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BG Group Project

Real time system for Natural Gas production, tracking and trading.

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BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom, with operations in 25 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.

They required a real time Trading Portal for the spot price gas market with a back-office system to track the gas production sites and feed into their reporting division.

Highlights

GUI

  • Trading portal with dynamic real time updates running on large format Screens in the Trading Hall.

  • Desktop and Mobile Trading workstation GUI.

Security

  • Security review of the system to access risks.

  • Integration into the companies LDAP Security system.

Per Site adapters for each producers’s own gas production system.

  • A SOAP API allowed each country to easily connect their own bespoke system into the Backend API.

Data Storage

  • An Oracle streaming database system utilising Change Data Capture ( CDC ) for real time updates to all systems in the HUB.

Reporting

  • Integration into their internal Reporting systems with a Custom data mapper to bridge each sites data structures into the backend system.