by Enverus | Jan 19, 2021 | Newsroom
Austin, Texas (January 19, 2021) — Enverus, the leading energy SaaS company, has released its latest FundamentalEdge report, The Hangover, exploring the company’s current view of the oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) markets.
“As much as the industry might hope the coronavirus vaccine is the cure for what ails oil demand, there are additional factors at play. Rising COVID-19 case numbers, increased travel restrictions and renewed lockdowns do not bode well for demand in early 2021. If not for recent action by OPEC+ members and Saudi Arabia, in particular, oil prices would be much lower than they are right now,” said Jesse Mercer, senior director of Crude Market Analytics at Enverus.
“And while the second half of 2020 was painful financially, the fourth quarter included much-needed consolidation within the U.S. shale industry, production curtailments and well-placed hedges kept many balance sheets afloat. Next up, will be completing drilled but uncompleted wells (DUCs) and a continued focus on improved efficiencies, lowering emissions, free cash flow and sustainable production growth. Additional mergers and acquisitions are still likely, all which lead to a healthy recovery for America’s oil and gas industry,” said Mercer.
Key takeaways from the report:
- Crude oil prices have been on an upward trend after several countries granted emergency-use approvals for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and, subsequently, the Moderna and Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines. Although the news injected some much-needed optimism into market sentiment, Enverus does not expect the vaccines’ initial rollout to have a significant impact on liquids demand in the early months of 2021. In fact, we expect more demand cutbacks going into the first quarter as the number of COVID-19 cases rises globally and lockdowns are reimposed or toughened. In view of this, OPEC+ ministers’ decision to increase production slowly in 2021 (rather than pumping 1.9 MMBbl/d back into the market all at once in January) should help keep excessive pressure from bearing down on prices.
- Natural gas operators responded quickly to stronger prices during the fourth quarter of 2020, increasing gas production by 1.7 Bcf/d in November alone. However, winter demand started weak, and prices quickly lost ground. On the demand side, LNG exports are back up from the lows observed in July as economics (Europe versus US price spread) continue to improve. Enverus expects gas prices to average $3.25/MMBtu, levels higher than those currently observed in the forward curve, particularly in 2021 and 2022, when oil prices are expected to remain depressed at $45-$50/Bbl.
- Natural gas liquids production has been resilient through 2020. While gas and crude oil production fell, y-grade production hit record highs, largely due to economic ethane recovery and steady demand for ethane. Propane and butane prices have been propped up in the near term by global demand for the products, resulting in record high export volumes. Natural gasoline’s main demand market is in Canada, where it is used as a diluent in bitumen production. Canada was not immune to the downturn earlier this year, and production and activity decreased, resulting in less need for C5. However, rig activity and production have started to pick back up in Canada, which will lead to more C5 exports from the U.S.
- Financials. 3Q20 was one of the toughest quarters for the industry for E&Ps. However, we saw consolidation, production curtailments subsiding, and hedges that kept many balance sheets afloat. As hedges roll off and DUCs start to draw down in 2021, operators should focus on lower emissions, free cash flow, and sustainable production growth – all of which will promote continued M&A.
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by Enverus | Jan 18, 2021 | Blog
For years associated natural gas from oil production in the Permian Basin has been viewed as a byproduct with little monetary value. Infrastructure constraints and challenged pricing caused many operators to flare produced gas rather than capture and sell it. With significant egress capacity additions out of the Permian and gas prices expected to stay above $3/MMBtu for the next couple of years, many producers and investors are wondering if they should pay attention to associated gas.
Figure 1 shows how well-level economics are impacted by different gas and oil prices in the prolific Stateline region of the Delaware Basin in Texas and New Mexico. As gas prices increase, the value of wells in gas-prone regions improve. Despite this increase, oil-rich areas generally screen as generating higher returns. We believe that operators are more likely to target assets with higher oil cuts even as gas prices rise; if operators are unable to do this, they will benefit from their former frenemy.
FIGURE 1 | Well-Level Net Present Value (NPV-10) at Different Gas and Oil Prices*
*Vertically and horizontally co-completed, horizontal wells targeting the Upper Wolfcamp intervals. Assumes $800/ft drill, completion and equipment costs and 7,500-foot laterals.
by Laura Blewitt | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Trading and Risk
The industry that drives global commerce and ensures our highest standards of living is underpinned by the complex and fascinating world of commodity trading.
Without commodity trading, our lives would be vastly different. The exchange of physical commodities like crude oil, natural gas, metals and power guarantee that we can do everything from turning the lights on, to receiving packages in the mail, to charging our cell phones.
The intricacies of commodity trading are hard to grasp without the right language, and several of the terms and definitions used by traders are unique from those used by the buyers and sellers of other assets like stocks, bonds, equities or even cryptocurrencies.
Since forward curve management stands at the foundation of Enverus’ key risk management solutions for the energy industry, I figured it might be helpful to take a step back and define what a forward curve is, and why it’s integral to any trading operations’ bottom line. We all have to start somewhere. This post is dedicated to the newbies.
What is a forward curve, and why is it important for risk management?
Simply put, a forward curve is a snapshot representation of what a commodity is currently worth today based on a possible buy or sell in the future. Using a forward curve, I can tell you what the price of WTI crude futures is currently for barrels that would change hands in 2024. Tomorrow, the forward curve will likely determine a different price.
A forward curve is built using the current day’s price values to exchange a commodity at some point in the future, and the commodity’s value will change as time progresses. This is why forward curves are not a price forecast like the formal weekly, monthly, or annual predictions that our analysts produced based on more in-depth fundamentals data. Instead, it’s an indicator based solely on the bids and offers in the marketplace for that day.
Let’s pause and view an example of how prices can be sewn together to create a forward curve. It’s easiest to explain using an instrument called a futures contract, which is exactly what it sounds like: a contract that traders exchange for a determined volume and commodity at a future time period.
While these contracts are bought and sold virtually on exchanges like ICE or Nymex, they represent the buying or selling of a real, tangible product. If you purchase a contract and forget about it, you will be responsible for taking delivery of the commodity you ordered.
Figure 1: Nymex WTI crude futures as of 1pm CT, January 12, 2021. Futures prices shown through March 2022 via MarketView Desktop.
At any given moment in a trade day, there are absolute values for futures contracts far into the future – you can see here that even for contracts delivering crude in March 2022, there are thousands of trades taking place. Each of these transactions influences the movement of the price of futures for the various contract months.
