Your cost function, run by an engineering team you throttle.
Your people improve runtime, production, and cycle time. The Desk takes the cost line off their plate: on call when a vendor letter lands, idle between fires. A seat, not a project.
You run the wells. We run the cost.
The Desk is run by the people who used to sit in your chair, pointed at the one line your own team never has the hours to fight all the way down.
Petroleum engineers who ran the wells, an ex-COO, MBAs, and ex-negotiation consultants who did this across a dozen industries before bringing it back to oil and gas. The seat you get takes apart a vendor's own economics and hands you the floor.
Retained expertise, spent on whichever line is on fire.
Escalation letters are priced to the least-informed buyer in the basin. The Desk answers with the should-cost floor and the vendor's own economics, so that buyer is no longer you.
Every operating-cost line across every field, on one schema, benchmarked to a should-cost floor. The number the board keeps asking for, standing and current.
An agent on your own numbers, flagging the line that moved before the invoice does. Built on your data, run by the Desk, yours to keep.
Not a benchmark. A refusal, with the math attached.
A vendor makes a claim and the Desk takes it apart and hands you the counter-case. An RFP goes out and the Desk strategizes it, benchmarks the field, and normalizes the bids. Two recent months, area-labeled.
Justified with +45% machinery inflation and +200% freight. We tested every claim against the filings and the indices.
The should-cost model priced every product family against its own feedstock indices. Roughly 6% justified; seven of nine categories overstated.
Spend your hours building the machine that outlasts the engagement.
The same retainer hours that answer a letter this month can build custom AI on your own data: an agent watching your cost lines, a spend view your CFO opens every morning, the should-cost method codified inside your firm. When the Desk idles, the machine keeps running.
We turn away more than we take.
The Desk holds the book to a handful of seats, on purpose. A seat is a partner on your side of the table, not an account manager three layers deep. When the book is full, the honest answer is a waitlist.
You talk to a partner. There is no account team.
The Desk runs a limited book, on purpose. If a seat is open, the first step is a thirty-minute conversation about the line that is on fire this month.
Desk hours supporting producing wells are typically chargeable to LOE under COPAS, and AFE-tied work capitalizes into the well under ASC 932. The retainer rarely has to live in G&A. This is not a theory; the classification has run on a live engagement, and the treatment memo exists for your accountants. (Not accounting advice; your accountants make the call.)