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Actually, prior to the CES acquisition we had between 200 and 500 little
wells of metered production in the Appalachian area of our own. These wells produce anywhere from 10 dt's to 10,000 dt's per day. Most are very minimal, probably 500 dt's or less. This production is produced on several gathering lines off of CNG and Columbia Gas. A couple of years ago Columbia Gas started getting out of the gathering business and sold part of the wells to Gatherco, then they spun off part to CNR, and the remainder are still held by Columbia Gas. Around the 10th of the month we get estimates from Gatherco and CNR as to what it appears that the individual wells are producing and then we nominate the gas, which takes up to several hours of updating time. The Columbia Gas meters we do not have to individually nominate to the pipe. We receive an estimate from the pipe for the total volume and they give us credit for it in our pool. Sounds simple. The problem comes three months down the road when we get the actuals from Columbia Gas as to what flowed at these meters and accounting has to go in and make payments to all these little producers. Prior to unify, it didn't really effect us. Client Services would just zero out the one lump estimate that we had made and then they would go in and add each producer, the wells that flowed, the volume and make the final payment to each. It was a very time consuming process and they had one person who was solely devoted to doing nothing but this. Because unify was developed to put as much work up front in the process, client services no longer has the 'back door' to get the payment out the door. This means that each well that we have on Columbia Gas must now have an individual ticket in sitara with a volume of 0 (currently our responsibility to set up) and must have at least one path with a volume of 1 for each month in unify. Several months ago after converting to unify, Robert, Molly Lafuze, Kathy Moore, and Victor put in a massive effort over the course of about three weeks to get all of our own meters taken care of while still maintaining their respective jobs. Generally, it's the same meters that flow and when we set them up, we do it over a long period of time so the path just rolls from one month to next and as long as we keep up our tracking and balancing, we're just in maintenance mode. However, sometimes new wells come up, at which point the process is to 1) have the global group set up the meters and the counterparties, 2) set up a deal in sitara, 3) put a path in unify with a volume of 1, 4) create noms, and 5) track and balance. Since we don't even get actuals to 3 months after flow, we usually have at least 3 to 4 months of catch up to do. And of course, as you are aware, our systems have been running a little slow lately. With the acquisition of CES we have taken on even more of the gas. I've heard on a couple of occasions just how many wells this is, but I'm sorry, the number seems to have escaped me. I know it is at least several hundred and that it is quit a bit more than we had previously. This whole subject is one that has been passed around by several people including myself, Chris Germany, John Singer, Jim Javins, and Scott Neal on more than one occasion. One thought that John Singer and Jim Javins had was to have someone named Hiedi in Jim's office get access to our systems and input the gas herself. Seems like a nice suggestion, except that she is EES and I don't think that we want her in our sytems. By the way, John Singer and Jim Javins are the ones buying this wellhead gas. They picked Hiedi because she works in the same office as Jim and they feel that she could give these little guys the hand holding treatment that they sometimes demand. Yes, it's hard to believe but it's the ones getting the $50 checks that complain the most. They thought that Hiedi could also be responsible for making the payments. Anyway, that suggestion wasn't really panning out, so another suggestion has arisen as to setting up a whole new Enron entity that would handle the metered supply and we would be buying the gas from this entity. First, we would have to take into consideration whether it would restrict our flexibility on Columbia Gas. I'm not totally sure how to go about getting something like this off the ground, but it does have merit. Another thought was to hire someone here that's sole responsibility would be the metered supply. They would hopefully become a specialist in the area and would work closely with Gloria in client services, Jim Javins and John Singer. The thought was to have them report either to me or to Scott Neal. Chris and I tend to disagree in this area. he thinks there is plenty of work for a full time person. My opinion is that there is definitely a need for a special project over the course of some time, but that once the initial push to get the meters in is done that it is more of a part-time responsibility. The big problem with that though is right now, the guys downstairs don't even have time to get these special type of requests done and it might be faster for Gloria to do them herself, if she has proper training and access to our systems. However, regardless of which group gets the responsibility, there is going to be a need for a very large effort within the next month or so when January actuals come in and we should be prepared. Any way, please give it some thought and let me know if you have any suggestions. I'd also like to here what your views might be. Thanks! Robert Superty 01/26/2000 04:36 PM To: Katherine L Kelly/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Re: Accounting stuff. Let me know what you find out. Thanks. Kathy, who are we doing this for and why? This isn't CES business is it? Please get back to me, thanks - Bob From: Katherine L Kelly 01/26/2000 04:17 PM To: Robert Superty/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Re: Accounting stuff. Let me know what you find out. Thanks. Bob, After talking with Robert about this request this morning, I told him that I would look at future option, but that in the meantime I would go ahead and take care of these for Gloria. Well, to my shock, it took over three hours for me to complete the task of setting up 2 deal in sitara and adding and pathing 9 meters in unify over the course of six months. I'm not sure why I thought this, but I thought it might take 30 maybe 45 minutes. The whole process is really rather simple, just very time consuming. What scares me is that we are soon going to be having to do exactly this same thing for the hundreds of metered production wells that have come over with the CES acquisition. At the current rate of business that we are doing, I just don't see how will be able to accomplish this with our current resources. We still have some time before we need to make a decision, but a couple of possible solutions would be 1) bring in some temporary help for a short period of time or 2) give Gloria access to help out with this, but then we give up part of the control of our systems to other group. ---------------------- Forwarded by Katherine L Kelly/HOU/ECT on 01/26/2000 03:38 PM --------------------------- Victor Lamadrid 01/25/2000 06:29 PM To: Robert Allwein/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Edward Terry/HOU/ECT@ECT, Katherine L Kelly/HOU/ECT@ECT, Tricia Bowen/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: Re: Accounting stuff. Let me know what you find out. Thanks. ED/KATHY, Please help. There's gotta be a way that client services can add these producer meters and ZERO paths that are so old or learn how to do it! Volumes are minimal and the TCO guys are swamped. I'm sure the SOUTHEAST schedulers get the same type of request from client services or they will with the CES wellhead stuff. We don't have time to do the research for this stuff, set up the meters and the tickets and the counterparties for little or no volume that's from JULY of 1999!!! HELLO That was a millenium ago!!! Can you tell I'm a little emotional about this? There is no value added to something after the fact for the desk on this one. What do y'all think?????????? Robert Allwein 01/25/2000 06:18 PM To: Victor Lamadrid/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Accounting stuff. Let me know what you find out. Thanks. Waz Up ---------------------- Forwarded by Robert Allwein/HOU/ECT on 01/25/2000 06:17 PM --------------------------- Gloria G Barkowsky 01/25/2000 10:38 AM To: Robert Allwein/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: LaShonda Poledore/Corp/Enron@ENRON Subject: Meter and Deal change Robert - can you do these? I don't think this is something that I can do. Let me know. Thanks, Gloria 3-7118 ---------------------- Forwarded by Gloria G Barkowsky/HOU/ECT on 01/25/2000 10:37 AM --------------------------- LaShonda Poledore@ENRON 01/24/2000 05:04 PM To: Gloria G Barkowsky/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Wade R Price/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: Meter and Deal change Please make changes for all meters from 9907 forward! Please add these meters# 712935,713942,716096,717753,717951 to deal #84417 on gatherco H&H Energy contract#96021339 with a price of 97%inferc and -0.25 gathering Please add meters# 713095,734403 to Cgas- H&H Energy with a new deal number at a price of 97%inferc and no gathering. Please add meters#719495 to Cgas-H&H Energy with a new deal number at a price of 97%inferc with -0.27 gathering. Thank You LP
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