Production insights, field guides, and operator wisdom from the team that built the fastest-growing app in the oil patch.
I know you groan when you hear that you have an Ajax engine on your pumping route. But the reality is, Ajax engines are still, to this day, among the very best engines for pumping units I have ever wo
Read more →In one of the companies where I was a full-time company pumper, we had a system called “partner pumping,” which meant one pumper would pump there other pumper’s wells when they were off-duty. For reas
Read more →Hello World! For those of you who are looking for GreaseMonkey from the E&P Magazine article entitled, “Operator: Unchained“, look no further! We’re actually known around the oil patch as “GreaseBook”
Read more →In any business, there are “rules”—traditions and expectations that most accept as true. The oil and gas industry is full of them. That said, many of these rules are probably due for some questioning
Read more →The other day, a gentleman called to inquire about the GreaseBook pumper app. Basically, this guy — we’ll call him Dave — had spent the better part of his professional career in the oilfield, had sold
Read more →Last month, GreaseBook did the impossible: we rolled the 15,000,000 barrel mark. That’s right, since GreaseBook’s inception a short 2 years ago, America’s independents have scrolled, swiped, and tappe
Read more →The other day, GreaseBook got to speak with Tom DiChristopher, a journalist who covers the oil market for CNBC in New York… Tom was interested to know more about a trend he was seeing in the industry
Read more →Given the current environment, independent operators around the country are reevaluating the way they operate their wells… Now, while we don’t have control over the price of crude, we do have direct c
Read more →My dad and I both own and operate our own software companies here in Oklahoma. My dad founded SSI (a well-known E&P accounting platform) in 1979, and I built an iPad app (GreaseBook: Production report
Read more →Man, do we like to talk about productivity. What’s the newest software? What’s the latest horizontal drilling technique? What’s the best way to manage my field staff? How should I manage my oil and ga
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