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APGA Benchmarking Program Now Includes 2017 Data

By John Erickson posted 10-18-2018 11:21 AM

  
Now that the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Form 176 Annual Report of Natural Gas Supply and Disposition results for 2017 have 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 $/MCF by customer category, MCF sales per customer and revenue per customer. Data for the benchmarks is taken from publicly-available data published by PHMSA’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 its results with just other systems in the same state, or other municipal systems in the state, with other APGA member municipal systems in the state or with other systems of a similar size. In addition to benchmarking data for 2017, the APGA benchmarking program includes comparable data for calendar years 2012 through 2016. The benchmarking program can be found under the Resources tab at www.apga.org.

Matt Stennett of Middle Tennessee Natural Gas District and chairman of the benchmarking task group will discuss and demonstrate the benchmarking program during the APGA Operations Conference in Chattanooga, Tenn., this coming October 29-31. Information about the Operations Conference can be found at www.apga.org/Chattanooga2018.
We encourage you to check out the benchmarking program. Consultants charge hundreds or thousands of dollars for information that is available for free to APGA members.

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.

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