This list of monthly contract prices that we have from the above data, between February 2021 and March 2022, is the foundation of a forward curve. But it makes a lot more sense plotted out in a chart, like this:
Figure 2: Nymex WTI crude futures forward curve shown via MarketView Desktop.
A trader can look at a chart like the one above and quickly tell you if the market is oversupplied or undersupplied – and will define the market structure as either backwardated or contango.
Do you now find yourself asking, “backward-what-now?”
Trust me when I say that I did not just make up those words. Stay tuned for part 2 – where we will dive into the difference between backwardation and contango and share the ways that forward curves can be utilized as a risk management tool for merchants executing complex commodity trades.
The great news for now: you don’t have to be a quant to build complex forward curves. Enverus CurveBuilder gives all people in a commodity trade floor – from storied traders to brand new market analysts – the power to build complex forward curves.
by Susie Yuill | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog
As we kick off a new year, energy companies are running leaner than ever. A major goal is to focus on minimizing the necessary cost or effort expended. If your company is trying to figure out how free up your staff’s time or just manage a heavy workload, the number one action we recommend is to implement touchless invoicing automation.
In this on-demand webinar, you’ll learn:
- How touchless invoicing helps increase your team’s overall efficiency.
- How to implement touchless invoicing.
- Hear from Discovery Natural Resources about how they reduced their invoice approvals by half with touchless invoicing and how this automation frees up more time to focus on the company’s future strategic initiatives.
Here’s a quick overview of what touchless invoicing is and why you should implement this workflow in 2021.
Why automation?
Automation is a proven way for energy companies looking to maximize their internal resources to:
- Increase cost savings-96% of our clients agreed that using AP automation with our solutions has led to significant cost savings for their business.
- Increase operating efficiency-83% of these organizations that reduce their invoice approval cycle by five to 15 days since using the various business automation solution.
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What is Touchless Invoicing?
In OpenInvoice, a touchless invoice means when an invoice is submitted, the system automatically validates the coding and auto-approves the invoice based on controls put in place by the customer. Once the invoice is auto-approved it automatically posts to the customer’s ERP system for payment. You can read about this concept in more detail here.
How This Can Benefit Your Business
Every time you find a way to automate any of your process, it has a trickledown effect. For example, when you reallocate your time away from approving thousands of low value invoices, it opens up additional time for you to put more focus on the higher value-added invoices in other processes within the organization.
Like many companies, Discovery Natural Resources (featured in the video), reduced its staff at the start of the downturn. Even though their rigs stopped operating, the invoice volume hadn’t decreased. This reduction in staff increased the invoice processing burden. With the staff having to focus on this manual and repetitive work, the company’s larger strategic initiatives were threatened.
By automating 40% of its invoice approvals, the AP staff saves an average of 40-50 hours per month. With this time savings, Discovery is back on track with its strategic goals of increasing the number of its suppliers submitting on OpenTicket, building out more robust price book reporting, driving coding in price book through integration with WellView to better understand how many vendors are changing prices and the percentages of those price changes.
If you are ready to learn more about how touchless invoicing can save your company time and resources, contact us at [email protected] or call us at 1-800-242-4245 to set up your complimentary business review with our team of experts.
by Mark Nibbelink | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog
COVID-19 Focused Investments: Publicly Traded Companies
Investor demands for showing free cash flow and capital discipline have been met with oil and gas public equities tamping down their capex spend, hunkering down to wait for WTI to appreciate enough to start completing DUCs and bringing their supplies to market, and consolidating in mergers or buyouts.
Lost in all the analysis, however, is the fate of the small, privately held operators, that don’t have access to the public equity markets or indulgent lenders who will get them through hard times.
Well Production
Consider this — of the 627,520 active wells in the U.S., about half of them are stripper wells that produce 15 barrels of oil per day or less. These wells are within about 13,000 distinct fields.
Well Search Results: Offers, Provides and Enhances. Source: Enverus
Constraining the wells to their most recent monthly production from Aug. 1, 2020 to Nov. 1, 2020, then summing their production, these wells account for approximately 27 million barrels (not including Indiana, Illinois or states that report on a year-behind basis). This represents just under 10% of the total production of active wells that produce above the stripper threshold of 15 BOPD.
No doubt a significant fraction of these wells is operated by large companies that have the financial wherewithal to attempt to ride out current conditions, but what about the rest? What can they do to keep themselves in business, both now and in the future? With prices where they are now and are projected to be through much of 2021, they’re not going to raise capital to go horizontal. They’re probably not going to be drilling any field expansion wells and may struggle to fund workovers. They may get some government stimulus relief to help short term, but that won’t address their long-term issues.
Banding Together
Although our industry has always valued and honored rugged individualism, there is merit in the idea of small operators in the same basin considering creating cooperatives — or at least banding together — to create some economies of scale that could allow them to reduce their costs by buying in bulk.
Consider that Gazprom Neft is dedicating gas supplies to power turbines to generate electricity for mobile crypto mining enterprises. A cooperative of small operators in a gas rich basin could theoretically pool their gas through trucked CNG to a central turbine location and generate electricity for either sales to the electric grid or for on-location use for crypto mining, or they could sell the gas to an efrac outfit completing wells on a pad currently lacking power or lease gas. They could even do a deal to truck their gas to well-positioned electric vehicle charging locales where their gas could be combusted in a gas turbine to charge on-site battery packs.
Supervisory control and data acquisition systems controls could reduce pumping and gauging costs for small oil operators, especially if they can be transacted through a bulk buying process.
A small operator cooperative could fund drone operations to conduct lease overflights to inspect lease conditions in remote locations to ensure equipment integrity.
Potential Benefits of Banding Together
Assuming ESG concerns become more prevalent, and carbon capture and sequestration needs more pronounced (especially under the new Biden administration), small operators should begin the process of determining the capacity of their reservoirs to store not only CO2 but hydrogen as well. Banding together will give small operators a chance to compete in the current and, more importantly, new energy economy. If they can see their asset base as a resource that has value beyond the straight sale of barrels or Mcf to gatherers, they might get through the current chaos in the business.
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by Enverus | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog
Long-lead international upstream projects still offer returns that remain competitive with North American oil plays and the fast-growing renewable energy sector despite growing economic, investor and regulatory headwinds. As a result, long-term production declines from the international project slate will continue to be offset by world-class projects such as the Guyana/Suriname developments that offer strong economics and production growth.
