Oil and Gas Company Value Streams

This is a complete set of 20 end-to-end value stream maps for an oil and gas company, delivered as an editable PowerPoint deck. Each flow — from lease acquisition through production, from crude marketing through refined product delivery — is broken into stages, and each stage lists the activities, inputs, and outputs that move it forward, so you can see exactly where data, decisions, and physical product change hands.

Why the Sequence Is Hard to Fake

Oil and gas isn't one value chain, it's three loosely coupled ones — upstream, midstream, and downstream — and a generic prompt tends to flatten them into a single "explore, produce, sell" pipeline. In reality, lease and mineral-rights acquisition runs years ahead of, and largely independent from, the drilling program it eventually feeds, and most wells are owned by multiple non-operating partners, which means production accounting has to fork into joint-interest billing before a single barrel reaches revenue recognition. Royalty and severance-tax obligations are triggered directly off physical production volumes, so the value stream has to bridge operational data (barrels, MCF) and financial data (revenue, disclosure) in a way most industries never have to. And downstream, a major refinery turnaround is a shutdown project planned years in advance with its own procurement and scheduling flow, not a variant of routine maintenance — collapsing the two, which generic output tends to do, hides where the real cost and risk actually sit.

What's Inside

20 value stream flows spanning upstream (exploration, land and lease, drilling and completion, production operations), midstream (gathering, transportation, storage), and downstream (refining, supply and trading, marketing and retail), plus supporting streams such as joint-interest accounting, HSE and process safety, and reserves reporting. Each flow is diagrammed stage by stage in PowerPoint, with the activities, inputs, and outputs behind every stage documented so the logic is visible, not just the box-and-arrow shape. All shapes, labels, and stages are fully editable, so you can reorder or extend flows to match how your organization is actually structured — integrated major, independent E&P, midstream MLP, or refiner.

How Teams Use It

• Give ERP, EAM, or digital oilfield implementation teams a baseline for where systems need to plug into the exploration-to-production and production-to-cash flows
• Line up two companies' upstream, midstream, and downstream flows during M&A or divestiture integration to spot duplicated or missing stages
• Anchor operational excellence initiatives — non-productive time reduction in drilling, turnaround planning — to the specific stage they affect
• Brief executives or boards on transformation scope using flows they already recognize, instead of a generic process slide

Who It's For

Strategy, transformation, and business architecture teams at E&P, midstream, and refining companies; consultants and systems integrators scoping oil and gas engagements; and IT leaders planning ERP, EAM, or production-accounting implementations who need a real map of the business before they design the system.