1. REGISTRY INFORMATION SESSION
March 2, 2004

2. Agenda Introductions 2. Registry Update 3. EUB Non-compliance Appeals
Hours of Operation
Pipeline/Meter Stations Enhancement Initiative
Registry Activity levels
Provisional Assessments
3. EUB Non-compliance Appeals
- Overview
4. IRT Update
- Current IRT Focus Items
- Did You know?
5. Question & Answer

3. Registry Update

4. Hours of Operation 7:00 a.m. open to 6:30 a.m. open (completed)
8 p.m. close to 9:00 p.m. close (*April 1, 2004, for a three month trial period.)
Saturdays: 6:30 am – 9:00 pm (*April 1, 2004, for a three month trial period.)
First Monday of each month: Registry closes at 6:00 p.m. for system maintenance
Generally first Wednesday of the month: Registry closes at noon for scheduled release implementation.
*aligned with the project plan for the Pipeline/Meter Stations enhancement initiative.

5. Pipeline/Meter Stations Enhancement Initiative (Project Plan Update)

6. Registry Activity Levels
The number of page hits for January 04 was 2.8 million, up from 2.6 million the previous month.
Service Desk, total calls to date: 37,422

7. Provisional Assessment Trends ($MM)

8. Provisional Assessments – con’t This Month Compared to Last

9. EUB Non-Compliance

10. Chargeable Errors Production Month

11. Total Chargeable Errors

12. Total Chargeable Errors By Type
Error Type
Missing Well
334
191
224
124
Metering diff
420
116
188 79
Imbalance
275
125
169 71
Missing Facility
144 81 46
'P' Pending
133 55 52 37
Other 29 12 34 16
Total
1335
580
713
373

13. EUB Non-Compliance Appeals
# Operators Invoiced
150
105
126 97
# Chargeable Errors
1335
580
713
373
$ invoiced
$191,000
$90,400
$89,700
$55,700
# Appeals 76 45 51
# Granted 70 38 48
Net $
$113,200
$56,100
$61,700

14. EUB Non-Compliance Appeals
Cause # 1
Registry Issue 27 12 16
Cause # 2
Late Filing 2 4
Cause # 3
Wrong Filing 30 21 15
Cause # 4
Other 17 10
Total Appeals 76 45 51

15. Not Granted Reason for Denial Missing or Wrong volume – same operator
Misuse of AB MC
Not responding to an EUB query in a timely manner

16. Appeal Timeline Industry has 15 calendar days to submit an Appeal
January production month – March 11th
Late appeals will not be accepted
EUB will notify of decision within 10 calendar days from receipt of appeal
Decisions can be delayed if EUB queries are not responded to timely

17. Industry Registry Team Update

18. Current IRT Focus Items
Pipeline/Meter Station/Terminal Reporting Changes
BC Reporting in the Registry
Partner Reporting
Preliminary Benefits Leverage List

19. 1. PL/MS/TM Reporting Changes
Background
TCPL is required to report many “paper” pipelines in order for the Registry to accommodate the large number of meter stations and “auto” population of activities.
ATCO also has large files with many meter stations and “auto” population of activities --- requires processing after Registry hours.
Volumetric Changes to a single meter station require the entire PL to be resubmitted – results in large amount of processing in order to change one number.
Liquid Terminal and Pipeline operators are unable to report dispositions when they are actually in control of the measurement of the product.

20. 1. PL/MS/TM Reporting Changes (con’t)
For Gas Pipelines and Meter Stations
Reporting done at the MS level versus the PL
Transactions will begin at the meter station (MS) and the Registry will autopopulate the Pipeline activity.
CSO’s are restricted at the MS to the specific activities (i.e. at a 631 type MS, the CSO can only report receipts).
ISC’s will be required at the meter station but the Registry will not autopopulate them where they are not needed (no ISC’s at the PL).

21. 1. PL/MS/TM Reporting Changes (con’t)
For Gas Pipelines and Meter Stations
Reporting done at the MS level versus the PL
Downstream (Field) facilities will no longer report REC from meter stations
The CSO will report the MS disposing to the Downstream facility I.e. BT, IF, GP, GS etc.

