INTRODUCTION Only about 200 miles of road separate the Houston home office of Advantek Waste Manage ment, LLC and its disposal facility in Karnes County, south of San Antonio in the Eagle Ford Shale. But its hand-written manifests/ tickets and billing data were making an electronic journey halfway around the world and back, stretching the billing cycle by several weeks. Every day the Karnes facility sees anywhere from 30 to 150 trucks hauling drilling fluids, produced and flowback water, drill cuttings, tank bottoms, drilling mud and other oilfield was te for disposal. It averages 70 trucks per day. Open since 2016, the site’s business has grown each year, requiring more and more work from accounting personnel to stay abreast of billing and management reporting. FOR ADVANTEK, CLEARGIST

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