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Midstream IT Projects

Completed Faster, Better and Cheaper

FASTER
FBC accelerates projects by leveraging strong midstream acumen to ask better questions to identify complete requirements early in project to minimize later, unwanted surprises
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BETTER
FBC makes solutions better by creating thorough specifications, examples and tests that accommodate boundary scenarios, not just happy paths
CHEAPER
FBC minimizes project cost by eliminating non-value-add costs inherent to larger consultancies, fulfilling multiple project roles simultaneously and accelerating project completion
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Our Core Services

Project Management

Project Management

We lead projects, not merely manage/report, towards accomplishing the business objective on time and within budget

Systems Analysis

Systems Analysis

We create developer-friendly specifications such as requirements, use cases, process flows, wireframes and pseudocode

Testing

Testing

We provide comprehensive quality assurance services from planning to script creation to execution to facilitation of user acceptance test

Scrum Master

Scrum Master

We coach, mentor and facilitate project delivery within Agile frameworks for teams of developers, analysts and users

FBC fills gaps

FBC is rigid neither to these roles nor the deliverables we create

FBC will play whatever role(s) are needed and create whatever deliverable(s) are needed in order to accomplish the business objective

Midstream Business Experience

Revenue Accounting

Revenue Accounting

Significant experience building solutions that maintain customer inventory, allocate gain/loss and calculate invoice charges according to tariffs and contractual terms.

Scheduling

Scheduling

Significant experience building solutions that estimate batch arrival times, tank storage levels and customer inventory levels.

Customer Portals

Customer Portals

Significant experience building solutions that facilitate customer self-service to nominations, tickets, schedules, broadcast alerts and inventory statements and invoices.

Proration

Proration

Significant experience building solutions that cut nominations to match pipeline capacity when business rules are more complex than can be automated in a spreadsheet.

Pipeline Integrity

Pipeline Integrity

Experience building solutions that estimate drain out volume after rupture and other solutions that integrate ILI data, SCADA data, CIS data, repair data and HCA data to better assess threats.

Measurement

Measurement

Experience interfacing with systems that calculate GSV, NSV and balance measurement areas.

Differentiators

Midstream Acumen

Midstream Business Acumen

15 years. 5 Pipeline & Terminal Operators.

Noms-to-Cash Process & System Expertise

FBC Midstream Experience Benefits Clients

1 Staff, Multiple Roles

Leader & Individual Contributor

FBC typically acts an individual contributer and a leader/manager, balancing both roles based upon project size

No Overhead

Cost

As a truly independent consultant, FBC's minimal overhead affords clients a lower rate than comparable onshore staff from larger service providers

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