CSG allocation and GHG reporting, delivered in under 10 months.
An integrated CSG company operating in Queensland’s Bowen and Surat Basins needed a production data management system that could handle complex field operations, automate data validation across a growing well count, and deliver allocation and greenhouse gas reporting from a single platform.
They went to a competitive tender across three software solutions. EnergySys was selected.
Challenge: legacy field operations, no system of record, and a tight deployment window
The operator’s existing assets ran remote field operations with complex field data capture. There was no system of record for field data validation, allocation, and corporate reporting. Managing wells accurately and efficiently demanded a platform that their team could configure and maintain themselves, without ongoing reliance on external resources.
The business also needed to account for planned asset expansion. By the end of 2022, growth in the asset base required a solution that could scale without significant additional effort or cost.
The deployment window was tight. The contract was awarded in January 2022. The target was to design, configure, and deploy a complete solution in under 10 months.
Why EnergySys was selected.
The operator evaluated three software solutions before awarding the project to EnergySys, with reseller partner Elite Energy as the implementation partner.
The reasons for selecting EnergySys centred on four factors:
- Low-code configuration, meaning the operator’s own team could maintain and evolve the system without external service providers.
- Full transparency and auditability of data and calculations, a critical requirement for a regulated CSG operation.
- No future capital expenditure for upgrades, as platform updates are included in the subscription.
- Compatibility with the wider Queensland CSG ecosystem, where multiple non-operated participants sharing a single platform simplifies data interchange significantly.
Solution: field data validation, allocation, and greenhouse gas reporting on a single platform
Field data validation
The operator’s hydrocarbon accounting system on EnergySys was configured with a library of upstream CSG data validation rules, applied to field, facilities, and commercial datasets.
The validation rules allow the team to manage data quality by exception rather than by checking every data point manually. Variable tolerance levels mean the system flags what matters and lets engineers focus their attention accordingly. As the team’s confidence in the validation rules grows, they can manage a higher well count per engineer without compromising data integrity.
Allocation and greenhouse gas reporting
The objective was to deploy a complete allocation and greenhouse gas reporting solution across two assets within the 10-month window. The low-code nature of the platform made that timeline achievable.
The deployed system provides a single source of truth for all production-related data, an allocation system that meets Queensland CSG regulatory requirements, and integrated greenhouse gas and partner reporting.
Outcomes.
- A complete production data management system deployed across two assets in under 10 months, won in a competitive tender between three software solutions.
- Field data validation configured by exception across upstream CSG datasets, reducing manual data checking and increasing the well count each engineer can manage confidently.
- Allocation and greenhouse gas reporting running from a single platform, replacing a fragmented manual process with no system of record.
- A low-code, configurable system the operator’s own team can maintain and expand without external service providers.
The bottom line.
A complex CSG operation, a tight deadline, and a competitive tender. EnergySys was selected because it could be deployed quickly, configured by the team running the operation, and trusted to produce auditable results.
That combination, speed of deployment, transparency of calculation, and operator ownership, is what the platform is built for.
