LINK System Customer Interface. Basic Nominations

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1 Basic Nominations 1 1

2 Nominations Glossary A nomination is a request to transport physical quantities of gas from a receipt point to a delivery point under a gas transportation contract. Enbridge Inc. provides four methods to submit nominations in LINK. Entry through the on-line application (covered in this training session). Use of the application s Proprietary File Upload and Nomination Import mechanisms. Use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). LINK Mobile Communication with an Operations Account Manager (only if there is a problem with one of the above methods). The nomination screen contains each field required by NAESB as well as a grid that can be used to view all nominations. To submit a nomination, the user first must create a valid transportation activity using the nomination screen. Nominations can be entered by individual gas day or a gas day range. For intraday nominations, entry will be limited to the current gas day. For timely nominations, the customer can enter a date range. The provides a variety of interactive validations. A sample of these include: MDQ, MDIQ, MDWQ Location Date MDQ Overlap 2

3 Logging into the LINK System To Log on to the LINK System click Customer Activities (Login) in the menu bar across the top of the screen. You will then be prompted to enter your LINK credentials. 3

4 Logging into the LINK System Once logged in, you will make your business unit selection by clicking the Select Business Unit dropdown which will then navigate you to that business unit s homepage. *Note that only the business units your LINK Id has access to will appear in the dropdown. 4

5 Enter Nominations From the 3-line icon dropdown, select Nominations three times until the menu tree is at the Nomination screen level. If you know the contract number you want to nominate, enter the contract number to nominate on into the Svc Req K field. If the contract (Svc Req K) is unknown, you can double click in that field to activate a lookup. Note: An * before a field indicates a lookup is available. 5

6 Enter Nominations The Contract/Deal List lookup allows you to search for any of your contracts. It is helpful to use at least one filter, such as the Status filter used in this example, to limit the contract search. Double click on the desired contract and the contract number will be applied to the Svc Req K field on the nomination screen. 6

7 Enter Nominations After the contract number, enter the nomination begin and end dates in the Beg Date and End Date fields. Dates can be entered manually, with or without slashes, or by hitting the calendar icon and selecting a specific date from the calendar. 7

8 Enter Nominations After entering the Svc Req K, begin and end dates, click Retrieve. For this contract, nominations have not been entered as indicated by the message in the upper left corner that states NO NOMINATIONS ENTERED. If existing nominations were present they would be displayed in the data grid. Next, select the Edit button to enable changes. This will allow you to modify existing nominations and will also enable the New button, allowing you to create new nominations. Once in edit mode, the screen will allow nominations to be edited in two distinct ways. 8

9 Enter Nominations Nominations can be edited by using the top part of the screen and moving field to field for each row selected in the data grid. Updateable fields will be highlighted and non updateable fields will be grayed out. Nominations can also be edited by using the data grid in the lower portion of the screen by moving column to column for each row selected. Updateable columns will be blank, or have values colored in black, compared to blue for fields that are non updateable. 9

10 Enter Nominations If you prefer to edit nominations using the data grid, LINK provides a feature that will allow you to remove most of the fields displayed at the top of the screen. Select the arrow in the lower right corner of the data grid and the grid will expand to fit the entire screen. Select the arrow again to go back to the default view. 10

11 Enter Nominations To enter new activities, verify the New button has been pressed and that there is an empty row in the data grid. The following fields must be entered to create a new activity: Rec Loc, Up Name, Del Loc, and Dn Name. The Up K and Dn K are conditional fields that are required in certain circumstances. For example, these are required when receiving or delivering to another Spectra asset or a force-balanced point such as a Head Of Lateral or Storage Point. When receiving or delivering to a Tennessee interconnect a DUNS number is required in the Up K or Dn K field. 11

12 Enter Nominations For each one of the lookups, use the filters at the top of the screen in conjunction with the Search button to find specific locations or Service Requesters. Once located, double click on the desired row to apply the selected service requester or location to the Nomination screen. 12

13 Enter Nominations With a newly created activity you can now enter the actual nomination(s) by updating the transaction type, requested volumes and associated ranks. The Transaction Type will default to 01 in the TT field, which means current business or a normal nomination. Use the Transaction Type List lookup to help identify the type of transaction you are creating. 13

14 Enter Nominations Click on the Transaction Type that you would like to use and then click the Select button located at the bottom of the page. This will fill in the TT field on the nomination screen. 14

15 Enter Nominations Enter a receipt volume in the Rec Qty field or a or delivery volume in the Del Qty field. The opposing volume quantity will be updated based on the automatic calculation of fuel. Note: Validations such as MDQ limits will be enforced as you tab out of the requested volume fields. You can enter rankings in the the Rec Rank and/or Del Rank fields. These are relevant when you have multiple nominations subject to the same reduction or you wish to prioritize entitlement utilization. Enter a rank of 1 for the highest priority nomination to 999 for the lowest priority. The lowest priority will be reduced first for operator reductions and certain capacity restrictions when multiple activities have the same Market Area scheduling priority. For entitlement utilization, a rank of 1 indicates that entitlements would be utilized first for Market Area priority determination. If the default of 999 is used, all nominations subject to the same reduction will be reduced prorata. Please note that the receipt rank is entered for a nomination request. When the batch validation job is executed, the rank is moved to the scheduled field. 15

