Upstream Solutions

Industry Solutions for Upstream Oil & Gas

Sierra Digital provides gold standard application extensions for popular Upstream Oil & Gas modules like SAP Joint Venture Accounting (SAP JVA), SAP Production Revenue Accounting (SAP PRA), and Upstream Operations Management (SAP UOM).


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Sierra’s solution experts are industry leaders in Upstream Oil & Gas and our sister company, Stonebridge Consulting, has an extensive history in the industry. We maintain an innovative IP of industry solutions, including multiple apps built on SAP BTP platform. Sierra is proud to have worked with multiple Tier 1 Oil & Gas companies to review process automations, advanced analytics and AI services in support of a Clean Core delivery model.

Our Platform Managed Services Models

Sierra’s SAP BTP solutions extend the functionality of existing SAP solutions to ensure the day-to-day requirements of the Upstream Oil & Gas customers are met.

Business Partner Portal

The portal provides self-service access to owners to request updates to contact, banking and payment preference information. Additionally, revenue ownership and payment details as well as JIB Ownership and invoice history data are available for review and download to MS Excel. Integrations with support ticket systems, document management applications and DocuSign are also available within the portal solution.

Payout Management

The Payout solution delivers an innovative approach to managing simple or complex scenarios related to the term as and provisions of owner payout calculations and reporting. Trusted SAP APIs deliver the ownership, expense and revenue data required to manage the payout calculations, owner reporting and payout projections.

Capital Projects & AFE

The Capital Project Builder solution delivers a streamlined approach to managing internal project budgets, WBS element templates, workflows, approvals and analytics. SAP EPPM and Project System (PS) integrations extend the functionality of SAP. A natural extension of the solution now includes comprehensive AFE budgeting, workflow approvals, owner balloting and integration with SAP for cash call management. Powerful analytics drive the solution to new levels.

Budget, Forecast & Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

The solution delivers powerful tools utilizing SAP PRA and JVA data for LOS analytics. SAC data actions deliver extensive options for projections based on production volumes, pricing, inflation rates, etc. The solution allows for a “story-telling” approach to deliver multiple views of potential scenarios related to the development, acquisition or divestiture of assets while allowing a user-defined hierarchy of assets to be maintained. Multi-currency support is also available.

Revenue Data & Process Analytics

This solution offers intuitive interfaces for the review of Venture distributions, Combined Run analysis, Ownership Transfer (chain of title) analysis and Escheat analytics.

Volumetric Data Analytics

This application is designed to assist in the management of exceptions within the volume allocation and reporting aspect of the business. Downtime and shut-in analytics allow production technicians to easily identify issues that affect daily and monthly production outlooks. Oil, gas and water production and product sales analytics enhance the use of the UOM and PRA solutions.

Benefits

Centering real business value at the heart of everything we do Sierra is committed to delivering benefits that make your life easier.

Connect reliably with your existing SAP ERP System

Sierra’s solutions provides trusted and connection to SAP by only utilizing SAP Standard APIs and CDS Views.

Gain seamless integration with GenAI and SAP Analytics Cloud

Create forms, ask questions on attachments, query data — all using natural language modeling in union with SAP GenAI Hub, Just Ask and SAP HANA Vectoring.

Unify sources, apps, siloes, and processes into a single user-friendly tool

Solutions provide a single, central, virtual monitoring, evaluation and automated reporting repository to assure results-driven management.

Best practice-based processes and workflows easily and rapidly tailored to your unique requirements

The technical and functional experts at Sierra Digital bring world-class expertise to solution design ensuring proven value and best-practice-based methods.

Secure and permission able access affording role-based visibility to key stakeholders

With the highest standards for security trust Sierra Digital’s pre-built content on SAP BTP to provide reliable, responsible business advantage.

How We Help

We often hear from customers: “We have BTP, but we don’t know what to do with it.” With pre-built content on SAP BTP, Sierra Digital enables customers to make use of a service they — often — already have. Our best practice based apps are designed in consortium with SAP and industry functional experts to bring proven value to lines of business across the enterprise.

Utilize Sierra’s innovative SAP BTP applications to provide efficient, economical solutions for the SAP users at your enterprise. With SAP BTP you’ll simplify and enhance processes while extending the value of your current SAP investment.

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Success Stories

Streamline owner relations with a self-service portal

This client is a leading shale oil and gas producer, one of the largest in the
deepwater Gulf of Mexico and a key natural gas producer and supplier to
Peninsular Malaysia and Thailand. The company is also engaged in exploration
and appraisal activities offshore Guyana, participating in one of the industry’s
largest oil discoveries in the past decade.

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