Energy, Oil & Gas
Energy, Oil and Gas Contract Management Software
The contract intelligence platform built for energy and oil and gas operators to manage contracts, maximize profitability, and streamline compliance. Contract Logix turns the royalty rates, interest decks, dayrates, and volume commitments buried in your leases, JOAs, and service agreements into operational data your teams can act on.
The problem we solve
Across upstream, midstream, downstream, and renewables, the contract is where royalty rates, working interest decks, dayrates, take-or-pay volumes, and regulatory obligations actually live, and operators manage thousands of these agreements at once.
Royalty and interest deck tracking
A single producing unit can have dozens of owners, each with a precise net revenue interest carried to many decimals across leases and division orders, so when those decimals live in scattered documents, revenue accounting cannot reconcile what is owed.
JOA obligation and AFE tracking
Joint operating agreements set consent thresholds, election windows, and cost-allocation rules among working interest owners, and operators struggle to track AFE approvals and non-consent elections when the terms sit in model forms no system has parsed.
MSA rate-schedule drift
Operators sign master service agreements with many oilfield service vendors, each with its own rate schedule and escalators, and without a way to compare rates line item by line item, procurement overpays and loses leverage at renewal.
Lease expiration and take-or-pay exposure
Leases expire at the end of the primary term unless held by production, and midstream agreements carry minimum volume commitments and demand charges, so missed deadlines forfeit acreage and unmonitored commitments trigger deficiency payments.
From contract pain to contract intelligence
Manage the contract lifecycle
A secure repository on Microsoft Azure with no-code workflow automation, parallel approval routing, role-based security, and a 6-year audit trail, plus Contract Binders that link a lease to its amendments, assignments, and division orders, a JOA to its AFEs and joint interest billings, and an MSA to its work orders and field tickets.
Maximize profitability
The Contract Intelligence Engine extracts the financial terms locked inside energy agreements, from royalty rates and working and net revenue interest decks to dayrates, escalators, AFE amounts, take-or-pay and minimum volume commitments, demand charges, and EPC milestone payments, and puts them to work as operational data land, accounting, and procurement can act on.
Streamline compliance
Required terms, approvals, and certifications are enforced in the workflow, so obligations under FERC, ONRR, BOEM and BSEE, BLM, state commissions, NERC CIP, and EPA rules stay evidenced. Configurable dashboards map contracts to the filings they support, ready to produce on demand.
Review contracts in minutes
Contract Logix Review delivers first-pass redlines in minutes, inside Microsoft Word and Google Docs, applying the organization’s own playbook standards to oilfield MSAs, power purchase agreements, and purchase and sale agreements.
Built for every energy agreement type
- Oil and gas leases and division orders. Royalty rates, signing bonuses, primary term and held-by-production provisions, and the net revenue interest decimals confirmed before payments begin.
- Joint operating agreements. Operator designation, working interest shares, and authority-for-expenditure consent thresholds, elections, and cost-allocation rules across model-form versions.
- Oilfield master service agreements and drilling contracts. Dayrate, footage, and turnkey rate schedules and escalators, with indemnity structure, insurance requirements, and lien rights.
- Midstream gathering, processing, and transportation agreements. Fee structures, demand charges, firm versus interruptible capacity, and take-or-pay and minimum volume commitments with deficiency payments.
- Power purchase agreements and EPC contracts. Price per megawatt-hour, delivery schedules, capacity and energy charges, under-delivery penalties, and milestone payment schedules for facilities and renewables projects.
Who it serves
VP Land / Land Manager
Surfaces every primary-term and held-by-production deadline on a lease expiration calendar before acreage is forfeited. A primary platform user.
General Counsel / Commercial Counsel
Knows what obligations and liabilities the portfolio carries, with a searchable repository, line-item obligation tracking, and playbook-based review. An economic buyer.
Director of Supply Chain / Procurement
Compares oilfield MSA rate schedules line item by line item across vendors before renewal. A primary user.
Chief Compliance / Regulatory Affairs Officer
Produces the contract behind a FERC or ONRR filing on demand, with regulatory filing coverage mapped to source contracts. An economic buyer.
Chief Financial Officer
Sees royalty and interest exposure tied to division-order decimals across units and owners.
Joint Interest / Revenue Accounting Manager
Reconciles net revenue interest decks and AFE costs across partners from structured interest decks pulled from JOAs and division orders.
What sets Contract Logix apart
- Line-item extraction of energy financial data: royalty rates, working and net revenue interest decks, dayrates, escalators, AFE amounts, take-or-pay and minimum volume commitments, demand charges, and EPC milestones.
- Contract Binders model energy document families: lease to amendments, assignments, and division orders; JOA to AFEs and joint interest billings; MSA to work orders and field tickets.
- Configurable fields, clauses, and dashboards that adapt to each operator’s portfolio and reprocess as requirements change.
- Energy-oriented dashboards: lease expiration and held-by-production, royalty and interest exposure, MSA rate comparison, JOA and AFE obligations, and regulatory filing coverage.
