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Oil and gas royalty owner financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for an oil and gas mineral and royalty owner, built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Owns mineral rights, overriding royalties or net profits interests under acreage operated by others, earning a share of production revenue without paying capital or operating costs.

In short

  • 01

    Three linked statements

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

  • 02

    Valued three ways

    Discounted cash flow, trading multiples 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 royalty owner sample model.xlsx
The Summary sheet of the sample oil and gas royalty owner 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 royalty owner.

  1. How it earns revenue2 formulas
    Oil, gas and LNG sales · Oil and gas asset 1
    Oil, gas and LNG salesOil, condensate and NGL salesGas sales
    Revenue (top-down) · Across the business
    RevenueUnits soldAverage price
  2. What drives its costs3 formulas
    Royalties and resource taxes · Oil and gas asset 1
    RoyaltiesWellhead valueRoyalty rate
    Production costs · Oil and gas asset 1
    Production costsNet productionfrom productionProduction cost per boe
    Direct costs (top-down) · Across the business
    Cost of salesRevenuefrom statementsGross margin
  3. What it invests in3 formulas
    Capex, depletion and exploration · Oil and gas asset 1
    Development and sustaining capexSustaining capexGrowth capex
    Capex, depletion and exploration · Oil and gas asset 1
    Depletion (units of production)Opening net book valueDevelopment and sustaining capexShare of the reserves produced
    Capex, depletion and exploration · Oil and gas asset 1
    Closing net book valueOpening net book valueDevelopment and sustaining capexDepletion (units of production)
  4. How it is funded3 formulas
    Debt
    RepaymentsScheduled repaymentsPrepayments from an equity raise and the cash sweep
    Debt
    Closing balanceOpening balanceDrawdownsRepayments
    Debt
    Interest expenseOpening balanceAll-in interest rateshare of the year
  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

22 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
  • Revenue (top-down)Price × volume
  • Direct costs (top-down)Gross margin %
  • Corporate costsFixed cost base indexed to CPI
  • Working capitalFull working capital
  • Income taxCorporate rate with tax losses
  • DebtAmortising term loan
  • Equity raisingDistribution reinvestment plan
  • Dividends and distributionsPayout of net profit
  • Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
  • Multiples valuationEV / EBITDA multiple
  • Net asset valueBook net asset value
  • Energy and utility KPIsUpstream unit metricsThe ratios investors and lenders use to judge energy and utility businesses.
  • Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
  • Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
  • Exchange rate (US dollar)Flat exchange rate
  • 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.
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01net royalty acres
  2. 02royalty production (boe/d)
  3. 03wells turned in line
  4. 04cash available for distribution
  5. 05acquisitions
  6. 06payout ratio
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