The enterprise friction point
Pipeline dispatchers and trading back-office analysts spent up to 14 business days at month-end manually reconciling SCADA meter flow tickets, electronic nomination schedules, and PDF custody transfer statements against OpenLink Endur deal sheets. Unidentified volume variances resulted in shipper billing disputes, tariff penalty write-offs, and delayed cash collections.
Transformation objectives
- Reconcile hourly SCADA meter telemetry against electronic shipper nominations automatically.
- Identify line pack pressure imbalances and meter calibration drift in real time.
- Match third-party pipeline custody transfer tickets against ETRM trade confirmations in under 60 seconds.
- Compress monthly commercial trade settlement cycles from 14 days to under 24 hours.
Discovery & architectural audit
Operational audit showed that over 85% of monthly billing discrepancies stemmed from minor meter timestamp discrepancies and uncoordinated mid-cycle nomination revisions that spreadsheets failed to flag until final invoice generation.
The Fortiv AI architecture
- 01
SCADA & ETRM Ingestion Engine: Automated connectors pulling flow computer volumes, gas chromatograph Btu assays, and trade contracts from ETRM ledgers.
- 02
Dynamic Imbalance Reconciliation Agent: Semantic reconciliation engine matching scheduled vs delivered volumes across all interconnect zones.
- 03
Layout-Aware Ticket OCR: Vision-language pipeline parsing PDF custody transfer statements, bills of lading, and interconnect statements.
- 04
Settlement Exception Workbench: Prioritized dashboard surfacing volume discrepancies with highlighted source meter tags for one-click resolution.
Verified audit outcomes
Post-deployment impact
- 14d → 24h
- Month-end trade settlement and shipper invoicing turnaround
- $740,000 Saved
- In avoided shipper dispute settlements and tariff penalty write-offs
- 100% Reconciled
- Across 80 interconnect points and 1,200 monthly shipper contracts
- 0 Audit Flags
- Under FERC regulatory tariff compliance examination
Architectural lessons learned
Automated mid-month nomination variance alerts prevent small hourly drift from compounding into major month-end billing disputes.
Side-by-side visual reconciliation of PDF meter tickets against ETRM ledgers accelerates back-office approvals by 80%.
Future scale roadmap
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