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    Line Pack Presentation - Dec 2018

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    Linepack refers to the total volume of gas contained within a pipeline system. It is measured in millions of cubic meters and considers the volume at standard atmospheric pressure. Linepack is important for the physical operation of the pipeline network. It varies seasonally, with higher levels in winter due to higher demand and pressure drops. Managing transitions between different linepack levels requires balancing safety, efficiency and minimizing market impacts.

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    Line Pack Presentation - Dec 2018

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    Linepack refers to the total volume of gas contained within a pipeline system. It is measured in millions of cubic meters and considers the volume at standard atmospheric pressure. Linepack is important for the physical operation of the pipeline network. It varies seasonally, with higher levels in winter due to higher demand and pressure drops. Managing transitions between different linepack levels requires balancing safety, efficiency and minimizing market impacts.

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    Linepack refers to the total volume of gas contained within a pipeline system. It is measured in millions of cubic meters and considers the volume at standard atmospheric pressure. Linepack is important for the physical operation of the pipeline network. It varies seasonally, with higher levels in winter due to higher demand and pressure drops. Managing transitions between different linepack levels requires balancing safety, efficiency and minimizing market impacts.

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    Linepack refers to the total volume of gas contained within a pipeline system. It is measured in millions of cubic meters and considers the volume at standard atmospheric pressure. Linepack is important for the physical operation of the pipeline network. It varies seasonally, with higher levels in winter due to higher demand and pressure drops. Managing transitions between different linepack levels requires balancing safety, efficiency and minimizing market impacts.

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    What is Linepack?

    Linepack describes the total of volume of gas contained


    within the system. The methodology for calculating actual
    linepack is set out in our Transporters License and is
    publicly available.

    Higher pressure
    Linepack considers only volume and is measured in millions and/or higher
    of cubic meters, which is the volume the gas would cover at compressibility =
    standard atmospheric pressure. higher linepack

    Same pressure but increasing compressibility


    More molecules in the same space

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    Physical considerations for Linepack

    As linepack is analogous to average pressure across the network, it is key to


    the physical operation of the network.

    Higher entry risk


    Increasing Linepack

    but greater
    flexibility

    Lower entry risk


    but reduced
    flexibility

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    Seasonal Variation in Linepack

    Lower in the summer, higher in the winter With winter comes:


    • Higher demands
    Winter Summer Winter • Changing diurnal demand
    profiles
    • Increased pressure drops
    • Larger daily linepack swings

    To protect exit pressures we


    must maximise flexibility of
    Linepack Demand the NTS

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    Summer Linepack
    100 Typical Pressure Drop Context?
    80
    Maximum flow is
    achieved when one end
    60
    of a pipe is at its max
    40 pressure and the other
    Winter Summer end is at its minimum.

    Lower demands result in: The range of maximum


    • Lower pressure drops to minimum pressures
    • Lower natural flow rates can be as high as 45 bar
    in the winter but only
    • Compression to manage high entry flows
    around 20 bar in the
    summer.
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    Winter Linepack
    550 Instantaneous Demand over the Day Context?
    350
    The differential
    between supply and
    150 demand at tea time on
    Winter Summer a cold winters can
    result in as much as 5
    High demands and strong diurnal profile results in: mcm being lost from
    • Large pressure drops linepack every hour.
    • Large linepack swings This is enough gas to
    • Lower extremity pressure due to frictional losses supply 4000
    households for a year!
    • Requirement to maintain higher pressures in the
    middle of the network

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    Manging the transition

    Transitions • Requires PCLP to be


    <2.8 mcm different from OLP
    Desired End
    Position • Avoid sharp changes
    within an ‘efficiency’ zone
    • Large transitions could
    be required if stock level
    has drifted over a period
    D D-1 D-2 D-3 D-4 of days
    Start Position • Balance safety, efficiency
    and minimise entry into
    market

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    Transparency
    Trading behaviour
    Very simply when we buy gas we need more linepack, when
    we sell gas we need less linepack. This is normally because
    we are transitioning between desired linepack regions (for
    efficiency) or need to arrest a steady increase or decline in
    linepack.
    But how much more/less gas do you need?
    We don’t publish ‘target’ as to minimise our influence in the
    market but….
    • Trends on OLP, PLCP and Demand can give an indication
    • Just because PCLP is largely different to OLP doesn’t
    indicate a trade
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