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Financial statement analysis (or financial analysis) is the process of reviewing and analyzing a company's financial statements to make better economic decisions. These statements include the income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, and a statement of retained earnings.
Introduction to Oil & Gas Industry,
Accounting &
Financial Statement Analysis
Copyright © by Wall Street Prep, Inc. | All rights reserved 1
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
A number of distinct yet
interconnected sectors
• There are a number of
sectors that make up the
O&G industry – each
focused on a specific
process in the value chain.
Companies focus on one
sector
• Given the complexities of
this extractive industry,
most companies focus on
one particular sector.
2
Exploration
&
Production
Transportation
Refining &
Marketing
O&G
Sector
Oilfield
Services
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Mission – to find and extract
• The Exploration & Production sector
involves all operations associated with
finding and extracting oil and gas.
• E&P sector can be broken out into the
exploration and production
components.
• Timing between the two components
can take years (and usually does!).
Crude terms
• Exploration & Production
is typically referred by its
acronym: E&P.
• Companies focused only
on this sector are
referred to as E&P
companies.
• E&P is also known as the
upstream sector, to
indicate the upward
extraction of the
commodities.
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Oil & gas industry sectors and players
• Pre-license prospecting
• Property/land rights
acquisition
• Exploration drilling
• Evaluation and appraisal
• Development
Production
Phase
Exploration
Phase
Timing Varies 5-10 Years
• Primary recovery method
• Secondary recovery method
• Tertiary (enhanced) recovery method
4
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Prospecting
• Involves performing a number of geological evaluations/surveys
to determine hydrocarbon presence .
Property acquisitions
• Involves activities relating to securing the rights from the
property owner to explore for and produce oil & gas in that
field/area.
• Fiscal terms surrounding property acquisitions (what is owned by
the oil companies versus original land owners/government) are
complex; we will examine them in the later section.
Exploration (drilling)
• Involves drilling exploration wells to determine if commercial
hydrocarbon quantities exist.
Evaluation and appraisal
• Involves confirming the initial exploration results through
appraisal wells drilled to gain further insight into the property,
including the size of the reservoir.
Development
• Involves activities relating to developing the discovered O&G
reserves for production.
Exploration costs (part 1)
• Geological and
geophysical (G&G)
costs
Exploration costs (part 2)
• Exploratory drilling
Acquisition costs
• Related to acquiring
the rights to explore
and develop
Development costs
• Drilling costs
• Storage costs
Exploration costs (part 3)
• Often include
appraisal-related costs
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Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Production – the beginning of the end
• Involves extracting, storing, and getting O&G ready for shipping.
• Companies typically follow a number of recovery methods to prolong the
production life of the property (typically 5-10 years).
Primary recovery
• Relies on the underground pressure, which if sufficient, will force O&G to
the surface.
• Less than 40% of O&G in the U.S. can usually be extracted using this
method.
Secondary recovery
• Implemented when natural pressure is insufficient to sustain commercial
O&G production.
• Utilizes a number of various methods – pumps, water injection, natural gas
re-injection and gas lift – to sustain production.
• Accounting for about 50% of extracted O&G in the U.S.
Tertiary (Enhanced) recovery
• Various enhanced recovery methods focused on increasing the O&G's flow
characteristics .
• Accounts for about 10% of extracted O&G in the U.S.
Crude terms
Costs associated with
the production phase
are interchangeably
known as:
• Production costs
• Lifting costs
• Operating costs
• Lease operating
(LOE costs)
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Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Reserves – the lifeline of the E&P industry
• Can be classified differently depending, among several other things, on the certainty
with which they can be recovered:
Proved Reserves Probable Reserves
Estimated Reserves
Proved
Developed
Possible Reserves
Proved
Undeveloped
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Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Proved reserves – we’re fishing and the fish is most
certainly in our net
• Commercially recoverable under current economic
conditions (both in terms of prices and costs) and
currently available technology.
• Highly certain to be recovered – must be a 90%
chance that actual reserves will be larger than this
estimate.
Proved Developed
• Reserves that are expected to be produced from
existing wells.
• Can be producing – proved developed producing
(PDP).
• Not yet producing – proved developed non-producing
(PDNP).
Proved Undeveloped (PUD)
• Reserves that are expected to be produced from new
wells.
