How Surge Energy Manages Their ARO Portfolio With Matidor

Company: Surge Energy Inc.
Industry: Oil and Gas, Asset Retirement, Remediation and Reclamation
Contact: Asset Retirement Team
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Matidor is a project management platform that allows you to track environmental sites, costs, and closure progress in a single system. It improves visibility and coordination by putting all your work onto a map, helping you plan more efficiently and avoid overlap

Asset Retirement Team

Surge Energy Inc.

The Company

Surge Energy Inc. (TSX: SGY) is a Calgary-based oil-focused exploration and production company with operations across some of Canada's top conventional oil plays, including the Sparky and Southeast Saskatchewan areas.

Overseeing that closure portfolio is Asset Retirement Team. They are responsible for tracking site inventory, managing the stages of closure across multiple geographic areas, coordinating external vendors, and maintaining accurate cost and progress data for reporting and forecasting.

Modern glass office tower representing Surge Energy, a Calgary-based oil-focused exploration and production company listed on the TSX

Project coordinator working at a cluttered desk with printed reports, a calculator, and a laptop, representing the manual spreadsheet-based tracking Surge Energy relied on before Matidor

Lack of centralized tracking made it difficult to maintain an accurate view of our site inventory and track the stage of closure for each location.

Asset Retirement Team

Surge Energy Inc.

The Challenge

Before implementing Matidor, Surge Energy managed its asset retirement program using a combination of spreadsheets and existing software tools that supported their operations. As activity expanded across a large number of sites at various stages of closure, the team identified an opportunity to further elevate how they visualized, coordinated, and optimized their work.

Day-to-day operations highlighted areas where greater integration and visibility could unlock additional value:

Teams worked across multiple data sources, creating opportunities to further align information and reduce duplication.
Site assessments required drawing from various inputs, presenting a chance to streamline access to consistent, reliable baseline data.
Sites were often reviewed individually, opening the door to a more geographically connected approach that could enhance sequencing and efficiency.
Planning lacked a unified spatial view, limiting the ability to fully account for access constraints, travel distances, and overlapping activities in a single workflow.

For a team managing a dynamic portfolio of assets, bringing this information together visually represented a significant opportunity. A more connected, map-based perspective would enable smarter sequencing, improved vendor coordination, and clearer insight into where efforts could deliver the greatest impact.

Why Matidor

Surge Energy needed a purpose-built platform that could handle the scale and geographic complexity of a large ARO portfolio. The solution had to centralize site data, surface it on a map, and connect project status to budget tracking, all without requiring a complex IT implementation.

Matidor's GIS-native design matched how the Asset Retirement team needed to think about the work: geographically. The ability to split sites into portfolios by area, link AFEs to individual locations, track closure stages visually, and coordinate vendors within a single platform addressed the core gaps left by spreadsheets and legacy software.

"Spreadsheets work to a point but become difficult to manage as projects grow in volume and complexity. A centralized, map-based system gives you real-time insight and makes managing multiple sites much more efficient."
Asset Retirement TeamSurge Energy Inc.

Matidor's features mapped directly to Surge's needs:

Real-time cost tracking

AFEs linked directly to individual site locations are tracked at the site level with budget-to-actual visibility, replacing spreadsheet exports that gave no real-time insight into where the program stood at any moment.

Centralized project visibility

Sites split into portfolios by geographic area and by special project type, replacing a fragmented picture that previously required cross-referencing multiple spreadsheets and legacy software exports across a large Alberta-wide closure program.

GIS site mapping

Map-based view showing how sites relate to each other geographically, enabling sequencing decisions, identifying access constraints, and surfacing overlapping activities before work begins instead of discovering conflicts in the field.

Consultant coordination

Vendor scheduling and progress tracking within the same platform that holds site data and closure progress, so vendors are coordinated in geographic context, optimizing travel routes and preventing duplicate activity across adjacent sites.

Reporting

Closure stage tracking visible on the map so the team can report program-wide progress by site status without compiling data from separate systems.

The Solution in Action

Portfolio Organization by Area and Project Type

Surge Energy organized its full site inventory inside Matidor, splitting locations into portfolios by geographic area as well as special project categories. This structure gave the team a consistent, queryable view of the entire closure program.

Industrial pipelines running through a forested area, representing the gathering systems and facilities organized by geographic area within Matidor's portfolio structure

Our sites are split into portfolios by area as well as special projects.

