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ProTrend - Intelligent Fluid Analysis Management

Increase Accuracy – Save Time and Money – Increase Control

Fluid analyses are a critical component of any petroleum measurement and revenue allocation program. Errors in fluid analyses are a primary cause of revenue, royalty and reporting error. By reducing fluid analysis errors, companies can significantly save both time and money. Until the existence of ProTrend, there had been no tool available to effectively manage fluid analyses and ensure that accurate fluid analysis data was delivered to end users in a timely manner. ProTrend manages and validates this critical information, which is required for measurement and revenue allocation.

Combined with ScanGas, a gas chart measurement system, and NetFlow, a fully scalable application that supports electronic monitoring and measurement, CriticalControl offers the total production data solution.

What is ProTrend?

ProTrend is a superior web-enabled tool that simplifies fluid analysis management, while improving the accuracy and integrity of fluid compositions used in measurement and product allocation systems. The functionality of ProTrend far exceeds the capability offered by lab viewer software and allows users to store all analyses in a single database, regardless of the lab that performs the analysis.

ProTrend is an accurate, low cost, lab independent solution fluid analyses management system. This application enables users to eliminate invalid or out-of-date fluid analyses, thereby reducing errors in revenue allocations. ProTrend has the capacity to:

• Schedule fluid samples to be taken and provide a tracking mechanism to ensure sampling compliance, including third party supplied data
• Electronically import fluid analysis data from any lab
• Automatically validate analysis data against rigorous criteria
• Electronically export valid fluid analysis data to all industry standard systems both internally and externally

How does ProTrend Work?

ProTrend takes electronic data files from any lab and passes it through a rigorous validation process that employs client-controlled criteria. All analyses are objectively validated. Analyses that meet these criteria are made available for immediate use without human intervention.

Analyses that do not meet criteria are flagged and held for review by a qualified user. ProTrend also provides clients with the ability to track, schedule and completely manage entire fluid analysis processes from a single repository, regardless of the lab that performed the analysis. ProTrend also allows clients to easily manage the transfer of analysis data to measurement and revenue systems, which are dependant on fluid quality to perform accurate calculations. Additionally, the effort to key analysis data and associated keying errors are virtually eliminated.

ProTrend Tools

ProTrend offers a number of tools that enable advanced calculations with the click of a mouse – saving time and money, while reducing errors. Calculation capabilities include:

• Single, group and well re-combinations
• Effluent test factor calculations
• Allocation validation (AccuCheck)

AccuCheck

AccuCheck is a stand-alone service that enables users to verify, with a high degree of accuracy, product allocations to individual wells or gas receipt points. Using a small subset of data, AccuCheck quickly and easily compares the amount of residue gas and products actually received against the amounts that should have been allocated to the well or receipt point, quickly pinpointing any discrepancies and attaching a dollar value.