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Oil & Gas

The financial operating layer for oil & gas.

Blackwell produces the work of the oil and gas close (allocations, JIB, accruals, revenue, reporting) from the documents and systems you already run, governed by your team at gates you set. AI reads the documents and drafts the entries. Deterministic rules, written with senior oil and gas CPAs, do every calculation. Nothing posts without a recorded approval.

Don't take the claim. Take the parallel run: Blackwell beside your current system, on your books, until your numbers say cut over.

Run Blackwell on your books
Built for oil & gas accounting teams

Legacy ERPs record the past.
Blackwell runs the present.

An AI-native system for oil and gas accounting. Allocations calculated by rule, entries drafted by AI, and every approval recorded.

Joint interest billing

Allocations, partner billing, and exception management. Every line calculated by rule, with the supporting math attached.

Lease operating statements

Live multi-view lease operating statements, with variance analysis and accruals drafted automatically.

Revenue & regulatory reporting

Production data, revenue recognition, accruals, and regulatory reporting connected. The manual spreadsheet work disappears.

The financial DNA

Where the complexity
lives.

Joint ventures, royalty decks, AFEs, hedging. Upstream finance runs on structures most software has never met.

01.CapEx forecasting

Capital expenditure planning across the drilling program. Cash flow and returns modeled by asset.

Drilling program modeling · Cash flow projections · ROI analysis by asset
02.Audit preparation

Audit trails and documentation kept current, with PBC schedules prepared as the work happens.

PBC preparation · Compliance monitoring · Audit trail documentation
03.Reporting

Corporate financial reporting, lease operating statements, and ad hoc reports, all built on the same reconciled numbers.

Decline curve analysis · Economic limit calculations · PV-10 valuations
04.Partner management

Partner billing, statements, and communications run from one record of each relationship.

Partner billing automation · Statement generation · Communication tracking
05.System integrations

Connections into the ERP, production systems, and data providers you already run.

ERP system connectors · Production data feeds · Market data integration
06.Compliance & security

Security a controller can verify, with the industry's regulatory requirements built into the work.

SOC 2 Type II certified · Role-based access control · Regulatory compliance
The assistant

Your AI accounting
partner.

Blackwell's assistant is built with senior O&G accountants with decades of experience. It does not train on your data. The industry's accounting arrives already built in.

Instant analysis

Immediate answers on complex financial data.

Audit-ready

Every calculation traceable, compliant with industry standards and with GAAP.

Domain expertise

Built on a deep base of upstream and midstream operations.

The trade

Move beyond spreadsheets.

Less manual work, less consulting spend, and a close that ends on time.

Before Blackwell
01.Endless manual accounting work
02.Disconnected systems and spreadsheets
03.High consulting and outsourcing costs
04.Massive data sets that resist reconciliation
05.Slow financial closes
With Blackwell
01.Reduced manual work and consulting spend
02.One audit-ready finance system
03.Minutes to analysis, not weeks
04.Transparency across operations
05.A fast, clean financial close
The foundation

Built to understand energy
from day one.

Unlike general purpose AI tools, Blackwell is pre-built for oil and gas finance operations: lease-level allocations, JV structures, production reporting, and regulatory requirements. None of it is learned from your sensitive data.

500+Accounting scenarios50+Basin-specific rules1,000+JV structures analyzed25+Years of expertise
Built on: senior accountant expertise · industry best practices · regulatory frameworks · real-world case studies
Domain-specific coverage

Rules and workflows written with CFOs and controllers with decades of oil and gas experience.

Upstream · Midstream · Mineral & royalty · Non-op
O&G accounting expertise

Joint venture structures, working interest calculations, and revenue distribution methodologies across all major basins.

Revenue distributions · JIB allocations · Division order management
Production & operations

Production reporting, lease operating expenses, and how field operations translate to financial statements.

LOS reporting · LOE categorization · Budget tracking and scenario modeling
Financial & regulatory compliance

SEC reporting requirements, GAAP standards, and state regulatory frameworks for oil and gas accounting.

Accrual calculations · Impairment testing protocols · Audit trail requirements
In action

Complex operations,
run as workflows.

Joint interest billing

Coding, allocations, AFE tracking, and non-operated statement processing, each carrying its trail into review.

Journal entries drafted automatically · Division order management · AFE variance analysis · Partner billing and reconciliation
Lease operating expense tracking

Operating expenses tracked and categorized across every asset, with budget variances flagged before they become overruns.

Real-time expense categorization · Budget variance alerts · Well-level cost allocation · Accruals drafted automatically
Revenue & regulatory

Revenue distributions, severance tax calculations, and non-operated revenue statements, with irregularities flagged inside the transactions.

Automated distribution calculations · Division order tracking · Irregularity flagging · Revenue reconciliations
Beyond the close

Planning, forecasting, and analysis.

Past the core accounting functions, Blackwell carries the tools for what comes next.

Built-in domain expertise

Rules written with senior O&G accountants. It does not train on your data.

Natural language queries

Ask in plain English; the financial analysis comes back with its sources.

Anomaly detection

Unusual patterns, variances, and potential issues flagged across your operations.

Forward guidance

Historical data and industry trends inform forward-looking financial guidance.

Integration

Keep the systems that
run your business.

Blackwell sits across your ERP, production, land, and revenue systems. It connects the work they leave between them; it does not ask you to rip anything out. The parallel run starts from the stack you have today.

What VectorOne brings

One financial operating
layer for the work.

The capabilities, not the method. We keep the how to ourselves. Get in touch to go deeper.

The offer

Prove it on your books.

Blackwell runs beside your current system, on your books, against criteria you set, until your numbers say cut over.

Run Blackwell on your books