User's Guide to Natural Gas
Purchasing and Risk Management
Table of Contents
1. Developing an Energy
Purchasing Strategy.
2. Gas Purchasing: Business,
Legal & Contracting Issues.
3. The Role of the Gas
Marketer.
4. Selecting a Gas Marketer
to Deliver Transportation Gas.
5. Avoiding Common Pitfalls
in Gas Contracts.
6. Gas Futures, Swaps and
Options.
7. Retail Energy Contracts:
Choices for Customers.
8. Natural Gas Purchasing as
a Strategic Input.
9. Natural Gas Purchasing
Options.
10. Fuel Management in the
Real World.
11. Fuel Savings via Gas
Supply Aggregation.
12. Benefits of Effective
Fuel Management.
13. Fuels Utilization for
Cost-Effective Energy Management.
14. Managing Your Facility's
Energy Needs in Competitive Energy Markets.
15. Background: FERC Orders
636, 636-A, and 636-B.
16. The Hidden Costs of Doing
Business Under Order 636.
17. Order 636: The Next Stage
of Implementation.
18. Spot Market Natural Gas
Reliability Under Order 636.
19. Understanding & Using
New LDC Supply Options.
20. How a Local Natural Gas
Distributor Helped an Institutional Cogenerator.
21. Brooklyn Union Gas
Company's Competitive Power Systems Program.
22. The Gas Industry
Standards Board: Organizing the Marketplace for Natural Gas.
23. Gas Reduction Strategies
to Benefit the Environment.
24. Gas Cooling Engine
Emissions: Meeting the Clean Air Act.
25. Meeting CFC Phase-Out
Requirements with Gas Cooling.
26. The Environmental
Benefits of Natural Gas Powered Fuel Cells. Index.
Annotation
Information provided to
properly manage natural gas purchases. The book explores the evolution of market changes,
and helps readers understand ways to make the buying process most economical and
beneficial. It is intended to assist the user in mastering new natural gas purchasing and
risk management methods. The book includes contributions from many of the nation's top
industry experts.
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Packed from cover to cover
with the critical information you need to effectively manage natural gas purchasing.
The planning which users must
now undertake if they are to properly manage their natural gas purchases has become quite
complex. This book explores the evolution of market changes and helps the reader
understand ways to make the buying process most economical and beneficial. It is intended
to assist the user in mastering new natural gas purchasing and risk management methods.
The text includes contributions from many of the nation's top industry experts. The full
scope of effective gas purchase management is covered, with topics including developing a
purchasing strategy, the gas marketing process, critical elements of natural gas
contracts, retail energy contracts, the gas futures market, fuel and cost management
strategies, effective use of gas supply aggregation, the impact of FERC Order 636, and
important environmental considerations relative to natural gas.
PTR Overview
Information provided to
properly manage natural gas purchases. KEY TOPICS: Developing an energy purchasing
strategy; gas purchasing; gas marketing; gas contracts; gas futures; retail energy
contracts; options; fuel management, savings and utilization; FERC Order 636;and
environmental strategies. The book includes contributions from many of the nation's top
industry experts.
320 pages