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Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas Area

Work contract negotiations with pipelines for new and current production to insure the highest value for Oxy. Coordinate plant operations with producers, marketing compines and Pipelines. Monitors Oxy production and supplies residue volume for Occidental Energy Marketing Inc. daily and monthly. Assist Accounting in pipeline or Producer discrepancies.

Houston, Texas Area

Negotiated new pipeline purchase and processing contracts for new and existing production for the various Oxy production business units. Advised the Oxy marketing group of new month and current month production volumes to market. Kept Oxy production in balance with the plants and pipelines. Monitored inlet production into Oxy plants in Texas and New Mexico for imbalance and first of month volumes. Worked with field personal to resolve pipeline problems. Worked with various accounting groups to resolve issues.

Advised the Oxy marketing group of new month and current month production volumes to market. Kept Oxy production in balance with the plants and pipelines. Monitored inlet production into Oxy plants in Texas and New Mexico for imbalance and first of month volumes. Worked with field personal to resolve pipeline problems. Worked with various accounting groups to resolve issues.

Houston Texas

Scheduled gas on Northern Border, Northern Natural Gas, Peoples Citygate,NorthShore Citygate, Transcanda Pipeline, Foothills Pipeline, Viking Pipeline, Great Lakes Pipeline, Midwestern Pipeline, Alliance Pipeline, ANR Pipeline, Oneok Pipeline, Jayhawk plant, WGT Pipeline. Have rotated to various other pipelines in the mid-continent gulf Coast and east coast. Some of my duties are nominating and watching the imbalances for our wellhead production. Keeping the imbalance to a minimum. Cleaning up all end of the month accounting Issues with the accounting group. Updating the marketers with any outage formation that might affect their marketing game plan. Scaning the pipeline bulletin boards for any capacity release opportunities.

Houston

Schedule Northern Natural Gas, Northern Border, Westar Pipeline, Oasis Pipeline, NGPL, 24/7 for the mid-continent team. Responsible for scheduling 500,000 to 900,000 of baseload and swing gas. Acquire transport contracts from the pipelines or release capacity for our desk. Work closely with the west desk to help support supply and market problems with power plants and western pipeline outages. Control imbalances with industrial plants we supply gas to. Reconcile nomination discrepancies with other shippers. Support our accounting groups with discrepancies. Day trade swing gas on NNG at Demarc and Ventura using the ICE trading platform.

Houston Texas

Performed nomination and confirmations for Houston Pipeline. Nominate on offsystem and Joint Venture pipelines and submit 3rd party transports on offsystem pipes. Perform daily imbalance checks on shipper volumes. Work closely with Gas Control and trading on pipeline issues.

Houston, Texas Area

Performed nomination and confirmations for Houston Pipeline. Nominate on offsystem and Joint Venture pipelines and submit 3rd party transports on offsystem pipes. Perform daily imbalance checks on shipper volumes. Work closely with Gas Control and trading on pipeline issues.

Omaha Nebraska

Performed daily transportation capacity scheduling for Northern Border Pipeline ensuring that all tariff prescribed priorities are followed and system throughput is maximized. Tracked shipper imbalances and scheduled make up when needed. Trained new shippers on how to use the online nomination system. Monitored shipper nominations to insure maximization of their contracts. Inputted nominations in the Northern Border CNSS system for shippers that experience Computer problems.Maintain ongoing communications with Northern Border's customers regarding matters affecting the way services are nominated and scheduled. Work with the customer to resolve any conflicts or discrepancies that may arise. Held training sessions with new and current shippers on changes to Northern Borders Nomination system. Held Orientation sessions with new interconnecting pipelines and LDC with the “The Chicago Project”, on the conformation processs with NBPL. Have built a strong business relationship with both the Canadian and US Midwest shippers and pipelines.Facilitated the development meetings for the new Northern Plains disaster recovery location in Brookings S.D. Continual refinement of the scheduling process and its reports to meet GISB requirements. Continually looking at procedural changes to equalize nominations on the system for all shippers. Supplied scheduling information for building of the new CNSS system and Internet nominations system. Update outage information and various files found on the Northern Border Bulletin Board system.

Houston Texas

Monitored and controlled the operations of the Northern Border Pipeline System Via supervisory and data acquisition system (SCADA). Started and stopped units opened and closed valves all remotely up and down the system from our Omaha Office.Monitor pressures, Linepack, receipts, Deliveries and station operations to ensure safe transport of gas volumes in accordance with Company and DOT requirements.Made decisions regarding efficient use of horsepower with emphasis on fuel conservation.Maintained communication with other Enron and interconnecting companies' Gas control center, issuing volume and pressure set points where applicable, and documenting the same.Communicated with field operations personnel to keep abreast of situations requiring action or assistance

Beatrice Nebraska

Operated and maintained mainline compressor units and piping in the plant and in the field. Participated in overhauls on vertical, Jet and horizontal compressor units. Traveled with overhaul crews to other plants for emergency repairs. Worked on pipeline line lowering projects out in the field. Helped the Cathotic techs in several projects in corrosion control. Was the lead in all plant and pipeline sandblasting and painting projects. Performed required ESD tests and disaster recovery simulations. Was safty corrdinator for 2 years.

Associate'S Degree, Business/Commerce, General

Business Administration And Management, General