RBAC Inc., Energy Market Simulation Systems

A Wind from the Northeast: Major Changes Coming in Gas Market Pricing

Washington D.C., August 22, 2012 – “In 2011, annual gas production in the Appalachian Basin tested 2 Tcf, and is approaching 3 Tcf in 2012. This has substantially reduced the call on Gulf Coast and Western Canada gas production by the Northeast states,” says Dr. Thomas J. Woods, Senior Consultant of RBAC, Inc. In its […]

New Natural Gas Infrastructure: How Much and Where?

The natural gas industry finds itself in a new era of natural gas pipeline development. Shale gas has created a new paradigm. Some shale production has been developed with minimal impact to the interstate pipeline grid because of its location near large legacy pipelines. So the biggest activity in these instances has to do with […]

Allocation of Natural Gas in Time of Shortage:

A Mathematical Programming Model of the Production, Transmission, and Demand for Natural Gas under Federal Power Commission Regulation Dr. Robert E. Brooks, RBAC, Inc. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1975 Abstract The purpose of this study […]

Other Publications by RBAC Inc.

“Optimizing Complex Natural Gas Models”, presented at the INFORMS National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 1995 “GRIDNET Natural Gas Operations Optimizing System”, with C.P. Neill, presented at the ORSA / TIMS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 1991 “The TENRAC Gas Pipeline Competition Model,” in Analytic Techniques for Energy Planning, B. Lev, F.H. Murphy, J.A. Bloom […]