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Oil and gas producer financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for an oil and gas producer (exploration and production), built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Finds, develops and produces oil and gas — conventional fields, shale and tight oil, coal-seam gas — from interests it holds, selling at benchmark-linked or contracted prices after royalties and resource taxes.

In short

  • 01

    Three linked statements

    Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, linked in every period.

  • 02

    Valued two ways

    Discounted cash flow and net asset value, side by side.

  • 03

    Monthly to annual

    Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annual periods, for up to 30 years.

  • 04

    Checked every period

    A Checks sheet shows the balance sheet balances and the cash reconciles.

The sample

The sample, as Excel draws it.

Built by the same system and checks as yours, on illustrative figures: every sheet as Excel draws it, or live.

Annual · 10 years · Low detail
Oil and gas producer sample model.xlsx
The Summary sheet of the sample oil and gas producer model

Illustrative figures: the sample describes no real business. The live preview shows values; your model’s Excel file has every formula.

How it works

How the model works for an oil and gas producer.

  1. How it earns revenue1 formula
    Oil, gas and LNG sales · All oil and gas assets
    Oil, gas and LNG salesOil, condensate and NGL salesGas sales
  2. What drives its costs3 formulas
    Royalties and resource taxes · All oil and gas assets
    RoyaltiesWellhead valueRoyalty rate
    Production costs · All oil and gas assets
    Production costsNet productionfrom productionProduction cost per boe
    Exploration programme and risked resources · Across the business
    Well costs capitalisedWell costsShare of well costs capitalised
  3. What it invests in3 formulas
    Capex, depletion and exploration · All oil and gas assets
    Development and sustaining capexSustaining capexGrowth capex
    Capex, depletion and exploration · All oil and gas assets
    Depletion (units of production)Opening net book valueDevelopment and sustaining capexShare of the reserves produced
    Capex, depletion and exploration · All oil and gas assets
    Closing net book valueOpening net book valueDevelopment and sustaining capexDepletion (units of production)
  4. How it is funded3 formulas
    Decommissioning and restoration provisions · Across the business
    Unwinding of discount (non-cash finance cost)Unwinding of discountUnwinding of discountUnwinding of discount
    Decommissioning and restoration provisions · Across the business
    Decommissioning and restoration provisionClosing provisionClosing provisionClosing provision
    Decommissioning and restoration provisions · Across the business
    Opening decommissioning provisionOpening provision (present value)from present valueSecond obligation opening provisionThird obligation opening provision
  5. How profit becomes cash3 formulas
    Working capital
    Trade receivablesRevenuefrom statementsDebtor daysDays in period
    Working capital
    InventoryDirect costs (positive)from statementsInventory daysDays in period
    Working capital
    Trade payablesCash operating costs (positive)from statementsCreditor daysDays in period
What it covers

23 parts, each one tested.

Every part is a tested building block with its own checks: yours is put together from the ones your business needs.

  • CPI forecastConsensus curve with long-run anchor
  • Exchange rate (US dollar)Exchange rate by financial year
  • Corporate costsFixed cost base indexed to CPI
  • Working capitalDays-based working capital
  • Income taxCorporate rate with tax losses
  • DebtFacility register with limits and refinancing
  • Equity raisingDistribution reinvestment plan
  • Dividends and distributionsPayout of free cash flow to equity
  • Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
  • Net asset valueBook net asset value
  • Exploration programme and risked resourcesWells and seismic budgetExploration and appraisal spend, farm-outs, and the risked value of prospects and discovered but undeveloped resources.
  • Decommissioning and restoration provisionsPresent value with accretionProvisions to remove generation assets, abandon wells and restore sites — recognition, unwinding and spend.
  • Energy and utility KPIsUpstream unit metricsThe ratios investors and lenders use to judge energy and utility businesses.
  • Interest-rate hedgingHedged share at a fixed rate
  • Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
  • Borrowing base and security coverReceivables and inventory borrowing base
  • Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
  • Field and project registerInterest, reserves and book valueWorking interest, reserves and carrying value of each field or LNG project.
  • ProductionExponential declineOil, gas and LNG volumes produced each period (net to the company's interest).
  • Oil, gas and LNG salesBenchmark × differential by productRealised prices × volumes for oil, condensate, gas and LNG.
  • Royalties and resource taxesRoyalty on wellhead valueGovernment and private royalties, production sharing and petroleum resource taxes.
  • Production costsCost per boeLifting, processing, transport and liquefaction costs.
  • Capex, depletion and explorationUnits-of-production depletionDevelopment and sustaining capex, exploration spend, and depletion of oil and gas properties.
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