The reclamation-risk instrument, in detail.
Meridian turns 10-metre satellite imagery into a defensible view of reclamation risk — the recovery state of the land, the obligation it carries, and the covenants that ride on it.
Score the land. Quantify the obligation. Monitor the book.
Recovery score, 0–100
A satellite-derived, rules-based measure of how far each site has actually recovered — built to survive a redetermination and reconcile with the regulator's numbers, not a black-box ML output.
Dynamic ARO
A per-site abandonment-and-reclamation obligation that updates as the ground changes and as cost drivers move, with P10–P90 cost bands from Monte Carlo over regional unit costs and timing.
Covenant & exposure monitoring
LMR and decommissioning-reserve tracking, orphan-well exposure heat-maps, and early-warning indicators across the book — surfaced before the next file review would catch them.
From a licence list to a defensible number.
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Register your sites
Bring your licences, UWIs, or a whole portfolio. Meridian locates every site across Western Canada and links it to the public regulatory record.
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Read the satellite record
We pull each site's multispectral history from Sentinel-2 (10-metre, ~5-day revisit) and establish a pre-disturbance baseline from the imagery archive.
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Score recovery & ARO
A 0–100, rules-based recovery score and a dynamic, auditable asset-retirement-obligation estimate per site — interpretable and defensible, not a black box.
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Monitor & report
Track LMR and decommissioning-reserve covenants, orphan-well exposure, and recovery trajectory across the book — with regulator-ready reporting on demand.
ARO is the flagship. The basin is the platform.
Every signal starts in one place — 684,158 WCSB wells, modeled individually from satellite imagery, the public regulatory record, and operator filings. A defensible ARO is the flagship of that spine. The same per-well graph powers a widening surface of basin intelligence:
Basin M&A & deal analytics
Every disclosed WCSB A&D transaction — classified, with $/boe/d, $/well, PV10 and reserves multiples extracted from the source announcements, roll-up arc maps, and realized-in-registry reconciliation tying an announced deal to the actual licence transfers.
| Play | Year | Deal value | $/boe/d | $/well | PV10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montney gas | 2024 | C$1.2B | 38,200 | 2.4M | 0.82× |
| Clearwater oil | 2024 | C$540M | 51,000 | 1.1M | 0.74× |
| Duvernay | 2023 | C$2.1B | 44,600 | 3.0M | 0.79× |
| Cardium | 2023 | C$310M | 29,800 | 1.6M | 0.68× |
Ownership & operator intelligence
Lineage-traced ownership over time, operator portfolios, and consolidation patterns across the basin — folding predecessor entities so a working-interest history reads true through every name change.
…and a widening set of lenses
New capabilities ship continuously — each one inherits the same satellite-verified, registry-grounded spine, so the surface gets deeper without ever leaving the data it was built on.
Every number shows its work.
The score isn’t a proprietary index you take on faith. Each one is computed the same way for every site in the basin — so two analysts looking at the same ground reach the same number.
- Free, frequent imagery (Sentinel-2, 10 m, ~5-day revisit) — no per-site data bill.
- Rules-based composite of vegetation, moisture, and bare-soil indices — not a black box.
- Full Western Canada coverage (AB / BC / SK / MB) from day one.
See your portfolio scored.
Meridian is onboarding a small number of design partners — across lenders, investors, operators, and the firms doing the reclamation. Request access and we’ll walk your assets through a satellite-verified reclamation-risk view.