Lacima Storage Application

Whether contemplating the purchase or sale of a storage asset, upgrading a facility, or needing to make optimal operational decisions, Lacima's gas storage application helps you to determine your storage assets' value with greater accuracy and optimize the portfolio in order to generate profits.

• Greater accuracy in valuations with advanced single and multi factor models
• Value a portfolio at once with a holistic view of reporting on optimal strategies
• Analyze storage portfolio information in detail
• Visualize distributions of cash flows, storage levels, injections and withdrawals out of the optimization
• Obtain a comprehensive range of results to facilitate decision-making
• Capture a wide range of parameters, especially with respect to physical assets
• Achieve auditability to be compliant with international regulatory standards
• Access wide ranging risk metrics such as earnings at risk, profit at risk and hedge analysis in an instant through Lacima riskAnalytics

Trading strategies supported:

• Extrinsic
• Intrinsic
• Rolling intrinsic
• Optimal spot

• Maximum injection/withdrawal rates
• Ratchets (inventory-dependent injection/withdrawal rates)
• Fixed injection and withdrawal costs
• Proportional costs
• Initial and final capacity constraints
• Required reserves
• Intermediate capacity constraints
• Storage start and end dates
• Total storage capacity and current capacity level

• Distributions of gas injection and withdrawal levels
• Scenario analysis yielding injection / withdrawal / cost / revenue / profit outcomes
• Sensitivity analysis including delta for hedging
• Critical prices at which to make decisions around gas purchase/sale
• Distribution of possible outcomes on optimal decisions
• Optimal daily decision reports