Land, revenue and asset records built for how operators work

We capture what arrives in the field and the land office, refine it into data you can trust, manage it on secure platforms and automate the work around it.

$4.3B In energy assets supported through a centralized, governed records platform, Merit Energy Company

The short answer

How does DataBank help oil and gas operators?

DataBank helps energy operators modernize the land, revenue, engineering and operations records their programs run on. We capture documents and data from the field and the land office, refine them into validated data, manage records on secure platforms, and automate the workflows and integrations that use them, so your teams spend their time on decisions, not document chasing.

Energy document management is how an operator captures, organizes, secures and retains the land, title, revenue, engineering and asset records behind its operations, so decisions and payments rest on records the organization can trust and defend.

What operators are up against

Why do land, revenue and asset records stay hard to trust?

Records accumulate across decades, acquisitions and formats faster than any one team can reconcile them by hand.

Inside most land and operations offices

A land team works from lease files scanned decades apart, in different formats, often with the same tract described differently across documents. A revenue accountant keys a division of interest calculation from records that live in a different system than the lease terms that actually govern it. An engineer waits on an archive request for a well file instead of searching for it directly.

An acquisition closes, and the records behind the newly acquired assets arrive in whatever format the seller happened to keep them in, rarely one your systems can use as-is. Meanwhile, a field crew’s inspection finding sits on paper until someone returns to the office to key it in, so the asset system runs on last week’s conditions.

Every one of these gaps is a records problem wearing a different department’s clothes. Left alone, it becomes a payment dispute, a stalled drilling decision, a slower integration, or a compliance record that can’t be produced when a regulator asks for it.

Why DataBank

Why do operators choose DataBank as an energy partner?

Our Irving, TX facility keeps lease order and division order analysts on staff, so the people scoping and running your project already speak land and revenue accounting.

Dedicated energy sector expertise

Lease order and division order analysts on staff at our Irving, TX facility, so your project is scoped and run by people who already understand land and revenue accounting work.

Built for acquisition timelines

We scope and contract quickly, including under the time pressure of an active acquisition or divestiture, and normalize acquired records before they reach your systems.

A real, named engagement at scale

$4.3B in energy assets supported for an operator that centralized records into one enterprise repository, with zero data loss during an office flood.

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What we do

What does DataBank deliver for energy operators?

We work in four connected areas: we capture information from the field and the land office, refine it into trusted data, manage it on secure platforms and activate it through workflow and integration. Together they form the content foundation between your platforms and your operations.

01 INTAKE

Capture from the field and the land office

We capture lease files, well files, field inspection records and acquired archives through one managed intake process, with intelligent document processing that classifies each item as it arrives.

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02 REFINE

Data you can use

We turn content into data your systems can use, extracting and validating the fields your programs depend on, from ownership interests to well identifiers. Conflicting and duplicate records are flagged and resolved, not silently overwritten.

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03 MANAGE

Platforms you can trust

We implement, migrate and host content platforms with access controls, retention and an audit trail, including lifetime retention where it applies, run on your infrastructure or in The DataBank Cloud.

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04 ACTIVATE

Workflow and integration

We automate routing and exceptions, and integrate content with your land, revenue accounting and asset management systems, so engineers and analysts work from one trusted system instead of chasing paper.

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Challenges we solve

What energy sector challenges does DataBank solve?

We solve the records problems that slow land, revenue, engineering, corporate development and operations teams, from fragmented lease records to acquisition cleanup and field inspection capture. Start with the challenge closest to yours.

Land and Title

Land and Lease Intelligence

Fragmented lease, title and ownership records scattered across formats and systems slow drilling decisions and put ownership calculations at risk.

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Revenue Accounting

Royalty Assurance & Division of Interest

Lease terms and ownership records live in different systems than the revenue calculations they support, so a missed update becomes a payment that doesn’t match who owns the interest today.

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Engineering and Operations

Well and Asset Data Access

Well files and asset records pile up across field crews, service companies and project folders, so engineering and operations teams spend time searching instead of deciding.

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Corporate Development

Asset Transaction Readiness and Data Cleanup

Acquired asset records rarely arrive in a format your systems can use, so the deal is done long before the data behind it actually is.

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Operations and HSE

Maintenance and Inspection Execution

Inspection and maintenance records captured in the field often sit on paper until a crew returns to the office, so asset systems run on last week’s conditions.

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By role

Answers for everyone at the table

An energy records decision crosses land, IT, legal, leadership and corporate development. Each role starts with a different question.

Land, engineering and operations program directors

What you’re weighing

How much drilling, payment and maintenance decisions are slowed by hard-to-find or conflicting records.

How DataBank addresses it

We take record normalization, indexing and exception resolution off your team’s desks, so decisions run from a trusted system instead of chasing down paper.

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Operator experience

Which operators have modernized with DataBank?

A real, named engagement and a second real proof point show what disciplined records management does across the asset lifecycle.

Land and records consolidation

Merit Energy Company

$4.3B

In energy assets supported

Centralized records into one enterprise repository, with zero data loss during an office flood.

Read the Merit Energy case study →

Land and royalty platform

Energy operator

Stood up a land and royalty document platform that protected revenue through an active acquisition cycle.

Security and compliance

How does DataBank keep energy records secure?

Records stay under documented custody from receipt to the governed record, with access controls, audit trails and retention enforced on the platform.

Chain of custody

Every handoff logged, paper and digital, from receipt to the governed record.

Access controls

Role-based permissions by team, asset and record type.

Audit trails

Every view, edit and routing step recorded.

Retention

Retention schedules applied on the platform and enforced by rule, including lifetime retention where it applies.

Hosting

Your infrastructure, your cloud tenant or The DataBank Cloud, agreed with your IT team at scoping.

Frameworks and certifications

SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 ISO 27017 24/7/365 threat monitoring
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Platforms and partners

Which platforms does DataBank work with?

We lead with Hyland OnBase and Box, and we work across the other platforms operators already run, including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Esker, Jadu, Kyocera, PageIQ and The DataBank Cloud.

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Getting started

How does an energy records engagement start?

We scope against your real record volume and your own timeline, including around an active acquisition, then move quickly.

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FAQ

Energy document management questions

Start with one program

Where is work stalling in your operation right now?

Bring the backlog, system or workflow you’re measured on. An energy specialist will show you where work stalls, from intake to automation, and what it would take to fix it.

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