Insights
The Power of Collaboration
Through GTA’s member collaboration, a company combined its information and expertise with other experts’ for efficient training and development. Expertise ≠ Effective Teaching Being an expert does not automatically make you a great teacher. Prior to joining GTA,...
Selecting the Right Training for You
Training employees can be a large endeavor, and selecting the right training is integral to making the program successful. Whether you’re implementing training company-wide or just for your team, evaluating based on your situation is important. Not all training...
A Decade of Development
A midstream company applied GTA’s trusted and verified training to drive value through addressing staff turnover and knowledge gaps. The Impact of Turnover Large waves of turnover can lead to substantial knowledge and skills gaps. One of two things can...
Effective Training: Bringing Impact to Implementation
A crucial and common aspect of employee development is continuous training. Through continuous training, benefits such as increased employee confidence, reduced knowledge gaps, and diminished errors can be realized. However, 1 in 2 companies in the U.S. do not have...
From Leakage to Learning
In 2018, a large midstream energy company was able to decrease its lost and unaccounted for (LAUF) gas by implementing GTA training. Here’s how. The Problem The highest level of evaluating an organization's measurement function is through lost and...
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Behind the Training
Value of Lost and Unaccounted For (LAUF)
The value of reducing and controlling Lost and Unaccounted For (LAUF) Gas is not necessarily understood or viewed the same way across the organization.
This webinar sponsored by the Gas Training Association and hosted by Ernie Hauser, President of C-Smart Analytics, explains these different perspectives, and how LAUF is controlled from design to operations. The system balance is typically used as the top level KPI for LAUF, but interpreting system balance data is challenging and, in many cases, counterintuitive. This video also introduces basic concepts of the system balance KPI and how it can and cannot be used to identify measurement errors. The video ends by introducing the idea that the continuous meter level diagnostic data review finds errors faster and more accurately.