Beyond the classical, mostly former function of gas storages to be used as strategic reserve storage or storage for seasonal operation we are expecting more and more changes, depending on growing gas market dynamics.
Investors, storage users and commercial operators of gas storages will have a clear and common interest: keeping the storage competitive and profitable as long as physically possible. The profitability and competitiveness does not begin with the first realized gas deals, but just in the first marketing and technical concept each, with its first decisions for requested usage and flexibility, which impact the technological and the IT solution.
With analytical, process and product experience from Energy Markets, technological optimization methods and expert systems, combined with high-level control methodology for complex processes, Transition Technologies, your partner for IT and Technology, is offering an answer to an actual request.
gasLUXstore is a complex, modular software for gas storage operators. The general aim of this system, is to provide commercially flexible, technically secure and optimal gas storage operations with IT support of all predefined commercial and technical processes. The system can manage parallel commercial usage of multiple access points and multiple TSOs. It is designed to deliver its services to open number of storage users. The modules of the package realize functionalities in both technical and business domains of storage operating.
Business requirements for the IT
Creation of the Basic Concept for the required IT solution dedicated for gas storage owners and general contractors for gas storages.
Deliverables
- Identification and analysis of all business processes to be supported by IT.
- First draft of an optimization and modeling concept.
- Identification of all technological constraints and IT limitations - first approach
- Draft of an IT solution adopted to the existing IT environment
- Suggested modular solution
- Indication of the implementation budget & schedule
Detailed modular IT specification
The detail specification for the complete IT as basis for the application programming and implementation of the system.
Deliverables
Detailed documentation of identified business processes using the UML-tools for object oriented modeling in the scope of:
Requirements specification
- Business processes
- Behavioral diagrams
- Structural diagrams
Design of a complete IT solution
Deliverables
- Bundling of the defined business processes in process blocs
- Localization & definition of all necessary interfaces
- Working out of the mathematical models as a basis for technical Optimization (Model of the Caverns, Piping & Compressors)
- Development of a convenient user authorization and system security concept
- Availability of hardware and software including detailed specification of hardware and all needed hardware parameters.
Work out of an estimation for costs and realization schedule
Deliverables
- Project milestones.
- Project realization plan in the form of MS Project schedule.
- Estimated quotation of the project with division to project phases.