Company: Peyto Exploration and Development Corp.
Industry: Oil and Gas, Abandonment, Reclamation and Asset Retirement
Role: Anthony Traverse, Senior Environmental Analyst (Abandonment and Reclamation Coordinator)
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
"Vastly time saved. Better reporting. Fewer mistakes. Most projects handled faster."
Anthony Traverse, Abandonment and Reclamation Coordinator, Peyto Exploration and Development Corp.
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The Company
Peyto Exploration and Development Corp. (TSX: PEY) is one of Canada's leading unconventional natural gas producers, operating extensively across Alberta's Deep Basin. In 2023, Peyto completed a strategic acquisition of Repsol Canada Energy Partnership, a transaction valued at approximately 636 million CAD that expanded the company's land holdings by 455,000 net acres and significantly increased its asset retirement obligations. This acquisition created an immediate operational challenge. Peyto now needed to manage a substantially larger portfolio of abandonment and reclamation projects, coordinate multiple consultants, track costs across dozens of well sites, and ensure regulatory compliance with the Alberta Energy Regulator.
The Challenge
A Spreadsheet Problem at Scale
Before adopting Matidor, Peyto's abandonment and reclamation team managed project data through Excel spreadsheets. What may have worked at a smaller scale became unworkable after the acquisition dramatically expanded the complexity of the reclamation portfolio.
Anthony Traverse, the team's Abandonment and Reclamation Coordinator, described the core frustration:
"Spreadsheets are a 'static' way to do work. We did not have the ability to do calculation and see updated info in real time."
The team faced three compounding problems:
· No real time visibility into project costs. Consultant costs, budget tracking and expense data were scattered across static files. By the time discrepancies surfaced, it was often too late to course correct before budget thresholds were crossed.
· Fragmented consultant management. Coordinating multiple external consultants, each submitting updates through email, spreadsheets or paper forms, created inconsistent data, miscommunication and reporting delays.
· No centralized project tracking. With well sites spread across Alberta, there was no single view of project status, site locations, cost codes or outstanding tasks. Team members had to manually gather updates from multiple sources daily just to understand where projects stood.
Using Excel spreadsheets was no longer feasible to manage costs, consultants and budgets effectively at Peyto's new scale.
Why Matidor
Peyto evaluated its options for a new solution. The requirements were specific. The platform needed to handle portfolio and project management, real time budget tracking, consultant coordination, GIS based site visualization and field data capture, all in one place, without a long enterprise implementation.
Generic project management tools lacked budget integration and geographic visualization. Enterprise ERP systems were too complex and slow to deploy. Matidor offered something purpose built, a GIS native field operations platform designed for multi site programs such as oil and gas abandonment and reclamation.
Matidor's features mapped directly to Peyto's needs:
Peyto's Need
Matidor Capability
Real time cost tracking across consultants
Budget module with cost codes and automated alerts at 70%, 90% and 100% of budget spend
Centralized project visibility
Portfolio dashboard showing all projects on one map, with status based color coding
GIS site mapping
Interactive map interface for visualizing well sites with regulatory context
Consultant coordination
Centralized task assignment, progress reporting and real time updates
Field data capture
Offline capable mobile app with GPS tagged photos and automatic sync
Reporting
One click budget export as PDF with automated month end accrual reports
Peyto's team now uses Matidor across four core areas: portfolio and project management, location intelligence and GIS mapping, budget and cost control, and field operations and mobile data capture. The platform acts as the single system of record connecting office and field for the entire reclamation program.
The Solution in Action
Portfolio and Project Management
With Matidor, the team moved from static spreadsheets to a live project dashboard. All abandonment and reclamation sites appear on a single portfolio map, with color coding by status, priority or any custom field the team configures. Centralized communication and standard workflows have replaced scattered email threads and inconsistent processes.
"Using Matidor to organize and track our projects or sites, we have been able to manage work orders from abandonment to reclamation certifications. We have also been able to manage and track spills and use it to manage work orders or track spills."
Anthony Traverse
Budget and Cost Control
Matidor's budget module transformed how Peyto tracks consultant spend in real time. Each project has budgets with specific cost codes, and the platform automatically generates accrual reports, replacing a process that previously required days of manual consolidation at month end.
