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Midstream Oil & Gas

As petroleum products and natural gas move down the energy value chain, the quality and quantity of product must be measured, balanced and accounted for, prior to distribution to end customers. Data accuracy and integrity is critical to ensuring transparent accountability, full regulatory reporting and custody transfer requirements, when managing and controlling pipeline facilities, storing products and controlling inventories and maintaining facility integrity and operations.

Pipeline Contracting, Nominating and Accounting Management Systems

At the heart of an effective pipeline transmission accounting management system is the need to accurately balance customer accounts with pipeline nominations and accounts. In today’s regulated, cost-conscious environment, managing and integrating customer and pipeline transactions and balances with base pipeline data, contracts and invoicing are required on both a daily and month end basis. Integration of information across these different systems requires the highest level of data standardization and quality.

Accounting Management systems are the first platform on which Enterprise Data is truly consolidated. Because this enterprise wide data originates on a variety of different platforms, consolidating it consistently and accurately can be very challenging. Contact us to find out how DataVera ™ tools address these problems.

Operational SCADA and Measurement Systems

SCADA and Measurement systems, by their nature, combine data that originate in areas that are geographically diverse and span many generations of field equipment installations. The data sets represented by varied sites will have different standards and formats. There is an industry trend to consolidate and to create larger systems with fewer operating staff in an effort to lower operating costs and to maximize the return on expensive data gathering systems. Adding to this equation, corporate mergers and acquisitions produce a challenging set of problems:

• Data stored in different formats
• Data originating on legacy systems that violate constraints on new systems with stricter data rules
• Orphaned data because legacy systems do not enforce referential integrity
• Missing SCADA or Measurement Data
• Corrupted data

In the face of these issues, the Engineer optimizing compressor performance, the Measurement Expert validating readings, and the Revenue Accountant generating invoices still require data that is timely, consistent and accurate.

What’s Your Data Telling You?™

Whether the project is one to consolidate a collection of legacy systems onto a new enterprise system, or to validate and cleanse the data within existing systems, the DataVera tools provides the capability to standardize the approach used in solving these problems. Our toolset and services deliver capabilities for standardizing and cleaning, for applying business rules to data sets, for identifying duplicates, and for managing and tracking changes.