- Hosted on Microsoft Azure with SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and FISMA, and AI redlining against the operator’s own positions.
- Honest scope: Contract Logix is the contract intelligence layer, not a land system of record or a joint-interest-billing and revenue-accounting system; it works alongside those systems.
Proven at scale
More than 60,000 professionals across hundreds of organizations run their contract operations on Contract Logix, across energy, manufacturing, financial services, and other industries where contracts carry financial and compliance weight. Contract Logix has built purpose-made contract software since 2013, out of Carnegie Mellon University.
Enterprise-grade security on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure hosting, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and FISMA compliance, AES-256 encryption, role-based access, and a 6-year audit trail that supports FERC, ONRR, and state regulatory recordkeeping. See Security & trust for the full specification.
Energy and oil and gas contract management: a complete guide
Energy and oil and gas companies run on contracts that carry the financial and compliance terms that determine whether an operation makes money or loses it. This guide explains why energy contract management matters and the practices that protect revenue and regulatory standing across a large, acquisition-driven portfolio.
What is energy contract management?
Energy contract management applies contract lifecycle management to the leases, joint operating agreements, oilfield master service agreements, midstream commitments, and power purchase agreements that upstream, midstream, downstream, and renewables companies run on. It covers negotiating and executing terms, then monitoring and enforcing the financial and regulatory obligations they create.
The operative data lives at line-item granularity, in royalty rates, working and net revenue interest decks, dayrates, AFE amounts, and take-or-pay volumes, and contracts are interdependent: a lease spawns amendments, assignments, and division orders, and a JOA spawns AFEs and joint interest billings.
Why it is critical
FERC, ONRR, BOEM and BSEE, BLM, state commissions, NERC, and EPA all enforce obligations through contractual documentation and filings tied to specific agreements and lease numbers. At the same time, royalty decimals, interest decks, and volume commitments determine revenue.
When those terms live in scattered documents, revenue accounting cannot reconcile what is owed, leases expire unseen, take-or-pay deficiency payments surprise the business, and producing the contract behind a filing takes days instead of minutes.
Energy CLM best practices
- Centralize leases, JOAs, MSAs, and midstream and PPA agreements in one searchable system of record.
- Track primary-term and held-by-production deadlines so acreage is never forfeited unseen.
- Structure royalty and net revenue interest decks so revenue accounting can reconcile owner payments.
- Monitor take-or-pay and minimum volume commitments against actual throughput.
- Extract the line-item data inside contracts, from dayrates and escalators to AFE amounts, so procurement and accounting protect value.
- Map contracts to the FERC, ONRR, and state filings they support so audit evidence is ready on demand.
What to look for in energy CLM software
- Line-item extraction with fields you define and reprocess as requirements change.
- Parent-child modeling for lease-to-division-order, JOA-to-AFE, and MSA-to-work-order relationships.
- Configurable dashboards for lease expiration, royalty and interest exposure, MSA rate comparison, and regulatory filing coverage.
- A no-code workflow designer with parallel approval routing.
- AI-assisted review against your own positions on MSAs, PPAs, and purchase and sale agreements.
- Enterprise security and a long audit trail, hosted on Microsoft Azure.
- The ability to work alongside land, joint-interest-billing, and revenue-accounting systems.
How Contract Logix helps
Contract Logix gives energy teams a configurable platform to centralize agreements, extract their line-item terms, and apply playbook-driven first-pass review, on infrastructure certified to SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and FISMA. It complements land and revenue-accounting systems by managing the contracts and extracting the contract data that feed them, and professional services support teams without deep internal CLM resources.
Frequently asked questions
- What makes energy contract management different?
- Energy contracts hold line-item financial data, royalty rates, working and net revenue interest decks, dayrates, AFE amounts, and take-or-pay volumes, alongside regulatory obligations enforced through filings tied to specific agreements and lease numbers. Energy contract management captures those terms as structured data and keeps lease, JOA, and MSA parent-child relationships explicit.
- How does it help with royalty and interest decks?
- Net revenue interest decimals and royalty rates are extracted from leases and division orders into structured data, and a royalty and interest dashboard shows exposure across units and owners, so revenue accounting can reconcile what is owed and reduce payment disputes.
- Can it track lease expirations and held-by-production?
- Yes. Primary-term and continuous-operations deadlines are captured and surfaced on a lease expiration calendar across the portfolio, so acreage is not forfeited because a deadline was buried in a document.
- How does it handle take-or-pay and minimum volume commitments?
- Midstream gathering, processing, and transportation commitments and demand charges are captured as structured data and monitored against throughput, so the business avoids unexpected deficiency payments and enforces the ones it is owed.
- Does Contract Logix replace our land or revenue-accounting system?
- No. Contract Logix is the contract intelligence layer, not a land system of record or a joint-interest-billing and revenue-accounting system. It complements those systems by managing the contracts and extracting the data that feed them.
- Is it secure and audit-ready?
- Contract Logix runs on Microsoft Azure and is SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and FISMA compliant, with role-based access and a 6-year audit trail that supports FERC, ONRR, and state regulatory recordkeeping.