Reserve talk
• Under U.S. GAAP rules,
only proved reserves are
allowed to be booked
(shown in companies’
financials)
• Under international
GAAP (IFRS) rules,
companies are allowed
to book both proved and
probable reserves.
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Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Probable reserves – we’re fishing and we see fish in the
water
• Unproved reserves that are likely to be recoverable.
• Should be at least 50% chance of being technically and
economically producible.
Possible reserves – we’re fishing and we think there is
fish in the water
• Estimated to have a significant, but less than 50
percent chance of being technically and economically
producible.
More reserve talk
• 1P or P = proved reserves
• 2P = Proved + probable
reserves
• 3P = Proved + probable +
possible reserves
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Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Transportation – store and transport
• Involves all operations associated with storing O&G
and transporting it from fields to refineries and
processing plants.
• O&G can be transported by pipelines, trucks, and oil
tankers.
• The sector is typically referred to as midstream, to
indicate its role as a connection between E&P and
refining and marketing operations.
Major midstream players
• Enterprise Products
Partners
• Kinder Morgan
• Northern Border Partners
• Plain All-American Pipeline
• TEPPCO Partners
Source: EIA
10
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Refining and Marketing – refine and
get ready for end-users
• Includes refining crude oil into
petroleum products (gasoline, jet
fuel, heating oil, diesel, fuel oil,
asphalt, etc.) and marketing them
to end-users (i.e. through gasoline
stations).
• As with its E&P counterpart, the
downstream sector can be
examined by looking at refining
separately from marketing.
Refining terms
• Refining & Marketing is typically
referred by its acronym: R&M
• R&M is also known as the
downstream sector, to indicate the
delivery of petroleum products to
end-users
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Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Refining – from crude oil to petroleum products
• Since crude oil cannot be used in its natural unrefined form, it must first be converted
(refined) into petroleum products – this is accomplished in processing plants known as
refineries.
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Oil & gas industry sectors and players
How are refining profits calculated?
• Refining margins refer to the difference between
the price of a petroleum product (output) and raw
material costs (feedstocks/input) expressed on a
per barrel basis.
• Often based on “benchmark” feedstocks such as
WTI.
• Refining margins exist for each petroleum product:
o Gasoline crack = 1 bbl gasoline – 1 bbl crude oil
o Heat crack = 1 bbl heating oil – 1 bbl crude oil
Refining terms
Refining profits are
interchangeably referred to:
• Indicator margin
• (Margin) differential
• Crack / spread / crack
spread
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Oil & gas industry sectors and players
More complex refineries = higher refining margins
• More complex refineries are able to refine cheaper (heavy and/or sour) heavy oil
into petroleum products, increasing their profits.
• More complex refineries can change the proportion of petroleum product mix to
take advantage of feedstock costs and petroleum product prices.
Feedstock /
Product Mix Volume
Unit Price
($/bbl)
Revenue /
(Cost)
WTI 100% $71.00 ($71.00)
Gasoline 33% $90.00 $30.00
Distillate 33% $85.00 $28.05
Residual 33% $50.00 $16.50
Revenue $74.55
Costs ($71.00)
Gross Margin $3.55
Feedstock /
Product Mix Volume
Unit Price
($/bbl)
Revenue /
(Cost)
Maya 100% $64.00 ($64.00)
Gasoline 33% $90.00 $30.00
Distillate 33% $85.00 $28.05
Residual 33% $50.00 $16.50
Revenue $74.55
Costs ($64.00)
Gross Margin $10.55
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Oil & gas accounting
Complex topic made more challenging by competing accounting methods
• The challenge stems from treatment of unsuccessful exploration costs
Acquisition
Costs
O&G costs
Capitalized (B/S)
Amortized (I/S)
Exploration
Costs
Development
Costs
Production
Costs
Capitalized (B/S)
Amortized (I/S)
Expensed (I/S) Depends
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Oil & gas accounting
Different treatments of unsuccessful exploration methods:
Full costs (FC) method
• Allows all exploration results (dry holes and discoveries) to be capitalized (on the balance
sheet) and amortized (on the income statement) over the estimated lives of the
properties.
Successful efforts (SE) method
• Requires unsuccessful exploration results (dry holes) to be expensed as incurred.
• Only successful exploration wells are capitalized (on the balance) and amortized (on the
income statement) over the estimated lives of the properties.
