Interpreting Balance Box Data

  1. Welcome to this Southern Star tutorial on interpreting balance box data.
  2. There are several transaction types used in the nomination process and several things to consider to ensure that your nominations are entered correctly.
  3. The balance boxes are an area where you can go look and see at a glance if everything is nominated correctly, there's an areas for transaction type totals,
  4. an are to review the balances on your storage and parking loan contracts, to look at how your receipts versus deliveries balance on your transport and
  5. your pooling locations.
  6. And there's an area to take a look, at upstream and downstream matches.
  7. The first balance box area that we're gonna take at is the transaction type totals area.
  8. the purpose of this section is to, take the receips you have nominated, the deliveries you nominated and check to ensure that you,
  9. have those that require a path, have a path nomination.
  10. Only receipts and deliveries that are labeled with an 01 current business transaction type, 02 authorized overrun, or 84 segmentation will require a PATH.
  11. So this grid shows you the locations that you have nominated.
  12. It will indicate if it's a receipt quantity or a delivery quantity.
  13. And if it's labeled as an 01, 02, or 84 transaction type, it will show if you have pathed that quantity on a path nomination.
  14. The most important column to look at in this section is the very last one, this delivery path difference.
  15. This is where it is going to indicate if have not path all of your receipts and deliveries that are required.
  16. So this tells us that the delivered quantity of $495 at location 30804 has only been pathed 396. So we need to path another 99 to make this balance.
  17. Let's take a look at that path nomination.
  18. And you'll see down here that my delivery quantity is only 39 6. so let me correct that and make it the 495 that matches and you will see that instantly
  19. I'm now at a balanced level on my path nominations against all of my receipts and deliveries.
  20. So again, the transaction type total section looks at your receips nominated and your deliveries nominated, and shows you where a path is required if you
  21. are out of balance.
  22. This balances section lists the cumulative balances for storage contracts, park and loan contracts and shipper level imbalances.
  23. It does not contain balances for transportation agreements.
  24. So the contracts are listed here.
  25. They're storage contracts, a park and loan contract.
  26. The MTQ or MSQ related to each contract is listed, here as well as the balance.
  27. And all balances are indicated as a negative number for balances that are due shipper or a positive number, for balance that is due southern star.
  28. When you take a look at this far right column, you see that there is a quantity listed on this PL 30605. So if we roll over here,
  29. we take look, at the original total quantity for this was 30,000. We have parked 27,00 and this 1000 represents a park withdrawal.
  30. If you look down here on the delivery nominations, that transaction type 27 is park withdraw, 4000. The other quantity that's in this last column is a
  31. quantity of 200, and it is coming from a shipper level cumulative imbalance.
  32. And again, if we look down here on the delivery nominations, we can see that quantity 200 and the transaction type is an 03 imbalance payback from Southern Star.
  33. So again the balances section lists the cumulative balances for storage contracts park and loan contracts, and shipper level imbalances.
  34. The transport section lists information only related to transportation contracts.
  35. And it indicates an imbalance between the receipts and the deliveries at that contract level.
  36. So we'll see a list of your contracts the maximum daily total quantity for those contracts and your nominated receips less any fuel and you're nominated deliveries.
  37. For example, TA1008 has a difference of zero because everything has been scheduled and nominated on that.
  38. But we do see a different of 50 on TA30889.
  39. So we've got a delivery of fifty scheduled.
  40. Let's take a look at what that delivery is.
  41. That delivery a 50 right here is on a transaction type 03, which is an imbalance payback from Southern Star.
  42. And that's okay.
  43. One-sided nominations like imbalanced paybacks will show as a negative number on this difference column.
  44. And previously when I discussed the balances section, I stated that it was for storage contracts and information only.
  45. You'll notice that TS 506 is in the balance section.
  46. The information reported here is related to the storage component of this TSS contract.
  47. the transportation component is included on the transport tab right here.
  48. So the 2055 correlates to the maximum daily total transportation quantity for this contract.
  49. Again, the transportation area indicates an imbalance between receipts and deliveries at the contract level and contains information only on transportation agreements.
  50. The pull balances section takes a look at all of the receipts and all the deliveries at pulling locations and indicates an imbalance where the receipt
  51. and the delivery do not match.
  52. So all pulling location are listed here.
  53. All the nominated receips are totaled here and nominated deliveries are totalled here So when you're looking at just the rate area of production area Our
  54. receipts are 800 and our deliveries are 80, with a difference of zero.
  55. But when you actually take a look at it at the pooling location level, we've got a different.
  56. We've 100 receips at Canadian Blackwell without deliveries, and we got 700 receeps at Kansas-Huguenin with 800 deliveries.
  57. So maybe this is an instance where the nomination at Canada-Blackwell is in error and the nominations at KK should have been 800. So if we take a look
  58. at our total receipt nominations, and we find the nomination of 100 at Canadian Blackwell and take it to zero, And take the Nomination of 700 at Kansas-Shugarton
  59. to 800, that clears up our difference at a pooling location level and puts us in balance all across the board.
  60. The market area pool is listed at the bottom, similar to the production area.
  61. So again, the pulling balances area will indicate an imbalance between receipts and deliveries at pulling locations.
  62. The last section in the balance boxes is labeled COTU, which stands for Center of the Universe.
  63. This page will take your upstream nominations by location and total them and take a look at your Upstream or Downstream parties to see if there is a nomination matching.
  64. So for example, at 999-052, I've scheduled a receipt of 500, but my upstream party is not matching me.
  65. My nomination at 999054 receipt at 700, however, is being matched by my up stream party and shows as balanced.
  66. On the downstream NOM side, At 9999-052, i don't have any deliveries scheduled, But it looks like I do have a downstream party looking for me to schedule 100.
  67. And at location 999-054, I've scheduled a delivery of 800, but my downstream party does not have a nomination to match me.
  68. Let's make the assumption in this case that this nomination of eight hundred that I have is incorrect and I just need to take that out.
  69. So I'm going to open my delivery nominations and find that 800 and take it to zero.
  70. And when I do, you will see that that location now on the delivery side now shows balanced.
  71. So now that we've gone through all the sections of the balance box, I'd like to make a suggestion.
  72. When you have all of your nominations entered and you're finished and want to take a look to the make sure everything ties out,
  73. just scroll down the left-hand side of all these categories on the Balance box.
  74. Look at your transaction type totals to ensure that you are not missing a path nomination.
  75. Take a look at your transportation tab to make sure that any differences are associated with a payback transaction type and that that is valid.
  76. Take, a, look, at, your pool balances not just at the rate area level to, make, sure, you're in balance but also take a.
  77. look.
  78. at.
  79. the individual pooling location because you may have an imbalance there.
  80. And then again, take a look at your Center of the Universe to make sure that your upstream and downstream parties are matching you.
  81. And if they're not, you can make a phone call to get that communication clear.

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