International offshore project IRRs have come into question in recent years as major new development projects have thinned. The push for greater portfolio diversification among operators raised the bar for new investments in long-cycle hydrocarbons projects. While it’s impossible to establish with full certainty just how resilient and investable the global oil and gas space is, understanding the returns from long-cycle projects gives a strong steer.
Amid a broad industry expectation that the days of long-cycle oil and gas projects and, by association, international supply are numbered, this is not the case, in our view. Taking into account full-cycle returns, resource scale and asset performance, we assess that hydrocarbon projects in this sector still offer competitive double-digit returns, particularly for oil and gas tiebacks compared to standalone projects (Figure 1).
Renewable energy returns are also relevant to this discussion as international oil companies allocate increased capital to onshore and offshore wind projects. When compared side-by-side in a $50 Brent world, international hydrocarbon projects IRRs are competitive with those of offshore and onshore wind projects, supporting our view that offshore oil and gas will retain its place in operators’ portfolios.
Unlike oil and gas projects, renewable investments help companies reduce their emissions profile, offer stable cash flow through power purchase agreements, access to lower cost of capital and boost corporate green credentials. But renewables also face their own headwinds despite strong IRRs: the lack of land availability and distance to population centers often challenge onshore wind projects.
FIGURE 1 | IRR of Supermajor Offshore Project Slate
by Enverus | Jan 6, 2021 | Newsroom
Austin, Texas (January 6, 2021) — Enverus, the leading energy SaaS and data analytics company, is releasing its summary of Q4 and Full Year 2020 U.S. upstream M&A. After an anemic start, 2020 upstream M&A accelerated dramatically in the second half of the year as a challenging economic backdrop spurred a wave of industry consolidation. Activity crested in Q4 with three multi-billion-dollar mergers centered on the oil-rich Permian Basin driving the quarter’s total value to $27 billion, the third most active quarter by value since oil prices lost their footing in late 2014.
The biggest deal of the fourth quarter and 2020 was ConocoPhillips’ $13.3 billion acquisition of Concho Resources, one of the best-positioned, largest independent producers in the Permian. That deal, the biggest pure shale acquisition by any company since 2011, vaulted the Permian from a potential weak point in Conoco’s portfolio to a cornerstone of its global strategy.
On the heels of that merger, Pioneer Natural Resources announced its own maneuver to roll up Parsley Energy for $7.6 billion, giving it combined control of nearly 1 million acres across the Midland and Delaware sub-basins. Finally, Diamondback Energy nabbed publicly traded QEP and private equity-sponsored Guidon Operating for just over $3 billion in a combined effort to build out its position in the heart of the Midland Basin.
“As anticipated, additional merger activity during Q4 centered on E&Ps with high quality lands and reasonable debt loads, and the Permian Basin is the most target-rich region under those criteria. The fact that three of the leading Permian independents — Concho, Pioneer and Diamondback — each participated in a deal implies a recognition by the industry that scale is vital for companies to remain relevant going forward,” said Enverus M&A Analyst Andrew Dittmar.
Consistent with earlier deals like Chevron’s acquisition of Noble Energy for $13 billion in July 2020, and Devon Energy’s $5.6 billion merger with WPX Energy in September 2020, all the big Q4 public company corporate deals were all-equity, low-premium combinations.
“Wall Street appears supportive of E&P deals, but with very specific expectations on deal structure and the quality of the merger target,” added Dittmar. “The limiting factor for consolidation in 2021 will be the number of attractive merger partners left at the end of a very active year.”
While big corporate deals lifted M&A value in 2020, deal flow as measured by the number of announced deals fell to historic lows. There were only 140 announced deals with a reported value in 2020, the lowest annual total since at least 2006 and just about one-third of average deal flow over the last 10 years.
“There was very little appetite on either the public or private company side for buying upstream assets in 2020 as preserving cash to pay down debt or return to equity owners was prioritized,” said Dittmar. “In particular, companies were unwilling to invest substantially in buying undeveloped land, a staple of past upstream deal markets. What asset deals did get announced were largely focused on acquiring existing production and cash flow, sometimes through bankruptcy sales.”
The outlook for 2021 deal activity will depend largely on the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic activity and their associated impacts on commodity prices. Assuming a continued recovery in global activity, upstream M&A is likely to normalize relative to the boom-and-bust cycle of large corporate deals or nothing during 2020. There is a substantial backlog of non-core asset divestments for companies to pursue, particularly for those that participated in 2020’s corporate merger wave and now have expanded portfolios. Likely buyers include some public companies, but with a healthy contingent of private equity capital looking to take advantage of opportunities created by the downturn. Other potential buyers include energy-focused SPACs, which have become broadly popular on Wall Street.
Corporate consolidation is likely to continue as companies look for synergies to drive down their cost structures. That is particularly true among the industry’s small and midsize participants, which are urgently in need of scale. Companies that went through a Chapter 11 restructuring in 2020 could emerge as potential merger partners now that debt loads are rightsized. However, there may be fewer very large corporate deals because so many of those were accomplished during the last year, winnowing the list of possible participants.
Members of the media can contact Jon Haubert to request a copy of the full report or to schedule an interview with one of Enverus’ expert analysts.
About Enverus
Through its SaaS platform, Enverus is the leading data, software and insights company providing innovative technologies and predictive/prescriptive analytics, empowering customers to navigate the future. Enverus’ solutions deliver value to more than 6,000 customers in 50 countries across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors, enabling the industry to be more collaborative, efficient and competitive. Enverus is a portfolio company of Genstar Capital. Creating the future of energy together. Learn more at www.enverus.com.
by Rob Allerman | Dec 22, 2020 | Blog, Trading and Risk
As I began to reflect the market trends of 2020, as well as what to expect in the New Year, I couldn’t help but laugh at my naivete in my call for more market volatility as renewables gain market share in power markets, which I published at this time last year.
To be sure, we were all naïve about the tsunami of market impacts that would come with the coronavirus, which was all but unknown to us 365 days ago. And I’ll give credit where credit’s due – the call for volatility in the CAISO market was pretty dead on! But overall, the fascinating forces that moved power markets in 2020 were in many cases impossible to predict.
My team and I tackled slews of new trends that impact power trading this year. We did this by leveraging the capability of artificial intelligence and machine learning to quickly adapt our abilities to measure power loads. Here’s a quick round-up of the top three power market trends that literally stunned us as they emerged.
3. Battling California Blackouts with Accurate Renewable Power Forecasting
As I mentioned above, I wrote about the increasing need for accurate power load forecasting technology as renewables gain market share and boost market volatility last year.
