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For oil and gas operators

Connect the dots.See what needs your attention.

ChokePoint is the pulse check for an operator's permits, leases and regulatory obligations.

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01 / The problem

Needed actions slip through the cracks.

A missed one can cost a fine, a penalty or a lost lease. The clocks that matter run in separate systems, kept by different teams.

Clock 01On hold

A permit step

kept in the regulator's portal
Clock 02On watch

A lease deadline

kept in the lease file
Clock 03On watch

A disposal-well limit

kept in the injection reports
Clock 04On hold

A contractor's insurance

kept in the vendor's certificates

One list, soonest first.

ChokePoint puts every clock in one place. Each item opens its chain: what it holds up, where it is on the ground and which lease it reaches.

Permits, leases, build steps and water in one list
Soonest first, with days left
Click one to trace what it holds up

The app’s list of what needs attention for the fictional operator, soonest first: four lease deadlines, a water disposal arrangement, two pad construction steps and a Rule 37 spacing exception, each with the days left.

02 / Three views

One graph. A view for each team.

The same records, seen three ways. Public records come from the agencies’ own files; the company’s permits and leases come in from a spreadsheet or a shapefile.

Public view header figures: 46 drilling permits in 12 months, 9 active disposal wells, 1.4% of inspections found non-compliance, 0.9% of gas vented or flared, 37 inactive wells under an extension, 3 disposal wells due a pressure test.

The Public view’s graph of public records: pads, permits, disposal wells and rules linked to the operator, coloured by status.

Public records only: drilling permits, inspections, disposal wells, flaring. No company data is needed, so a lender, insurer or buyer can read it as it stands.

Regulatory / Environmental view header figures: 5 red and 3 yellow company records, 46 drilling permits, 0.9% of gas vented or flared, 37 inactive wells under an extension, 3 disposal wells due a pressure test.

The Regulatory / Environmental view’s graph: the same records with the company’s own permits, pits and contractors added, coloured by status.

The public record plus the company's own regulatory and environmental records: permits, pits, spills, contractors and their insurance.

Land view header figures: 9 leases on 6,960 acres, 10 red and 7 yellow lease terms, 4 high-risk and 2 watch leases, 3 permitting steps due after a lease deadline, 19 lease alerts not yet acknowledged.

The Land view: nine leases with their tags, acres and expiry dates, beside their tracts on a map of Martin and Midland counties.

Leases and their terms, tied to the pads and wells on them, with each lease's tract on the map and its own clock.

03 / One graph

125 records. One graph.

11on hold
25on watch
65clear

In the example: the fictional operator’s Regulatory / Environmental graph, with the chain behind one Rule 37 step lit. The other 24 records are context.

The app’s graph for the fictional operator: about a hundred dim records linked by fine lines, with one chain lit in coral from a Rule 37 spacing exception on hold to the records it holds up.

04 / If this slips

See the butterfly effect.

A permit step on hold shows up on the lease it serves, with what to check and who owns the fix.

The Land tab’s risk map near Midland and Odessa. Three lease tracts are marked high risk; the ringed one is the Ashford lease.

If this slips
Rule 37 spacing exceptionon hold
Caliche Ridge Unit 33-21the pad it applies to
Lease: Ashford Land Trustshut-in payment due 17 November

The lease’s risk flag: the Rule 37 spacing exception on a pad on this lease is on hold, the lease’s shut-in royalty payment is due in 21 days, and the check names what to look at and who owns the fix.

In the example: the fictional operator’s own invented figures for the Ashford lease, added up by ChokePoint.

$9.5 millionat stake if the lease were lost

$45,000the operator’s own estimate of what it costs to prevent that

05 / Timeline

Permitting steps, against the lease clock.

The company’s own steps by pad, with what each one waits on. A red dashed line marks a step that starts before the thing it waits on is due.

The Land tab’s permitting timeline: each pad’s steps as bars against the months, coloured by how soon they are due, with lines to what each step waits on and a dashed line for today.

Planned

Every date, one calendar.

Every date from Regulatory, Environmental and Land in one month, filtered by team, and sent to Outlook or Google Calendar. Not in the app yet.

concept·invented dates from the fictional operatorplanned

06 / Demo

See it in action.

Ninety seconds of the product on a fictional operator: one map, the butterfly effect, the lease clock and the reports each reader gets.

Screens show a fictional operator, Example Operating, LLC. All records, leases and figures are invented.

07 / Audience

Who it is for.

First

Regulatory, Environmental and Land teams at operators

Mid-market oil and gas operators, starting in Texas. One list of what needs attention, soonest first, with the chain behind each item.

Next

Lenders, insurers and deal teams

The same record, read as a snapshot: what is on hold, what is on watch and what was checked.

08 / Contact

Book a walkthrough.

See ChokePoint on a fictional operator, then bring your own questions.

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