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Now that the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Form 176 Annual Report of Natural Gas Supply and Disposition results for 2016 has been released, APGA has updated its online benchmarking program with the latest data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and EIA. The benchmarking program allows APGA members to compare themselves against peers in over 100 different metrics, including operational, financial, customer and more.

Operational benchmarks include the number of leaks per mile of main or per service line by cause, the number of excavation leaks and damages per 1,000 locate tickets and percent unaccounted for gas. Customer benchmarks include the average dollar per MCF by customer category, MCF sales per customer and revenue per customer. Data for the benchmarks is taken from publicly-available data published by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s Distribution Annual Reports (Form 7100.1-1) and EIA Form 176, supplemented by data from APGA surveys. Members can compare themselves with the average of over 1,500 distribution systems in the database or to a self-selected peer group of systems. For example, a member could choose to compare just with other systems in the same state, or other municipal systems in the state, or with other APGA member municipal systems in the state. The benchmarking program can be found under the Resources tab at www.apga.org.

For questions on this article, please contact John Erickson of APGA staff by phone at 202-464-0834 or by email at jerickson@apga.org.