“We needed a fully functional and integrated trading and risk management solution to optimize and automate where possible our manual, spreadsheet-based business processes and to improve real-time controls and reporting. Our objective was to deliver a solution that would maximize operational efficiency across the Trading business, while at the same time provide an infrastructure that would minimize and control levels of operational risk. The flexibility and extensibility of the Allegro product allows Bord Gáis Éireann to effectively and efficiently manage our various cross commodity business processes, including those more unique aspects of our operations.”

Bord Gáis Éireann

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PipelineAllegro Pipeline 8.1 enhances the entire business process of pipeline planning and scheduling to greatly enhance productivity and profitability through the efficient scheduling, transportation and actualization for all liquid energy commodities moved by pipeline, including NGLs, crude oil and refined products.

The comprehensive functionality feature set provides the ability for schedulers to view traded volumes of NGLs, crude oil and refined products as soon as traders enter deals. It also allows them to view scheduling activities by counterparty, location, or by pipeline. Schedulers can match supply volumes to market volumes and create pipeline movements, and contracted volumes can be split and tracked across multiple delivery segments or matched against multiple trades.

Pipeline 8.1

Building on the capabilities of Pipeline 8.0, Pipeline 8.1 adds new functionality features for automation of several functions, greatly enhancing user productivity. The new component adds functionality to create and store pre-defined pipeline routes and plans with associated information such as product, carrier, origin and destination locations. Additionally, Pipeline 8.1 provides the ability to automation and management of the creation of shipments based on those pre-defined routes and plans. Lastly, schedulers have the ability to can automate the capture of gathering fees on shipments such as pipeline tariffs, truck unloading fees and viscosity surcharges on wellhead property shipments.

Key Feature Key Benefit

Manage, schedule, transport and actualize all liquid energy commodities moved by pipeline

Regardless of whether the commodities are Natural Gas Liquids, Crude Oil or Refined Liquid Products, the Pipeline component has the ability to manage the scheduling, transportation logistics and actualization of the transactions and view the traded volumes and logistics data in real time.

Match supply volumes to market volumes

Optimization and profitability is enhanced by the ability to match supply to market demand via the pipeline transportation contracts.

Define pipeline shipment routes comprised of product, carrier, origin and destination

Allows schedulers to pre-define frequently used pipeline shipment routes consisting of multiple pipeline segments along with product to be carried, carrier servicing the route, and the origin and destination locations.  This greatly minimizes the time and effort for pipeline schedulers.

Create and store shipment plans

Using pre-defined pipeline route profiles, clients can create and store pre-defined pipeline shipment plans for frequently used shipment profiles to greatly enhance user productivity.

Automate creation of shipments

Allows a client to automatically apply pre-defined shipment plans to pre-defined pipeline routes.  For frequently used pipeline shipment profiles, this automation greatly enhances productivity.

Automate the capture of gathering fees on shipments

 Along with the ability to create and automatically schedule pipeline shipments, Pipeline 8.1 provides the ability to automatically capture all of the related fees on the plan such as pipeline tariff gathering fees, truck unloading fees, and viscosity surcharges on wellhead property shipments.   This not only reduces time and effort, but also provides for much more accurate capture of these fees.