Collide Case Study Marketing Contracts with Aurian Norouzi (Kraken Oil) & Nick Smart (Collide)

Aurian Norouzi from Kraken Oil & Gas walks through how they're using Collide to stop manually hunting through gas gathering agreements buried in file folders. He breaks down the acreage dedication problem, how they're automating stripper well applications to North Dakota, and why building third-party volume forecasts used to mean staring at maps and manually typing section-township-range data into Excel. Nick Smart from Collide explains how they iterated on chunk sizes and result limits to make the answers actually useful, and where GIS integration could let Kraken visualize dedication overlays without bugging their one GIS analyst.

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0:00 - Introductions and Aurian's background at Kraken
2:15 - What the midstream contract search looked like before Collide
5:40 - Sample questions on acreage dedications
8:30 - User engagement and iteration process
12:45 - Stripper well application automation workflow
18:20 - Third party forecasting tool and mapping integrations
24:35 - Using GIS files instead of manually parsing PDFs
28:50 - How faster forecasts improve midstream negotiations
31:40 - Visualizing dedication maps and contract overlays
35:10 - Current search functionality and real use cases

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