SoCalGasTest ENVOY. OSD Imbalance Instructions User Guide

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1 SoCalGasTest ENVOY OSD Imbalance Instructions User Guide

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Identification, Notification, & Curing of OSD Imbalances Identifying an OSD Imbalance Notification of OSD Imbalances Curing of OSD Imbalances OSD Imbalance Report Overview OSD Curing Timeline OSD Curing Business Calendar

3 GETTING STARTED 1 Identification, Notification, & Curing of OSD Imbalances 1.1 Identifying an OSD Imbalance 1. To identify any OSD imbalance(s), check the OSD Imbalance by Cycle report after the allocation process has been completed for every cycle, every day. Remember that imbalances will not be final until after Cycle 5, unless the gas day is re-allocated. Imbalances incurred on a cycle will be reported via an alert notice; therefore, you must sign-up for the OSD Imbalance Notification alert. *Note: If a re-allocation occurs on a subsequent day, then check the new OSD Imbalance Report to verify your imbalance. Instructions about this report are located on the ENVOY Help site. 2. To view OSD Imbalance by Cycle click on the Navigation Menu, then on Nominations/Confirmations and select OSD Imbalance by Cycle. 3

4 Additionally, you can select OSD Imbalance by Cycle hyperlink located in the Reports and Nominations/Confirmations widget within the Quick Links widgets. Click on the hyperlink and it will open the corresponding screen. a. Then run a query by the following filter selections: Flow Date and Cycle. 4

5 3. This report identifies the OSD Imbalance Quantities by Cycle and associates them to the specific OSD Contract # and the Name of the legal entity responsible for the imbalance. 4. Once an OSD imbalance(s) has been reported, you can check the imbalance(s) by viewing the OSD Balancing Report, the Transaction Ledger data and/or the OSD Imbalance Report, by querying for the same gas flow day and cycle. 5. When checking the OSD Balancing Report: a. Filter by Flow Date, Cycle selection, Legal Entity Name and OSD Contract #. Filtering the query by Flow Date and Cycle selection will bring up results as well. 5

6 b. The report will display the transactions from Supply to OSD Contract and from OSD Contract to Market. 6. When reviewing the data on the Transaction Ledger: a. Check for an imbalance after the Allocation process to compare on-system scheduled quantities versus off-system scheduled quantities. b. The query will consist of different filter selections for on-system versus off-system. 6

7 *Note: The purpose is to determine what was scheduled on-system for that OSD, versus what was scheduled off-system. This will be done as follows: On-system filter: Enter the Start and End Dates, Cycle selection, All selection as the Supply Type, OSD as the Market Type, and actual OSD Contract # in the Contract Type data field. 1. On-system deliveries: The query results will provide you with the Supply Contract #(s), Supply Contract Owner, Market Contract #, etc. Most importantly it will give you the Net Scheduled quantity. In the screen print below the total Net Scheduled quantity is 5,000. 7

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9 ii. Off-system filter: Enter the Start and End Dates, Cycle selection, OSD selection as the Supply Type, Contract # on the Contract Type data field, and Pipeline(PPLN) as the Market Type. 1. Off-system deliveries: The query results will provide you with the OSD Supply Contract #, Supply Contract Owner, Market Contract #, etc. Most importantly it will give you the Net Scheduled quantity. In the example below, the total Net Scheduled quantity is 4,000. 9

10 (continuation of above image) *Note: The 1000 difference of the Net Scheduled On-System of 5,000 versus the Net Scheduled Off-System of 4,000 determines the total imbalance for that OSD contract. In this example, it represents a positive imbalance or over-delivery, of which you, the customer, must submit a transaction to cure the imbalance. 7. Once the imbalances have been reported and checked, you should maintain a copy for your own record-keeping. 8. Final imbalances are posted after Cycle 5 (or Cycle 6 if the day was re-allocated). *Note: If a re-allocation occurs on Cycle 5 of the same day, then the imbalances posted after Cycle 5 for that flow date is the final quantity. If a re-allocation occurs on a subsequent day, then please check your OSD Imbalance Report to determine what your imbalance is. 9. When reviewing your OSD Imbalance Report: a. Query by your company name or specific OSD contract number. b. Check for any incurred imbalances of which you can still submit a transaction to cure. i. Transactions to cure can also be submitted for the entire Cumulative Positive OSD Imbalance and/or Cumulative Negative OSD Imbalance, which is posted and found on this report. This is important since you can nominate one transaction to cure the total negative running imbalance or nominate one transaction to cure the total positive running imbalance, so long as the cure amount submitted is still within the curing time-frame for the imbalances that you are trying to cure. c. Management of all final incurred OSD imbalances will reduce the potential for cash-out. d. Any estimated imbalances, which will be reported on Cycles 1, 2, 3 and 4 will require proper management on your behalf to be eliminated or minimized. *Note: More detailed information regarding this report is provided in a different Training Resource titled OSD Imbalance Report, and is located in the ENVOY Help site. 10

