RBAC's GPCM Viewpoints On Natural Gas™
GPCM Viewpoints™ is a new product targeted to companies and individuals who do not require the in house forecasting capabilities of the GPCM model. Nonetheless, the increasing sophistication of the industry creates more demand on any forecast and the ability to drill down into greater detail. GPCM provides that level of detail as well as analysis of industry trends and greater transparency in its forecast then has ever been available anywhere else outside of GPCM Users.
GPCM Viewpoints™ consists of forecasts of monthly North American supply, demand, transportation, storage, and price of natural gas over a time horizon of from five to twenty-five years into the future. These forecasts are produced by RBAC’s veteran staff of energy-savvy consultants and researchers using the industry standard GPCM™ North American Natural Gas Market Forecasting System. More specifically, the product consists of forecasts for several distinct scenarios, i.e. alternative likely or possible futures, as defined by explicit assumptions for future weather, economic growth, world oil price, and energy industry development. 
Viewpoints clients have access to a number of reports containing both summary and detail information for each scenario.
Typical Scenarios
· a mid-range Henry Hub price scenario, based on conservative estimates of economic growth, 30 year average weather, mid-range world oil prices, continuation of recent trends in regional production, and best guess estimates of LNG availability to North America;
· a high price scenario, based on more optimistic economic growth, higher than normal CDD and HDD, higher world oil prices, slower growth in regional production, and less availability of LNG;
· a low price scenario, based on slower economic growth, seasonally milder temperatures, lower world oil prices, higher growth in regional production, and more availability of LNG.
Other Scenarios
RBAC will produce from time to time alternative scenarios to highlight the potential effects of specific projects, events, or conditions which would be of interest to the industry. GPCM Viewpoints licensees may also request customized scenarios based on their own assumptions about economic growth, weather, world oil prices, production capacity, LNG availability, new infrastructure projects which would affect natural gas supply, demand, or deliverability in North America. Such scenarios would be available only to the customer requesting them.
For additional information about GPCM Viewpoints, please contact James Brooks, Dir. of Business Development at 818-784-5400.