O&G Costs Successful Efforts Full Cost
Acquisition costs CAPITALIZED Cap
Geological & geophysical Exp Cap
Exploratory dry hole Exp Cap
Successful exploratory well Cap Cap
Development dry hole Cap Cap
Successful development well Cap Cap
Operating costs Exp Exp
Size of cost center Small Large
Amortization Cost Center Single well / field Company / country
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Oil & gas accounting
Depreciation
• A method by which the cost of long-term fixed assets
(over 1 year) is spread over a future period (number of
years), when these assets are expected to be in service
and help generate revenue for a company.
• An allocation of the costs of an original purchase of fixed
assets over the estimated useful lives of those fixed
assets.
Depletion
• O&G industry specific
• Same concept as depreciation that is applied to mineral
resources.
Amortization
• Amortization is the systematic allocation of the cost of
acquired intangible assets over a period of time that
these assets are expected to be in service and help
generate revenue for a company.
All 3 appear on the income statement
• Combined into 1 line item: Depreciation, Depletion, and
Amortization (or DD&A).
What’s depreciated?
Fixed assets:
• Plants
• Machinery
• Drilling equipment
• Pipelines
What’s depleted?
• O&G reserves
What’s amortized?
Acquired intangible
assets:
• Brand
• Franchise
• Trademarks
• Patents
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Oil & gas accounting
Full costs (FC) method
• Requires companies to perform a ceiling test limitation (impairment test) comparing the
book value of O&G assets against the SEC value of reserves (market value proxy) that all
O&G producing companies must disclose in their footnotes (more on this in the later
section).
• If SEC value is lower than the capitalized costs, a write-down is required.
• This is why companies using the FC method utilize large cost centers.
Successful efforts (SE) method
• Companies are not required to perform a ceiling test limitation.
• Write-downs are less frequent than under the SE method, since unsuccessful exploration
costs are expensed.
A ceiling test limitation example
? If a company has book value of proved O&G reserves of $200 million and the SEC value of
these reserves is $150 million, there would be a $50 million write-down.
? If the SEC value of these reserves is $275 million, there wouldn’t be any write-down (a
company would have a cost ceiling cushion of $75 million).
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Financial statement analysis (or financial analysis) is the process of reviewing and analyzing a company's financial statements to make better economic decisions. These statements include the income statement, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, and a statement of retained earnings.
Introduction to Oil & Gas Industry,
Accounting &
Financial Statement Analysis
Copyright © by Wall Street Prep, Inc. | All rights reserved 1
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
A number of distinct yet
interconnected sectors
• There are a number of
sectors that make up the
O&G industry – each
focused on a specific
process in the value chain.
Companies focus on one
sector
• Given the complexities of
this extractive industry,
most companies focus on
one particular sector.
2
Exploration
&
Production
Transportation
Refining &
Marketing
O&G
Sector
Oilfield
Services
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Mission – to find and extract
• The Exploration & Production sector
involves all operations associated with
finding and extracting oil and gas.
• E&P sector can be broken out into the
exploration and production
components.
• Timing between the two components
can take years (and usually does!).
Crude terms
• Exploration & Production
is typically referred by its
acronym: E&P.
• Companies focused only
on this sector are
referred to as E&P
companies.
• E&P is also known as the
upstream sector, to
indicate the upward
extraction of the
commodities.
3
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
• Pre-license prospecting
• Property/land rights
acquisition
• Exploration drilling
• Evaluation and appraisal
• Development
Production
Phase
Exploration
Phase
Timing Varies 5-10 Years
• Primary recovery method
• Secondary recovery method
• Tertiary (enhanced) recovery method
4
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Prospecting
• Involves performing a number of geological evaluations/surveys
to determine hydrocarbon presence .
Property acquisitions
• Involves activities relating to securing the rights from the
property owner to explore for and produce oil & gas in that
field/area.
• Fiscal terms surrounding property acquisitions (what is owned by
the oil companies versus original land owners/government) are
complex; we will examine them in the later section.
Exploration (drilling)
• Involves drilling exploration wells to determine if commercial
hydrocarbon quantities exist.
Evaluation and appraisal
• Involves confirming the initial exploration results through
appraisal wells drilled to gain further insight into the property,
including the size of the reservoir.
Development
• Involves activities relating to developing the discovered O&G
reserves for production.
