Override Production

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Overview

The Override Production screen allows the user to change gas by-products' production at the entity/owner level in a production month. The total production at a facility cannot change but the allocation down to the entity/owner can be modified. This can be useful when an operated facility flows volumes through a non-operated plant and that plant has allocated production volumes down to the entity/owner level that you want to ensure match or any other scenario where you want to match allocations that may have been done outside of the Qbyte Metrix system.

Once the Override Production records have been created on the screen (by processing the facility for least Step 1), the override volumes at the owner level can be updated on the screen or imported using the Import Data by Template - FACILITYOVERRIDEPRODN process.

Override Production

The Override Production screen can only be access via the Explorer.

The Product drop-down will contain only products produced by the facility that are not Balance Only products. Since Balance Only products must have zero production there is no need to override production.

Like with the Override Inventory screen, the facility must have been processed for Step 1 so that there are generated production records before you can override those volumes. The Entities and Owners tabs are populated with the Wells/Tracts/Owners associated with the Producing, Sending Batteries, and/or Flow Group that were allocated production the last time Step 1 was run. The latest calculated production volume will be displayed in the Last Calculated column. It should be noted that if the last time Step 1 was run was after Override Production entries were entered then the Last Calculated column will contain the override production volume.

Edit Override by Entity/Owner

You have two options when updating the entity/owner level production volume, you can enter the total inventory for the entity (Entities tab) and let the system allocate that volume down to the owners based on the default DOI for the entity, or you can enter the production volume at the entity/owner level (Owners tab) directly and let the system sum up the owner volumes entered for each entity to calculate the entity total.

There are a few considerations when entering production volume at the entity level. There may be more than one production volume for the same entity, as the entity level key fields include the Producing Battery, Sending Battery, Flow Group and Well/Tract. This means that you may have to override more than one production volume for the same well/tract. Entities without DOIs, wells that are not on production, default Source Wells (Outside Receipts), and entities associated with a Flow ID must have their override production volume entered at the Entity/Owner level since there is either not a valid DOI or the volume was not based on DOI allocation (Outside Receipts, Flow Groups). Reminder: The Flow ID column will only be displayed in the Entities and Owners tab when the Facility is Gas Flow.

When first creating override volumes at the Entity/Owner level, you should click the Override = Calculated button. This will create Override entries for every Entity/Owner based on the production that was calculated during the last Steps 1 - 2 processing of the facility. This gives you a starting point from which you can then modify the Override volumes. It should be noted that clicking the Override = Calculated button will display a pop-up indicating that this will replace any override production and if OK clicked it will automatically Save the created override volumes but will leave the screen in edit mode so you can make any additional changes.

Entities Tab

On the Entities tab you can enter Override volume for the entities where the column is enabled. Remember entity volumes that may not be based solely on DOI must be overridden on the Owners tab. This includes entities with no valid default DOIs, wells that are not on production, default Source Wells (Outside Receipts), and entities associated with a Flow ID.

Reminder: The Flow ID column will only be displayed in the Entities and Owners tab when the Facility is Gas Flow.

Overriding production volumes at the entity level will apply the appropriate default DOI to allocate the override volume down to the owners where the Inventory Type is WIO.

As an example, if we modify switch the production volumes between two of the above entities (RLTGATHB1W01 becomes 7.9 and RLTGATHB2W01 becomes 5.8) and click Save. The Override columns remain as we entered.

If we switch to the Owners tab and isolate the same entity, we can see the that the new volumes were split between the records with Inventory Type = WIO. The split was based on the default DOI for the each well.

After we run Step 1 again for the facility and go back into the Override Production screen you can see that the Last Calculated column and the Override column are now the same. The only way to see the original production as calculated by Qbyte Metrix would be to Delete the overrides using the Delete button and then re-process Step 1.

After processing with Overrides entered

For Gas Flow facilities the Flow ID column will be visible. Also notice that the record with the Flow ID populated has the Override column disabled, production associated with a Flow ID must be entered at the Owner level.

When not in Edit-mode you can click the Print Friendly button to launch a more simplistic, non-paged view of the entity level data which you can then Print. There is also a Qbyte Optix report called Production Override Details that you will show the Override Production volumes.

Flow ID not visible (non-Gas Flow)

Gas Flow Facility with Flow ID visible

Owners Tab

On the Owners tab you can enter Override volume for the entity/owner. Overriding productions at the owner level will be accumulated to the entity level to be displayed on the Entities tab. The volumes displayed at this level include more details about the volume such as Inventory Type and the Royalty TIK fields (Reference Owner, Royalty Obligation). Reminder: The Flow ID will only be displayed for Gas Flow facilities.

For Gas Flow facilities the Flow ID column will be visible.

When not in Edit-mode you can click the Print Friendly button to launch a more simplistic, non-paged view of the entity level data which you can then Print. There is also a Qbyte Optix report called Production Override Details that you will show the Override Production volumes.

Flow ID not visible (non-Gas Flow)

Gas Flow Facility with Flow ID visible