Natural Gas 8.1 Certification (ACP-NG) PDF Print E-mail

Allegro-University-LogoThe Allegro Natural Gas certification assesses your ability to utilize Allegro software to solve real-world business situations/scenarios involving natural gas.

Exam Number: NG999.1 Natural Gas Certification 8.1
Exam Price: $375 USD
Exam Registration: contact training@allegrodev.com
Duration: 4 hours
Format: Hands on using personalized testing database
Number of Questions: 15 scenarios with 10 multiple choice questions
Passing Score: 80%

Recommended Training and Preparation

The scenarios in this certification assume you have experience in either implementing or using Allegro 8 for natural gas.

(all course version 8.0 unless otherwise noted)

NG201 Contract

In this course, is designed to be the first course a natural gas professional should take. Participants will first learn how to navigate the Allegro UI as well as how to use the Contracts component to capture and manage all natural gas contract-related information throughout the entire contract management lifecycle. Participants will learn how to:

  • Navigate the Allegro Application
  • Create counterparties
  • Create contracts
  • Perform contract approvals
  • Manage contract changes and amendments
  • Configure key contract parameters
Duration: 70 minutes
NG202 Price

This course explains the setup and use of index pricing including composite indexes. After completing this course, the participant will be able to:

  • Capture a price index
  • Capture price values for
    • Current indexes
    • Forward indexes
    • Option indexes
  • Configure a composite index
  • Configure an index for services
Duration: 25 minutes
NG203 Trade Execution

This course will give participants the knowledge and skills they need to capture natural gas deals. Participants will learn how to:

  • Capture physical gas deals
  • Approve, confirm and generate confirmation for a trade
  • Capture a gas retail trade
  • Capture a option trade
  • Capture a transmission reservation trade
  • Configure trade parameters
Duration: 80 minutes
NG301.1 Natural Gas 8.1

This course reviews 8.1 version of NG and provides participants with the skills necessary to set up transmission pipelines, points, interconnects, and transportation services, fees, losses and rates. In addition, Schedulers will learn how to match supply and market transactions as well as make physical movements of gas. Schedulers will learn how to manage imbalances, actualize volumes and analyze counterparty performance via comparative position reports.

  • Create natural gas pipelines
  • Assign pipeline services and rates
  • Create a service contract
  • Create an imbalance contract
  • Perform gas scheduling
  • Set up Gas storage Management
  • Create Storage Plans
  • Capture pipeline confirmations
  • Calculate imbalances

Version: 8.1
Duration: 80 minutes

NG401 Settlement

This course provides an overview of how to accurately settle and invoice natural gas transactions. Participants learn how to

  • Setup Settlement parameters
  • Validate and confirm settlement records
  • Generate and analyze accruals and create tax rates
  • Manage and monitor receipt and payment of vendor invoices
  • Receive customer invoices and to path outstanding balances
Duration: 90 minutes

 

Exam topics

Contracts

  • Create counterparty
  • Create contract (physical natural gas)

Natural Gas

  • Create a natural gas pipeline
  • Attaching services
  • Attaching fees
  • Adding rates to fees
  • creating zones
  • creating transportation contracts
  • adding imbalance contracts
  • creating interconnects
  • Creating a storage contract and generating a storage plan
  • Create storage limits with ratchets
  • Factoring pipeline maintenance
  • Capturing buy and sale deals
  • Using rank positions for scheduling
  • Utilizing Event based Park and Loan Scheduling
  • Pathing, nominating and confirming pipeline noms
  • Create imbalance positions and generating imbalance trades
  • Releasing capacity back to the pipeline
  • Capturing pipeline statements
  • Updating measurement quantities
  • Actualizing a pipeline statement

Settlement

  • Using Process Manager to generate settlement transactions
  • Resolve contract, pricing, quantity issues
  • Confirm settlement validation
  • Create accounts payable invoice
  • Create accounts receivable invoice