Exploration costs (part 1)
• Geological and
geophysical (G&G)
costs
Exploration costs (part 2)
• Exploratory drilling
Acquisition costs
• Related to acquiring
the rights to explore
and develop
Development costs
• Drilling costs
• Storage costs
Exploration costs (part 3)
• Often include
appraisal-related costs
5
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Production – the beginning of the end
• Involves extracting, storing, and getting O&G ready for shipping.
• Companies typically follow a number of recovery methods to prolong the
production life of the property (typically 5-10 years).
Primary recovery
• Relies on the underground pressure, which if sufficient, will force O&G to
the surface.
• Less than 40% of O&G in the U.S. can usually be extracted using this
method.
Secondary recovery
• Implemented when natural pressure is insufficient to sustain commercial
O&G production.
• Utilizes a number of various methods – pumps, water injection, natural gas
re-injection and gas lift – to sustain production.
• Accounting for about 50% of extracted O&G in the U.S.
Tertiary (Enhanced) recovery
• Various enhanced recovery methods focused on increasing the O&G's flow
characteristics .
• Accounts for about 10% of extracted O&G in the U.S.
Crude terms
Costs associated with
the production phase
are interchangeably
known as:
• Production costs
• Lifting costs
• Operating costs
• Lease operating
(LOE costs)
6
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Reserves – the lifeline of the E&P industry
• Can be classified differently depending, among several other things, on the certainty
with which they can be recovered:
Proved Reserves Probable Reserves
Estimated Reserves
Proved
Developed
Possible Reserves
Proved
Undeveloped
7
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Proved reserves – we’re fishing and the fish is most
certainly in our net
• Commercially recoverable under current economic
conditions (both in terms of prices and costs) and
currently available technology.
• Highly certain to be recovered – must be a 90%
chance that actual reserves will be larger than this
estimate.
Proved Developed
• Reserves that are expected to be produced from
existing wells.
• Can be producing – proved developed producing
(PDP).
• Not yet producing – proved developed non-producing
(PDNP).
Proved Undeveloped (PUD)
• Reserves that are expected to be produced from new
wells.
Reserve talk
• Under U.S. GAAP rules,
only proved reserves are
allowed to be booked
(shown in companies’
financials)
• Under international
GAAP (IFRS) rules,
companies are allowed
to book both proved and
probable reserves.
8
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Probable reserves – we’re fishing and we see fish in the
water
• Unproved reserves that are likely to be recoverable.
• Should be at least 50% chance of being technically and
economically producible.
Possible reserves – we’re fishing and we think there is
fish in the water
• Estimated to have a significant, but less than 50
percent chance of being technically and economically
producible.
More reserve talk
• 1P or P = proved reserves
• 2P = Proved + probable
reserves
• 3P = Proved + probable +
possible reserves
9
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Transportation – store and transport
• Involves all operations associated with storing O&G
and transporting it from fields to refineries and
processing plants.
• O&G can be transported by pipelines, trucks, and oil
tankers.
• The sector is typically referred to as midstream, to
indicate its role as a connection between E&P and
refining and marketing operations.
Major midstream players
• Enterprise Products
Partners
• Kinder Morgan
• Northern Border Partners
• Plain All-American Pipeline
• TEPPCO Partners
Source: EIA
10
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Refining and Marketing – refine and
get ready for end-users
• Includes refining crude oil into
petroleum products (gasoline, jet
fuel, heating oil, diesel, fuel oil,
asphalt, etc.) and marketing them
to end-users (i.e. through gasoline
stations).
• As with its E&P counterpart, the
downstream sector can be
examined by looking at refining
separately from marketing.
Refining terms
• Refining & Marketing is typically
referred by its acronym: R&M
• R&M is also known as the
downstream sector, to indicate the
delivery of petroleum products to
end-users
11
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
Refining – from crude oil to petroleum products
• Since crude oil cannot be used in its natural unrefined form, it must first be converted
(refined) into petroleum products – this is accomplished in processing plants known as
refineries.
12
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
How are refining profits calculated?
• Refining margins refer to the difference between
the price of a petroleum product (output) and raw
material costs (feedstocks/input) expressed on a
per barrel basis.
• Often based on “benchmark” feedstocks such as
WTI.
