During acquistion and merger activities, extensive downtime and inefficiencies are experienced by the land, administrative and accounting staffs of most mid-sized independents, primarily due to pesonnel that are pulled off weekly and monthly responsibilities to assist in the integration of the newly acquired properties or companies. Most often accounting, engineering, land and administration systems are different, and many man hours are required to integrate the new properties into existing systems. CEC Energy Consultants provides its clients with the ability to seamlessly integrate newly acquired property data into the acquiring company’s systems without taking any personnel away from existing duties and responsibilities. That means no downtime or loss of revenues from existing operations and immediate integration of newly acquired properties for timely joint interest billing, quicker division order processing, accurate reserve assessment and analysis of newly acquired properties and most importantly, minimal time delay in realizing the impact of the newly acquired revenue streams. CEC Energy Consultants can also provide its clients with assistance with the following services:

Data Migration can generally be defined as “the successful movement of information (data) from one software system to another.” It may be the result of changing from one vendor software system to another or merging one company’s information into another’s existing same or dissimilar software system. Originating data might not exist in a system at all but be in spreadsheet or only in paper files.

Data migration is much more than simply moving all the information from a current system neatly into another. There is never a simple migration…not even in same system mergers.

Data cleansing, formatting, mapping and conversion are mandatory aspects of any migration and are the most crucial, time consuming and expensive elements of any migration. Mandatory data field, record keys, pointer and master file numbering schemes must be identified in the originating system and mapped to meet the receiving systems requirements. Internal structures, formatting, detail and normalization levels are unique to each system and always require pre-processing tasks such as editing, re-arranging and re-grouping the originating data to meet the receiving dataset integrity, layout and format requirements.

Data projects of this magnitude present a cost effective opportunity to clean both systems. Every system’s data quality deteriorates over time; unused and duplicate records accumulate, numbering schemes and master tables become dated, name file errors and any number of other varying levels of corruptions make their way into the data. It makes sense to consider cleansing both systems simultaneously.

Database Query and Reporting
Each database comes with a querying language, a specialized language for requesting information from the database. It is a very valuable tool for Ad Hoc analysis of the data and preparing specialized reports that can’t be produced through the system software.

Electronic Data Interfacing
Utilizing electronic methods for automatic delivery of information from an external source to appropriate elements in the desired target dataset can result in enormous savings particularly in large dataset, manual entry projects.

On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a service that employs a technology enabling analysis of multidimensional datasets from any definable dimension. With the ability to drill-down and report detailed support through any number of roll-up levels it is a very flexible method for preparing browser based displays and reports targeting any level.

Custom Programming is offered when software system reports, querying and spreadsheets can’t produce the desired results. Custom software development (programming) very useful in can resolve most analysis or production deficiencies. It is a highly versatile addition to any company’s information management arsenal; able to take on many forms at many levels, replacing or working in step with other software. Programming proficiency includes Visual Basic 6.0, VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and Unibasic, and to a lesser extent Fortran 77 and Clipper 5.2

Technical Facility Design & Management services will design and coordinate the installation of appropriate communication and power environmental resources to a physical facility. In a new office build-out or re-engineering the office-place it is essential that appropriate power, telephone, network cable (wire or fiber), wireless access points and temperature control evaluated to assure that the physical abilities of the complex meet the organizations expectations.

Technical Infrastructure Management Service is an offering that allows the customer to focus on its core business in the knowledge that all infrastructure and resource needs will be met. Coordination and administration of servers, workstations, desktops, laptops, communication sources, storage requirements, software changes and upgrades, change managements for re-deployment of assets and any number of other day-to-day requirements.

Infrastructure Security System Administration is available when the security provided by building management is not sufficient for a company’s needs, forcing them to provide and administer their own. Both Northern Security Systems and GE Infrastructure Security (Casi-Rusco) provide reliable internal systems and are easily linked to external security firms. Administrative experience for either can be provided with both internal and remote administration.

Public and Private Network Management is a service that provides customer support for meeting all browser based goals, either public through its internet presence or private deployment of browser based services for secured delivery of internal information.

Kansas and Oklahoma Property Tax Renditions is a service that is available to assist clients in timely assessing property tax renditions and enabling its clients to realize substantial savings by aiding in the evaluation identification of properties that would benefit from negotiation with state taxing authorities. CEC Energy Consultants can provide this function as a service including the negotiation on behalf of the client, or setup the client’s systems to perform the annual assessment itself.

CEC Energy Consultants can program and design a Web Based Daily Production System that enables its clients to have immediate access to daily production reporting from its field operations anywhere in the world. This system can result in a substantial impact on company’s financials by the timely identification of wells that have changed dramatically and allow for the immediate remedy of the situation to restore a well’s productivity.

CEC Energy Consultants can assist with the Interfacing of any Public or Corporate Datasets into any industry software package, to allow for seamless updates and integration and evaluation of new or updated data, whether it is land, accounting, engineering, operations, or production data.