Spreadsheet: daren_farmer__5478__Energy Operations Activities
Sheet: Energy Operations

Deal Setup
1 | Deal/Data Setup | * | notification of new facilities, contracts, or counterparties
 |  | * | gathering information
 |  | * | setup in global facilities, contracts, or counterparties databases
 |  | * | entering settled prices both manually and through automated downloads
 |  | * | handing out or collection of deal tickets
 |  | * | entering deals including NYMEX, OTC, EFP, EOL, and Triggers
 |  | * | notify users of additions/deletions
Confirmation
 | Confirmations | * | generating confirms
 |  | * | evaluating the credit rating of the counterparty
 |  | * | selecting the correct confirmation template
 |  | * | reviewing and executing the confirm
 |  | * | following up on unexecuted confirms
 |  | * | verbally confirming with counterparty
 | Nymex Checkout | * | verify Nymex positions daily
 | Broker Checkout | * | [NAME] deals verbally
 |  | * | verify broker statements against our systems
Logistics
 | Send Nominations | * | prepare nominations; EBB noms, intraday noms, and renoms
 |  | * | sending the nom to the appropriate party (via fax or EDI)
 |  | * | receive the scheduled/confirmed volume
 |  | * | monitoring for any rejects
 | Receive Nominations | * | receiving a verbal, fax, or EDI nomination
 |  | * | entering the numbers into the pipeline system,
 |  | * | confirming next day noms at meter/interconnect.
 | Balancing | * | enter/update necessary deal tickets to reflect purchase, sales, and service activity (fuel,transport, imbalance,etc)
 |  | * | balancing pipelines, positions, etc.
 |  | * | ensure the facilities are balanced in UNIFY
 |  | * | ensure all transactions have transferred from SITARA to UNIFY
 |  | * | monitoring bridge activity to ensure Best Available Volume (BAV) information is properly fedback from Unify to Sitara
 |  | * | resolve imbalance issues
 | Standards Board Interface | * | GISB regulation, attending GISB meetings, lobbying for standards, etc.
Risk Management
 | Calculating Books | * | curve validation (perform rotation schedule for curves)
 |  | * | curve setup
 |  | * | calculating the books (both manual and automated)
 |  | * | calc sheets (price updates to deals)
 |  | * | issue, resolution to traders' questions
 |  | * | preparing/generating reports
 |  | * | dealing with all variances and issues that arise
 | Routine Trading Monitoring and Reporting | * | daily intelligence gathering, including pipeline information, position worksheets, storage levels, and any other data deemed critical or useful to traders/originators
 |  | * | monitoring day forward trades to ensure books are flat
 |  | * | monitoring trading activities (internal and external)
 |  | * | resolving issues that stem from trading (bridge monitoring)
 |  | * | Reporting for daily, monthly, year to date, etc. trading activities
Settlements
 | [NAME] | * | Preparing and mailing invoices and payments; 3rd party and innercompany
 |  | * | Process bank deposits
 |  | * | Verbal verification
 |  | * | Applying net outs
 |  | * | Applying amount to Accounts Receivable (A/R)
 |  | * | Reconciling invoices and payments to our systems; reconciling any receivables
 |  | * | Approving payments before submitting to A/P
 | Cash Forecasting | * | Estimating current and future cash flows based upon current month activity, collection, and application
 | Month End Closing | * | Preparing vouchers
 |  | * | Creating journal entries resulting from volumetric adjustments
 |  | * | Reconciliation of transport expense accounts, transport A/P, imbalance, unaccounted for, intercompany, fuel, usage, etc.
 |  | * | Preparing mass drafts
 |  | * | Accrual
 |  | * | Interface with Gas Accounting
 |  | * | Posting entries to SAP
 |  | * | Interface UNIFY with SAP
 |  | * | Reconciliation of data
 |  | * | Daily downloads (purchases and cash feeds from the bank)
 | Brokerage fees | * | Settlement of broker fees for all commodities
 |  | * | performing both verbal and written confirmations
 |  | * | comparison of broker statements with our records
Volume Management
 | Allocate Quantities | * | Processing of quantity information for each contract for billing and payments
 |  | * | Synchronizing of pipeline information with producer/market information
 |  | * | Monitor for allocations to be contractually compliant
 |  | * | Obtain allocations of meters not done by ENA or [NAME] and entering the quantities into POPS
 | Reconcile Volume Discrepancies | * | Communicating volume discrepancies with counterparties, pipeline, scheduler, trader, or anyone else necessary to resolve discrepancy
 |  | * | Reconcile differences in actual volumes and notify Settlements for correct billing/payments
 |  | * | Reconcile unaccounted for report for HPL or any other on system pipes (ie Bridgeline, Denver, etc.)
 | Monitor Physical Storage | * | Monitoring 3rd party deposits in our storage facilities
 |  | * | Determining accurate charges (facility, buy/sell, demand, etc.)
 |  | * | Sending schedules to appropriate parties and receiving statements of actuals
 |  | * | Record actuals and resolve imbalances
Support Activities
 | Data Control | * | verify changes for facilities, contracts, or counterparties
 |  | * | maintain all official documents, both contracts and confirmations
 |  | * | process the change in the appropriate database
 |  | * | update/verify publications used to populate our database systems
 | [NAME] to Actual (OA) | * | reviewing liquidation report and resolving imbalances
 |  | * | proactive month to date liquidation report for analysis of positions
 |  | * | phase I and II, identifying discrepancies between data captured at flash and at settlements both during the month and at the end of the month
 |  | * | verify customer data is correct from the OA variance report
 |  | * | verify internal information is accurate, ie systems are consistent
 |  | * | consolidating accounting data at an entity level for interface with Gas Accounting
 |  | * | analyze price and volumes (for PMA's, transport expense, imbalances, storage and synthetic storage by region by pipeline)
 |  | * | reviewing historical variances and making adjustments as needed
 | Non Routine Commercial Support and Ad Hoc Requests | * | issue, resolution to traders' questions outside of daily operational issues
 |  | * | special projects
 |  | * | preparing/generating reports
 | Administrative Support and Ad Hoc Requests | * | projects related to administrative work, ie data cleanup
 |  | * | preparing/generating reports
 |  | * | planning and budgeting
 |  | * | employee training, coaching, evaluation
 |  | * | HR related tasks; recruiting, PRC, new hires, mentoring, etc.
 | Technology Maintenance and  Process Improvements | * | system design, development, testing, implementation, and training
 |  | * | set up and testing of pipes to EDI, using GISB standards
 |  | * | identifying, coordinating, and implementing opportunities for improvements in our commodity processes
 |  | * | production or user support (ie Unify, Sitara, Enpower, TAGG, etc)
 | Customer Service | * | tasks related to the EOL call center
 |  | * | communicating issues/resolutions with external customers outside of daily operational activities