The CS*EXPLORER© base product consists of four main modules (Contracts, Mineral, Surface, and Wells) all supported by various administration and reporting modules. The enhancement modules CS*IMAGE©, CS*JointInterest© and Well Loader© are available at an additional cost and can be fully integrated with CS*EXPLORER©

The CS*EXPLORER© Contracts module maintains the agreements that you need to manage your land contracts. As such, it is the backbone of the integrated CS*EXPLORER© solution. From the Contracts module, you can share information with other modules, including the Surface, Mineral, and Wells modules, as well as with your Financial and Production Accounting solutions. When you make a change in the Contracts module, the system automatically updates all related files and tables so that you only need to make the change once.

The Contracts module provides a full-featured tracking system that you can use to monitor agreements from their conception to their final excecution. The CS*EXPLORER© Contracts module also maintains a complete history of all modifications that are made to DOI and Royalty information and provides quick access to a complete record of all historical information.

Contract types supported by CS*EXPLORER© include:

• JOA, Farmin, Farmout agreements
• Joint Venture (JV) agreements
• Area of Mutual Interest (AMI) and Area of Exclusion (AOE) agreements
• Unit and Production Allocation Unit (PAUNIT) agreements
• Service agreements *
• Facility agreements *

* The Facility and Service agreement options are not included in the standard CS*EXPLORER© software package.      For more information about licensing the Facility and Service agreement add-on:  CS*JointInterest©,   please  contact  Mike Danielewicz    at    403-774-1111

The CS*EXPLORER© Mineral module maintains the mineral lease agreements in the system. The Mineral module fully integrates with all other CS*EXPLORER© modules, as well as with your Financial and Production Accounting solutions. When you change information in the Mineral module, the system automatically updates all related files and tables so that you only need to make the change once.

The Mineral module fully supports:

• Document validation and editing
• Maintenance of Divisions of Interest (DOI) and royalty parties and percentages
• Storage of complete acquisition and disposition information
• Use of legal location descriptions in all North American survey systems
• Use of structured 3D rights held
• Tracking of multiple lessors and depositories
• Processing of lease rentals and invoices
• Comprehensive reporting
• Browsing of all Mineral module information

The CS*EXPLORER© Surface module maintains all the surface lease agreements in the system, including Easements, Surface Leases, and Road Use documents. The Surface module fully integrates with all other CS*EXPLORER© modules, as well as with your Financial and Production Accounting solutions. When you change information in the Surface module, the system automatically updates all related files and tables so that you only need to make the change once.

The Surface module fully supports:

• Document validation and editing
• Maintenance of surface obligations
• Maintenance of histories and current statuses of all construction and reclamation activity
• Use of legal location descriptions in all North American survey systems
• Automated rental reviews
• Tracking of multiple lessors and depositories
• Processing lease rentals and invoices
• Comprehensive reporting
• Browsing of all Surface module information

The Surface module documents are divided into the following categories:

• Surface documents including all surface leases (Crown and Freehold) and Consent of Occupant documents
• Easement documents
• Road Use Agreements

The Wells module is used to maintain the well information in the system. The system automatically updates the rest of the CS*EXPLORER© database with any modifications that you make in the Wells module. You can set up e-mail notifications to have the system automatically notify designated co-workers of any changes to information in the Wells module, as well as which documents are affected by the changes.

The Well module fully supports:

• Browsing of all well data
• Complete reporting, including Well Abstracts

CS*PROJECT© enables you to group documents from any of the CS*EXPLORER© modules in a unique project. Doing so allows you to assemble specific documents for use in special projects by, for example, property management teams. You can also use projects to limit access to the CS*EXPLORER© database based on control factors that are specific to your company’s operational divisions.

When you work with documents that are part of a project, you can use all of the features that are regularly available to you in CS*EXPLORER©, including the maintenance, browse, and reporting functions to which your user security status allow you access.

The Associate module enables you to maintain a central database of the business associates you use in your day-to-day business. A business associate can be a vendor, a customer, a partner, etc. All CS*EXPLORER© modules refer to the Associate module to verify that the Associate codes you enter in CS*EXPLORER© are valid.

You enter Business Associate codes in fields throughout the system to identify individuals, businesses, and organizations. As a result, you can select documents based on specific associate parameters, and filter some reports by the Associate code.

Validation tables are an essential part of every CS*EXPLORER© module. The system uses validation tables to store default values, lists of valid values, and data cross-references that are used throughout the application. Validation tables are crucial in keeping data consistent within the system and in enforcing the entry of valid data in the CS*EXPLORER© modules.

Most validation tables can be user-defined and the database contains a starter set of tables that can be set up to hold your own company-specific validation table entries.

The Geodetic+ tool enables you to generate online map-like views of all your CS*EXPLORER© data. You can view plats of the lands governed by the Mineral, Surface, and Contract documents you maintain, as well as by the locations of Wells and related Facilites. You can also map holdings by the rights held in the map area. By this means, you can quickly review a summary of all rights held for one or more formations in a specific land area.

Geodetic+ allows you to create maps based on the operating areas you use, or on ranges of DLS or NTS legal descriptions. Lands within the boundaries that you define appear on the map and are shaded according to the types of documents you maintain for those lands. You can quickly review the list of documents in the map area by the module (Mineral, Surface, Contracts, or Wells) in which the documents originate.

The Reports module houses all the reports that are included with CS*EXPLORER© . These reports are created by EXPLORER™ Software Solutions Ltd. and considered to be necessary, standard tools in most land departments and Canadian oil and gas companies.

For most reports you can use the Selection Options, Sort Options, and Filter Options to customize the report contents. By this means, you choose how the report retrieves records, whether certain records should be excluded or included, and how the report sorts the retrieved items.

The Rentals module manages lease rental payments as well as rental and Road Use Agreement (RUA) invoicing. The Rentals module categorizes rentals by the module (Mineral or Surface) in which the payment or invoice originates.

For more information contact Mike Danielewicz at 403-774-1111