The challenge
Early screening fails when technical, commercial, and financial risks are reviewed in silos.
Whether evaluating a CCS storage opportunity or an unconventional shale acquisition, teams need a faster way to understand value drivers, risks, red flags, and next data-room priorities.
Subsurface
Storage quality, reservoir quality, type curves, EURs, containment, and development risk.
Facilities & Midstream
Pipelines, compression, processing, gathering, disposal, transport access, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
Market & Commercial
CO₂ supply, anchor customers, hydrocarbon price exposure, business model, and revenue potential.
Land & Regulatory
Permitting, lease position, operator constraints, Class VI / Class II pathway, and public or stakeholder risk.
Financial
NPV10, IRR, VIR, payout, breakeven price, bid discipline, CAPEX, OPEX, and transaction attractiveness.
Platform
One screening philosophy, two energy investment workflows.
Stratacore is designed for early investment and development decisions where teams must decide whether to proceed, pause, or walk away before spending major time and due-diligence cost.
- Unconventional Shale Screening: pre-data-room asset economics, type/combo curves, PDP, DUC, PUD, exploratory acreage, and bid discipline
- CCS Opportunity Screening: subsurface, infrastructure, market, regulatory, and financial readiness for carbon storage projects
- Agentic review to benchmark assumptions, critique outputs, and identify red flags
- PDF-ready decision-support report with risks, data gaps, and next-phase recommendations
Unconventional shale screening
Pre-data-room economic screening for shale acquisitions.
Built for private equity groups, investment bankers, angel investors, small oil companies, and consultants who need a fast first-pass technical and financial view before entering a data room.
Deterministic engine
Engineering and economics before the deeper diligence spend.
The shale screening engine calculates production forecasts and investment metrics for PDP, DUC, PUD, and exploratory acreage using type/combo curves and hydrocarbon stream assumptions.
- Oil, gas, and NGL rate forecasts
- Cumulative EURs by development category
- Asset PV versus Transaction PV after acquisition bid
- NPV10, IRR, VIR, payout period, breakeven oil price, and suggested bid value
Primary use case
Quickly determine whether an unconventional shale asset deserves data-room attention, a disciplined bid, a deeper technical review, or early rejection.
Designed to turn weeks of first-pass review into a focused screening exercise measured in hours.
Subsurface
Type curves, bench quality, EUR reasonableness, spacing assumptions, and upside/downside risk.
Financial
Transaction NPV10, IRR, VIR, payout, BEV, bid sensitivity, and value-transfer risk.
Land & Regulatory
Lease, permitting, working interest, royalty, obligations, and data-room red flags.
Facilities & Midstream
Gathering, processing, water, takeaway, constraints, and required facility investment.
Operations & Supply Chain
Drilling pace, completion cost, LOE, services availability, execution bottlenecks, and operating risk.
Why it matters
Better prepared before the data room.
Stratacore does not replace full technical, legal, commercial, or financial due diligence. It improves the first decision: should the team spend more time and money on this asset, sharpen the bid, or walk away early?
Benefit: faster screening, stronger bid discipline, clearer data-room questions, and earlier identification of risks that can destroy acquisition value.
Weighted review
Subsurface and finance drive the decision.
The unconventional shale workflow emphasizes the two most value-critical engines: subsurface and financial evaluation. Supporting agents review land and regulatory, facilities and midstream, and operations and supply-chain risks.
Screening principle: a high-quality asset can still be a weak transaction if the entry price transfers too much value to the seller.
CCS opportunity screening
Integrated CCS screening for early investment and development decisions.
Stratacore applies a consistent framework across multiple CCS opportunities and regions, helping teams identify value drivers, risks, data gaps, and next steps.
Subsurface
Capacity, injectivity, containment, storage analogues, and site characterization gaps.
Infrastructure
Pipeline access, compression, hub potential, source-sink access, and routing constraints.
Market & Commercial
CO₂ emitters, anchor customers, 45Q-driven demand, business model, and offtake risks.
Regulatory
Class VI / Class II pathway, primacy, permit status, AOR/MMV, and public participation.
Financial
CAPEX, OPEX, 45Q, tariffs, storage fees, investment returns, and financing limitations.
Example output: discipline score table with decision, confidence, and main concern.
Repeatable methodology
Compare opportunities using a consistent decision framework.
The platform supports early-stage screening across multiple regions, asset types, concepts, and investment cases. It helps users distinguish technical potential from transaction attractiveness.
- Opportunity score and discipline-level recommendations
- Regional Screening Decision or Transaction Attractiveness Tier
- Site-specific readiness status and critical data gaps
- Recommended next-phase actions and data-room focus areas
Sample assessment
Example CCS screening output: Permian Delaware Basin Class VI storage hub.
A sample report demonstrates executive synthesis, five-discipline scoring, and decision-support language generated by Stratacore.
Executive synthesis
From multiple workstreams to one screening recommendation.
The sample assessment separates regional opportunity from site-specific readiness, avoiding premature rejection of promising regions where detailed site data is still maturing.
Example recommendation: Regional Screening GO with Site-Specific Readiness HOLD.
Coordinator executive synthesis and agent score table.
Final executive summary for PDF output.
Coverage regions
Focused on active U.S. CCS and unconventional shale regions.
Initial CCS coverage emphasizes the Gulf Coast, Permian, Illinois Basin, Wyoming, California, North Dakota, Arizona, and Appalachian opportunities. Unconventional shale screening can be adapted to major U.S. shale basins where sufficient production, type curve, cost, and commercial data are available.
Current focus: Texas Gulf Coast | Louisiana | Permian Basin | Delaware Basin | Midland Basin | Eagle Ford | Haynesville | Illinois Basin | Wyoming | North Dakota | California | Arizona | Appalachian Basin
Founder
Built by an energy practitioner with deep oil & gas, CCS, M&A, and project development experience.
Tariq K. Siddiqui brings 35+ years of energy industry experience across upstream oil and gas, LNG, CCS, new business development, capital projects, M&A, and advisory work for investors and industry clients.
Screening-level decision support
Stratacore does not replace site-specific engineering, geological characterization, reserves certification, legal review, land due diligence, investment-grade cost estimation, Class VI permitting, or full financial diligence. It supports earlier, more consistent opportunity screening and better data-room preparation.
Contact
Discuss a CCS opportunity, shale acquisition screening, pilot assessment, or strategic partnership.
Stratacore is currently focused on early customer and partner conversations with private equity groups, investment bankers, oil and gas operators, CCS developers, midstream companies, industrial emitters, and strategic advisors.
Email: stratacore.ccs@gmail.com | LinkedIn: Tariq K. Siddiqui