field data capture for operators running 2 to 2,000 wells
Scout FDC (now PakEnergy Production) is a real field data capture product. So are we. The differences that decide it: per-user pricing vs. operator-friendly pricing, and who does your setup. 600+ operators. 200% money-back guarantee.
Here's a free rule of thumb: if your production data is more than 48 hours old, you're making decisions on stale numbers. Most operators we work with are running 2–3 weeks behind.
No two operations are the same — we'll match you with the right field data capture setup in 60 seconds. No credit card.
Because 6% is the average. Half our clients do better.
Here's what happens when your production data goes from three weeks late and half-illegible to real-time, accurate, and in your pocket:
Add it up. For most operators, it's a hell of a lot more than 6%.
And if it's not? We'll give you every penny back -times two.
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| Without Greasebook | With Greasebook |
|---|---|
| It's the 15th. State reports are due. You're still chasing down last month's production numbers. | State and federal reports file themselves. You forgot it was the 15th. Didn't need to remember. |
| Your partner calls asking about production. You call your pumper. Voicemail. He calls back an hour later. You're on another call. You call him back. Voicemail again. Tag -you're it. Welcome to voicemail hell. | Your partner pulls up his wells on his phone. Sees exactly what he needs. Doesn't call you at all. Nobody calls anyone. |
| You hired a green gauger three weeks ago. You have no idea if he's making mistakes. Hell, you don't even know if he's showing up to the lease. You won't find out for another month -and by then, you've wasted months on a bad fit. | Your green gauger learned the app in 8 minutes. GPS geo-fencing tells you if he's showing up. Data validation catches his mistakes the second he submits. You know by day one if he's the real deal -not month three. |
| You're at the bank. They ask about production trends. You say "I'll get back to you." | You're at the bank. They ask about production trends. You pull up decline curves on your phone. Right there. |
| Your pumper's gauge sheet shows up wrinkled, coffee-stained, and you can't read half the numbers. You re-key it into Excel anyway. | Your pumper taps "submit" on his phone. Clean data. No paper. No re-keying. It's in your system before he's back in his truck. |
Without Greasebook
It's the 15th. State reports are due. You're still chasing down last month's production numbers.
With Greasebook
State and federal reports file themselves. You forgot it was the 15th. Didn't need to remember.
Without Greasebook
Your partner calls asking about production. You call your pumper. Voicemail. He calls back an hour later. You're on another call. You call him back. Voicemail again. Tag -you're it. Welcome to voicemail hell.
With Greasebook
Your partner pulls up his wells on his phone. Sees exactly what he needs. Doesn't call you at all. Nobody calls anyone.
Without Greasebook
You hired a green gauger three weeks ago. You have no idea if he's making mistakes. Hell, you don't even know if he's showing up to the lease. You won't find out for another month -and by then, you've wasted months on a bad fit.
With Greasebook
Your green gauger learned the app in 8 minutes. GPS geo-fencing tells you if he's showing up. Data validation catches his mistakes the second he submits. You know by day one if he's the real deal -not month three.
Without Greasebook
You're at the bank. They ask about production trends. You say "I'll get back to you."
With Greasebook
You're at the bank. They ask about production trends. You pull up decline curves on your phone. Right there.
Without Greasebook
Your pumper's gauge sheet shows up wrinkled, coffee-stained, and you can't read half the numbers. You re-key it into Excel anyway.
With Greasebook
Your pumper taps "submit" on his phone. Clean data. No paper. No re-keying. It's in your system before he's back in his truck.
First, some honesty: Scout FDC earned its acquisition. It's a legitimate cloud field data capture system with a pumper app, offline mode, and a real allocation engine, and since PakEnergy bought it, it's the production arm of a credible 2,300-customer suite. If you're comparing them to us, you're asking the right question.
Three differences decide it. Pricing shape: PakEnergy says pricing is "largely based on the number of users," including field staff. Count your pumpers, including contract pumpers, and do that math; third-party listings report starting figures around $300 a month. Greasebook doesn't charge you for having more people touch the data. Setup: Scout is configure-it-yourself SaaS with import tools; Greasebook's petroleum engineers build your wells, leases, allocations, and routes for you, then train your pumpers. The filing cabinet: Greasebook auto-files state production reports in any oil and gas producing state. And on the rare chance we don't already have your state's form, we'll build it at no cost to you, because if you need it, the next operator will too.
