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19Q3base Database Now Available!

The 19Q3base quarterly GPCM database has been loaded to the RBAC website for download. Highlights of 19Q3base: Henry Hub Henry Hub price level is lower overall due to: Higher Supply Outlooks for Permian and Haynesville shale in close proximity to Henry Hub Lower LNG export forecast in the 2022-2040 time period. Henry Hub Price Forecast […]

GPCM version 11.0.3 Now Available!

RBAC is proud to announce the release of GPCM 11.0.3. The release will include several important improvements: The Pipeline Builder has been redesigned in new tabs and grids, and includes a new section that the user can use to make changes to the Pipe State Link model for computing the Cross Border Flow reports. The […]

RBAC’s 2019 Summer Gas Modeling Internship Program

The entire staff at RBAC, Inc. congratulates Chong Wang on starting his Ph.D. program in Economics.  Chong along with fellow graduate students Birdy Chen and Jiaxin Yang have been participating in RBAC’s 2019 Summer Gas Modeling Internship Program in the Economics department at the University of Texas at Austin.  They have been working with Dr. […]

GPCM version 11.0.2 Now Available!

RBAC is proud to announce the release of GPCM 11.0.2. The release will include several important improvements: GPCM Parallel now allows users to run more scenarios when database size permits. The first release of GPCM that allowed running in Parallel was designed to only allow one scenario in a database, this feature has been updated […]

19Q2base Database Now Available!

The 19Q2base quarterly GPCM database has been loaded to the RBAC website for download. Please note that you will find 2 documents on the RBAC website ready for download rather than one – 1st) 19Q2base Quarterly Documentation and 2nd) the beginnings of a new GPCM User Manual that contains information that was previously in our […]

19Q1base Database Now Available!

The 19Q1base quarterly GPCM database has been loaded to the RBAC website for download. Please note that you will find 2 documents on the RBAC website ready for download rather than one – 1st) 19Q1base Quarterly Documentation which has more graphs and more comparisons to the previous quarter, and 2nd) the beginnings of a new […]

GPCM version 11.0.0 Now Available!

RBAC is proud to announce the release of GPCM 11.0.0. The release will include a number of enhancements: GPCM 11 runs scenarios and batches in parallel threads. This allows GPCM 11 to run individual scenarios many times faster than GPCM 10, while producing comparable, and in most cases identical results. For Batch runs, scenarios can […]

Gazprom’s Hard Choices are Europe’s Too

Houston, Texas, April 5, 2019 – In the April 1, 2019 newsletter article “Gazprom Faces Hard Choices:  Naftogaz Ukrainy”, Natural Gas World’s Editor in Chief, William Powell, quoted Andrei Kobolev, CEO of the integrated Ukrainian monopoly Naftogaz, as follows: “Russian gas pipeline monopoly Gazprom will not manage to complete Nord Stream 2 by the start […]

18Q4base Database Now Available!

The 18Q4base quarterly GPCM database has been loaded to the RBAC website for download. Please note that in response to feedback from our customers at our Annual GPCM User Conference in November 2018, we have begun the process to update the way we prepare our Quarterly Documentation. You will find 2 documents on the RBAC […]

RBAC’s Role in Bringing Energy to a Billion People Still in the Dark

Photo by Tope. A Asokere on Unsplash “The mission of RBAC is to contribute to the prosperity of mankind through improvements in the quality and ethics of economic decisions made by the energy industry. This, in turn, will increase the availability of affordable energy throughout the world, while still allowing for profitability of those projects […]