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LINK® System Customer Interface

Linked Activities and Cross Pipeline

Nominations

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Linked Activity • Provides the ability to nominate across Enbridge Inc.’s pipeline’s and storage facilities, or between

mainline and laterals within a pipeline. More specifically, multiple combinations of activities and transaction types can be linked where two Enbridge Inc. business units have an Interconnect Point, Head of Lateral Point, Storage Point, or In-Line Transfer Point based on the Dn Name/Dn K or Up Name/Up K matching the activity to be connected.

• If a nomination is created for any of the connected activities, the system will auto generate nominations for the other activities.

• All existing contractual limitations will be enforced on the auto generated nominations.

• The nomination quantity will match between all connected activities and any change in quantity will be propagated through the entire chain. This change could be manual by the end user, a reduction by a confirming party, a scheduling reduction, or another on-line or batch reduction.

• If a timely nomination is part of a Linked Activity, and one side of the nomination is reduced, all nominations will be reduced by an equal amount adjusted for fuel.

• If any nomination is intraday, and any one of the matching pieces is not confirmed within four hours, all pieces of the Linked Activity will not be scheduled.

• If any nominations need manual approval from SET, no nomination in that Linked Activity will be scheduled until the manual approval is done.

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Linked Activity Location

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To view and create

Linked Activities, the

Linked Activity screen is

used. The Linked

Activity screen is located

under the “Related

Screens” dropdown from

the “Nomination” screen.

Simply enter a contract

you want to connect in a

Linked Activity in the

“Svc Req K” field, add

the nomination dates in

the “Beg Date” and ‘End

Date” fields and then

select ‘Linked Activity”

from the “Related

Screens” dropdown.


Linked Activity (Within Business Unit)

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After selecting “Linked

Activity” from the

“Related Screen”

dropdown, the following

screen will be displayed.

For this contract, Linked

Activities have not been

entered as indicated by

the message in the

bottom left that states

“NO MATCHES

FOUND”. If existing

active Linked Activities

had been created the

screen would have

retrieved them.



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The “Beg Date”, “End Date”

and “Svc Req K” fields are

passed from the

“Nomination” screen and

represent the nominating

contract and dates. The

“Group Id” and “Active

Only” fields are filters used

to retrieve records based on

entered criteria. The “Group

Id” is the unique id that

represents a single Linked

Activity. The Linked

Activity, no matter how

many activities connected, is

one unit of work and is

identified in whole by the

“Group Id”. The “Active

Only” field, if checked, will

retrieve only active Linked

Activities.



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To create a Linked

Activity, the first step

is to click on the

“New” button. This

will create a blank row

in the data grid. For

each activity you want

to link, a new row

must be added.



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After the blank rows

have been added, the

“Group Id” will default

to 0. However, once

submitted, the “Group

Id” will be updated to a

number that uniquely

identifies the Linked

Activity. The next

column, “Seq Nbr”,

identifies the order in

which the activities are

connected. So, the first

activity in the link will be

labeled 1, the second

activity in the link will be

2 and the last activity in

the link will be 3.



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After “Seq Nbr”, the “Svc

Req K” and “Act Cd” must

be entered in to identify the

activity you are trying to

link. Please note that,

activities can only be linked

at balancing points, so the

system will validate that the

activity has a Head of

Lateral, Storage Point, or In-

Line Transfer Point on the

correct side of the

transaction.

Once the activity code has

been entered, the “Rec Loc

Prop” and “Del Loc Prop”

fields will be populated from

the activity chosen.



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The last few fields are

defaulted but can be updated

if needed. The ‘TT” field

will default to “01” which

indicates current business.

However, the “01” can be

updated based on the type of

transaction you are trying to

create. Also, the group dates

default to the current date

and 01/01/2200 respectively.

Both of these date fields can

be changed based on when

you want the Linked Activity

activated. Lastly, if “Sync

Rank” is checked, rankings

will be synchronized through

the entire Linked Activity

and any change in rankings

will be propagated through

the entire chain.



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After the first activity has

been added to the group,

enter the next activity in the

sequence that you want to be

linked. These activities are

added the exact same way as

the first but using different

contracts and activity codes.

Please note the system will

validate that the “Dn K”/“Dn

Name” matches the

nominating contract for the

next activity connected and

that the ‘Up K”/ “Up Name”

matches the preceding

activity connected.



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When all of the activities have been added, the next step is to press “Submit”. An accepted message will appear in

the lower left-hand corner if successful.

Please note that once submitted activities cannot be added or removed from the group. In addition, an activity and

transaction type combination cannot be used in multiple groups across the same date range. To use them in multiple

groups, the package id field should be used to create a new activity.

After the Linked Activity setup is completed, the customer can nominate on any of the activities in the group and

nominations will be auto generated for the other activities for the nominated date range. Auto-generation of

nominations will occur immediately after one of the Linked nominations is updated and the nomination “Submit”

button is pressed



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Activating and

deactivating Linked

Activities is simply a

matter of changing the

‘Beg Date” and “End

Date” of the particular

group that represents the

Linked Activity. The

Linked Activity is only

active for the date range

provided.



