Case Study: National Gas accelerates pipeline route planning with Optioneer from Continuum Industries

National Gas cuts route design from 9 months to 3 months with Continuum Industries

National Gas Transmission, the operator of the UK's gas transmission network, faced a challenge in accelerating its asset planning. Traditional methods for evaluating pipeline routing options were slow and labor-intensive, taking weeks per option and lacking consistency. This risked delaying critical decisions and stakeholder communications. To overcome this, they turned to Continuum Industries and implemented its Optioneer platform.

Continuum Industries configured Optioneer with National Gas's internal guidelines to rapidly generate and compare routing options based on technical, environmental, and social factors. The solution drastically reduced assessment timelines; tasks that once took days were completed in minutes. This condensed the overall route design process from nine months to just three and reduced full-time resource time from 216 days to 72 days, providing defensible analysis and keeping costs down for consumers.

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