Issue
The client is a West Coast energy utility serving many gas-fired power generators and local distribution companies.
Corrupt storage nominations and schedules had derailed the prior year's close:
- The client needed help loading and balancing Endur across daily nominations, storage injections and withdrawals, and multiple pipelines.
- Scheduling errors risked lost opportunities and pipeline-contract tolerance breaches.
- Bad data was blocking a clean, timely month-end close.
Solution
MidDel took ownership of pathing and balancing in Endur:
- Learned the schedulers' process and pipeline layouts to find efficiency gaps.
- Correctly pathed transport nominations, storage injections and withdrawals, gas supply, and pool and interconnect balances.
- Freed senior schedulers to optimize contracts while junior schedulers built system depth.
Result
After a prior-year close derailed by corrupt nominations, the client closed on the first of the month with accurate payables and receivables and used Endur as a near-real-time system of record, balanced to every pipeline daily.
Key Takeaways
- Bad data at the pathing layer poisons everything downstream, and silently. Corrupt nominations and mispathed transport do not announce themselves - they surface months later as a painful close, so treat pathing integrity as a controls issue, not a scheduling chore.
- Traders fall back on spreadsheets the moment system data lags - and are slow to return. Restoring balanced, near-real-time positions is what wins back trust in the ETRM as the single source, and it freed senior schedulers to optimize contracts instead of firefighting - transferable to any multi-pipeline gas operation.
Ready to do the same?
Struggling to close because your scheduling data is off? MidDel gets nominations and pathing right so your ETRM balances every pipeline, every day. Let's talk.
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