1.Let's run key operational numbers for a TRADITIONAL upstream O&G producer
Some expenses vary greatly between firms with small, medium and large production facilities. Adjust as needed
Not ALL, but the KEY sections listed, to illustrate the value of TRUApp. Non-affected line items are omitted
Select your oilfield size:
- Small
- Medium
- Large
Small
1
2
3
4
Revenue / Income
$ 26,850,000
Production
BPD+BOE
Oil Price
USD per barrel
# of wells
for per-well numbers below.
shutdown days
The employee headcount (usually staff) can be reduced:
Who'd do admin and support work?
The contractor headcount (usually craft) can be reduced:
Who'd do craft and specialized work?
Other Key Costs can be reduced:
What will not be done? Will things break often?
Some CapEx can totally be reduced:
What is (negatively) affected? Future production???
Logically simplified and automated, integrated processes lead to much less effort to execute
Numerous disconnected I.T. systems replaced will directly reduce expenses
Single field "operating system", TRUApp, needs much, much reduced headcount in the same field!
All other costs that depend on personnel and processes will naturally get reduced. Big time.
Less Key, Operational Costs
$ -76,545,044
$ -40,842,978
$ 7,846,139
$ 0
Royalties & Tax
"not “income tax“"
Employees
US burdened cost
% office based
Contractors
US average bill rate
% field based
Other Key cost
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Reduce taxes?
Reduce staff?
%
reduction, saving of
$
Can we have more people in the office?
%
office based
Reduce contractors?
%
reduction, saving of
$
Can we move some to the office?
%
field-based
Reduce other key costs?
%
reduction, saving of
$
Employee: starting with , reduced to (with negative consequences?)
Way less employees will be needed
employees
80% office-based
Employees in the office/from home
% in office
Contractors: starting with , reduced to (with negative consequences?)
Way less contractors will be needed
contractors
80% field-based
Contractors working in the field
% on the field
Other Key cost: reducing $ down to $
Better efficiency further reduces key costs
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Gross, Key Operating Profit (or Loss)
$ -49,695,044
$ -48,689,117
$ -48,689,117
$ -1,242,376,100
Unworkable
Field Life
years, on average
Gross, Key Operating Profit (or Loss)
1 year
25 years
No TRUApp Energy
$ 0
With TRUApp Energy
$ 0
Other Key cost details
$ -14,974,617
LESS
Office
Rent of Office Space (combined if multiple offices)
LESS
people in the office (based on your numbers above)
sq. ft per person (for an average office and cubicle space)
$
per sq ft per month of Class A office
LESS
Office Expenses
Usually averages 25% of rent: General, utilities, maintenance, repairs, supplies, subscriptions, dues, comms, internet, transportation, parking, gifts, furniture, fixtures, etc (non-IT)
%
LESS
Insurance
All business insurance, besides employee health insurance
$
Let's say a $10M bond costs 1%. Based on a size of the oilfield, a different bond amount is needed (rough estimates: small - $2.5M, med - $10M, large - $40M)
$
General Liability insurance with various riders needed, Our cost estimate is $1k per $1M in sales
$
LESS
WorkComp from US BLS: $0.45 per hour worked for 2,200 annual of employees only
Well Work-over cost
If, say, a gas lifted well needs to be worked over once every 3 years for a duration of 7 days
$
(pump jack vs gas lift?) total daily rate would be
$
daily rate of a work over rig
$
coil intervention unit
$
slickline
Turnaround
$
Daily cost of work (a 20k bpd facility could easily have a $15M cost for a 10 day turnaround).
$
based on the assumptions, we can see daily cost of turnaround work per 1 bpd then...
LESS
Camp & Billeting
Estimates are calc'ed based on renting beds, all inclusive costs. Owning camps changes this slighly
LESS
field-based employees
LESS
field-based contractors
LESS
total beds needed (employees – non-rotational, contractors – all rotational thus share beds… usually you'd need more beds rather then less)
$
avg “all-in” daily cost per bed (full room+board) IF fully renting someone’s camp
LESS
Travel
Let’s take AK. Company paid travel would have 2 legs: Anchorage -> North Slope on a commercial + charter flight to the field
$
Round trip cost of a first leg, per person: on a commercial flight
$
Round trip of the second leg, per person: on a chartered flight (say a 6 seater charter plane costs $2.5k per round trip)
$
total per person travel, round trip. One person = 12 round trips per year
Tools & PPE
Full cost including: purchase, R&R, re-stock, warehouse costs, audits, etc
Let's say 2,500 bpd facility could budget $200k/mo "all in" for this line item
$
per 1 bpd facility average
Spare Parts
A.k.a. Materials Management, warehousing, etc (include multiple warehouses usually seetp by vendors but billed to your facility)
Let's say 2,500 bpd facility could budget $200k/mo "full cost" w/o labor
$
per 1 bpd average
Note: warehouse does increase costs! (but provides less downtime and less other costs)
Heavy Equipment
A remote facility needs heavy equipment on site to operate. For easier calcs, let's "rent everything"
Let's say, a 1500 bpd facility could use: An excavator, 2 loaders, a dozer, a crane, 10 pickups, 3 mobile pumps, a hot oil truck, a compactor, a road grader…
$
total monthly
$
total annually
$
per 1 bpd averaged
$
excavator lease
$
loader
$
dozer
$
crane
$
pickups
$
mobile pumps
$
hot oil truck
$
compactor
$
road grader
LESS
Full IT costs
These are usually “buried” in budgets of various departments and CapEx, over various years... HARD to see "clearly"!
full-time equivalent “general” IT people will be needed, but their labor is already counted above
An honest minimum of 100 “software tools” for a smaller facility (going up to 4,500 such tools for a super-major). Adjust per size here. "A tool" can be small (a mighty excel spreadsheet) or large ($10M Documentum-based customized EDMS)
LESS
of such "average software tools"
$
for all of the software needed, on annual basis
$
Each tool costs “license” fee for “half the people” as users, on avg: one time (there are some for $500, and some for $30M…) - USUALLY A CAP-EX !!! (or "buried" in a departmental budget)
LESS
Total licenses, if licensing is per person (good idea is a # of beds in the field + ppl in the office, see above).. Thus, a $500 tool for “half the users” actually costs $47,500
$
Actual “installed & implemented” cost averages to double the license cost (including implementation… usually costs way more then double… if the firm implementing that is “amazing”) - USUALLY A CAP-EX !!!
$
and then 25% in "FULL support per year" there after, however they actually break it down (includes upgrades ("software assurance type"), updates, training, user lvl 1 vs 2 vs 3 support).
$
software is usually fully replaced every 10 years, this gives us averaged annual cost
$
LESS
I.T. infrastructure: At a minimum 40U of 2U servers, 20 servers @ $10k per server (7 years life), comms, networking, etc. This roughly depends on the size of facility and # of "software tools"
$
There are always "misc costs" in the I.T. world
$
LESS
All the above could be represented on an averaged annualized cost, per BPD (thus facility size dependent)
Logistics & freight forwarding
A remote facility needs various logistics expenses: freight forwarding and consolidation, etc
let's say 1,500 bpd facility would be $250k per year (without labor)
$
per bpd on average
LESS
Misc other costs
Usually equal% of "Other Key Costs"

