GrDF, a skill reservoir for GDF SUEZ`s international gas network

GrDF, a world
gas distribution leader
Supported by a world-wide group: GDF SUEZ, born from the merger of Gaz de
France and SUEZ groups in 2008, the largest utility in the world (Forbes, 2010),
with more than 150 years experience, present in 70 countries.
196,000
km of network,
the longest grid in Europe
9,500
LITUANIA
GERMANY
CANADA
SLOVAKIA
ROMANIA
FRANCE
RUSSIA
HUNGARY
TURKEY
MEXICO
PORTUGAL
municipalities
connected in France
ITALY
GREECE
CHINA
11,600
ISRAEL
employees
including 1,900 executives
QATAR
INDIA
11
million
customers
30 Bcm gas
distributed per year
700
million €
invested each year
THAILAND
BOLIVIA
INDONESIA
CHILE
Created in 2008, Gaz réseau distribution France (GrDF) is a gas distribution company, 100% subsidiary of
GDF SUEZ. GrDF performs daily its public service missions by managing the downstream gas network,
connecting and delivering gas to around 11 million customers (end-users) in France. GrDF designs, builds,
operates and maintains this grid in more than 9,500 cities while guaranteeing safety of people and property,
as well as quality of delivery.
Gas distribution in France has been a regulated activity since 2004, fully unbundled from supply activity.
URUGUAY
ARGENTINA
Worldwide, GDF SUEZ operates around 300,000 km of distribution networks
in 10 countries, to the benefit of 17 million end-consumers.
Distribution companies
within GDF SUEZ group
Our main references
in distribution services
Contact:
international@grdf.com
GrDF
6 rue Condorcet
75009 PARIS cedex - France
www.grdf.fr
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GrDF, a skill reservoir for
GDF SUEZ’s international
gas network
GrDF
A world leader in gas distribution
networking with you
GrDF brings its expertise and industry knowledge
In strategic consulting or technical assistance:
• Carry out In Depth Review
or Strategic Audit of your
organization or project
GrDF has a long and unique experience
in gas distribution. It has been building
and operating gas networks and
serving customers for 70 years in
France and developing partnerships
with gas companies worldwide.
Of course, safety is the priority of GrDF
and We assume is also Yours. We firmly
believe that being able to guarantee
safety for all parties goes to prove our employees’ commitment
to company’s performance and customers’ satisfaction, and is
part of our company’s reputation.
We manage industrial safety as a whole, in a comprehensive
approach, including working out accurate policies, setting up
appropriate methods, resources and organization, training
people, assessing performance and implementing return on
experience.
But GrDF is also deeply committed to all its stakeholders’
satisfaction. During the last 10 years, we have been re-engineering
the whole relationship between our company and suppliers,
end-customers, public authorities, local governments to comply
with the obligations arising from the gas market opening.
All these transformations over the years have been matched
to a very fast moving context and fostered a strong sense of
innovation.
In the following domains, according to a tailor-made approach:
GrDF promotes a global and integrated approach to the
development of gas distribution, which combines operational
excellence with economic and managerial efficiency.
Its scope of services allows us to support Your needs beyond the
limits of simple consultancy services.
We are able to partner You to deliver the highest level of project
and strategic support by tailoring solutions that address the
unique needs of diverse grid conditions and situations.
We look forward to networking with You soon and sharing our
visions of the future of gas.
Sandra Lagumina
GrDF CEO
Customer
focus &
experience
Industrial
safety
• Provide Returns
on Experience and Transfer
of Know-How
We believe that gas will play a key role in the future and that gas
companies need to think one step ahead. GrDF definitely intends
to support the ongoing “energy transition” by developing new
technologies to make gas industry and gas uses smarter.
GrDF: unique knowledge, expertise and means
implemented by 11,600 employees and 1,900 executives
Implementing
a comprehensive
approach of safety:
• risk management,
asset management,
technical data
management.
• construction,
day-to-day operation
and emergency
management.
• Assist Project Owners
• Draft Strategic
Orientations
A different
approach to
gas distribution
based on 3 core
competencies
• Suppliers / customers relations
management:
Gas transportation, meter reading and
energy calculation, billing, intervention on
customer installations.
• Stakeholders relations management:
Discussing rules and functioning of an
open market, and pricing of network
access and utilization.
Policy and process set-up
Operational organization
Project management
Training and professionalization
Assist in designing the policy, strategy and
organization process, or revising the existing
set-ups. Advise national authorities on the
setting-up of a regulatory framework.
Provide support by assessing current
performance of organisation, comparing it
to leading international practices, identifying
opportunities for improvement and assisting
in change implementation.
Support a project owner in defining and
formulating a project’s strategic goals and
orientations, and elaborating associated
technical specifications of material & IT
systems & functionalities.
Develop and organize to the benefit of
managers / technicians of a gas company
a set of theoretical classes and practical
exercises including all aspects of gas
distribution.
Some examples:
Some examples:
Some examples:
Some examples:
• Setting-up of a gas plant damage prevention
system
• Set-up of a methodology for cleaning-up a
geographic data or asset technical database
system
• Evaluation of business opportunities for
natural gas industrial use in a specific area
• Tailor-made set of theoretical classes and
technical visits for executives
• Elaboration of a methodology for extending
the network based on profitability calculations
• Learning expedition with a focus on soft and
environment-friendly excavation techniques,
geo-detection and geo-referencing equipment
• In-depth review of the renewal investment
policy
• Setting-up of the framework of third-party
access (law, gas market rules, operational
code)
• Elaboration of a distribution tariff
Innovation
Inventing the gas model of the future:
• working on a 11,000,000 smart metering
program.
• developing new network technologies.
• advising customers in gas consumption
optimization.
• promoting renewable gases.
• Realignment and reshaping of commercial
business processes according to third-party
access
• Audit of the asset geo-database system
performance
• Design of a call centre for treating alerts
• Guidelines for the development of a (mass)
smart-metering system
• In-depth review of the performance of the
safety chain
• Review of the set of technical specifications
of a mobile asset database system
• Learning expedition with a focus on
maintenance activities
• Peer review of network access policy and
procedures
• In-depth review of the corrective
maintenance system
• Peer review of the unaccounted for gas (UfG)
management system
• Design of a city / sector gas grid
• Development of information kits designed to
raise the awareness of building contractors
(plant protection)
• Learning expedition on network operation
• Learning expedition on energy metering,
calculation and invoicing