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Oil & Gas Industry - Financial and Procurement Systems

Touchstone Group – Leaders in Business Systems for the Oil & Gas Sector


Touchstone Energy

Touchstone Energy is the leading channel partner for SunSystems and PROACTIS, financial accounting and procurement software and systems designed specifically for UK and global organisations in the Oil and Gas sector.

We are committed to providing business management software, solutions and services that meet the unique requirements of the E&P and Downstream trading markets. Touchstone works closely with many of the UK’s leading Oil and Gas companies and understands the challenges they are facing. We offer effective, easy-to-use solutions designed specifically to meet their demands.

Our portfolio of business management software and services enable Oil and Gas companies to integrate and manage every aspect of their business including planning, budgeting and forecasting, accounting, cost management and analysis, ensuring companies can respond quickly to new and changing requirements.

SunSystems is equipped with several unique features that make it particularly well suited to the Downstream industry and it has been implemented in over 600 Oil and Gas sites in 190 countries.

Some of the leading upstream operators have also selected SunSystems & PROACTIS from Touchstone to support their Financial and Spend Management operations worldwide. Some 750 users in 44 countries around the world use real-time, multi-currency, multi-lingual finance and business reporting software from Touchstone.

Our Value Proposition for the Oil & Gas Sector


Reporting by Analysis Dimension


  • Location
  • Field
  • Block
  • AFE
  • Cost Centre or Department
  • Lifecycle
  • JV Partner
  • Employee/Supplier

Multi-currency


  • True multi-currency functionality at the transaction level.
  • Up to 5 different currency values plus one statistical value (for metric, quantities etc.) per transaction. Other systems typically have only two, the Base Currency and the Transaction Currency.
  • Ledger revaluation function simplifies the transaction of foreign currencies at the period end date and meets GAAP requirements.
  • Monthly or daily conversion rate in any currency.

Multiple Chart of Accounts & Reporting Structures


  • Meet Head Office requirements
  • Meet local statutory Chart of Accounts and reporting with country-specific chart of accounts that can be mapped to Head Office chart of accounts for consolidation purposes
  • IFRS, UKGAAP, USGAAP reporting structures

Joint Venture Cost Allocation & Recovery


  • Timesheet/Time-writing function
  • Joint Venture Reporting
  • Joint Venture Gross to Net
  • Cash Call and Allocation Reporting
  • Expenditure by AFE & Non-AFE costs
  • Expenditure Detail Reporting
  • Joint Venture Interest Billing Statement
  • Expenditure by Asset

Multiple Business Units


SunSystems supports an unlimited number of business units (Assets), each with their own base currency, and reporting currencies and an unlimited number of transaction currencies.

Purchase to Pay/Contracts Management


  • Request for Quotation
  • Requisitions & Draft PO’s
  • Contract call-off’s and blanket PO’s
  • Automated electronic order approvals
  • Full 3-way matching
  • Integrated inventory Management
  • Supplier performance reporting
  • Contracts Management & e-Sourcing
  • Document scanning

Risk & Compliance


  • Oil & Gas expertise
  • Scalable to meet growth
  • Operates on and integrates with all current Microsoft technologies
  • C-SOX Compliance
  • SOX Compliance
  • IAS (International Accounting Standards)

Low total cost of ownership


  • Rapid implementation
  • Proven project implementation methodology
  • Leading team of Oil & Gas experienced Consultants

Field Asset Management & Control

  • Asset Management
  • Asset Contracts (Purchase Lease, Labourer)
  • Asset Financials
  • Inventory/Asset Planning/Preventative Maintenance
  • Purchasing
  • Service Levels
  • Work Orders
  • Service Tickets
  • Maintenance Programming
  • Integration with SunSystems Financials