Word to the Wise: 5 ways to reduce your ARO

January 28, 2020

There are many ways to reduce your ARO by addressing the liabilities held by your company. Here are five of […]

Word to the Wise: Open Asset Evaluation for January 2020

January 21, 2020

Succeeding in oil and gas development comes down to how well and how quickly you can analyze potential opportunities. Once […]

Word to the Wise: Why LMR values aren’t a good indicator of a company’s liabilities

January 14, 2020

Here’s why the LMR information you used to get from the AER wasn’t telling the whole picture. Each week, XI […]

Word to the Wise: What happened to the AER’s LMR report?

December 17, 2019

Have you noticed that the LMR report provided by the AER this month had a lot less information than it […]

Word to the Wise: What you need to know about working interest in ARO

December 10, 2019

When it comes to calculating liability obligations and dealing with your retirement obligation planning, working interest partners are one of […]

Word to the Wise: “The industry is in this together”: A summary of the ARO Best Practices Leadership Panel

November 19, 2019

Oil and gas industry leaders gathered for XI Technologies’ ARO Best Practices Leadership Panel on November 14, 2019. This is […]

Word to the Wise: It’s 2019, do you know where your assets are?

November 5, 2019

Did you know that you could have old, sold off assets still tied to your company? Each week, XI Technologies […]

Word to the Wise: Simplifying your bank credit redeterminations

October 29, 2019

Redetermination of bank credit facilities is an annual or semi-annual exercise that almost all E&P companies have become used to. […]

Word to the Wise: Why you need to pay attention to your non-operated retirement liabilities, and how to do it

September 3, 2019

Asset Retirement Obligations (ARO) only pertain to the operators of wells and facilities, right? Wrong! Each week, XI Technologies scans […]

Word to the Wise: How the scheduling and discounting of liabilities affects end of life cost estimates

August 20, 2019

Our final blog in this five part series of LLR vs ARO looks at the impact of scheduling and discounting. […]