Christopher Lutz Email & Phone Number

Traverse City, Michigan, United States

Traverse City, Michigan, United States

Glacier Ridge Group, LLC provides analysis on natural gas supply alternatives, location feasibility, and trading strategies. This includes interstate and intrastate pipeline access points and connection costs, transportation service agreement alternatives and costs, supply purchasing alternatives, overview of constraints and deliverability risks, natural gas storage alternatives and costs, natural gas supply risk management strategies, natural gas supply optimization strategies.

Traverse City, Michigan

• Collaborated with trading and origination leaders across regions to work on emerging opportunities and challenges in the capital, carbon, and electricity markets and how natural gas fits in. • Provided customers flexible firm peaking winter gas at a summer price in a region without storage by using a portfolio of storage and transportation assets. • Worked with producers and pipelines in evaluating, alternative infrastructure projects reversing existing pipeline flows and new build projects moving Utica and Marcellus production to markets in the South, Midwest and Canada.

• Provided regional market liquidity, internally and externally at all times, in basis, physical, and fixed price markets in a transparent and compliant manner. • Managed physical, basis, and fixed price risk of a portfolio of 50 Bcf of storage and over 2 Bcf/day of interstate pipeline capacity.• Trading Single Point of Accountability for the trading teams in Michigan, Chicago and Omaha. Responsible for insuring traders executed their responsibilities in a compliant manner and within the delegated limits while supporting the physical and financial risks of the assets and customer activity in their region, with overall and book level P/L accountability.• Encouraged a collaborative culture that recognized customers, assets, and trading liquidity work in tandem to generate synergy of value.

Traverse City, Michigan

• Traded physical and financial natural gas markets across North America with a focus on the Great Lakes region.• Managed regional optimization of location spreads on pipeline assets and time spread optimization on storage assets. • Negotiated interstate storage and transportation capacity contracts that provided physical delivery optionality on a firm basis.• Monetized physical optionality into delivery and price risk protection to a portfolio of industrial and utility natural gas customers. • Provided asset management services to utility and industrial customers, optimizing and managing storage and transportation contracts. increasing utilization, provided cost savings, and shared in value captured.

Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City

Mba, Finance

Bs, Business - Mineral Land Management

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