Category Archives: Natural Gas

LDC Forum Southeast: Atlanta

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Recap: OPIS NGL Market Conference

OpenLink Financial attended the OPIS NGL Conference at the Del Coronado Hotel in San Diego, California. Here is a quick recap of each of Monday’s sessions: Continue reading

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Live Coverage: Platts North American Crude Marketing Conference

We are live from the Hyatt Regency in Houston, Texas where OpenLink Financial is a proud to attend the Platts North American Crude Marketing Conference. We’ll be covering each of Wednesday and Thursday’s sessions. Continue reading

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Live-Blogging CoalTrans USA – Miami, Florida

We’re blogging live today from 12th Annual CoalTrans USA at the JW Marriott Marquis in lively Miami, where several hundred delegates will converge to attend two days of sessions featuring experts from all sectors of the coal industry. Join us Thursday and Friday for up to the minute coverage of the event! Continue reading

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Monday Afternoon Mark-Ups (26-Sep)

Each week, the SolArc staff compiles a list of news articles from the previous week, covering broad-ranging topics of interest in the energy, commodity trading, and risk management industries. Photo of the week by Sarah Murray Spin Overtaking Facts in … Continue reading

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Tom Brune Presents to the PGC in Washington D.C.

Tom Brune and Mel Brannen met with the Processed Gas Consumers Group in Washington, D.C. at their fall members’ meeting to explain the benefits of the market-leading RightAngle CTRM system. Continue reading

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Monday Afternoon Mark-Ups (12-Sept)

Each week, the SolArc staff compiles a list of news articles from the previous week, covering broad-ranging topics of interest in the energy, commodity trading, and risk management industries. Continue reading

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Monday Afternoon Mark-Ups (22-Aug)

Each week, the SolArc staff compiles a list of news articles from the previous week, covering broad-ranging topics of interest in the energy, commodity trading, and risk management industries. Continue reading

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Monday Afternoon Mark-Ups (15-Aug)

Each week, the SolArc staff compiles a list of news articles from the previous week, covering broad-ranging topics of interest in the energy, commodity trading, and risk management industries. Continue reading

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Monday Afternoon Mark-Ups (8-Aug)

Each week, the SolArc staff compiles a list of news articles from the previous week, covering broad-ranging topics of interest in the energy, commodity trading, and risk management industries. Continue reading

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Photos from COGA: Energy Epicenter 2011

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SolArc had the privilege to participate as attendees, golfers, sponsors, and were selected as Ignition Theater presenters to explain the complexities of net back pricing calculations at this year’s Energy Epicenter. The event was presented by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association in Denver, Colorado at the Colorado Convention Center. The following photos chronicle our experience at this year’s event: Continue reading

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Monday Afternoon Mark-Ups (1-Aug)

Each week, the SolArc staff compiles a list of news articles from the previous week, covering broad-ranging topics of interest in the energy, commodity trading, and risk management industries. Continue reading

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The Big Chesapeake Plan to Break OPEC Stranglehold

Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon shares the story behind the announcement and details the first two CNGV investments, one in Clean Energy and the other in Sundrop Fuels. Chesapeake Energy Corp. made a bold bet on the natural gas and renewables … Continue reading

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The Knock-Down, Drag-Out Bidding War for Southern Union

Companies like Southern Union are rarely offered up for sale, and though Energy Transfer’s original offer of $33 in stock offerings per share back in June would have created one of the biggest natural gas companies in the country (combined holdings of more than 44,000 miles of pipelines and 30.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas capacity,) the deal was simply too attractive for the rest of the industry to ignore. Continue reading

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Video: Supporting Multiple Roles Within the Natural Gas Industry

Tom Brune discusses how natural gas companies can increase profits through consistent, accurate numbers across the organization. Alan Gunn explains how SolArc software can provide a lower total cost of ownership for energy companies operating in the natural gas industry.

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Video: Effectively Managing Natural Gas Transactions

In this quick 1-minute video, Michael Snayd explains that an LDC and/or Retail Energy Provider can easily, efficiently, and accurately manage trading, scheduling, and delivery to thousands of natural gas customers.

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SolArc Kicks Off LDC Forum Atlanta

Our first LDC Gas Forum for 2011 was held last week in Atlanta, and SolArc sponsored a great cocktail reception at the InterContinental to launch our event. Over 550 conference attendees spent time with SolArc and their colleagues, exchanging ideas, … Continue reading

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Pro Rata Allocation 101

If you operate a gas gathering system, you’ll want to understand how to allocate receipt meters (gas coming in) and delivery meters (gas going out). The math is the same for both. Continue reading

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Spreadsheet Accuracy: Gas Gathering, Gas Marketing, Gas Accounting

I’d already asked one of our current SNG super users, who had also previously done implementations for other companies, about what percentage of spreadsheets have errors. He estimated 90%, so I went looking for some actual statistics, and here’s what I found: Continue reading

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What is Fractionation? | Natural Gas and NGL Marketing

Fractionation works based on the different boiling points of the different hydrocarbons in the NGL stream. Essentially, fractionation occurs in stages consisting of the boiling off of hydrocarbons one by one. Continue reading

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NGL Marketing: Will it continue driving natural gas producers?

 Why are US producers continuing to drill aggressively in the Marcellus Shale, Eagle Ford Shale, and other unconventional plays when natural gas prices are at depressed levels?  The total number of rigs drilling for natural gas has soared from … Continue reading

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Natural Gas Marketing Software: Is it worth it?

  Spreadsheets are cheap. Software is expensive! How do you know whether you can justify a gas marketing software system for your business? Here are three ‘brain starters’ to help you: 1. Are you growing by acquisition? Some companies realize they … Continue reading

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