Where the weeks are going
Operators — whether running 50-to-500 wells or larger multi-state portfolios — tend to look fine on the org chart and feel terrible from the inside of the revenue-accounting team. The same friction points show up at every scale.
Production accounting consuming weeks per month-end
Revenue recognition + joint interest billing rebuilt in spreadsheets every cycle.
Volume reconciliation across SCADA, gauging tickets, and accounting
Done line-by-line in Excel because no two systems agree on the same well's daily volume.
JV audit prep gathering documentation from 5+ systems per joint operation
Pulled together at the last minute, every quarter, by hand.
Owner relations distributions and DOI changes processed manually
Deadline-driven manual reminders managed in spreadsheets; misses create owner-payment delays and audit issues.
Severance tax reporting requiring per-state regulatory submissions on different schedules
Manual data pulls each time; multiple states multiply the work.
What you receive
A short, focused engagement. No 60-page deck. Six concrete deliverables your finance and JV leadership can act on the same week.
Production accounting workflow map
Revenue recognition + joint interest billing, end-to-end, with current hour cost per step.
Volume reconciliation gap analysis
Where SCADA and accounting disagree, how the disagreements get reconciled today, what's automatable.
JV settlement automation readiness scoring
Six-criterion framework applied to your specific JV workflow.
Owner relations / DOI change-handling candidates
Which steps are deterministic (good for RPA) and which need human judgment.
Tech matching to your operational stack
SAP, P2 Energy Solutions, Quorum, OGsys, Excel — what already does the work, what needs targeted RPA or process automation.
ROI projection with sequenced 90-day roadmap
What unlocks the most hours first, what compounds across subsequent quarters.
What automation tends to unlock
For independent operators (5-8 person revenue-accounting team)
Clients automating production accounting and JV settlement workflows typically recover 1 to 3 weeks per month of revenue-cycle team time — the difference between a close cycle that runs hot every month and one that finishes on schedule. At blended labor cost ($65-95 per hour), that's about $150,000-$370,000 per year of recovered finance capacity, before counting the audit-readiness benefit during JV true-ups and severance tax filings.
For larger operators (200+ wells, multi-state operations)
Recovered capacity often scales to $400,000-$1,200,000 per year as compounding manual reconciliation across SCADA / accounting / JV settlement systems multiplies the per-well overhead. Multi-state severance tax compliance also benefits disproportionately — every additional state adds linear manual work; automation makes that work approximately constant regardless of state count.
Your specific numbers fall out of the diagnostic; we anchor every recommendation to your actual baseline.
How it works
Two to three working days of structured diagnostic. Light touch on your team — a few interviews, a data pull, a working session.
Discovery
Revenue-accounting team walk-through. SCADA-to-accounting data flow inventory. JV settlement workflow review. Severance tax filing sample.
Analysis
Six-criterion process scoring on production accounting + JV settlement candidates. Volume reconciliation gap mapping. Tech matching to your specific stack.
Delivery
Executive presentation, detailed report, sequenced 90-day roadmap, Q&A.
What this diagnostic does NOT cover
This is a finance and operations diagnostic only. We focus on the back-office workflows and field-to-finance handoffs where automation pays back fast.
Out of scope: reserve estimation, safety/HSE workflows, environmental compliance attestation, regulatory production reporting (Form W-1, P-4, etc.), wellbore engineering analysis. Those workflows need specialized counsel — not us.
If you're not sure whether a workflow falls in scope, ask during the discovery call. We'll tell you straight.
Want the broader industry context first? See our oil & gas finance automation overview for systems, audiences, and the full pain library.
Common questions
Do you work with our existing P2 / Quorum / OGsys implementation? +
Yes. The diagnostic assesses what each system already does, where the gaps are, and what's automatable around the edges of your current implementation. We don't try to replace your operational systems; we automate the manual work between them.
How is this different from our auditors' assessment? +
Auditors assess compliance. We assess automation potential and ROI. Different lens, different deliverable — both useful, neither substitutes for the other.
What if our production accounting is already partially automated? +
Most operators are. The diagnostic finds the next-highest-ROI automation candidate given what you've already built. We don't recommend ripping and replacing working automation.
How big does our operation need to be for this to make sense? +
Generally 50+ wells or 5+ person revenue-accounting team is the threshold where the math starts to compound. Below that, you may not have enough volume to justify the diagnostic; we'll be straight about it on the discovery call.
Get your time back from spreadsheets
30-minute discovery call. We confirm fit, scope, and timing.