• Refining margins exist for each petroleum product:
o Gasoline crack = 1 bbl gasoline – 1 bbl crude oil
o Heat crack = 1 bbl heating oil – 1 bbl crude oil
Refining terms
Refining profits are
interchangeably referred to:
• Indicator margin
• (Margin) differential
• Crack / spread / crack
spread
13
Oil & gas industry sectors and players
More complex refineries = higher refining margins
• More complex refineries are able to refine cheaper (heavy and/or sour) heavy oil
into petroleum products, increasing their profits.
• More complex refineries can change the proportion of petroleum product mix to
take advantage of feedstock costs and petroleum product prices.
Feedstock /
Product Mix Volume
Unit Price
($/bbl)
Revenue /
(Cost)
WTI 100% $71.00 ($71.00)
Gasoline 33% $90.00 $30.00
Distillate 33% $85.00 $28.05
Residual 33% $50.00 $16.50
Revenue $74.55
Costs ($71.00)
Gross Margin $3.55
Feedstock /
Product Mix Volume
Unit Price
($/bbl)
Revenue /
(Cost)
Maya 100% $64.00 ($64.00)
Gasoline 33% $90.00 $30.00
Distillate 33% $85.00 $28.05
Residual 33% $50.00 $16.50
Revenue $74.55
Costs ($64.00)
Gross Margin $10.55
14
Oil & gas accounting
Complex topic made more challenging by competing accounting methods
• The challenge stems from treatment of unsuccessful exploration costs
Acquisition
Costs
O&G costs
Capitalized (B/S)
Amortized (I/S)
Exploration
Costs
Development
Costs
Production
Costs
Capitalized (B/S)
Amortized (I/S)
Expensed (I/S) Depends
15
Oil & gas accounting
Different treatments of unsuccessful exploration methods:
Full costs (FC) method
• Allows all exploration results (dry holes and discoveries) to be capitalized (on the balance
sheet) and amortized (on the income statement) over the estimated lives of the
properties.
Successful efforts (SE) method
• Requires unsuccessful exploration results (dry holes) to be expensed as incurred.
• Only successful exploration wells are capitalized (on the balance) and amortized (on the
income statement) over the estimated lives of the properties.
O&G Costs Successful Efforts Full Cost
Acquisition costs CAPITALIZED Cap
Geological & geophysical Exp Cap
Exploratory dry hole Exp Cap
Successful exploratory well Cap Cap
Development dry hole Cap Cap
Successful development well Cap Cap
Operating costs Exp Exp
Size of cost center Small Large
Amortization Cost Center Single well / field Company / country
16
Oil & gas accounting
Depreciation
• A method by which the cost of long-term fixed assets
(over 1 year) is spread over a future period (number of
years), when these assets are expected to be in service
and help generate revenue for a company.
• An allocation of the costs of an original purchase of fixed
assets over the estimated useful lives of those fixed
assets.
Depletion
• O&G industry specific
• Same concept as depreciation that is applied to mineral
resources.
Amortization
• Amortization is the systematic allocation of the cost of
acquired intangible assets over a period of time that
these assets are expected to be in service and help
generate revenue for a company.
All 3 appear on the income statement
• Combined into 1 line item: Depreciation, Depletion, and
Amortization (or DD&A).
What’s depreciated?
Fixed assets:
• Plants
• Machinery
• Drilling equipment
• Pipelines
What’s depleted?
• O&G reserves
What’s amortized?
Acquired intangible
assets:
• Brand
• Franchise
• Trademarks
• Patents
17
Oil & gas accounting
Full costs (FC) method
• Requires companies to perform a ceiling test limitation (impairment test) comparing the
book value of O&G assets against the SEC value of reserves (market value proxy) that all
O&G producing companies must disclose in their footnotes (more on this in the later
section).
• If SEC value is lower than the capitalized costs, a write-down is required.
• This is why companies using the FC method utilize large cost centers.
Successful efforts (SE) method
• Companies are not required to perform a ceiling test limitation.
• Write-downs are less frequent than under the SE method, since unsuccessful exploration
costs are expensed.
A ceiling test limitation example
? If a company has book value of proved O&G reserves of $200 million and the SEC value of
these reserves is $150 million, there would be a $50 million write-down.
? If the SEC value of these reserves is $275 million, there wouldn’t be any write-down (a
company would have a cost ceiling cushion of $75 million).
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