Automated email alerts at 70%, 90% and 100% of budget give the team advance warning before overruns occur, instead of finding out only when invoices arrive.
"Actually, we are using Matidor's weekly monthly reporting template, which has already replaced our Excel reporting templates."
Anthony Traverse
The built in budget tracking delivers value even without a direct accounting integration, because earlier visibility into consultant spend reduces end of month surprises significantly.
Power BI Integration: Real-Time Cost Visibility Across the Portfolio
For Peyto's leadership and finance team, Matidor's data doesn't stop at the project dashboard. The team connected Matidor to Microsoft Power BI to build filter-driven executive dashboards that display cost versus budget performance across the entire reclamation portfolio in real time.
Before this integration, reporting on portfolio-wide financial performance required manually pulling data from spreadsheets, consolidating it, and building static charts, a process measured in days. With Matidor feeding live project and budget data into Power BI, target gauges and variance charts update automatically as field costs flow in. Finance and leadership can now filter by site, consultant, cost code, or date range and get an immediate view of where the program stands against budget, without waiting for month-end reconciliation.
This is particularly valuable for a company managing the scale of obligations that came with Peyto's Repsol acquisition. With dozens of well sites and multiple active consultants running simultaneously, a single consolidated Power BI view of cost-to-budget performance replaces what previously required cross-referencing multiple systems and static files. The result is financial visibility that matches the pace of field operations, rather than lagging behind it.
"Power BI reports and target gauges now show cost versus budget in real time, something that was not possible when the team relied on static spreadsheets."
Location Intelligence and GIS Mapping
Before Matidor, well site data and regulatory context lived in a separate GIS system that did not connect to project management tools. With Matidor, site maps, regulatory overlays and live project data sit in one place, so the team can see both spatial and financial context for every site.
"Matidor has made the visualization of PSI too easy so that we no longer need to open the PSI report to get information. Reporting PSI is an operational day to day business from 8 am onwards, and with the additional layers, colour coding and mapping, it allows the field and office to identify the potential areas of impacts."
Anthony Traverse
Field Operations and Mobile Data Capture
Field crews rely on Matidor's mobile app for on site data collection. They capture photos, notes and status updates on location and sync back to the office when coverage is available, removing paper based forms and delays caused by poor cell reception.
"Having the ability to share photographs related to potential issues on site, as a location for field and office to collaborate on brainstorming to address concerns."
Anthony Traverse
Results and Impact
"Vastly time saved. Better reporting. Fewer mistakes. Most projects handled faster."
Anthony Traverse, Peyto
Key improvements across the program:
· Faster reporting. Portfolio dashboards and automated reporting templates replaced manual Excel builds for status updates and month end accruals, reducing what previously took days to a same day process.
· Fewer errors. Real time field data entry cut transcription mistakes that were common with paper forms and email based updates.
· Greater throughput with the same team. Streamlined project coordination freed the team to manage a larger post-acquisition workload without adding headcount.
· Map led decision making. A single live map of all sites replaced cross referencing multiple systems, giving coordinators an immediate view of overall program status.
· Stronger consultant accountability. Consultants receive tasks inside Matidor, submit updates in the platform, and progress is visible instantly for the office team.
When asked how he would describe Matidor to a peer in the industry, Anthony answered:
"Easy to use project management tool that transforms notification of changes to configurations."
The Peyto team continues to rely on Matidor for abandonment and reclamation work, and Anthony is open to speaking with other operators looking to modernize similar programs.
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Why This Matters for Oil and Gas Teams
Peyto's experience reflects a challenge that is widespread across the Canadian oil and gas sector. Regulatory pressure to address abandonment and reclamation liabilities is intensifying. Peyto alone planned to spend 13 million dollars on abandonment and reclamation activities in 2026, exceeding AER mandatory spending requirements. Managing this scope with spreadsheets and email is not a scalable approach.
Matidor's oil and gas platform provides the operational infrastructure these teams need: a single platform connecting field activity, project tracking, budget oversight and geographic visualization, without months of IT deployment or a specialist GIS team. Teams managing remediation and reclamation programs can see how the platform applies directly to their workflows.
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