The possibility of power outages in California were a prospect to us based on our longer-term outlooks, but we didn’t expect the dangerous and tragic extended blackouts. I blogged about what unfolded in August:
The latest scare in California was manageable for utilities thanks to efforts of cooperation, hydro-generation and a stroke of luck with the weather. B.C. Hydro was able to send additional hydro-generation to CAISO and water supplies to Bonneville Power Administration, which increased its hydro-generation and sent more power to CAISO, too.
Figure 1: Observe the peak on the chart from Monday, Aug. 17. California was able to shed enormous amounts of power before cooler weather came Tuesday and Wednesday. The public ISO forecast (orange line) is coming in much higher than the actuals, as the ISO continues to hold on to higher load forecasts to ensure the grid has the resources available in case of another spike.
This strategy is utilized across other ISOs, too, which makes sense from a strategic perspective. For utilities to get a more accurate view of power load forecasts, the AI-based methodology we utilize is lending more precision. We are hitting it right on.
2. Social Unrest Showed up in New York Power Loads This Summer
Social unrest and protests erupted around the country after the death of George Floyd. The impacts to power markets were striking in New York.
Once the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., New York maintained strict closures and travel restrictions throughout April and May. Its shutdowns were swift compared with the rest of the country. As early as March 24, my team uncovered the first hints of COVID-19-related power load demand destruction between 10-15% in NYISO compared with what our machine-learning models predicted using historical weather and demand data.
Here’s what I wrote in June:
At the end of May, demand rebounded in NYISO, as shown in Figure 2 in the black and red lines. The recovery was short-lived, however, as protests and civil unrest spread in New York City and across the U.S. Just as soon as demand started to recover, it dropped. As protest activity subsided slightly in June and more businesses reopened around the state, demand destruction once again eroded. As of June 10, the seven-day moving average on-peak demand destruction stood at 15%. However, as protests have subsided and as New York continues to reopen, we have measured the demand destruction recovery growing.
1. Coronavirus-Related Shutdowns Spark Power Demand Destruction All Across the U.S.
Just like businesses all over the world, we were faced with never-before-seen scenarios as a result of the nationwide shutdowns in March. Our machine learning-based forecasting tools have never learned the demand dynamics at play—nor had our team. Here’s a snippet from my blog entry in March:
Our old model was suddenly forced to predict demand in a scenario where it had no historical data to compute, and we had customers reach out and ask us how they can track the demand destruction underway.
We launched a new model that was capable of measuring power load demand destruction – basically charting out the new post-COVID demand trends versus the trend data that we have monitored historically, measuring temperatures, load growth, and other market factors.
The exciting new analysis was groundbreaking in measuring a completely unique and unprecedented change to consumer behavior.
We were proud to offer free trials of our ISO forecasts throughout 2020, which helped utilities and power traders hedge against the uncertainty in load impacts.
As we enter into the new unknown of 2021, we’d like to extend one last offer for a free trial of our twice-daily ISO reports that measure the COVID-19 demand destruction. Sign up here today, and have a safe, healthy and prosperous New Year!
by Enverus | Dec 21, 2020 | Blog
Updating hundreds of thousands of type curves with new production data is no small feat. At Enverus, we use a proprietary type curve algorithm to draw and update type curves automatically in Enverus CORE based on our cleaned production data, leaving our analysts time to work on high-value analysis.
We conducted a study to determine the accuracy of algo-generated type curves against known production. The analysis cut off the most recent six months of production data from a randomly sampled set of 9,300 Enverus CORE type curves and redrew the type curves based on the truncated production profiles. The forecasted six months of production based on our generated type curves were compared against actual output to calculate the percentage difference in cumulative volumes. This process was repeated three more times but varied the number of months of production removed – first by removing a total of 12 months of production data, then 24 months and finally 36 months. In each case the forecasted volumes were compared against the known production. Figures 1 and 2 show results for oil and gas wells.
Our type curve accuracy on a percentage-basis generally falls in the low single digits for cumulative production and is more accurate during high-rate periods than low-rate ones. We suspect this is due in part to low-rate wells likely being shut-in targets and requiring more downtime for maintenance, and the difficulty of capturing these events in short-term forecasts.
FIGURE 1 | Comparison Between Estimated Cumulative Volumes Over Time and Actual Volumes for Oil Wells
Note | All wells in this analysis had at least 15 months of production and less than three months of downtime.
FIGURE 2 | Comparison Between Estimated Cumulative Volumes Over Time And Actual Volumes for Gas Wells
Note | All wells in this analysis had at least 15 months of production and less than three months of downtime.
by Enverus | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog
All geologists working in the field start their day by throwing a few essential items into their backpacks: A hand lens, a hammer and a pad of paper to record the day’s findings. For geologists working from the office, we typically line our “backpacks” with other essential supplies. Geologists powered by Enverus start their day with backpacks filled with the tools necessary to evaluate and analyze different regions of a play. These include:
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- All-encompassing mapping software (Transform VI) used to generate their own geologic interpretations.
- Access to Prism for a one-stop shop with access to public geological datasets, analyst-picked well tops, curated well logs and a full suite of geological maps to get you started.
Enverus unveiled the Log Viewer Widget (Figure 1) in Prism v7.9 on Oct.15. The log viewer allows for easy visualization of logs directly from our 2D mapping utility. This essential item has been added to our plethora of subsurface tools, to allow geologists to quickly navigate through their everyday analysis and get quick answers to their questions.
FIGURE 1 | Example of Log Viewer Widget
Source | Enverus
by Wendi Orlando | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog, Trading and Risk
Enverus has always had a flagship curve building solution with deep functionality, but it wasn’t designed for use by everybody.
Before today, our flagship solution was largely restricted to a small and technical user group. With deep functionality came a complicated interface – and if you didn’t know how to write code, CurveBuilder probably wasn’t for you.
When it comes to managing commodity risk and building a comprehensive curves solution for risk analysts and traders, ease of use matters. And we want to empower both traders and analysts to quickly build dynamic forward curve formulas in our new fast and intuitive web-based curve building interface.
With CurveBuilder, we built a complete solution that has the ease of use, but it still has the deep functionality. So we always laugh now because it’s so easy and intuitive, a four-year-old could go in and build a curve in less than five seconds.
The launch of CurveBuilder has democratized forward curve generation.
Today, it’s the trader, it’s the risk analyst now that we’re putting the solution in their hands instead of a developer having to take control.
