LoneSTAR made the P-18 a part-time job. We make it none of yours.
Ten minutes of portal entry. Hours of compiling and reconciling before that — every operator, every month. Emergent Environmental takes the whole workflow off your desk: faster than in-house, checked to the barrel, at a fraction of the cost.
LoneSTAR didn't simplify the P-18. It moved the work to you.
Since the rollout, every monthly skim oil report means pulling run tickets, hauler statements, and meter readings, reconciling them to the barrel, then re-keying it all into a portal that punishes a single misplaced digit. Regulatory professionals across Texas are losing whole days to a form — and the penalty for a bad month is a frozen account.
The standardReconciled to the barrel — so the State never has a reason to look twice.
A specialist does it faster,
cleaner, cheaper.
Generalist consultants juggle forty forms. In-house staff juggle the whole field. We made a different bet: master one filing completely, build an engine around it, and pass the speed on as price.
EfficiencyBuilt for exactly one form.
We don’t do permits, P-5 renewals, or production reports. The P-18 is the entire practice — run tickets in, accepted filing out. Specialization is why our turnaround is measured in minutes per filing, not afternoons.
One form · done at volume · every month
AccuracyEngine-checked before LoneSTAR sees it.
Every packet passes our balance engine first — the same inflow, tolerance, and skim-ratio math the Commission runs. The portal accepts it the first time, and the audit conversation never starts.
Reconciled to the barrel · zero-surprise filings
CostPriced like a utility, not a consultant.
Flat per-facility pricing at a fraction of a loaded in-house regulatory hour. You pay for a filed, defensible P-18 — not a generalist’s bench rate or a retainer that bills whether you file or not.
Flat per facility · no retainers · no surprisesWhite-glove today. Fully automated tomorrow.
We're engineering an AI pipeline that takes a P-18 from raw run tickets to a reconciled, submitted filing without a human re-keying a single number. Founding clients shape that workflow — and lock in founding rates before automation scales us across every district in Texas.
What is the P-18 actually costing you?
Three sliders, your numbers. This is the overhead LoneSTAR moved onto your desk — and what walks back in the door when you hand it to a specialist.
Defaults reflect what operators tell us: ~10 minutes of portal entry per filing plus hours of compile-and-reconcile per operator, every month since the LoneSTAR rollout.
Operators this size typically keep $11,232–$14,040 a year — and get the hours back on day one.
Estimate based on your inputs. The free audit returns a firm, flat per-facility quote.
Three ways a P-18
quietly goes wrong.
The portal lockout.
One keystroke error or a missed deadline, and LoneSTAR stops accepting your filings. Penalties stack daily while you sit locked out of the very system you need to fix the problem. We work the lockout directly, refile clean, and get the account moving again.
Revenue confiscation.
If your fluid balance doesn’t reconcile on paper, the State of Texas can classify your skimmed hydrocarbons as unidentifiable crude — and seize them. That’s your secondary revenue stream, gone overnight, on a paperwork technicality. We keep every barrel attributable.
Drowning in tickets.
You’re managing trucks, tanks, and a hot disposal schedule — decoding statute changes isn’t your job. Hand us the run tickets and meter readings; we hand back a clean, defensible filing every month, on time, with the math already proven.
A monthly compliance machine,
run for you.
Historical audit
We pull every P-18 you’ve filed, rebuild the fluid ledger barrel by barrel, and surface the mismatches before the Commission does.
Reconcile & clear
Imbalances corrected, amended filings drafted, lockouts and draft errors worked directly with RRC staff until the account is clean.
File & defend
Your monthly P-18 filed on time, tolerances verified against meter tickets, every recovered barrel traceable to a producing source.
Monitor & alert
Continuous variance monitoring catches drift months before it becomes an audit. You hear from us before the state hears about you.
The guaranteeEngine-checked against the Commission's own math before it ever leaves our desk.
P-18 Compliance &
Audit-Risk Simulator.
Punch in the numbers straight off your monthly run tickets — no statute citations required. The engine applies the Commission's balance and tolerance logic and tells you, in plain English, exactly where this month's report stands.
System balanced. Normal reporting profile.
Your fluid ledger reconciles inside the tolerance band for this volume class. Keep filing on time and this profile stays off the manual-review queue.
Your metered disposal volume sits 0.5% off receipts — inside the ±1.5% measurement tolerance for a facility moving this much water.
At 100,000 bbl/month this facility is held to the tightest tolerance band (±1.5%). Instrumented custody measurement is effectively mandatory at this scale.
Your inputs ride along with the request, so we start the audit already knowing your numbers.
Find out what the Commission already sees.
Your P-18 history is public record — which means your imbalances are too. We run the full reconstruction at no cost, walk you through every flag, and hand you a firm quote to take the whole thing off your desk.