Model rebuilds
Restructuring so assumptions live in one place, calculations are traceable, and a reviewer can verify the output unaided.
United States · Houston · Excel consulting
Houston cost workbooks tend to fail from accretion rather than error. An AFE tracker gets extended each drilling season until the person who built it has moved operator twice and nobody is certain which tab feeds the monthly report.
Abhishek
Abhishek Singh
Akhilesh
Prahalad
ShaktiA remote team of Excel and spreadsheet specialists. You work directly with the person building your file, from the first question to the final handover. More about us.
A typical job here
Usually 6–12 hours at our standard rate. You get that estimate in writing first, and we stop and ask before going past it.
| Audit an AFE tracker that has been extended across several seasons | 6–12 hours |
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Why Houston specifically
Clients for this are typically in Downtown Houston, the Energy Corridor, Sugar Land and the Port of Houston area, across upstream and midstream energy, oilfield services, petrochemicals, industrial construction, and the Texas Medical Center's supplier network. AFE tracking, well economics and field data that arrives in twelve formats.
For the wider picture of what we see in this market — the recurring problems, the source systems, how the time difference plays out — the Houston guide covers it properly rather than repeating it on every service page.
6–12 hours is typical here. You get a number in writing before we start.
Unlocked files, documentation, recorded handover.
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Two of the things this covers most often for Houston clients. The excel consulting page sets out the full scope and method.
Restructuring so assumptions live in one place, calculations are traceable, and a reviewer can verify the output unaided.
Finding why the number is wrong, and more usefully, why nobody noticed for three months.
Who maintains it, how it updates, and what to check before trusting the output.
Every external link, every constant embedded in a formula, every manual step in the update procedure.
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Answers for this service in this market, including the ones that might cost us the job.
Ask us something elseWith an inventory: every external link, every constant buried in a formula, every manual step in the update routine. For inherited energy workbooks that inventory is often the most valuable thing we produce — several clients have stopped there, having finally seen what the file actually does.
A single-workbook audit is usually 4–8 hours at our standard hourly rate, delivered as a prioritised findings list plus a recorded walkthrough. You can act on it yourself or have us do the remediation — there is no obligation to continue.
Not from us — we work remotely from India and have no Houston presence. For the cost tracking and reporting work most energy clients hire us for, that has not been a barrier: the files move over email or SharePoint and the calls happen on Teams. If you need someone in the Energy Corridor in person, hire locally.
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