Course 07 of 20 · Natural Gas Desk Academy

Nominations, Scheduling & Daily Balancing

Stage B, Physical contracting and daily operations. Level 4 of 10.

The daily nomination, confirmation and scheduling cycle, and the intraday actions available to hold the book in balance.

123 chapters · 12 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 02, Course 05, Course 06

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How a chapter is sized

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter is a single self-contained explainer of 8 to 10 narrated minutes, covering one idea to the point where you can use it.

Chapters run in order. Each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

12 modules · 123 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 The Gas Day and the Operating Cycle Ch 1-10
  1. The Operational Day as a Discipline
  2. Defining the Gas Day and Its Clock
  3. Who Does What in the Operating Chain
  4. Why the System Requires Instructions in Advance
  5. Balance as an Obligation, Not an Aspiration
  6. The Rights You Arrive With
  7. What an Operational Error Actually Costs
  8. The Operator's Information Systems
  9. The Working Vocabulary of the Cycle
  10. How the Operational Day Is Taught Here
M1 The Nomination Itself Ch 11-21
  1. Anatomy of a Nomination
  2. Identifying the Service and the Contract
  3. Receipt Point, Delivery Point and the Path
  4. Stating Quantity and the Unit That Governs
  5. The Upstream and Downstream Contract Reference
  6. Ranking and the Nomination Hierarchy
  7. Package Identifiers and Matching Keys
  8. Firm and Interruptible Scheduling Priorities
  9. Submitting It and Proving You Did
  10. Why Instructions Get Rejected
  11. A Nomination Built Line by Line
M2 The Cycle Clock Ch 22-32
  1. The Instruction Timeline for One Gas Day
  2. The Timely Cycle
  3. The Evening Cycle
  4. Intraday Opportunities and What They Can Still Change
  5. Effective Times and Flow Across Remaining Hours
  6. Deadlines and the Discipline of the Clock
  7. Late and Out-of-Cycle Submissions
  8. No-Notice and Standby Arrangements
  9. Weekend Cycles
  10. Holiday Cycles and Published Calendars
  11. Building Your Own Cycle Calendar
M3 Confirmation and the Counterparty Match Ch 33-42
  1. What Confirmation Actually Does
  2. The Confirming Party and Its Authority
  3. Matching the Two Sides of a Point
  4. The Lesser-Of Rule
  5. Why Matches Fail
  6. Agreement to Zero and Its Consequence
  7. Resolving a Disagreement Inside the Window
  8. The Chain Across Multiple Operators
  9. Pools, Aggregation Points and Internal Netting
  10. A Worked Mismatch, Found and Fixed
M4 Scheduling and the Operator's Cut Ch 43-53
  1. From Instructed to Scheduled
  2. How the Scheduling Decision Is Made
  3. When a Point Is Oversubscribed
  4. Priority in the Scheduling Order
  5. Proportional Reduction and Its Arithmetic
  6. Reading a Scheduled Quantity Report
  7. Retention and Fuel Inside the Scheduled Number
  8. Scheduling Across a Multi-Segment Path
  9. Scheduled Quantity Against Actual Flow
  10. Rescheduling Once Gas Is Moving
  11. A Scheduling Report Read End to End
M5 Bumping and Displacement Ch 54-62
  1. What Bumping Is and Why It Exists
  2. Who Holds the Right to Displace
  3. The Displacement Window and Its Timing
  4. Receiving the Notification
  5. Defending a Position Against Displacement
  6. Displacement and Backhaul in Practice
  7. The Cost of Being Displaced
  8. Using the Mechanism Deliberately
  9. A Worked Displacement, Hour by Hour
M6 The Daily Balancing Obligation Ch 63-73
  1. The Duty to Deliver What You Take
  2. What Being In Balance Means at a Point
  3. Tolerance and How Latitude Is Set
  4. Regimes That Settle Each Day
  5. Regimes That Settle Over a Month
  6. The Balancing Zone or Area
  7. The Intraday Position Estimate
  8. Operational Balancing Arrangements
  9. Pooling Positions Across a Group of Points
  10. Tolerance Tightening on a Constrained Day
  11. The Daily Position Sheet
M7 Linepack and the Operational Buffer Ch 74-82
  1. What Linepack Is
  2. Pressure, Inventory and the Cushion It Creates
  3. Who Owns the Cushion
  4. How an Operator Spends and Restores It
  5. The Limits of the Cushion
  6. When the Cushion Is Gone
  7. Park and Loan as a Contracted Cushion
  8. Pressure Obligations at Your Own Points
  9. Treating the Cushion as a Shared Resource
M8 Intraday Actions When the Book Moves Ch 83-94
  1. Noticing the Move Early
  2. The Intraday Decision Sequence
  3. Buying or Selling Intraday at a Hub
  4. Transferring Title Inside a Pool
  5. Calling on Storage Swing
  6. Instructing Against a Storage Right
  7. Releasing Capacity as a Same-Day Action
  8. Reducing an Interruptible Customer
  9. Calling Flexibility Under a Supply Agreement
  10. Reducing Your Own Offtake
  11. The Cost Ladder of Balancing Actions
  12. A Worked Intraday Rebalance
M9 Notices, Flow Orders and Constrained Days Ch 95-104
  1. The Operator's Notice Hierarchy
  2. Postings Worth Reading Every Day
  3. What a Flow Order Demands
  4. Varieties of Flow Order and Their Triggers
  5. Flow Order Consequences and How They Bite
  6. The Desk Response Playbook
  7. Planned Maintenance and Capacity Reduction
  8. Unplanned Outages and System Force Majeure
  9. Monitoring Through the Day
  10. A Worked Flow Order Day
M10 The Scheduler's Day and the Handovers Ch 105-115
  1. The Scheduler's Morning
  2. The Scheduler's Afternoon and Evening
  3. The Overnight and Early Hours
  4. Translating a Position into Instructions
  5. The Trading to Scheduling Handover
  6. The Scheduling to Settlement Handover
  7. The Daily Log and the Audit Trail
  8. Segregation of Duties Around Instructions
  9. The Exception List and Escalation
  10. Cover, Absence and Continuity
  11. Controls That Catch an Error the Same Day
M11 The Whole Day, Worked Ch 116-123
  1. A Worked Gas Day, Part One: The Plan
  2. A Worked Gas Day, Part Two: The Day Moves
  3. A Worked Gas Day, Part Three: Closing the Day
  4. A Worked Weekend Under Constraint
  5. Running the Cycle Across Several Operators
  6. Judging Your Own Operational Performance
  7. What Operational Discipline Cannot Fix
  8. Where the Operational Day Hands Over

The brochure gives each of these 123 chapters a paragraph on what it covers and what you can do once you have worked through it.

This is course 7 of twenty

It stands alone, and it is also the entry point to the Natural Gas Desk Academy pathway.

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