How to: Transportation Fee Configuration

1 Introduction
2 Option 1: Operated Pricing Screen
3 Option 2: Facility Charges

Introduction

Qbyte Metrix provides two ways of configuring Transportation Costs. We can book the transportation cost you entered on the Operated Pricing screen or you can use Facility Charges to book your transportation costs. Both options are described below.

Option 1: Operated Pricing Screen

The Transportation Cost entered on the Operated Pricing screen and allocated in Step 3 processing can be booked on the Financial Voucher.

The ability to book Transportation from the Operated Pricing screen must be enabled at the Region.

1. Go to the Administration > Region > Financial Configuration tab.

Enable the products that you want to book transportation for by using the Book Oil Pricing Transportation, Book Gas Pricing Transportation and Book By-Product Pricing Transportation options.

For more information on these options, see:

2. Ensure the Account Definitions are configured for both debit and credit accounts.

3. Entry Definitions must be set up with the General Type of TRAN.

The following Specific Types are allowed for the General Type TRAN:

<blank> - Transportation Cost associated with a standard sale of production volumes (All Products).
CRWN - Transportation Cost associated with a delivery of AB oil crown volumes (Alberta Oil only).
RLO - Transportation Cost associated with a standard sale of recovered load oil volumes (Product Oil only).
INJ - Transportation Cost associated with a standard delivery of volumes used for load oil injection (Product Oil only).
ROYT - Transportation Cost associated with a standard sale of Royalty TIK volumes (All Products).

4. In the Explorer screen navigate to the operated Facility and then the Pricing menu > Purchasers grid.

5. Select the Purchaser row and enter the Transportation as a Rate, Total Amount or Default Rate. If you are using Default Rate, then be sure to enter the Default Transportation Rate.

6. Process the facility to STEP07.

Option 2: Facility Charges

1. Ensure the Account Definitions are configured for both debit and credit accounts.

2. Setup or validate an existing Charge Type that you want to use for the Transportation fee booking.

3. Specific Type from the Charge Type configuration screen should match the Entry Definition table.

4. In the Explorer screen, navigate to the Control Group Facility Charges menu > Factors tab.

Create a new Factor with the Factor Level set to:
- Factor Level: Facility Charge level
- Input: Yes
- Factor: Fee amount for the area for the month
- Global Factor ID: Up to 16 characters (no spaces, no special characters except for “-“ and “_”)
- Input Type: Input Value
Select the facility the charge will be calculated at.
- Choose product, charge type and sequence number. These will need to match your charge master.

5. In the Formula tab add a new formula with the Volume Definition = Main Retrieval; Value Definition = Global Value Input Prorated.

Save and add a line to the calculation details of Set Value; User Defined Global Factor, input your Factor ID.

6. Add the charge and link the Formula ID. Make sure your charge settings match the Factor configuration settings.