11 GETTING STARTED 2 Notification of OSD Imbalances All customers with incurred OSD imbalances will be notified once the OSD imbalance is created, provided they have signed-up for the or mobile alert notice in ENVOY. The OSD imbalances will be reported by ENVOY, every cycle of every day. 11

12 3 Curing of OSD Imbalances 1. You can adjust your nominations or cure your OSD imbalances on cycles 1-5 as follows (*Note: clock times shown below are in Pacific Clock Time): a. Cycle 3, before 8:00 am b. Cycle 1, before 11:00 am c. Cycle 4, before 12:30 pm d. Cycle 2, before 4:00 pm e. Cycle 5, before 5:00 pm 2. *Note: If a High OFO has been declared, any Positive OSD Imbalances will be cashed out immediately by the end of the gas day. 3. A positive imbalance means that the OSD Contract had gas that was confirmed to go off but not all of it was scheduled off-system. Therefore, that positive amount must be removed from the G99 imbalance holding account and sent to any of your following accounts: End User, City Gate Pool, OSD or Storage. a. When curing a positive imbalance: Select Market as the Role and input the imbalance quantity as the Nomination Quantity, verifying that it matches the imbalance quantity incurred. *Note 1: The quantity to cure a positive OSD imbalance should be nominated out of the G99 imbalance holding account and sent to a contract owned by the entity who incurred the OSD imbalance. If the imbalance quantity is sent to any other contract not owned by the entity who incurred the OSD imbalance, then the system will not recognize that entity as having an OSD imbalance and it will not allow the transaction to go through. *Note 2: The quantity to cure cannot exceed the actual imbalance amount. If the cure quantity submitted does exceed the actual imbalance amount, ENVOY will reduce the quantity submitted, by means of a CBL-G reduction code (contract balancing of the G-99 Holding Account). If the quantity to cure is less than the actual imbalance amount, it will leave the remaining difference as an OSD imbalance with the original curing deadline. b. The transaction type options available to cure positive imbalances (G99 is treated as the Supplier in these transactions), on the Add Transaction Context Menu, are: 12

13 4. A negative imbalance means that the gas that was scheduled into the OSD Contract was less than, or was cut below, the scheduled amount to go off-system. Therefore, that negative amount will reside in the G99 imbalance holding account until the shortage of gas is scheduled into the OSD contract by using any of your following accounts: City Gate Pool or Storage. a. When curing a negative imbalance: Select Supply as the Role and input the imbalance quantity as the Confirmation Quantity, verifying that it matches the imbalance quantity incurred. *Note 1: The quantity to cure a negative imbalance should be nominated into the G99 imbalance holding account, from a contract owned by the entity who incurred the OSD imbalance. If the imbalance quantity is cured by any other contract not owned by the entity who incurred the OSD imbalance, then the system will not recognize that entity as having an OSD imbalance and it will not allow the transaction to go through. *Note 2: The quantity to cure cannot exceed the actual imbalance amount. If the cure quantity submitted does exceed the actual imbalance amount, ENVOY will reduce the quantity submitted, by means of a CBL-G reduction code (contract balancing of the G-99 Holding Account). If the quantity to cure is less than the actual imbalance amount, it will leave the remaining difference as an OSD imbalance with the original curing deadline. b. The transaction type options available to cure negative imbalances (G99 is treated as the Market in these transactions), on the Add Transaction Context Menu, are: 5. Remember that all positive imbalances having the same curing time frame can be cured by nominating one lump sum quantity from the G99 imbalance holding account. All negative imbalances having the same curing time frame can be cured by nominating one lump sum quantity out of the G99 imbalance holding account. a. A Positive running imbalance is a total of all positive imbalances accumulated per customer Legal Entity (includes all their OSD Contract imbalances), that only include quantities of gas that are within the same curing timeline and not expired or cashed-out. b. A Negative running imbalance is a total of all negative imbalances accumulated per customer Legal Entity (includes all their OSD Contract imbalances), that only include quantities of gas that are within the same curing timeline and not expired or cashed-out. 6. Once an OSD imbalance has been cured, ENVOY will automatically confirm and validate your cure transaction. You do not need to notify SCG s Gas Scheduling group of the cure transaction submitted, unless you encounter any problems submitting the actual transaction. If you encounter any problems, then contact SCG s Gas Scheduling group via phone and , on the same day and same cycle (15 minutes prior to the cycle closing) so that they can assist you with this matter. 7. You can verify after Cycle 5 that it was completely processed; this will help you manage your OSD imbalances. 8. If the time to cure has expired, the imbalance quantity will be cashed-out and subject to the terms of the G-IMB rate. *Note: For your reference, an example of the OSD Curing Timeline and Curing Business Calendar can both be found in the ENVOY Help site, as separate training resources 13