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To determine if a nomination

is part of a Linked Activity

from the ‘Nomination

Screen” scroll to the very

end of the grid using the

scroll bar at the bottom of

the screen and view the “Lnk

Act” column for that

nomination. If the “Lnk

Act” indicator is checked

then the nomination in

linked. If the indicator is

blank the nomination is not

linked at this time. Please

note that you can move this

column by customizing its

placement in the nomination

grid.



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To view nomination

quantities for the entire

Linked Activity, use the

Linked Activity Detail

screen. This screen provides

a detailed view of the entire

Linked Activity by showing

the requested quantities,

scheduled quantities and

reduction codes if any one of

the nominations were

reduced. From the Linked

Activity screen, highlight a

Linked Activity and then

select “Linked Activity

Detail” from the “Related

Screen” dropdown.


Linked Activity (Cross Pipeline)

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Following the same process as creating

Linked Activities, you can connect

activities across business units at SET

interconnect points.

To link the activity illustrated, Activity 1

from Egan contract 310681 would be

linked with Activity 2 from Texas Eastern

contract TRN101 at the interconnect point

45115/75332 and Activity 2 from Texas

Eastern contract TRN101 would be linked

with Activity 4 from Algonquin contract

TRN101 at the interconnect point

70087/00210, forming one unit of work

across business units. Creating a

nomination on any one of these activities

would auto generate nominations on each

business unit for all the other activities

joined.


Use the “New” button on the

“Linked Activity” screen to add

each one of the above individual

activities to the Linked Activity.

The screen can be accessed from

any business unit that is going to

be connected in the Linked

Activity.

The business unit needs to be

selected from the dropdown to

select the appropriate company

that is to be connected. The

Linked Activities must be entered

in sequence by the direction of

flow. In the example, the first

activity, sequence number 1 is on

Egan. The second activity,

sequence number 2 is on Texas

Eastern. The last activity,

sequence number 3 is on

Algonquin.


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Next, add the appropriate

contract and activity for each

business unit selected. The

system will validate that the

contract and activity added are

from the selected pipe and that

the correct side of the activity is a

SET Interconnect point.

In addition, the system will

validate that the “Dn K”/“Dn

Name” matches the nominating

contract for the next activity

connected and that the “Up K”/

“Up Name” matches the

preceding activity connected just

like creating a Linked Activity

within a business unit.


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To determine if the nomination has been

scheduled and balanced on each business unit, a

status field has been added to the “Nomination”

screen at the end of the grid called “CP Status” .

(Please note that you can use the “Grid

Preferences” functionality to customize the

placement of this column.)

The “CP Status” field can have the values “P”

(Pending) or “C” (Complete). The “CP Status”

field will be “P” if any of the nominations on any

business unit have not been scheduled or if the

nominations across business units have not been

forced balanced to the lowest volume.

The “CP Status” field will be “C” when all

nominations for the Linked Activity are

scheduled and balanced. The nominations will be

scheduled with the normal business unit batch

process and balanced at the end of every batch

run.

For continuous pipes (TE, AGT, MNUS) this

balancing will occur at the end of the timely and

hourly runs. For NAESB cycle pipes (ET, SV)

this balancing will occur at the end of each cycle.

For SESH, nominations will be balanced at the

timely, evening and hourly runs. Lastly, for

MNCA, EG, and MB intraday nominations are

manually approved by a SET account manger and

will not be balanced until this approval is

complete.


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Linked Activity List (Cross Pipeline)

• Texas Eastern

– Algonquin – 70087,71078,71210

– Egan – 75332

– Moss Bluff – 75773

– Southeast Supply Header – 75583

– East Tennessee – 71299,71298,76298

– Ozark Gas Transmission – 72365, 72848

• Algonquin

– Texas Eastern – 00210,00211,02210,00208

– Maritimes & Northeast U.S – 00215,01215

• Maritimes & Northeast U.S

– Maritimes & Northeast Canada – 30014,30012

– Algonquin – 30025,30035

• Maritimes & Northeast Canada

– Maritimes & Northeast U.S – 33019,33020

• Southeast Supply Header

– Texas Eastern – 83005,83105

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• East Tennessee

– Texas Eastern – 59329,59330,59299

– Saltville – 59766,59760,59777,59770

• Egan

– Texas Eastern – 45115

• Moss Bluff

– Texas Eastern – 45207

• Saltville

– East Tennessee – 44760,44766,44770,44777

• Ozark Gas Transmission

– Texas Eastern – 21003, 21024

– Ozark Gas Gathering – All interconnect points with OGG.

• Ozark Gas Gathering

– Ozark Gas Transmission – All interconnect points with OGT.

• Bobcat

– Texas Eastern - 45401

The following is a list of SET interconnects where Linked Activities across business units can be connected.

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