About PetroOS

    We bought the wells first.

    PetroOS was built by an operating company that bought producing wells, went looking for a system to run them, and could not find one worth what it cost. So we built ours, and we are still on it every day.

    $16,000
    Paid up front for two systems
    2 weeks
    Of email just to hand over our own data
    2 months
    Of onboarding before it was usable
    0
    Wells gauged in that time

    The problem was ours

    We were the operator, not the vendor.

    We bought wells.

    We started an oil & gas company and acquired existing producing wells.

    Not a pitch deck. Actual tanks, actual pumpers, actual tickets coming off the lease. And then the part nobody warns you about: you have to run them. Gauge them daily, allocate the barrels, reconcile the purchaser, and file with the Railroad Commission every single month, on time, correct.

    We knew what the big-company tools looked like.

    We came out of larger operators, where the enterprise systems are simply there.

    Bought, installed, staffed. Those systems are priced for companies with an IT department and a line item to match. As a small operator, that door is closed. We needed something budget friendly that still actually worked.

    What the market offered

    A handful of options, all of them from another century.

    So we shopped the market.

    There are only a handful of real options in this industry, and to be fair to them, they work.

    They have worked for decades. Operators run real money through them every day. But they were built a very long time ago, on DOS era bones and archaic flows, and you feel it the second you touch one. The knowledge is in there. The experience is from another century.

    Then came the demo problem.

    Every evaluation is the same guided tour, and you never actually touch the software.

    A rep who has clicked that exact path a thousand times moves fast through a curated dataset, showing you the best of the best. Which is fine, that is their job.

    But you never see your wells in it. You cannot sit down for an hour and find out whether it fits how you actually operate.

    The bill, then the wait.

    We picked the most established options and paid up front, then did the work ourselves anyway.

    They send spreadsheets. You fill them out, because onboarding cannot begin without them and you cannot onboard yourself. The format is never quite right, so it takes ten emails back and forth over two weeks just to hand over your own data. Then their onboarding starts, and that runs another couple of months of back and forth before the system is usable at all.

    Months of paying for something you cannot yet use to gauge a tank.

    If it doesn't work with muddy boots, one bar of signal, and the sun straight on the screen, it isn't done.

    So we built it

    The tool we could not buy.

    Built on our own leases.

    Not as a software company guessing at the oilfield, but as an operator building its own tool.

    If something is annoying at 6 a.m. on a lease road, we are the ones it annoys, and it gets fixed. That is the whole difference. Everything in PetroOS exists because a real barrel, a real ticket, or a real filing deadline forced it to.

    One system, truck to filing.

    The gauge the pumper takes in the field is the same number that lands in the filing.

    It flows straight into the allocation, the purchaser statement, and the PR. Nothing gets re-keyed into a second system, because there is no second system.

    • The pain was ours.

      Every feature traces back to a barrel, a ticket, or a filing deadline on our own leases.

    • No reimplementation fee.

      Find your company, see your own wells, and decide before anyone asks you for money.

    • Built for dirty hands.

      One bar of signal, sun on the screen, gloves on. That is the bar it has to clear.

    What it turned into

    The tool we wished someone had sold us.

    Everything below started as a problem on our own leases. None of it is a roadmap item. It's how we close our month.

    • It knows where you're standing

      The pumper opens the app and the nearest facility is already up. No searching, no picking through lists. Routes calculate themselves, tanks strap themselves.

    • Nothing gets lost

      A well goes down and the system knows: the timeline, who acted, when, what was spent, which vendor did the work. One history per asset, not five inboxes.

    • It tells you what looks wrong

      Variance and production-drop detection flag the outliers, then suggest what to go check. An oilfield knowledge base pushing the next action instead of waiting to be asked.

    • The office work lives here too

      Leases, DOIs, owners, purchasers, haulers, run tickets, SWD reporting, and RRC filings sit in the same place as the daily gauge sheet.

    • AI that has read your data

      Ask it the way you'd ask ChatGPT, except it already knows your wells, your volumes, and your month.

    Built by an operator. Used by that operator.

    Priced like we're the ones paying for it, because we are. Start by finding your company. We'll pull your RRC records and show you your wells before you sign anything.

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