22. 1. PL/MS/TM Reporting Changes (con’t)
For Oil & NGL terminals (TM):
The terminal operator is in control of reporting the majority of volumes received at and disposed from the terminal.
When two terminals are involved - the receiving terminal is in control and will report the received volume.
When a pipeline is involved - the pipeline is in control of reporting both receipts from and dispositions to the terminal.

23. 1. PL/MS/TM Reporting Changes (con’t)
For Oil & NGL pipelines (PL):
The pipeline operator is in control of reporting both receipts into and dispositions from the pipeline unless there is another pipeline involved.
When two pipelines are involved - the receiving pipeline is in control and will report the received volume.
Please note: None of the above impacts reporting when the receiving or delivering facility/entity is not reporting in the Registry.

24. 1. PL/MS/TM Reporting Changes (con’t)
Tentative Implementation Schedule
Task
Date Required
Complete Validation of MS Subtypes (MS operators)
February 28th
Facility operators to clean up EUB Non Compliance Items
March 31st
Registry Development Complete
Registry Acceptance Testing
April 1 – 30th
Pipeline Companies test batch file submission
April 15 – May 15th
Registry Conversion
May 20 – 25th
Go Live with new process
May 26th

25. 1. PL/MS/TM Reporting Changes (con’t)
For more detailed information please refer to the following presentations available on the Registry website:
- under Bulletin Board - What’s New
PL/MS changes Gas Meeting
PL/TM changes Oil Meeting
The IRT team will continue to inform Industry regarding this item over the next months.

26. 2. BC Reporting in the Registry
BC is interested in participating in the Registry
BC participation has been conceptually endorsed by Industry and the Registry Steering Committee.
Initial meetings have been held in Calgary & Victoria
Over the next several months meetings will be held with
Various BC government departments
Duke Energy
BC producers
The stakeholders are working together to develop a business case, which is required before their participation can be approved.

27. 3. Partner Reporting Subcommittee of IBC formed to:
Identify and resolve any impediments to the implementation of full partner reporting in the Registry
Review monthly deadlines and Industry practices
Identify bottlenecks in the monthly processes
Recommend “partner reporting” deadlines in order to have information available from the Registry for all stakeholders (upstream operators, owners, etc) when it is needed
Validate Registry reports – do they provide all information necessary for partner reporting
Recommend partner reporting implementation month

28. 3. Partner Reporting (con’t)
Deadlines for reporting to the Registry
Subcommittee is in the process of reviewing the monthly work flows and recommending appropriate changes to the monthly reporting deadlines, where applicable.
Focusing on having all data available in the Registry when it is needed by stakeholders – eliminate phone calls.
Team agreed that allocations could be filed at the same time as volumetrics – the data is available. Operators should not wait until the DOE deadline.
Participants are validating impact of deadlines within their own companies – e.g. Does the Marketing dept rely on data from the Registry and require it by a certain time?

29. 3. Partner Reporting (con’t)
Registry Reports
Reviewed reports to identify minimum reasonable requirements
All operated for one month for volumetrics
All allocations for one month where BA is named as an owner
Looking at feasibility of adding contact information to monthly reports
Identified one new report – Working Interest Owner Report

30. 3. Partner Reporting (con’t)
A few unresolved items being addressed by the team
Inventory exchange/swaps
Allocation of NGL’s – what level of detail
Storing zeros for streams/owners in allocations
Allocation downloads – need an SAFOAF volume download

31. 4. Preliminary Benefits – Leverage List
1. Remaining High and Medium Priority Issues Under Review by the IBC/IRT
a. Late/Last Minute Submissions
b. Well Infrastructure Issues
c. Registry Pipeline Split Implementation
2. Performance issues
3. Vendor Issues
4. Training Issues
5. Resolved Items

32. 4. Preliminary Benefits – Leverage List (con’t)
1a. Late/Last Minute Submissions
IRT has created template letters (Volumetric and Allocation submissions) that can be sent to operators who file at the last minute. cc. Industry Registry Manager. Available through the Service desk.
Discussions determined that many companies do not submit data early due to:
System constraints (facility must balance first)
Production Accountant work process issues such as a desire to complete gas splits first
PA reluctance to submit multiple batches for a single facility (server-to-server would help)

