El Paso Corporation
Nominations and SchedulingCustomer Advisory Group Update
May 14, 2009
Colorado Interstate Gas CompanyWyoming Interstate Company
Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline Company
Agenda
Completed items
Transactional Tracking Project Status
Head Station Pool Enhancement Plan
EBB Enhancement Project StatusOutstanding Issues to Discuss
WestPipe Connect Status
Other Items
Data Center move
Next call
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The Process for Enhancements
Communication (1)
Prioritization (2)
Trackingand
Execution(3)
(a) Gathering and under-standing customer requests
(b) Reporting timelines and status
In-depth analysis, specifications, development, testing, training, etc.
Getting customer priorities and evaluating available and needed resources
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Completed NAS ItemsCompleted
Date Comments
Auto-population of C/O column in Location Pools 2/24/2009 See Notice #7596
Display associated constraint point with Pipeline reductions in the Shipper nomination tracking screen
2/18/2009 See Notice #7590
Allow customers the option to hide transactions with zero quantities on the Location Pooling Confirmations screen.
2/18/2009 See Notice #7590
Added Location Pool Monitoring Report to help identify mismatches before deadline
11/25/2008 See Notices #7457 and #7460
Replaced Pooler reduction reason codes POM (Market Reduction) and POS (Supply Reduction) with PRR (Confirming Party Reduction at the Receipt) and PRD (Confirming Party Reduction at the Delivery).
10/28/2008 See Notice #7388
Replaced the Shipper reduction reason code UPD (Update) with RVL(Re-evaluate) on the Shipper tracking screens.
10/21/2008 See Notice #7365
Added Location Pool screen enhancements and Pool tracking screens 10/14/2008 See Notice #7328
Replaced reduction reason code ICM with HRY (Hourly Service Entitlement Reduction).
7/9/2008 See Notice #7208
Introduced new CIG, WIC and CP web portal pages. 6/20/2008 See Notice #7189
Highlights of Nominations and Scheduling ChangesCompleted in the last 12 months
Current list of requested changes posted on our website www.cigco.com:Informational Postings > Other > Informational Look up > Customer Initiative 4
Transactional Tracking – Completed Items
Phase I – completed November 2008
Phase 2 – completed in March 2009 Added PRR and PRD Reduction Reason Codes to
Location Pool Tracking PRR: Confirming Party Reduction at the Receipt Location
PRD: Confirming Party Reduction at the Delivery Location
Added tracking of ADD to nominations which span a date range
Added point of constraint to nominations tracking
Feedback?
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Transactional Tracking - EPSQ in Pools
This project is to address problems which cause pools to be scheduled below EPSQ (Elapsed Pro Rated Scheduled Quantity)
Four development phases
Each phase will be implemented independently
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EPSQ in Pools - Breakdown by PhasePhase 1 – will prevent poolers from reducing their nomination/confirmation below EPSQ in Cycles 3 and 4 In test for June 2009
Phase 2 – will prevent pools from being scheduled below EPSQ due to CBL (Contract Balancing) or CPR (Confirming Party Reduction – used in pools) reduction reason codes In development for 3Q 2009
Phase 3 – will prevent capacity reductions from taking pool transactions below EPSQ To follow phase 2
Phase 4 – will prevent underconfirmations by operators from reducing pool transactions below EPSQ To follow phase 3
All phases anticipated to be implemented in 20097
Headstation Pool Enhancement Plan (Requests #4, 5, 10, 29)
Development planned to begin after Phase 4 EPSQ
Redesign main screen for ease of use and improved functionality
Add features which will allow poolers to perform all necessary tasks from the pooling screen
Add Status screens and Tracking for both Supply and Market sides of the pool
Add the following reduction reason codes to Headstation Pool Tracking:
PRR: Confirming Party Reduction at the Receipt Location
PRD: Confirming Party Reduction at the Delivery Location
CBL: Contract Balancing
CPR: Confirming Party Reduction – Pools
PCC: Pipeline Capacity Constraint
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EBB Web Site Enhancement Project Status
Many enhancements planned Improved look and feel Column sorting, dragging, pinning, filtering Enhanced query and download features
Phased migration Phase 1 (June 2009): Index of Customers, Operationally Available
Capacity, Notices Phase 2 (August 2009): Transactional Reports, Storage Field
Inventory Phase 3 (October 2009): Unsubscribed Capacity (From Pipelines,
From Expiring Contracts), Gas Quality Phase 4 (November 2009): Posted Imbalances
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Outstanding Issues to Discuss
Proposal to take no further action on: Allow CIG Schedulers to correct mismatched
nominations after the nomination deadline Add process to auto-populate DUNS numbers
associated with upstream and downstream contractsProposal to proceed with: Adding reduction reason codes to the Location Pool
Balancing report and the Contract Routes reportProvide analysis for: New items identified at November meeting with
Customer Advisory Group Recommendations in next concall for implementation or
delay to new Xpress system
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WestPipe Connect StatusLaunched Fall 2008 with the goal of completely rewriting Xpress by September 2011Phased approach System framework (in development)
Customer needs and preferences are at the forefront of the new design
Security system (in test) Allocations system – customer access (June/July 2009) Remainder of 2009 focused on necessary internal framework Remaining core systems (2010 and 2011)
Contracts, Nominations, Scheduling, Invoicing
Additional customer input during the rewrite is invaluableSelect enhancements being made to the existing Xpress system are to help customers until the new system is complete
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Additional items
Data Center moves Planned for May 2009
Interfaces to EDI – May 19 (1:30 am to 4:30 am MCT) Xpress Data Warehouse – May 21 (1:30 am to 4:30 am MCT) Xpress – May 27 (1:30 am to 4:30 am MCT)
Next call August 13, 2009, at 1:30 pm MCT
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