GPCM Customer Base Expands Again at PowerMart
 
Last week at the GPCM workshop at PowerMart, we were able to announce El Paso Field Services as our 16th active GPCM licensee.  We also met with another Houstonenergy company which has committed to its GPCM license before the end of the year.  The icing on the cake occurred when we returned home to Los Angelesto be greeted with another commitment to license GPCM before the end of this year.  We are looking forward to working with these new companies and to providing all of our licensees with continuing excellence in GPCM training and support.
 
RBACReturning to HoustonNext Week
 
Bob Brookswill be in Houstonnext week for GPCM training and demonstration.  There are time slots available on Thursday, November 1st.  If you would like to meet with Bob, please let him know by replying to this mail or by calling him at 323-663-4831.
 
From http://www.enerfax.com :
 
FERC Seeks Natural Gas Capacity Nomination Reform
 
Natural gas pipelines and customers have until November 19th to offer comments on a plan by the FERC that would allow shippers to recall released capacity and renominatethe capacity. The FERC has stated in a Federal Register notice that it seeks to change the natural gas business rule to synchronize the its regulation of recalled capacity with its standards for intra-day nominations. The changes are related to FERC'sopen access regulation, and would also give transporters more flexibility in transactions to release capacity. The proposed change would rescind Gas Industry Standards Board provisions which require notice of capacity release recalls by 8 a.m. central time and which ban partial day recalls of capacity. The board developed its rules based on a consensus of its gas pipeline members. Last February, the GISB asked the FERC to clarify the rules because of confusion over whether partial day recalls of capacity were a valid practice. The proposal would allow releasing shippers to coordinate recalls of capacity release transactions and renominationswith the current intra-day nomination cycle and recall rights would operate according to the same timelines that now apply to interruptible transportation. The proposal also seeks to create more competition for pipeline capacity with parity between scheduling release transactions and scheduling of pipeline interruptible service. Allowing shippers to recall capacity quickly means more capacity would be released. 
 
Bob Brooks
GPCM Natural Gas Market Forecasting Systemhttp://gpcm.rbac.com