14 GETTING STARTED 4 OSD Imbalance Report 4.1 Overview To view OSD Imbalance Report, click on the Navigation Menu, then on Nominations/Confirmations and select OSD Imbalance Report. 14

15 Additionally, you can select OSD Imbalance Report hyperlink located in the Reports and Nominations/Confirmations widget within the Quick Links widgets. Click on the hyperlink and it will open the corresponding screen. This report will post each customer s incurred positive and/or negative OSD imbalances, cumulative imbalances, cured quantities, and cash-outs; and provide query capability of historical data by OSD contract number. More detailed information regarding this report is as follows: 1. All incurred Positive and/or Negative OSD Imbalances Each line entry identifies the OSD imbalance as a positive or a negative imbalance based on font color. An imbalance quantity in black indicates a positive imbalance; conversely, an imbalance quantity in red indicates a negative imbalance. 15

16 2. Cumulative Imbalance Quantity per each associated OSD Contract Another method to properly classify all positive and negative OSD imbalances is indicated by the placement of the said imbalance within this particular area, either directly beneath the Positive or Negative labeled columns. 3. Cumulative Positive and Cumulative Negative OSD Imbalances Total per Legal Entity This table gives you a snap shot view of the lump sum total Cumulative Positive and/or Cumulative Negative OSD imbalances per each Legal Entity (this total includes all of the positive and/or negative OSD imbalances associated for all contracts owned by this Legal Entity). 4. Curing Timeline for each OSD Imbalance The curing timeline for each OSD imbalance (non-ofo day) is 3-business days (does not include weekends or holidays). To facilitate the proper curing time period for you, the report tracks the days that fall on weekends or that are deemed recognized SoCalGas holidays. *Note: The SoCalGas Holiday Calendar is another resource available to you on the ENVOY Help site. 5. Along with imbalance information, the OSD Imbalance Report also includes all associated cure and cash-out activity with a Notes description All activities associated to your OSD contracts will be posted in this report and they will contain notes to catalog each activity. The notes will document when the imbalance occurred, applicable cure quantities, and/or cash-out activity when an imbalance is not cured within the 3-business day timeline. 16

17 6. Query Functionality Every customer will have the ability to query their OSD imbalance information by Company Name or by Contract number. Electing to run the query by Company Name will result in a report displaying all associated OSD Contract information for that company. However, choosing to run your query by OSD Contract number will result in that specific contract s data information only. *Note: Queries are limited to 13 months-worth of OSD Imbalance data. 7. Quick summary of all that is available on the OSD Imbalance Report Total Positive and Negative Cumulative OSD Imbalance for the Legal Entity; includes total positive and total negative OSD imbalances for all associated OSD Contracts. 17

18 Total Positive and Total Negative Cumulative OSD Imbalance Quantities per each associated OSD contract. Notes are included in this report to provide more detail regarding the OSD imbalance incurred, Cure transactions made, Cash-out and Projected Cash-Out activity, and any impact to these transactions due to Reallocation of a gas flow day. If you have any questions, or would like further information, please contact Gas Scheduling at (213)

19 GETTING STARTED 5 OSD Curing Timeline 19

20 6 OSD Curing Business Calendar The 2018 calendar below is SoCalGas Company Holiday calendar. This calendar will be used to track holidays impacting the 3-business day OSD imbalance curing timeline. The remaining holidays for this year have been highlighted for you: New Year s Day Martin Luther King Jr. Day Presidents Day Memorial Day Independence Day Labor Day Thanksgiving Day Day after Thanksgiving Day Day before Christmas Christmas Day Keep in mind, that all days in the calendar with the exception of weekends and SCG s recognized holidays, will be considered business days. *Note: This calendar is updated at the start of the New Year, and this document will be reviewed and updated annually as well, to establish the proper holiday dates for each New Year. It will be posted in the ENVOY Homepage Help Site, so that it is readily accessible. 20