Jonah Energy LLC (“Jonah”) is an exploration and production (“E&P”) company. Jonah acquired the Jonah Field located in Sublette County, Wyoming from Encana Corp. on May 12, 2014. At the time of the Encana acquisition, Jonah had a skeleton management team and limited infrastructure for operating an E&P company. Because of their limited infrastructure, Jonah entered into a long-term Transition Service Agreement (“TSA”) charged on a variable price based on hours dedicated by Encana personnel. 

Opportune professionals were engaged by Jonah Energy to provide the following services:

• Develop, maintain and manage Treasury procedures and reports;
• Develop, maintain and manage yearly budgets and forecasts;
• Develop, maintain and manage weekly management dashboard reports; and
• In conjunction with management, develop Jonah’s long-term business forecast

An Opportune team worked to create routine and seamlessly managed reports and procedures. Our team was successful in establishing the following:

• Through a management dashboard, we reported weekly production volumes and variances, pricing realization, drilling activity, rig movements, capital expenditures and environmental and safety incidents.
• With a flexible Excel model, Opportune created a report that tied to historical financial and operational reporting records and prospective budgets and production forecast to create a forecasting tool that provided a forward cash forecast as a well as variance analysis against previous forecasts and Jonah’s acquisition model.
• Opportune worked closely, in a Treasury capacity, with Encana and Jonah management to manage daily cash positions, account payable balances, revolver draws, bank reporting and compliance and hedge-reporting requirements.

Because of Opportune’s efforts, Jonah transitioned-off of the acquisition TSA as originally forecasted at the time of the transaction. In addition to transitioning on-time, Opportune helped to reduce the overall cost of the TSA by reducing the need for Encana involvement.

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