Is Your Software Making You Money or Costing You Money?

I took a writing break during December. I didn’t intend to, but you know. Anyway, let’s talk about software. We all use it every day to do the tasks that used to take days to complete. Since even free software has a cost (our time) here is a question: Is Your Software Making You Money or Costing You Money? Many Oil and Gas operators never ask this question. They should.

Your company is out there right now making decisions. Chemical treatments. Road repairs. Workover priorities. They’re using 90-day-old accounting reports while WTI swings $5 a barrel.

That’s not managing a business. That’s flying blind.

Here is another simple question: “Would you take a 2% production cut if profitability jumped 10%?”

But here’s the thing, can your team answer that question? Unless you have well-level economics, you didn’t know which wells are bleeding cash and which ones are printing money.

I work for Avenirre, we fixed the problem, and our customers benefit.

Real-time profit and loss. Down to the well. Commodity pricing updated daily. LOE allocated accurately. Suddenly every field employee has enough information to do his job.

The pumper stopped throwing chemicals at a marginal well. Deferred a workover on a loser. Prioritized a high-margin stripper well that was getting ignored.

Production dipped slightly. Cash flow jumped.

That’s when software stops being overhead and starts being a tool that pays for itself ten times over.

Fix that first.