Bring liquidity to your firm transportation

Built in Calgary for the secondary transport market, Hummingbird helps contract holders market underutilized firm transportation and helps buyers find existing contractual capacity offered for assignment.

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How Hummingbird works

Built for every side of the market

Choose your role to see how Hummingbird helps you buy, sell, or manage both sides of your firm transportation portfolio.

See your complete transportation position

Everything you need for complete visibility into your transportation position.

  • Organize contracts by meter and segment
  • Compare contracted capacity with forecasts
  • Identify potential excesses and gaps
  • Review everything privately before acting

Run one process with multiple counterparties

Post your capacity or demand once. Field competing responses from multiple counterparties, and divide the deal however suits you best.

  • Reach multiple counterparties
  • Compare responses in one place
  • Complete partial or full-volume deals
  • Negotiate relevant details
  • Combine several deals when needed

Keep the marketplace current as deals close

Hummingbird reduces the remaining volume after each completed deal, making it easier to continue negotiations and keep other interested parties informed.

  • Update the remaining posted volume or demand
  • Keep active opportunities accurate
  • Continue discussions without reposting
  • Connect each result to the next market action
Shared Planning Tools

Connect market action to system context

Digital Map, outage information, and capacity forecasting remain visible in every journey, helping you identify opportunities, negotiate commercial terms, coordinate proposed assignments, and keep the remaining marketplace current.

Digital Map

Relate meters, project areas, segments, DDAs, pipelines, outages, and custom overlays spatially.

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Outage Intelligence

Track upcoming impacts by meter, segment, and operational area, then respond through the marketplace.

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Capacity Forecasting

Compare expected needs with contracted firm capacity by meter and time. Create targets and identify contracted capacity to retain or market and additional transportation requirements to source.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about how Hummingbird works.

Hummingbird is a digital marketplace for negotiating firm transportation capacity for the secondary transport market on Alberta's NGTL system. It connects shippers who hold firm contracts with those seeking temporary or permanent capacity, facilitating negotiations between existing contract holders and shippers seeking transportation.
Hummingbird is built for NGTL shippers — including producers, marketers, traders, utilities, industrials and data centers — who either hold firm transportation (FT-R or FT-D) they want to monetize or need additional capacity on a temporary or permanent basis.
Hummingbird creates a centralized marketplace where contract holders can market underutilized firm transportation and other shippers can publish their transportation requirements. Users can compare opportunities across multiple periods and negotiate temporary or permanent assignments.
Users can post or seek temporary or permanent assignments of rights under existing FT-R and FT-D contracts, including opportunities involving alternate access, pooling and multiple delivery periods. Any proposed assignment remains subject to the applicable NGTL tariff, procedures, eligibility requirements and approvals.
Hummingbird uses double-blind* and many-to-one negotiation technology. This allows parties to explore and negotiate deals anonymously* while reaching the best available match, improving efficiency for both buyers and sellers.
*Depending on the meter involved, it may be possible to infer the counterparty to a posting. Full anonymity cannot be guaranteed in all cases.
Yes. More than 30 shippers (producers, marketers, and traders) are already on Hummingbird, with multiple FT-R postings live across various strips, including Winter, as well as permanent capacity listings.
No. Hummingbird is an independent digital marketplace operated by TOTEC Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, partnered with, or endorsed by NGTL, TC Energy, or any other natural gas pipeline operator.