33. 4. Preliminary Benefits – Leverage List (con’t)
1a. Late/Last Minute Submissions (Continued)
The Registry calendar has been adjusted up to June 2004 to allow more time between the gas pipeline split deadline and the EUB volumetric deadline.
Updated EUB deadlines are:
March 19th April 20th
May 20th June 21st

34. 4. Preliminary Benefits – Leverage List (con’t)
1a. Late/Last Minute Submissions (Continued)
The intent of this extension is provide additional time for you to submit ahead of the deadline
It is not intended for all users to submit data later and just move the problem from the 18th to the new deadline
The Registry will be monitoring users’ behaviour over the next few months to evaluate how people are using the additional time.

35. 4. Preliminary Benefits – Leverage List (con’t)
1b. Well Infrastructure Issues
There are a number of Well Infrastructure issues that currently have published workarounds.
New Pool code for Commingling Wells
Packer/Bridge plug issues
EUB is reviewing the known issues and will potentially be making changes to the Registry.
Industry is asked to provide information regarding any other Well Infrastructure issues to the Registry Service desk. The IRT will ensure the EUB includes any new issues in its review.

36. 4. Preliminary Benefits – Leverage List (con’t)
1c. Registry Pipeline Split Implementation
Currently IRT focus is
Implementation of Partner Reporting
BC reporting
Leverage List
Further P/L split discussions are planned with pipelines, system vendors and Industry for later in 2004

37. 4. Preliminary Benefits – Leverage List (con’t)
2. Performance Issues
Few remaining (peak day and “one-off” issues)
Performance tuning continues
3. Vendor Issues
Many meetings have been held with the vendors and their user groups
Most of the original issues raised have been resolved with new vendor releases.
There are 4 remaining items. Discussions are ongoing.

38. 4. Preliminary Benefits – Leverage List (con’t)
4. Training Issues
A number of items remain
Currently being reviewed and addressed by IRT & IBC
5. Resolved Items
Users are asked to:
Review the resolved items
Confirm the resolution provided is appropriate
Inform the IRT if you don’t agree with the resolution documented
Issues with open VI’s are highlighted and tracked

39. DID YOU KNOW?

40. 1. Users can open multiple sessions of the Registry at the same time
Log onto the Registry as normal and then log on again.
Uses:
Can validate well statuses while doing volumetrics
Can lookup facility information (status, operator) when querying volumetric or allocations
Can query multiple facilities/months at the same time in order to compare data or validate the volumetrics/allocations.

41. 2. Sizing for Screen Prints
When doing screen prints you need to adjust your page setup so that items on the right hand side of the screen print properly.
There are two different “Page setup” changes that can be used:
Change the orientation to landscape or
Change all the margins to 0.25
Either one of these changes will ensure all data is printed.

42. 3. WIP Cleanup
When Querying data users are Saving to WIP this is leaving many items in WIP that require cleanup.
Users should submit the data that is saved in WIP or
Use the WIP Maintenance screen can be used to delete unnecessary items from WIP.

43. 4. First In First Out (FIFO) Daytime Report Processing
Since the Registry went live day time batch processing of files has been in the following sequence:
Monthly submission files
Warning Reports (EUB Non Compliance & Registry SAF/OAF Ensure Complete)
This meant that all submission files must process before creating any of the warning reports. Thus on a deadline day often the reports were not available until the end of the day.

44. 4. First In First Out (FIFO) Daytime Report Processing (Continued)
At Industry’s request this will change (approx. March 10th) to be:
First in First out for the monthly batch submissions and the warning reports.
This means that the warning reports will be available earlier through out the day.

