Visual MESA Production Accounting

Unify your production accounting, balance sheet and data reconciliation with a complete solution that drives better decisions, higher efficiency, and lower operating costs.

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Oil & gas Engineering Product of the Year Silver Award 2021
Digital refinery

Best-In-Class Accounting and Reconciliation

Visual MESA® Production Accounting (VM-PA) delivers an end-to-end solution for production and yield accounting across the full hydrocarbon value chain, seamlessly supporting upstream, midstream, and downstream operations along with chemical processes. By combining engineering knowledge with advanced data reconciliation, VM-PA creates one unified view of inventories, movements, and balances from process units to site-wide systems. The result is consistent, highly accurate accounting data that enhances visibility, supports loss control, and enables confident operational and business decision-making.

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Why Visual MESA for Production Accounting?

Consistent yield accounting

Delivers accurate, repeatable production and yield data to support cost, loss, and performance analysis.

High-quality reconciled data

Improves accuracy and reliability by providing trusted, validated data for operational and business decisions.

Automated accounting processes

Reduces manual effort through automated data capture, validation, and real-time reconciliation, freeing engineers for higher-value work.

Advanced gross error detection

Identifies and prioritizes instrument and measurement issues, cutting troubleshooting time and improving measurement integrity.

Reduced losses and errors

Minimizes material losses, transaction errors, and revenue leakage through better visibility and tighter control of movements and balances.

Rapid return on investment

Delivers measurable financial impact with typical payback achieved within six to twelve months.

Inside Visual MESA Production Accounting

Site-wide Production and Yield Accounting
Production Back Allocation
Process Unit Data Reconciliation
Oil Loss Reduction Initiatives
Products to Origin of Feed Tracking
Emissions Accounting

Downstream and Midstream

Visual MESA Production Accounting aligns hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and near real-time production and accounting data into a single reconciled model shared across operations, engineering, planning, and finance. This eliminates conflicting balances and ensures the entire organization operates from one consistent, reliable view of the business.

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Upstream

VM-PA supports near real-time production back allocation and well testing, helping upstream operators reduce non-localized losses and gain clear visibility into well performance. Built with real-time monitoring and control technology, VM-PA simplifies data entry and calcluations. By automating data capture, validation, and allocation across wells, blocks, and fields. It improves reservoir factor accuracy and allocation reporting, accelerates production closing, and quickly highlights wells contributing to production gaps or anomalies — helping operators close the gap between expected and actual production while controlling CAPEX and OPEX.

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Using an innovative algorithm VM-PA delivers best-in-class data reconciliation which can be applied in a variety of ways: real-time, daily, monthly, static, dynamic, mass only, components or mass & volume, or any combinations.

Process unit data is integrated into the core production accounting workflow, with VM-PA delivering a trusted view of inventories and movements, to improve accuracy, reduce manual effort, and enable faster detection of measurement or process issues.

The ability to pinpoint losses, prioritize corrective actions, and minimize revenue leakage is key. VM-PA strengthens site-wide loss control by accounting for all major loss sources in alignment with the Energy Institute’s HM-31 standard — supporting both operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.

Traceability of feedstock batches including reception, blending, and manufacturing processes is key to refiners, especially in bio-fuels. With Visual MESA Production Accounting you get audit-ready traceability of all feed inputs — origin, ownership, and carbon intensity — across your supply chain. The solution supports rigorous certification and compliance, simplifies RIN management, and gives you a transparent, verifiable “carbon story” for every batch.

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Visual MESA Production Accounting is a key component of the state-of-the-art Visual MESA Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management (VM-GEM) solution. It underpins the facilities material balance, loss control initiatives, and reliable data provider for auditable, official emissions reporting.

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Visual MESA Production Accounting

Uncover the hidden treasure in reconciled data to facilitate faster, more effective decision-making with greater accuracy for long-term sustainability.

All-in-One System

VM-PA consolidates the full production accounting process from data capture through validation, data exposure and analytics into one platform removing the need for multiple vendors, interfaces, or disconnected tools.

  • Integrates oil movement, inventory management, mass and energy balance, data reconciliation, gross error detection, and reporting
  • Reduces IT complexity, maintenance effort, and support costs
  • Provides consistent data handling and governance
  • Enhances long-term sustainability through a unified operating model

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High-quality Data for Production Accounting

Powered by an industry-leading data reconciliation algorithm, VM-PA delivers fast, accurate, and reliable mass-balance results that organizations can trust.

  • Data reconciliation algorithm dramatically reduces the effort to solve balances
  • Provides the high-quality “truth data” needed for AI/ML optimization models
  • Reduces balance deviations and operational inefficiencies
  • Supports mass, volume, and energy reconciliation

Data Reconciliation Value

VM-PA elevates production accounting from a manual reporting task to a strategic value generator. High-quality reconciled data enables smarter engineering analysis and better business decisions.

  • Identifies losses, errors, and inefficiencies that would otherwise go unnoticed
  • Improves decision-making in planning, scheduling, and optimization
  • Enables targeted loss reduction initiatives and performance improvements
  • Shifts engineers from data wrangling to higher-value analysis and problem solving

Visual MESA Production Accounting Helps South American Oil Company Improve Profitability

"Oil and Gas industries need accurate and traceable production data to operate efficiently. Even a small percentage of material loss has a major impact on profitability."

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Oscar Santollani, Former Vice President for KBC’s Visual MESA software product line.

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Federico Neira

Product Manager Production Accounting, Visual MESA

Meet our expert on Mass Balance, Yield Accounting and Data Reconciliation

“We are seeing many customers downgrading the yield accounting business to “just an admin task” because they lack the tools to properly obtain value from the huge amount of data they generate. We can upgrade this process with Visual MESA Production Accounting software to a different level.”

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