Before the launch of the new CurveBuilder, a trader didn’t build a curve. He would say, “Hey, could you do this for me? You know, it’s X, Y, Z, quant or X, Y, Z analyst. I need your help.” Now, traders don’t have to call on the trade floor’s quant or analysts to build a new curve. Traders have the power to open the Enverus CurveBuilder tool and build it. Enverus put in building blocks and functions where users simply drag and drop to build things together.
Make quick and timely market decisions with easy forward curve building software
Traders using CurveBuilder may just want to look at a curve formula really quickly, and view price data with ease and flexibility. Now traders have the ability to test market theories and analyze forward curves on the fly. Traders can answer these questions:
- What does this change do to my valuation?
- How does this change impact my mark-to-market?
So things that we’re doing now include focusing on strategy and customer value, how can we leverage the cloud to be more scalable and more performance driven within our solutions? Also, I think data is so important, right? Data provides clients that visibility to make more efficient and more profitable decisions. Or in other words: building an intelligent data enterprise. I want to be in the place that I’m providing them that data intelligence.
The Enverus #OneTeam evolution – Trading & Risk is now fully integrated!
Enverus’ Trading & Risk business unit was formed to provide predictive analytics to our clients. So now we’re to the point that we’ve settled down, we’ve integrated our technologies, and now we’re starting to bring that intelligence from our upstream group, from our power division, bringing those analytics in where they can combine.
We’ll answer questions like: How will WTI prices change due to the new supply/demand forecast?
We’re providing the robust data that our customers need to discover their market perspectives. We empower customers to watch proprietary and market data. We’re delivering data to Excel, APIs and more.
We are the only solution provider that really has everything. If you own energy assets, we have all the upstream analytics. We have the curve building. We have enterprise data management. We have a viewer, we have mobile, we have Excel tools. We have business automation. Customers can bring every link of the energy value chain from their business together from upstream to downstream, all into one place.
by Enverus | Dec 9, 2020 | Newsroom
Austin, Texas (December 9, 2020) — Enverus, the leading energy SaaS and data analytics company, has released its latest FundamentalEdge report that explores the company’s current view of the oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) markets.
“NGLs don’t always get the attention they deserve despite the fact that they form the building blocks of the modern petrochemicals industry and, consequently, many of the goods we use on a daily basis. What we are seeing with surging NGL production amid this year’s slump in oil and gas production should make people sit up and take notice,” says Jesse Mercer, senior director of Crude Market Analytics at Enverus.
“Over the past decade, the petrochemicals industry became accustomed to ever-growing supplies of low-cost NGLs from the United States. Ethane, in particular, was priced so cheaply that as much as 1 MMBbl/d was never converted to ethylene and instead burned as fuel at various points last year. Those levels of ethane rejection now seem like a distant memory. What is interesting about this year’s surging NGL production in the U.S. is just how much this is being driven by the desperate need to recover increasing amounts of ethane from places that were previously uneconomical to do so.”
Today’s FundamentalEdge report release follows a string of announcements and product offerings made by Enverus aimed at helping all segments of the industry manage a challenging energy market wrought with price drops and demand destruction tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Members of the media can download a preview of the full report or contact Jon Haubert to schedule an interview with one of Enverus’ expert analysts.
Key takeaways from the report:
- Although crude oil and natural gas production in the United States remains below pre-pandemic levels, production of natural gas liquids (NGLs) is setting record highs. This increase in NGL production has happened despite much weaker upstream drilling and completion activity than witnessed at the start of 2020.
- Given lower oil and gas production since the beginning of the year, sharply reduced ethane rejection is the key driver behind the increase in overall NGL production. In April 2020, ethane rejection was in excess of 970 MBbl/d. In contrast, ethane rejection was estimated at just over 630 MBbl/d in October.
- The drop in ethane rejection was initially widespread, but after the initial shock of upstream production shut-ins, high levels of ethane rejection returned to the Appalachian and Williston basins. Ethane rejection, however, remains subdued in the Permian basin as well as in the Rockies and Midcontinent regions.
- The economics of recovering ethane in the Rockies and Midcontinent improved substantially starting in May, as demand from the petrochemical sector remained robust over much of Q2 and into mid-Q3. Hurricane-related impacts on steam cracker operations (such as power outages) and turnarounds have since tamped down domestic ethane demand and put downward pressure on ethane prices. Recently, higher natural gas prices have worked to chip away at the economic incentive to recover ethane in the Rockies.
- The weakening economic incentive to recover ethane in the Rockies and Midcontinent since late September is concerning. The outlook for gas plant ethane production given current commodity pricing (oil, gas, and NGLs) suggests a plateauing of production in the final weeks of 2020. Without further increases in upstream activity (drilling and completions) or additional increases in gas plant recovery rates, ethane production may slowly decline in 2021.
- Also, with hurricane season winding down, steam cracker operations are expected to return to normal in the coming weeks and to lift ethane demand out of the slump it has been in since Hurricane Laura. Incremental demand growth from upcoming capacity additions and the imminent start of the Orbit ethane export terminal are only going to increase near-term demand even further. Forward ethane prices, however, are not currently high enough to support increasing ethane recovery beyond current levels.
- Against this backdrop, it is important to note that higher natural gas prices have raised the threshold for ethane prices to clear if increased recovery rates are to happen. Given Enverus’ supply/demand outlook for both ethane and natural gas, Enverus sees upside potential for ethane prices heading into the early months of 2021, potentially extending through the end of the year.
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About Enverus
Enverus is the leading energy SaaS company delivering highly-technical insights and predictive/prescriptive analytics that empower customers to make decisions that increase profit. Enverus’ innovative technologies drive production and investment strategies, enable best practices for energy and commodity trading and risk management, and reduce costs through automated processes across critical business functions. Enverus is a strategic partner to more than 6,000 customers in 50 countries. Enverus is a portfolio company of Genstar Capital. Learn more at Enverus.com.
by Enverus | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog
The consensus among market participants leading up to the U.S. election linked a Joe Biden win to a bearish outcome for global oil prices and the oil industry. Despite this fear, a rally in global oil prices drove the XOP, an ETF which tracks a basket of U.S. exploration and production equities, to outperform the S&P 500 market index by over 30% since Nov. 6, just a few days after voting results became clear (Figure 1).
We believe this rally was bolstered by positive news on the results of COVID-19 vaccines, with both Pfizer and Moderna reporting higher-than-expected efficacy in quick succession, and with hopes of a rollout to high-risk patients beginning in mid-December.
