Presentation: Optimizing Natural Gas Storage and Quality with the PI System

Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) is one of the largest Natural Gas Pipeline companies in North America. CPG first focused their EA on improving pipeline compression reliability with their “Enterprise Reliability” program presented at several prior UCs. CPGs next focus is on optimizing the natural gas storage with advanced demand forecasting and gas quality management to support proactive and predictive analytics to guide the storage inject/withdrawal decisions to optimize their natural gas value chain. Key to this strategic initiative is the use of the PI System 2015 PI AF based advanced analytics, future data, and integrators to demand forecasting models.