Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) is one of the largest Natural Gas Pipeline companies in North America. CPG first focused their EA on improving pipeline compression reliability with their “Enterprise Reliability” program presented at several prior UCs. CPGs next focus is on optimizing the natural gas storage with advanced demand forecasting and gas quality management to support proactive and predictive analytics to guide the storage inject/withdrawal decisions to optimize their natural gas value chain. Key to this strategic initiative is the use of the PI System 2015 PI AF based advanced analytics, future data, and integrators to demand forecasting models.
Year: 2015

As a result of domestic natural gas production development utilizing advanced technology, extensive US market expansion continues to accelerate creating stable and historic low gas pricing. For the first time ever, natural gas rivals coal as the dominant fuel source for power generation in North America. In order to compete at a high level and meet the demands of this dynamic environment, Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) must operate safely and efficiently with a high degree of reliability each and every day. One step in improving the reliability of our system is the Enterprise Agreement with OSIsoft. The CPG Enterprise Analytics system leverages our agreement with OSI and the suite of leading technology tools and support. In conjunction with tools from Microsoft and Transpara, we are analyzing real time data to enable the execution of proactive actions intended to avoid a negative event entirely or minimize the impact of such an event. Having the capability to detect these potential failures early provides tremendous value to CPG and gives leaders the ability to develop action plans around potential failures, resulting in reduced downtime and repair costs. Our suite of tools provides a level of capability and awareness never before seen at CPG. This new flexibility to access data from the office or remotely through mobile devices will improve response time and productivity by turning compression asset data into targeted actions.
Year: 2013

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Columbia Pipeline Group owns and operates a compression fleet of over 1 million horsepower, and 15,000 miles of strategically located interstate natural gas pipelines, integrated with one of the largest underground storage systems in North America. From the Gulf Coast to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, our systems connect premium natural gas supplies with some of the nation's strongest energy markets, serving customers in 16 states. More than one trillion cubic feet of natural gas flows through our pipeline and storage systems each year, providing competitively priced, clean energy for millions of homes, businesses and industries.As a gas transmission and storage operator we are faced with many industry challenges: Columbia Pipeline Group intends to make the best use of available technology. In 2011, Columbia Pipeline Group signed its first Enterprise Agreement with OSIsoft to allow for the utilization of leading technology. The OSIsoft PI System infrastructure is a key component of Columbia's Compression Enterprise Analytics solution, and is currently planning to expand to supporting gas quality, measurement, operational field surveillance, and storage assets.Through the Enterprise Analytics solution, CPG has averted potential failures across its system utilizing Real Time Analytics and situational awareness dashboards. In 2016, we developed new, enhanced algorithms utilizing Statistical Quality Control (SQC) to detect anomalies. Utilizing data history from sensors on our fleet, we can calculate the mean (average) and the standard deviation (sigma) to determine an anomaly threshold, well in advance of an alarm or shutdown preventing an unplanned event. We are currently applying and testing this technique to thousands of sensors on our compression fleet. As part of Reliability 3.0, we are working to add Gas Quality and filter separators into our analytics and notification monitoring program. In addition to continuous improvement of our algorithms, we are also evaluating multi-variate approaches to anomaly detection, which will allow us to detect anomalies across multiple correlated sensors. We are extremely excited over the results observed in 3.0, with numerous failure avoidance events this year. These additional enhancements and insight presents the next steps in CPG's Path to Premier, improving operational excellence through continuous learning with the PI System and ESRI.
Year: 2016

For Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) to be the industry leader in customer service and to meet the demands of our extremely competitive industry, we must operate safely and efficiently with a high degree of reliability. CPG serves some of the nation’s highest-value energy markets via our natural gas transmission and storage facilities. The interstate pipeline extends 15,000 miles and spans 16 states with approximately 1.1 million horsepower of compression housed in over 100 stations. At Columbia Pipeline Group, the OSIsoft Enterprise Agreement allows for utilization of leading technology to make Big Data decisions. We are analyzing real time data to prevent facility events through application of OSIsoft, Microsoft, and Transpara tools with an estimated failure avoidance savings of approximately $2 million to date. Analysis and monitoring of data allowed CPG to recently weather some of the coldest delivery days in 30 years. On January 6 and 7, CPG’s throughput ranked in the top five all-time highest peak days since 1981. While Northeast demand was hitting record levels during the polar vortex, Columbia Pipeline Group’s assets performed reliably without natural gas delivery interruptions. One customer voiced appreciation, “I just wanted to thank everyone at CPG for helping us serve our customers reliably and safely through some of the most severe conditions we’re experienced in years, maybe decades”. Recent events prove that possessing the capability to detect potential failures early provides tremendous value to not only CPG, but also our customers and the environment.
Year: 2014

TransCanada’s US Gas division, having realized significant value on its Eastern US rotating equipment fleet through a mature Enterprise Analytics program, looked to increase adoption of Real Time analytics with a focus on: o Expansion of failure avoidance analytics throughout TransCanada’s US Gas rotating equipment fleet o Finding value in a rich set of data assets for other areas of the TransCanada business including: Gas Quality, Gas Measurement, Commercial, and Environmental. TransCanada, leveraging the resources available through their Enterprise Agreement, partnered with OSISoft to review, design, and implement an expanded and modernized IT infrastructure. This platform, built using IT best practices and the latest OSISoft products (PI AF 2017 and PI Vision) on a converged architecture, has positioned TransCanada to meet its business objectives head on. Fully virtualized and easily expandable, this IT infrastructure will allow TransCanada to be nimble in the inclusion of new assets and new use cases for their Enterprise Analytics program. TransCanada will be sharing details on their business challenges, the design of a new converged IT infrastructure, and modernizations of the PI system.
Year: 2017