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Company Description
ENSYTE Energy Software currently provides its GASTAR software solution in the general natural gas business sector from
Marketer/Producer Services through Pipeline Transportation to the Gas Utility Supply. The niche market for GASTAR is the Local
Distribution Company (LDC) utility gas acquisition and end-user supply choice business practices. Michael Smith, CEO and Chief
Software Architect, introduced the GASTAR solution and has been credited as one of the founders of C/ETRM systems.
The GASTAR solution support for Gas Utility / LDC organizations include:
Gas Acquisition: Contracts including Asset Management; Purchase & Sales Deals; LNG & Propane peaking services: Gas Scheduling,
Capacity Release, real time Contract demand position; WACOG and FIFO Storage. Additional features include City Gate Balancing with
Sendout/Demand forecasting to support gas control operations.
Retail Choice: GASTAR provides comprehensive solutions for managing Firm and Interruptible transportation customer pools with
integrated EBB, electronic bulletin board, internet portal for marketer/pool manager business processes. Firm pool gas day forecast
are calculated for Cycle read customer rolled up to a pool delivery requirement. Interruptible customer daily read with tiered daily
and settlement cash out penalties.
Other Functionality: In addition to its strong niche market position with gas utility organizations, the GASTAR product suite also
includes
• A midstream product suite to support pooling, transportation and net back business practices;
• A NAESB 2.0 compliant pipeline solution for all pipeline types including on system no-notice storage.
• Marketer/Producer services solution for bridging the business practices for producer gas marketing and pipeline transportation.
The GASTAR solution is offered for in-house hosting as well as hosting on the Microsoft Azure platform. GASTAR will be joined in
2015 with a release of a companion product, PRISM, to include more comprehensive production business practice support including
crude oil transaction management.
Delivery Methods – Traditional License, Multi-Tenanted SaaS, Hosted
Number of Licensed CTRM Client Companies – Not provided by company
Representative Clients – Not provided by company
Office Locations and Phone
US 713.622.2875
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