This user manual contains detail descriptions of the various functions available within
EnergySteward.com for managing your oil and gas business. The following highlights some of these functions.
Contracts
| • | Companies (manages your centralized company rolodex) |
| • | Contacts (manages your centralized 'contact' (individual) rolodex) |
| • | Contracts (terms, conditions, options, volume adjustment formulas, price formulas, other cost formulas, amendments, etc.) |
| • | "Time Saver" abilities to bulk load companies, contacts and contract information |
Pipes/Fields
| • | Pipes/Fields (setup pipelines & fields) |
| • | Meters/Wells (setup meters/wells, attributes, rates/factors, strap table assignments, etc.) |
| • | Volume adjustment components (PVR, Keep Whole, Fuel, etc.) |
| • | Oil strap tables (standard and custom, unlimited). |
| • | "Time Saver" abilities to bulk load pipes/fields and meters/wells |
Pricing
| • | Centralized pricing database |
| • | Unlimited price publications (Platts, OPIS, Internal, etc.) *** Requires publication subscriptions |
| • | Ability to define custom 'in house' price publications |
| • | Support for price baskets (with simple and weighted rules) |
| • | Ability to setup various pricing components for use in price formulas on contracts/deals |
| • | Tightly integrates with contracts and associated deals (price updates automatically recalculate underlying deals). |
| • | Services to auto load external price publication data feeds (Platts, OPIS, etc.) *** Requires publication subscriptions |
| • | "Time Saver" abilities to update price valuations thru Excel and/or publication source (Platts, OPIS, etc.). |
Deals
| • | Calculate and manage monthly contract transactions |
| • | Deals can have unlimited volume types (scheduled, noms, confirmed, estimated actuals, actuals, etc.) |
| • | Deals can have unlimited deal types (enables the setup of allocation strategies like baseload, backfill, swing, etc.) |
| • | Deals can span multiple months |
| • | Calculations on deals are done near realtime (no waiting at night for calculations to occur) |
| • | Automated propagation of volumes, price assignments, etc (to all following volume types and future months) |
| • | Capture/Calculate of oil tank and meter tickets (API temp and gravity standardizations) |
| • | Automated posting of oil tank and meter tickets to deals and their respective volume days |
| • | Months can have various phases and these phases can be 'frozen' (protected volumes & calc results from changes) |
| • | Online Volume Routing/Scheduling (unlimited routing instructions on volumes) |
| • | Capture and Calculate Oil Run Tickets (includes API gravity and temperature corrections) |
| • | Automatic Posting of Oil Run Tickets to applicable deals & their respective routes |
| • | "Time Saver" abilities to bulk load oil tickets, volumes (including PIVOT format) and bulk calculations |
EnergySteward.com is one of very few web based solutions (built from the ground up) on the market today. There are no special hardware requirements for individuals to run EnergySteward.com. All that is required is a common browser (IE, Firefox, Safari, etc.). No complicated installations, accessible from virtually anywhere with no hassles.
EnergySteward.com is natively available as a hosted application. Software Experts, Inc. takes care of the application servers, database environments, backups, internet bandwidth, security certificates, etc. All that is required to utilize EnergySteward.com in our secure hosted environment is a license with Software Experts, Inc..
EnergySteward.com can also be licensed to run in house OR on dedicated co-located servers.