Biden’s campaign promise to ban approval for new permits on federal lands remains a headwind for exposed producers and their investors. The proposed ban would be especially impactful for operators with large positions in New Mexico’s portion of the Delaware Basin, where the majority of land with high drilling activity is federally owned. As a result, the region has a seen a clear rush to get permits approved (Figure 2).
While the oil markets remain volatile, and we expect a shift in policy stance on environmental topics related to a Biden presidency, the market remains incrementally optimistic that the bottom of this cycle is behind us.
FIGURE 1 | WTI and XOP Compared to the S&P 500
FIGURE 2 | Number of Permits Approved on Federal Lands in New Mexico
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by Susie Yuill | Dec 2, 2020 | Blog, Business Automation
The buildup to tax season can be a hectic and stressful time for operators. Every year, operators spend weeks processing and mailing 1099s and state tax documents to mineral rights owners, while handling related inquiries from owners (which could increase by up to three times normal volumes).
Unfortunately, many operators are dealing with reduced staff. Yet, their owner counts remain the same, leading many companies to evaluate how they can better use their resources moving into busy season.
How can call center support help you this tax season? Outsourcing royalty owner phone support is a highly effective solution to meet these seasonal demands, because it takes the burden of answering owner phone calls off your team so they can focus on tax prep.
Four tips for getting the most out of your call center support partnership
If your company is considering adding call center support during tax season, below are four ways to ensure you and your owners are getting what they need from the partnership.
- Plan ahead
It is important to be able to set up your call services before your heavy call traffic comes in. Always know how long it takes for call agents to get set up and ready to take owner calls.
- Anticipate and prepare
Tax season brings both common and surprising inquiries from owners. Preparing you agents with the right information on how to handle common inquiries ahead of time will provide a better experience for your owners because they get their issue or inquiry resolved faster. Call center agents use scripts to manage their conversations. Your answering services should be able to provide guidance on which scripts are most effective for different situations. They should also be able to customize scripts based on your company’s specific needs.
- Utilize proven industry experts
The industry has unique accounting practices. You want to make sure your call center agents can answer owner questions. Enverus call support agents are experienced land and accounting professionals, many who have decades of experience in oil and gas accounting practices.Industry experience means more issues will be resolved during the first call. The Enverus team resolves 85% of its calls on the first inquiry. If an agent is unable to resolve the majority of inquiries and must escalate them, it defeats the purpose of outsourcing your support to free up you team’s time.
- Be clear and transparent
Once you your call support is set up, make sure you make it easy for owners to find the call center number, should they need help. This means placing the number visibly and easy to find on your website, social media channels and owner communications.
Enverus Call Center for royalty owner support
Enverus is the only company that provides a complete owner relations platform, call center support and print and mail service, focused solely on the oil and gas sector. Our experienced team understands the nuances and challenges associated with delivering data to all stakeholders within the oil and gas ecosystem. The breadth of our services ensures owners receive world-class support and operators can focus on year-end activities that are more valuable — a win for your owners and staff. We can also help ensure your support remains uninterrupted.
The results
- Strengthened owner relationships.
- Reduced costs.
- Operator employees better able to focus on higher value operational activities.
Provide your owners with expert oil and gas support
With tax season rapidly approaching, now is a great time to discuss your phone support needs. To learn more about how our call center services can provide your team with seasonal tax support, contact us today at [email protected] or call 1-800-282-4245 to get started.
by Laura Blewitt | Dec 2, 2020 | Blog
As most risk analysts know, it’s difficult to truly observe a local holiday at home when your company does international trade deals with countries all over the world.
It’s scarcely any different for those of us who work in the business of distributing, collecting, or analyzing market data. The imports, exports, and pipeline flows you need to analyze don’t stop coming in because it’s a holiday. And neither does the data that Enverus delivers.
This fact of the business was all too real for some of us over the past Thanksgiving holiday. The Friday after Thanksgiving may seem to be a sacred holiday to us in the United States, but the rest of the world is still open for business. As my American colleagues and I struggled through Teams meetings on the Monday morning after a long weekend, one admitted he got pulled back in to his work-from-home office due to the non-stop and global nature of our business.
This year, most of us will be staying home for the holidays. And for some of us, this means working from home for the holidays, probably for the first time ever. Striking a work-life balance in 2020 has been a delicate tightrope walk, especially for the members of our workforce who also happen to be raising families.
How can energy analysts and traders strike the right balance – especially during the busy end-of-year season when family time matters most?
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- Make the most of automation – cut down on process
When it comes to forward curves risk management, it’s pretty simple: if your forward curves aren’t automated, you’re doing it wrong. Maybe you’re manually managing dozens of individual data integration points, or using multiple Excel spreadsheets with cross-workbook references to generate curves. Ask yourself, why? Your time is precious, and there’s a faster way.
We recently presented a public demo of our CurveBuilder technology, which shows how quickly anyone on the trade floor can create a new and complex curve. Our team also showed how forward curve formulas can be quickly updated and edited between traders and analysts. You can watch the full presentation here.
- Get holiday calendars in line (and automated)
In commodity markets, missing a calendar roll can cost analysts and traders big. It’s no small task to maintain and manage the various market calendars that are ever changing, rolling and taking bank holidays.
Enverus Calendar Manager changes that and takes away all the stress of aligning calendars in order to create accurate forward curve analysis. Watch our demo and skip to 19:30 to get straight to CurveBuilder calendar feature that literally makes our customers cheer!
- Save time on end-of-year audits – track every change
Risk managers and traders know all about how important it is to get thorough audits done in a timely matter. For the risk managers who are tasked with identifying every possible market risk and must maintain a mitigation strategy that is constantly updated and provided to executive teams, CurveBuilder’s audit trails are a business necessity.
With CurveBuilder, risk analysts and traders are beginning to see how much easier forward curve risk management can be. The tool is easy to use; and users find the sophistication of simplicity when using CurveBuilder to assemble forward curves.
Bringing an enterprise-wide solution to your trade shop – and one that helps everyone in your organization thrive, even while working from home – can take months to consider and approve internally. To get a more digestible idea of what’s possible with CurveBuilder, try signing up for our proof of concept.
by Enverus | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
With the recent surge in COVID-19 infections across much of the developed world, policymakers have started to re-introduce lockdown measures to control the spread. These efforts often restrict the movement of people in public spaces, reducing close contact to one another. France is currently under a national lockdown where people are only permitted to go to work, buy essential goods like groceries or seek medical help; restaurants and bars remain closed. The U.S. has not implemented a national lockdown but many state governments, including California, Oregon, Washington and Michigan, have shut down indoor dining among other measures. The implications of lockdowns on oil demand are clear: if sustained and widespread, fewer people will be driving and therefore consuming less gasoline and diesel.