16 Enter Nominations Finally, click the Submit button when you are ready for changes to be submitted to the pipeline for further validations and scheduling. Notice the message at the top of the screen that communicates a valid nomination has been entered for the timely cycle. 16

17 Enter Nominations To utilize existing activities, the Activity List lookup allows you to search for and select existing ones. The search fields in the screen act as filters that can help find the specific information you are looking for. Select as many of the activities as you would like by clicking on the checkbox in the Sel column. Then, click the Select button at the bottom of the screen to populate the nomination screen with the activities chosen. 17

18 Enter Nominations You can now update requested volumes and associated ranks for the retrieved activities as indicated by the characters shown in black. Click the Submit button when you are ready for changes to be submitted to the pipeline for further validations and scheduling. 18

19 Deleting An Activity Note: The only time that an activity can be deleted is BEFORE clicking on the submit button. To delete, simply select the row and click on the Delete button. The screen will display a message asking if the row that has been selected needs to be deleted. Click on OK and the row will be deleted. Note that once the submit button has been selected, the activity cannot be deleted, because the row has been permanently written into the nominations database. If you decide that no gas should flow on this activity, be sure to bring the nomination to zero. 19

20 Enter Late Nominations A late nomination is entered in the same manner as a timely nomination. However, the system message will be different and the nomination must be confirmed by both the receipt and delivery parties before it will be validated further and scheduled. Also, a late or intraday nomination must have the same begin and end date in the Beg Date and End Date fields. 20

21 Edit Existing Nominations To edit existing nominations, retrieve a contract that has nominations already entered. To do this, enter the contract number in the Svc Req K field and enter a valid date range in the Beg Date and End Date fields. Next, click on the Retrieve button. If any nominations exist they will appear in the data grid. To edit these nominations, press the Edit button and select the row that needs to be updated. 21

22 Edit Existing Nominations To resubmit an existing nomination that was reduced for the same requested volume as the previously requested volume, edit the contract and gas date. Then, select the activity you want to renominate and press the Renom button. A message will be displayed at the top of the screen communicating that the specific activity will be re-nominated when the Submit button is pressed. 22

23 TABS Nominations When placing gas into your TABS pool ( Deliveries In ), the delivery location in the Del Loc field must be a TABS pool. In addition, the downstream contract in the Dn K field must be the same as the current contract. 23

24 TABS Nominations TABS is an acronym for Transportation Aggregation Balancing Service. On TETLP, this allows customers to aggregate gas at pooling points located in each rate zone. Gas nominated into a TABS pool (service point) is referred to as Deliveries In. Nominations sourcing gas out of a TABS pool are referred to as Receipts Out. TABS contracts can be used to nominate gas: Between a physical receipt point and a TABS pool Between different TABS contracts in the same rate zone TABS pools in the Access Area are located at the end of each rate zone to facilitate pooling of gas from receipt points. TABS pools in the Market Area are located at the beginning of each zone to ensure the calculation of accurate scheduling priorities. 24

25 TABS Nominations TABS Service points ETX M1 M2 M3 STX ETX M M2 24 L e b STX M WLA ELA M M2 30 ELA 25

26 TABS Nominations When nominating gas from your TABS pool ( Receipts Out ), the receipt location in the Rec Loc field must be a TABS pool. In addition, the upstream contract in the Up K field must be the TABS contract. 26

27 Storage Nominations TETLP offers storage using Oakford, Leidy and Accident storage fields. TETLP s storage services are supported in aggregate, so gas is stored in every facility and is not allocated to a specific facility. Gas is injected or withdrawn using virtual points in M1, M2 and M3 rate zones. To inject, gas is taken to an ST (Storage Transfer) point using a transportation contract. Then, a storage contract is used to take gas from the ST point to the SS (Storage Service) point. To withdraw, gas is taken from the SS point to the ST point using a storage contract, and then taken away from the ST point to the delivery point using a transportation contract. Gas can be taken directly from the SS point to a delivery point on an SS-1 contract. 27

28 Storage Nominations SS SS-1 or FSS-1 Receipt or Pooling Point Transportation K ST Transportation K CITY GATE 28

29 Storage and Head of Lateral Nominations When nominating to a Storage Transfer or Head of Lateral point, the user must ensure that both sides of the transaction are present before volumes are scheduled. If the corresponding matching transaction does not arrive, LINK will force balance the point and cut the nomination to zero. Timely nominations will be force balanced during the Timely batch job. LINK will wait up to four hours for the matching transaction to arrive for Late or Intraday nominations. 29

30 Related Screens Note that there are other screens that can be displayed in relations to the nomination and that is by going to the Related Screen dropdown menu. 30