Market Value Research
WGA performs oil and gas market value studies, comparable sales research, reasonable prudent operator evaluations and market research, including first marketable product studies.  WGA designs, executes and supports market research for buyers and sellers in the oil and gas industry.  Market and price research is supported by a comprehensive set of related oil and gas databases, electronic data interchange, survey research, bibliographic research, data analysis, processing and management consulting services.  Price information is also utilized to support producer gas marketing services including contract negotiation. Read more

Price Data for Oil, Natural Gas and Natural Gas Liquids
WGA draws on extensive historical and contemporary oil and gas price data compiled from published and private industry sources and from county, state and federal public records.  We offer exclusive data processing capabilities that support a range of specialized and customized market analyses.  WGA maintains data on natural gas prices, crude oil prices, NGL prices as well as processing, gathering and transportation rates.  We conduct market surveys to collect information on contracts, terms and sales arrangements.

Data Sources
Sources maintained for our clients include Texas severance tax data 1975-2009, PGA data 1974-1992, MMS royalty data, Railroad Commission of Texas P-4 data, Gas Master and G-10 data, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission NGPA data, Gas Utility Annual Reports 1935-2009, and Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Royalty data 1988-2005.

Other data routinely developed for clients is drawn from research materials and on-line access to the Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy, FERC and industry sources.  Additional sources include the Alabama State Oil and Gas Board, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Kentucky Office of Mine Safety and Licensing, Kentucky Geological Survey, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Oklahoma Tax Commission, Railroad Commission of Texas, Texas General Land Office, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the US Minerals Management Service and both published and private oil and gas industry sources.

Data Analysis
Specific research sources and methods have been developed to identify, collect and analyze price and market data for other county, state or regions in North America.  Standardized routines for Texas relate Severance Tax and Railroad Commission data with FERC and GRI data for the most comprehensive wellhead market views available.

Relational database capabilities condense hundreds of thousands of individual records into meaningful descriptive statistics, distribution studies and identification and rankings of buyers and sellers by volume and price.  Our exclusive data processing capability allows us to efficiently prepare custom routines identifying properties, buyers and sellers who meet specific selection criteria. Specific research sources and methods have been developed to identify, collect and analyze price and market data for other county, state or regions in North America.  Standardized routines for Texas relate Severance Tax and Railroad Commission data with FERC and GRI data for the most comprehensive wellhead market views available.  Relational database capabilities condense hundreds of thousands of individual records into meaningful descriptive statistics, distribution studies and identification and rankings of buyers and sellers by volume and price.  Our exclusive data processing capability allows us to efficiently prepare custom routines identifying properties, buyers and sellers who meet specific selection criteria.

Data Sources
WGA maintains data processing capabilities that are fully compatible with the variety of information systems used in the industry.  Data and reports can be translated freely to and from the application software environments used by individual clients.  WGA maintains an extensive array of computers and peripherals capable of reading or scanning data from virtually any storage medium.

Sample Market and Price Reports
WGA has designed unique analytical routines and report functions based on the ability to link well and lease data from various sources in a relational database environment.  Our ability to link data from different State, Federal and Industrial sources supports enhanced market intelligence. Read more