The enercast.com name has served the natural gas market since 2003, first as a source of daily market news, commentary, research and a trader message board. Today enercast.com is owned and operated by Ben Smith Consulting under founder Ben Smith, and is focused entirely on pipeline data: real-time critical notices and a daily supply & demand balance built from public pipeline postings.
I’ve been deep in natural gas data and fundamental analysis since 2003, when I founded First Enercast Financial. But it was my recent stint as a speculative trader for a private fund that led me to build Enercast.
As a trader, what I hated most was dealing with the pipeline notice feed itself: endless, unfiltered, and spread across bulletin boards. A routine scheduling post landed with the same weight as a force majeure. The notices that actually moved the market got buried, and when I did find one, it was often cryptic. Then came the real work of figuring out where the outage was, how much capacity was on the line, and whether there were reroute options. Pipeline information lacked transparency and was hard to get at.
So I built the tools I wished I’d had. Enercast scores and analyzes every notice for market impact the moment it posts, so the ones that matter stand out and the routine ones stay out of your way.
I also built it around a second frustration. Most pipeline data is modeled and grossed up into a national or regional estimate, which can mask the very constraints that move the market. Enercast works from the figures pipelines actually post, labels anything estimated as such, and alerts you to changes as they happen.
We show you what’s happening. You decide what it means.
We scrape and monitor critical notices — force majeure declarations, capacity constraints, compressor outages, and maintenance alerts — across major U.S. interstate natural gas pipelines including Transco, El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG), ANR, Rockies Express, Tallgrass, Gulf South, NGPL, and others. Every notice is classified by event type, capacity impact (Bcf/d), likely market direction, and reroute potential, then delivered to subscribers within about two minutes of posting via email or Telegram.
We also collect each pipeline’s posted scheduled flows and operational capacity at more than 17,000 meter points and roll them up into PipeScrape, a daily U.S. natural gas supply & demand balance — production, LNG feedgas, Canadian imports, Mexican exports, LDC, end-user, power burn and storage — with location-level detail.
Enercast is a data and alerting service. All data comes from public pipeline postings; we are not affiliated with, and do not receive data directly from, any pipeline operator.
Every major pipeline notice is posted to our X and LinkedIn pages as it happens.
Follow the founder, Ben Smith, for market commentary and behind-the-scenes on how Enercast is built.
Who owns Enercast?
Enercast (enercast.com) is owned and operated by Ben Smith Consulting, a Denver, Colorado business led by founder Ben Smith.
Is Enercast the same company as enercast.de?
No. Enercast (enercast.com) is a Denver, Colorado natural gas pipeline data service; the enercast.com name has been in use since 2003. enercast GmbH (enercast.de) is an unrelated German company, founded in 2011, that provides renewable energy forecasting. The two share a name by coincidence and operate in different industries and countries.
Is Enercast affiliated with any pipeline operator?
No. Enercast is an independent data service. All data comes from public pipeline postings, and we are not affiliated with, and receive no data directly from, any pipeline operator.
More questions? See the general FAQ (plans, timing, access) or email support@enercast.com.