Asset Retirement Team

Surge Energy Inc.

Matidor platform on a desktop monitor showing a GIS map with project pins and site summary panel, used by Surge Energy to visualize and sequence closure work across geographic areas

Instead of looking at sites as isolated entries on a spreadsheet we can better understand how they relate to each other geographically. Optimizes travel and sequencing helping prioritize work more efficiently. Helps identify access constraints and overlapping activities leading to more informed decision making.

Asset Retirement Team

Surge Energy Inc.

Map-Based Planning and Sequencing

The shift from spreadsheet rows to a live map fundamentally changed how Surge's team plans and sequences closure work. Rather than treating sites as isolated entries, the team can now see how locations relate to each other geographically, identify access constraints, and understand where overlapping activities could create inefficiencies or conflicts before work begins.

How Geographic Visibility Changed the Order of Work

One concrete example illustrated the impact clearly. When managing a group of sites in the same geographic area at different stages of closure, Matidor's map view allowed the team to visualize site layout and access together, plan the order of work more efficiently, and ensure activities were completed in the right sequence to minimize disruptions.

Three oil pump jacks operating on a hillside, representing the well site portfolio managed more efficiently by Surge Energy after adopting Matidor for asset retirement planning

Managing a group of sites in the same geographical area at different stages of closure. With Matidor we were able to visualize the site layout and access on a map which helped to plan and coordinate the order of work more efficiently, ensuring activities were completed in the right sequence, minimizing disruptions and improving efficiency and execution.

Asset Retirement Team

Surge Energy Inc.

Person reviewing budget and cost data on a laptop with financial icons, representing AFE-linked cost tracking and closure forecasting in Matidor

We link AFEs to individual sites and activities. Costs are associated with specific stages of work helping to monitor spend and assist with forecasting.

Asset Retirement Team

Surge Energy Inc.

Budget and Cost Control

Surge Energy links AFEs to individual sites and activities within Matidor, associating costs with specific stages of work. This structure enables the team to monitor spend against each phase of closure and use that data to support forecasting.

Vendor Coordination and Communication

One of the measurable improvements the team highlighted was the improvement in vendor coordination. With all site data, status, and task information centralized in Matidor, the back-and-forth between Surge's internal team and external vendors became significantly more efficient, reducing the administrative burden that had previously consumed significant time.

Two team members reviewing project data together on a laptop in a modern office, representing the improved vendor coordination and communication enabled by centralizing site data in Matidor

Reduced time spent on manual tracking and reporting, less administrative effort, improved accuracy, vendor coordination made easier, better informed decisions, prioritize work more efficiently.

Asset Retirement Team

Surge Energy Inc.

Results and Impact

Since adopting Matidor, Surge Energy has seen meaningful improvements across the full scope of its asset retirement operations.

Area

Before Matidor

With Matidor

Site inventory tracking

Spreadsheets and disconnected software

Centralized portfolio view by area and project type

Work planning and sequencing

Sites treated as isolated entries

Map-based sequencing with geographic context

Access and overlap identification

Often confirmed during field execution

Identified during planning on the map

Budget tracking

Spreadsheets

AFEs linked to sites with stage-level cost tracking

Vendor coordination

High administrative burden

Streamlined, centralized communication

Reporting

Manual, time-consuming

Reduced administrative effort, improved accuracy

Multiple hands assembling colorful puzzle pieces, representing how Matidor connected Surge Energy's teams, vendors, and site data into one coordinated asset retirement program

Much more streamlined and efficient, real time view of site status, improved communication with vendors, reduction of administrative burden, improved ability to manage projects.

Asset Retirement Team

Surge Energy Inc.

Real-Time Visibility, Less Admin, Better Decisions

The operational shift was clear and team-wide. Project coordination became more streamlined, site status became accessible in real time, and the ability to plan work spatially unlocked efficiencies that were simply not possible when sites existed only as rows in a spreadsheet.

About Matidor

Matidor is a GIS-native field operations platform purpose-built for oil and gas, environmental services, and multi-site operations. The platform unifies project management, real-time budget tracking, location intelligence, and offline field data capture into one system, so operations teams can track every project, control every budget, and coordinate every field crew from a single live map. Onboarding is measured in weeks, not months.
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