And you don't have to pick a suite to pick your production software. Greasebook integrates with every major oil and gas accounting and engineering platform on the market: WolfePak, OGsys, Bolo, SSI, P2, PHDwin, and the rest of the majors you'd expect. Run something we didn't name? If it's a major platform, we already talk to it. Tell us yours on the quiz and we'll confirm on the spot. Keep whatever books you run today. Run the best production software next to them.
One story worth knowing while you compare. Scout FDC is owned by WolfePak, and WolfePak is backed by East Coast private-equity money. Before that money bought Scout, it reviewed the entire market. Every single system. Financials and a deep dive on the software itself. And the one that came out at the top of the pack, the one they reached out to and wanted to put their money on, was Greasebook. Ahead of Scout FDC. We weren't for sale: this is a labor of love, we're in this for the long haul, and we're here to serve independent operators, not to exit. So they bought Scout. It's a fine product. But when the most motivated buyer in the space did its homework on the whole field, the two names on this page finished in an order worth remembering.
And don't take our word for any of it. Open a new tab and search "Greasebook reviews." Read what a few hundred producers wrote. Then search "Scout FDC reviews." Take your time. We'll be here when you get back.
We built this for you.
Greasebook is field data capture for the independents: pumper-first, engineer-configured, and priced so your headcount is never a penalty.
| Scout FDC | Greasebook | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Largely per-user, including field staff (their published description); third-party listings report ~$300/mo starting | No per-user math. Priced for independents; take the quiz for your number |
| Setup | Self-configured SaaS with import tools | Our petroleum engineers configure wells, leases, allocations, and routes, then train your pumpers |
| Pumper app | Mobile FDC with offline mode (App Store reviews report sync issues) | Any phone, 8-minute learning curve, offline-capable, 10,000+ daily pumpers |
| State reports | Production reporting tools | Auto-filed for any oil and gas producing state. Missing form? We build it at no cost |
| Accounting | Native WolfePak accounting integration | Feeds OGsys, WolfePak, Bolo, SSI, P2, PHDwin, and more. Your books, your choice |
| Guarantee | None published | 6% more pump-to-net in 6 weeks or 200% of your money back. 98% success rate |
Scout FDC / PakEnergy Production details from pakenergy.com (pricing 'largely based on number of users', unpublished) and GetApp reported starting price, July 2026. Verify current pricing with PakEnergy.
Your wells, your pumpers, your current reports -whatever you've got. Paper gauge sheets, Excel files, a login to your old system. We've seen it all and none of it scares us.
Our petroleum engineers -not a support desk, actual petroleum engineers -configure your entire field data capture account. Wells, leases, facilities, tanks, pumper routes, and yes, even your allocations. Multi-well pads, commingled production, sophisticated allocation setups -we know that can be a real bear to build out, so we do it for you. When it's ready, we roll it out to your pumpers ourselves and train them for you. You don't have to lift a finger.
That's not a marketing claim. That's the average. We've timed it. If your pumper can send a text message, he can use Greasebook. Works on any phone, any tablet, any laptop. Even works offline -so dead zones don't matter.
And no, there's no training fee. Why? Because we built it simple enough that people don't need training. Of course, if your pumper has questions, he calls us anytime -our help desk is staffed by petroleum engineers, geologists, and completions experts who live and breathe this stuff. We're there when you need us. But most of the time, you won't.
On-time production data. Quality-controlled numbers. No more chasing gauge sheets. No more guessing. By week six, you'll see the 6% -or we pay you double.
We don't say "best-in-class." We give you the numbers and let you decide.
Live coverage across the Permian, Eagle Ford, Bakken, STACK/SCOOP, Marcellus, and 16 other producing basins
Run tickets, BS&W draws, water hauls, dual-product tanks -your pumper enters it all from his phone. No paper. No re-keying. Data hits your field data capture dashboard before he's back in his truck.
See the big picture. Spot trends. Catch slipping wells the day they start slipping -not three weeks later when it shows up on a spreadsheet nobody's updated.
Full tank? Well offline? Production dropped below a threshold? You'll get a text or email. Not a voicemail from your pumper three days later.
