  • Configure FERC Connect parameters
  • Utilize the FERC 552 View
  • Complete the FERC 552 Form
Version: 8.1
Duration: 15 minutes
NG321 Optimization

This course provides an overview on how to configure the optimization component and optimize natural gas positions.

  • Configure parameters
  • Create long and short positions to be optimized
  • Review optimization results
Duration: 15 minutes
NG401 Settlement

This course provides an overview of how to accurately settle and invoice natural gas transactions. Participants learn how to

  • Setup Settlement parameters
  • Validate and confirm settlement records
  • Generate and analyze accruals and create tax rates
  • Manage and monitor receipt and payment of vendor invoices
  • Receive customer invoices and to path outstanding balances
Duration: 90 minutes