Figure 1 shows daily COVID-19 infections rates along with residential mobility in OECD and non-OECD countries. Residential mobility is one of Google’s six mobility indicators but unlike the other five, which show changes in the number of visits to parks, transit stations, retail outlets, etc. relative to pre-pandemic levels, this indicator shows how time spent at home has changed. Since the start of October, COVID-19 infections increased by nearly 300,000 cases per day in OECD countries; governments responded by gradually introducing restrictions. With greater lockdowns, residential mobility has increased as people stay home. Figure 2 compares the U.S. to OECD European countries. The U.S. is in a third wave of COVID-19 infections and residential mobility is beginning to trend upwards as governors try to curb the spread of infections in their states by imposing lockdown measures. We will be monitoring Infection rates and containment measures worldwide in coming weeks.
FIGURE 1 | COVID-19 Infections and Mobility in OECD and Non-OECD Countries
FIGURE 2 | COVID-19 Infections and Mobility in OECD Europe and US
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by Enverus | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
One tool Enverus uses to evaluate and analyze different regions of a play is generating distinct geographical regions. Enverus uses a 2D map clustering algorithm to create geologically similar regions that are ranked based on rock characteristics. We then look at other factors like well activity, productivity and cost structure to assign breakevens to each region and to estimate the competitiveness of future drilling locations across a play.
In the Haynesville Shale in Texas and Louisiana, the geological factors with the largest influence on well productivity include porosity, depth and thickness (North America Basin Trends). By clustering the Haynesville play on these parameters, we obtained seven geologically distinct regions (Figure 1) and deepened our understanding of the quality of remaining inventory. These ranked clusters can help assess which areas currently hold the most upside potential and when lower-tier acreage comes into the money with improving prices. See our full analysis in our recent Haynesville Play Fundamentals report.
FIGURE 1 | Geologically-Derived Haynesville Clusters
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by Enverus | Nov 18, 2020 | Newsroom
Austin, Texas (November 18, 2020) — Enverus, the leading energy SaaS and data analytics company, has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2020 honor by the Houston Chronicle. The list is based on feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage, LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 drivers of engaged cultures that are critical to the success of any organization: including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few.
“In times of great change, it is more important than ever to maintain a connection among employees,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. “When you give your employees a voice, you come together to navigate challenges and shape your path forward based on real-time insights into what works best for your organization. The Top Workplaces program can be that positive outcome your company can rally around in the coming months to celebrate leadership and the importance of maintaining an employee-focused culture, even during challenging times.”
“Our company’s purpose is to fuel the global quality of life and that begins with the world’s most important energy decisions,” said Jeff Hughes, CEO of Enverus. “As the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the world, it impacted energy too, and with Houston, the U.S. energy capital, squarely in the middle of it all. We committed this year to focusing on our employees so they could in turn focus on our customers.”
“As the largest SaaS energy company, Enverus sits in unique position, with vast amounts of data, incredible analytics and software solutions, to create amazing insights that touch every part of the energy ecosystem. But central to all that are our people. Across the company, we have nearly 1,500 employees, all of which bring their own experience and intellectual capital to the table to create amazing capabilities that our customers get to leverage. I couldn’t be prouder of our team,” said Hughes.
During the last four years, Enverus has grown tremendously through product innovation, market expansion and acquisitions. In February of this year, it acquired RS Energy Group, combining the companies’ complementary strengths to accelerate technology, machine learning and advanced analytics across the energy market. Enverus is now comprised of three business units all of which are highly complementary to one another and together create value for customers that could never be achieved otherwise.
About Enverus
Enverus is the leading energy SaaS company delivering highly-technical insights and predictive/prescriptive analytics that empower customers to make decisions that increase profit. Enverus’ innovative technologies drive production and investment strategies, enable best practices for energy and commodity trading and risk management, and reduce costs through automated processes across critical business functions. Enverus is a strategic partner to more than 6,000 customers in 50 countries. Enverus is a portfolio company of Genstar Capital. Learn more at Enverus.com.
About Energage
Energage offers a fully unified SaaS platform, plus support and professional services, to help organizations recruit and retain the right talent. As a B-Corporation founding member, Energage has committed itself to the purpose of making the world a better place to work together. Based on 14 years of culture research, the engine behind 51 Top Workplaces programs across the country, and data gathered from over 20 million employees at 60,000 organizations, Energage has isolated the 15 drivers of engaged cultures that are critical to the success of any business, and developed the tools and expertise to help organizations measure, shape and showcase their unique culture to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. For more information, please visit energage.com. Follow us on Twitter @teamenergage and Facebook and LinkedIn @energage.
by Enverus | Nov 17, 2020 | Newsroom
Austin, Texas (November 17, 2020) — Enverus, the leading oil and gas SaaS and data analytics company, has released its latest FundamentalEdge report which draws heavily from its new Activity Analytics suite.
Leveraging multiple datasets and information sources, Activity Analytics provides near real-time monitoring of operator movements in the U.S., such as when a pad is cleared, when rigs arrive and depart and when frac crews begin well completions.
“Why wait for quarterly earnings disclosures when you can monitor an operator’s movements in near real-time,” asks Rob McBride, senior director of Strategic Analytics at Enverus. “Many industries, but particularly oil and gas, are about who is doing what, when, where and why. But lockdowns and the way the industry has historically done business has been flipped on its head due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, that cloud of uncertainty has also ushered in new opportunities.”
“There’s very little guessing with Activity Analytics, which provides visibility into key milestones in the lifecycle of an oil and gas well, which should benefit both operators and investors alike. This, coupled with our breakthrough business automation tools, is helping the oil and gas industry not only survive, but thrive. This is what transparency means and the definition of connecting an industry through integrated data, analytics and smart network technologies,” McBride said.
Today’s FundamentalEdge report release follows a string of announcements and product offerings made by Enverus aimed at helping all segments of the industry manage a challenging energy market wrought with price drops and demand destruction tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. Members of the media can download a preview of the full report or contact Jon Haubert to schedule an interview with one of Enverus’ expert analysts.
Key takeaways from the report:
- Both rig and frac crew activity fell sharply in the first half of 2020 as the ill-timed Saudi-Russia price war coincided with the rapid spread of COVID-19 around the globe. Fortunately, the Saudi-Russia price war was short-lived, and the OPEC+ group ultimately approved deep production cuts, but the global pandemic and resulting lockdowns cut deeply into global petroleum demand, driving steep reductions in active rig counts. Even though the lockdowns were eased in the second quarter and some semblance of normal economic activity has since returned, the recovery witnessed in the U.S. oil patch has been mixed so far.
