EPAP Implementation Services

For medium to large operators, Corvelle has provided as many of the following services as requested:

1. Conduct an initial EPAP assessment
2. Provide leadership & project resources
3. Brief senior management
4. Build awareness of operator staff
5. Develop project plan
6. Develop evaluation of controls procedure
7. Coach EPAP implementation project team

Corvelle consultants typically supplement the capacity and capability of the operator staff to ensure a successful EPAP implementation.

Corvelle adds value by ensuring that best practices for EPAP implementation are followed. These best practices accelerate, risk-reduce and cost-contain EPAP implementation projects for operators.

To invite a Corvelle consultant to your office to describe the Corvelle Advantage for EPAP implementation projects, please contact us.

For operators outside of Calgary, Corvelle consultants deliver the Remote EPAP Implementation Planning Workshop to avoid all travel-related delivery costs. The outline of the workshop includes:

1. Understanding Directive 076 and PNG076 – Enhanced Production Audit Program (EPAP)
2. Understanding Directive PNG028 – Initiating and Operating the Enhanced Production Audit Program (EPAP)
3. Scoping the EPAP implementation project
4. Estimating the EPAP implementation project size
5. Project organization – roles & responsibilities
6. Strategies for EPAP operation
7. Estimating EPAP operation resources, cost, effort

Corvelle adds value by minimizing EPAP implementation effort.

For a more detailed description of the workshop, please download the descriptive document.

To invite a Corvelle consultant to your office to describe the Corvelle Advantage for the Remote EPAP Implementation Planning Workshop, please contact us.

Corvelle recently completed a project with a mid-sized oil and gas company to develop measurement schematics for their entire portfolio of operated properties.

Measurement schematics form the basis for accurately determining the flow of produced volumes from the wellhead to the disposition point. Measurement schematics are also called Metering schematics.

In 2012, AER published new schematics requirements. To familiarize yourself with the new AER schematics requirements, please download the document.

On April 1, 2016 Directive PNG017 came into effect in Saskatchewan.  This directive includes a schematics requirement that is identical to Alberta. Operators have been given a two-year implementation period for schematics that ends on March 31, 2018.

A Corvelle Measurement Schematics Development adds value by ensuring that best practices for measurement schematics development are followed. These best practices accelerate, risk-reduce and cost-contain development of measurement schematics for operators.

For a more detailed description of the benefits and the development process, please download the descriptive document.

To invite a Corvelle consultant to your office to describe the Corvelle Advantage for Measurement Schematics Development, please contact us.

Concerned about inadequate fuel, flare and vent recording and reporting?

Operators become aware of inadequate fuel, flare and vent recording and reporting through CAR items, out-of-range proration factors and AER Field Surveillance noncompliances.

To read about how Corvelle can help, please download the descriptive document.

Concerned about losing revenue to measurement errors?

Operators become aware of lost revenue when estimates of plant gate sales volumes are surprisingly lower than production volumes.

To read about how Corvelle can help, please download the descriptive document.

Corvelle recently completed several process improvement and remediation projects for mid-sized oil and gas company.

These projects included improvements to:

1. Measurement schematics.
2. Processes for recording data in field data capture systems.
3.  Managing sampling and analysis data.
4. Processes for Fuel, flare and vent recording and reporting.
5. The control environment for measurement and reporting.
6. Field data capture to production accounting interfaces.
7. Recording evidence of control performance.
8. Preparing a MARP for submission to AER.

To invite a Corvelle consultant to your office to describe the Corvelle Advantage for process improvement and remediation services, please contact us.

For small operators, Corvelle has provided as many of the following services as requested:

1. Lead an EPAP Overview and Planning Workshop
2. Prepare the EPAP declaration
3. Conduct evaluations of controls
4. Advise on remediation work

Corvelle consultants typically advise the operator staff to ensure a successful EPAP implementation.

Corvelle adds value by minimizing EPAP implementation effort.

To invite a Corvelle consultant to your office to describe the Corvelle Advantage for EPAP implementation projects, please contact us.

Corvelle Consulting is pleased to offer the EPAP Implementation Seminar.

You will learn:

1. How to plan and execute an EPAP implementation project
2. How to operate EPAP for sustainable business advantage
3. How to leverage the rich resources that are freely available to position your EPAP project for success

For more information and a registration form, please download the descriptive document.

For operators that are actively implementing or have implemented EPAP, Corvelle conducts reviews in one or more of the following areas to determine:

1. The completeness and quality of the business process and controls documentation.
2. The effectiveness of the controls.
3. The readiness to submit an EPAP Declaration.

Some of the benefits achieved through Corvelle’s EPAP Review are:

1. An independent opinion on the adequacy of the EPAP implementation work.
2. Corvelle recommendations to tune the EPAP implementation to achieve more benefits or to lower operating costs.
3. Additional assurance to respond to a Regulator inquiry in an appropriate manner.
4. An added level of assurance for the senior executives that sign the EPAP Declaration.

A Corvelle EPAP Review adds value by ensuring that best practices for EPAP implementation are followed. These best practices accelerate, risk-reduce and cost-contain EPAP implementations for operators.

To invite a Corvelle consultant to your office to describe the Corvelle Advantage for EPAP implementations, please contact us.

Many small operators initially over-estimate the demands EPAP will make on their limited staff capacity.

To address this common misconception, a Corvelle consultant delivers a two hour EPAP Overview and Planning Workshop for small operators.

The goals of the EPAP workshop are:

1. Provide operator staff with an introduction to EPAP.
2. Assign responsibility for the various aspects of EPAP operation.

agenda for the EPAP workshop is as follows:

1. Overview of EPAP
2. Impact on operators
3. Description of typical roles & responsibilities
4. Discussion of who will accept responsibility for which aspects of EPAP operation

Corvelle’s experience with several small operators is that operator staff can typically perform the work needed to operate EPAP independently after the EPAP workshop.

The fee for the workshop is $500 plus GST.

To invite a Corvelle consultant to your office to deliver the EPAP Overview and Planning Workshop, please contact us.

The workshop will be most effective if staff who work in these areas participate:

Field operations
Engineering
Production accounting
The senior executives who will sign the EPAP Declaration
There’s no limit on the number of attendees so if someone wants to know more about EPAP, please include that person.

Do these questions describe your organization and current situation:

• Are you a small oil & gas operator?
• Do you have direct knowledge of your field operations and production accounting?
• Are you unsure about how to conduct an evaluation of controls?
• You don’t have time to digest all the EPAP information the Regulator has published?
• Do you want to minimize your time and effort to prepare your EPAP Declaration?

Corvelle Consulting is pleased to offer a High-speed EPAP Overview & Evaluation of Controls Seminar.

For more information and a registration form, please download the descriptive document.

Do these questions describe your organization and current situation:

• Are you a small oil & gas operator?
• Do you have direct knowledge of your field operations and production accounting?
• Are you unsure about how to implement EPAP?
• You don’t have time to digest all the EPAP information the Regulator has published?
• Do you want to minimize your time and effort to implement EPAP?

Corvelle Consulting is pleased to offer a High-speed EPAP Overview & Implementation Seminar.

For more information and a registration form, please download the descriptive document.