Multi-well facilities, commingled production, allocation calculations -handled. No more spreadsheet gymnastics.
Which wells are down? How long have they been down? Why are they down? One screen. One answer. No phone calls.
Your state and government production reports -generated and filed. Automatically. No more deadline scrambles on the 15th.
Want a production summary with your coffee every morning at 5 AM? Done. Weekly rollups for your partner? Done. Custom reports on your schedule.
Tag pumper comments by lease, well, or injector. Search them later. No more digging through text messages to find out what happened on a well six months ago.
Downhole diagrams, surface equipment specs, completion records -all in one place. Not scattered across filing cabinets, email attachments, and somebody's truck.
Know how many times your pumper showed up at each lease this month. Not because you don't trust him -because accountability makes everyone better.
Give your partners and investors access to their wells -and only their wells. They see what they need. They stop calling you for updates.
Track anything. Any variable, any lease, no matter how specific to your operation. Components don't operate in a vacuum -and neither does your data.
Your field data capture gives you 7-day and 30-day running deltas for every well in your operation. Sort by biggest movers, biggest losers, or biggest problems. Know exactly where to focus your time and money.
No cell signal? No problem. Your pumper enters data like normal -it syncs automatically when he's back in range. Dead zones don't stop production reporting.
Every production system lives or dies on one thing: does the pumper actually use it? We've spent 15 years figuring this out. Here's what we know:
Has 30 years of knowledge in his head. He knows when a well sounds wrong before the numbers prove it. Greasebook gives him production graphs, notes, well history, and alerts -so that knowledge gets captured, not lost when he retires.
Still learning. He needs guardrails. Greasebook's data validation catches mistakes the second he submits -not three weeks later when you're reconciling numbers that don't add up.
Spread across three counties and you're not sure how often they're actually showing up. GPS tracking and time-stamped submissions tell you -without having to ask.
Nobody leaves home without their phone. Greasebook meets your pumpers where they already are.
Here's the deal: run Greasebook — our field data capture — in your operation for a full 6 weeks. Let your pumpers use it. Let your office get comfortable with it. Watch the data start flowing.
If after 6 weeks you don't see results -if you don't like it, if it doesn't work for your operation, if you just don't feel like it was worth it -we don't just give you your money back.
We double it.
That's not a typo. We will pay you twice what you paid us.
We have a 98% success rate with our field data capture trials. Ninety-eight percent. The operators who commit to using it -who actually let their pumpers run with it and pay attention to the data -see results. Every time.
That other 2%? Let's just say the app wasn't the problem. We'll leave it at that.
Point is: we've been doing this for 15 years. We know what happens when operators actually use it. The data gets better, the decisions get faster, and the wells make more money. With our help, you'll be in the 98%.
We're not asking you to trust us. We're asking you to test us.
We don't publish a single price on the website -and here's why.
No two operations are the same. A 5-well stripper operation with one pumper running a tight route in a single county is a different animal than a 500-well operation with horizontal producers, allocation requirements, downtime tracking, disposal facilities, and dozens of field users spread across three states.
A one-well, one-tank facility doesn't need the same setup as a multi-well pad with commingled production and daily field crew rotations.
We price based on the complexity of your operation -not one-size-fits-all. That's why we ask a few questions in the quiz. It takes 60 seconds, and we'll give you a straight answer. No bait-and-switch. No "let me talk to my manager."
Greasebook integrates with the tools you're already using. And if you need something custom, our API is open -you decide what to share and who sees it.
Take the 60-second quiz. We'll match you with the right field data capture setup for your operation -how many wells, what you need tracked, how complex your facilities are. Our petroleum engineers handle the rest. Your pumper learns it in 8 minutes. You see results in a week. And if you don't see 6% in 6 weeks -we pay you double.
No two operations are the same — we'll match you with the right field data capture setup in 60 seconds. No credit card required.
→ "No-sweat" complete Company setup, turn-keyed by a Pet. Eng.
→ "Done for you" Pumper roll-out and training
Lease operators -guys who value their privacy and damn sure don't do selfie videos -voluntarily picked up their phones and hit record. Not because we asked them to. Because they wanted to say thanks.
Average time to learn Greasebook: under 10 minutes.