- The U.S. rig count has recovered only modestly since it bottomed out in July. Meanwhile, frac crew activity has picked up strongly in certain parts of the country. The main driver of the increase in frac crew activity (which bottomed out in May) has been the Permian. Competing with some of the best acreage in the country in terms of economics, operators in the region have been able to restart some activity as prices have climbed back to near $40/bbl.
- To no surprise, the main areas of the Permian seeing a comeback are the Midland and the Delaware basins, particularly in the North Gas and Midland Central sub-plays.
- Frac crew activity within the Delaware has seen volatility within the last year. Historically, the majority of the frac crew activity was seen in the North Gas window. However, in the back half of 2019 an uptick was seen in the North Oil window, and it has consistently competed with the North Gas window as the leader for frac crew activity since. In September, for the first time since April, the North Gas window took over again as the area with the majority of the frac crew activity in the Delaware.
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About Enverus
Enverus is the leading energy SaaS company delivering highly-technical insights and predictive/prescriptive analytics that empower customers to make decisions that increase profit. Enverus’ innovative technologies drive production and investment strategies, enable best practices for energy and commodity trading and risk management, and reduce costs through automated processes across critical business functions. Enverus is a strategic partner to more than 6,000 customers in 50 countries. Enverus is a portfolio company of Genstar Capital. Learn more at Enverus.com.
by Susie Yuill | Nov 16, 2020 | Blog, Business Automation
As a company grows, so does its process, administrative and technology needs. Operations become more complex, and the company must adapt to remain efficient in this new environment. At some point, oil and gas companies must examine and decide how they should evolve to meet the company’s growth, and if it makes more sense to outsource work to a consulting firm or do this work in-house.
First, let’s distinguish the relationship between consulting and outsourcing. Consulting, in this case for strategic management, is “outsourcing” the work of designing a new strategy that meets your company’s future needs and vision to an outside firm.
Benefits of hiring a consultant
For companies pinched by shrinking margins, the benefits of outsourcing strategic planning are compelling:
- Realize results faster — Outsourcing specialized work to experts means faster completion on projects, such as technology implementation or process improvement, so operators can experience the benefits of the new processes and solutions faster.
- Improved focus and resource availability — Outsourcing allows oil and gas companies to focus on solving core business problems or gain more time to work on operations that directly influence the company. This is especially critical for smaller operators or operators that experience a reduction in staff — 18% of small businesses turn to outsourcing as a way to increase available expertise and assistance.
- Cost savings — Hiring consultants is generally more affordable than hiring a full-time employee because you avoid the added cost of taxes and benefits. Also, due to their expertise, they can identify the processes, strategy and systems needed, and implement the strategy faster and more efficiently. This efficiency potentially translates into cost savings for the company. According to a recent Outsourcing Institute Survey, companies reported a 9% reduction in costs through outsourcing.
- Knowledge of best practices — Consultants bring valuable experience from a variety of different companies, which can offer creative, more diverse ideas than you might get within your own organization. As a new “set of eyes,” they also bring objectivity to the process.
What to consider when hiring a consultant
After looking at these benefits, hiring a consultant to manage some of your business processes seems like a no-brainer. But there are a few things to consider when choosing a strategic partner.
- What is the consulting company’s track record? How long has it been around?
Make sure the firm has a positive track record. You can investigate this by contacting other reference customers to learn about their experience with the company.
- Does the company have industry specific experience and knowledge of the oil and gas industry?
There are several processes and regulations unique to oil and gas. For example, supplier management, increases in invoice volumes, managing massive numbers of contracts and making price changes are just some of the many activities finance and supply chain teams struggle to manage. You want to make sure the vendor you choose is well-versed in these nuances.
- Does the firm have the right network of business relationships to bring together multiple clients to collectively solve a problem?
Supply chain operations between upstream and midstream companies and their service providers is complex. At times, so are the business relationships. Yet these companies must be cooperative to bring the end product to market. Hiring consultants that have strong business relationships across the different organizations in these different segments ensures you will meet your goals faster and the process will be much smoother.
- Does the consultant’s experience align with your current and future technology strategy?
Make sure the firm understands your future vision and can make the right recommendations for your current and future business environment. They should have extensive knowledge in best practices to help you meet your goals. Also, make sure they can track the project’s progress and provide success metrics to demonstrate the impact of their work on your organization.
- Is their service pricing structure flexible?
If there is one thing that remains the same, it’s that the oil and gas market constantly changes. With such market volatility, companies need to be able to quickly shift strategy. Make sure your agreement with your consulting firm allows the flexibility to adjust to market shifts.
What are Enverus Professional Services?
Enverus Professional Services are consulting services provided by the internal Business Automation team of technology and process experts, and are designed to optimize customer usage and maximize ROI of their OpenInvoice solutions. Services include training, technology implementation and optimization, systems integration, data management and strategic analysis of a customer’s current technology stack and processes.
The team offers benefits to OpenInvoice users that other companies cannot offer including:
- Specific technology and expertise — Our knowledge and experience of process and solutions best practices allow us to recommend and deploy workflows and solutions that fit each customer’s individual needs faster, with less disruption. Also, unlike other vendors, our team members have strong industry relationships with operators, midstream and service providers in the Enverus network, which accelerates the onboarding and implementation of new technologies within organizations.
- Maximize the value of technology investments — Enverus expertise helps customers realize their goals faster, ensuring they get the most value from their technology. For example, the team can assist an operator increase its PriceBook coverage and compliance to improve spend management.
- Quantifiable Results — All OpenInvoice activity and data are tracked for each client, so customers can monitor the progress of their initiative and measure the results of the project overtime.
- Flexible, cost-effective subscription — Customers subscribe by hours and can choose the services they want to focus on. They have flexibility to pivot the services as goals, priorities and resources change.
- Assistance to navigate market transitions — Enverus experts have industry specific knowledge to guide your company through market transitions such as M&A and bankruptcy.
Watch this brief video to learn how Enverus Professional Services assisted Discovery Natural Resources in implementing PriceBook compliance and touchless invoicing automation.
If you currently use OpenInvoice solutions and want to increase the value you receive from your investments, or are looking to digitalize your AP process, book a free business review with our services team today be emailing [email protected] or call 1-800-282-4245.