45. 5. The Contact Button is Available March 4th
Available on Query screens for Monthly processes (volumetrics, allocations, pipeline splits).
Displays information of user that made the submission being queried.
BA ID and Name
Contact Person Name and Phone number
Contact Person
Displays Audit information also
Created Date and Last Update Date and info

46. 6. PURREC/PURDISP
PURREC is reported for final sales within the Royalty Network, generally for lease fuel purposes
E.g. Gas sold from a Gas Plant to an Oil Battery for fuel.
PURREC generates a auto created PURDISP, which is a Royalty Trigger and requires a SAFOAF
A new Tip has been published under Monthly Reporting Volumetrics
Proper Use of PURREC and PURDISP

47. 7. The Proper Use of ALL on SAFOAF Submissions
Concern for Upstream Operators (cascades)
Difficult to determine where volumes were delivered to
Creates problems in cases where the downstream operator “flips” from ALL to Specific from month to month
When is it appropriate to use ALL?
When facility operators do not have the information available to report the details of each disposition to a stream/owner level
Many midstream operations do not track where the product came from – only who owns it.
Some operators use ALL when they have many dispositions, with the same wells/owners
E.g. many purchase dispositions of gas for fuel, all supplied by the plant owners

48. 7. The Proper Use of ALL on SAFOAF Submissions (con’t)
Facilities Using ALL
Query run for production month
Identified 32 facilities over 13 operators using ALL in the from/to on a “first level” allocation that creates a cascade
18 of the 32 facilities only have one disposition and should be using a specific from/to
s sent to each operator advising them to validate their use of ALL
IRT will follow-up with each operator
Operators will communicate changes to affected upstream parties prior to making the change

49. 8. Distribution Lists are in Production
BA’s named on a Distribution List are entitled to see the details of the DISP’s for the reporting facility/product/destination named
Distribution Lists are automatically created when allocations of DISP’s are filed
Exception is where ALL is used in the from/to
Distribution Lists can also be input
The ‘manual’ list automatically rolls forward to subsequent months.
Registry is addressing problem where some lists did not get created
Registry will create any lists that were not done based on SAFOAF filings from December 3, 2003

50. 8. Distribution Lists are in Production (con’t)
How to Utilize the Distribution List
If you query Volumetrics for a non-operated facility that you delivered volumes to, you can see the details of where that facility’s dispositions went.
Can see the facility id and volume for each disposition where you were named on the distribution list
When responding to a Cascade that has ALL in the from/to field, upstream operator can view the disposition details
Need to contact the downstream operator if you are not named on the distribution list

51. 9. The “Save Report Parameters” makes report requests easier
Users can save the report selection parameters to their desktop
Each month, load the saved parameter file to the report request screen, change the production month information, and submit.
Can also update requested data – add/remove facilities, operators, owners, etc.
Most useful for monthly requests
EUB non-compliance requests
Ensure Complete requests
Monthly Volumetric Activity Report
OAF Report
Variance Report

52. 10. The Allocation Variance Report has changed
Now available in both CSV or PDF versions
Users can request the Summary or Details
Summary – shows the total volume/energy submitted and the total volume/energy calculated for the selected allocation(s)
Details – shows the submitted and calculated volume/energy for each stream/owner on the selected allocation(s)
Useful tool in identifying problems
Missing wells/owners
Possible Crown royalty impacts

53. 11. Liquid Injected and Recovered as Part of the Gas Stream
Liquid Volume is shown as a REC at the upstream facility
Upstream facility must then report the gas equivalent of the liquid received in order to balance
GAS – REC – ABGE
The gas equivalent of the liquid is then recovered as part of the gas stream
Royalty Trigger implications
Contact DOE Gas Royalty Help Desk for a royalty paid stream id to use on the SAFOAF

54. 11. Liquid Injected and Recovered as Part of the Gas Stream– Example 1

55. 11. Liquid Injected and Recovered as Part of the Gas Stream– Example 1 (con’t)

56. 11. Liquid Injected and Recovered as Part of the Gas Stream– Example 2

57. 11. Liquid Injected and Recovered as Part of the Gas Stream– Example 2 (con’t)

58. 11. Liquid injected & recovered as part of the Gas Stream – Example 3

59. 11. Liquid injected & recovered as part of the Gas Stream – Example 3 (con’t)

60. 11. Liquid injected & recovered as part of the Gas Stream – Example 3 (con’t)