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WorkSync vs. GreaseBook, the honest head-to-head: a very different platform under the hood.
GreaseBook is the well-loved mobile capture app for independent operators, the one your pumpers will use without complaint. It gets gauges off paper and into a phone, and does it well. WellOPS covers that capture step and adds more: it ranks every well by risk to cash flow, environmental risk, failure risk, and personal-safety risk using statistical physics-based models that work with whatever data you have, manual gauges, run tickets, partial SCADA, full SCADA, or any combination. The same models recommend where SCADA investment would pay back fastest if it is not in place. If you are ready to graduate from a great capture app to a true pump-by-priority platform, that is the choice this page covers.
WorkSync vs GreaseBook: the honest comparison.
| Capability | GreaseBook | WellOPS |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | Mobile field data capture | Pump-by-priority closed-loop work execution |
| How wells get ranked | Order set by route, list, or pumper preference | Statistical physics-based scoring on cash flow risk, environmental risk, failure risk, and personal-safety risk |
| Data requirements | Manual gauge entry by pumpers | Whatever you have. Manual gauges, run tickets, accounting, lease files, partial SCADA, full SCADA, or any combination |
| Behavior without SCADA | Works (capture only) | Works AND recommends where SCADA investment would pay back fastest |
| Mobile field UX | Mobile-first, simple, well-loved | Mobile-first, offline-first, ranked daily plan in the truck cab |
| Anomaly detection on production data | No | Yes, per-well models flag deviations 48 to 72 hours before failure |
| Route optimization with crew qualifications | No | Yes, value-density routing with H2S / OQ enforced as hard constraints |
| Field Safety / lone worker / contractor compliance | No | Yes, in WellOPS Field Work Management |
| Hydraulic model automation (engineering) | No | Yes, FlowSync runs hydraulic and process simulation studies |
| Production accounting integration | Exports to Enertia, Quorum, QuickBooks, others | Native bi-directional with Enertia, Quorum, Pak, IFS Merrick, W Energy, WolfePak, Oildex |
| M&A asset integration (DataHub) | No | Yes, unify multiple SCADA + accounting stacks read-only in days |
| Pricing | Per-well subscription, mid-tier-friendly | Per-module Good/Better/Best at the same price band, with broader scope. DataHub at no license cost for the integration phase |
| Deployment time | Days (mobile app onboarding) | < 1 week integration, 2 weeks standup, 4 weeks rollout |
| Coexist if you already have it? | , | Yes during a pilot. Most customers transition fully because running two field apps is operational drag once the ranked plan is in the cab |
Because your evaluation deserves it.
GreaseBook is the right call in some situations. WorkSync is the right call in others. Here’s the real-world split.
01When GreaseBook wins
You only need a mobile gauge sheet, nothing more
If your team's pain is genuinely "we are still on paper for gauges and we just need a phone app," GreaseBook solves that fast and operators love it. If you are also wrestling with prioritization, alarm fatigue, hydraulic models, M&A integration, or a CFO asking for LOE/BOE accountability, the problem set is bigger than GreaseBook scopes.
You operate well under 500 wells with one superintendent who holds it in their head
At small independent scale, GreaseBook is purpose-built and the decision math, "do I need a ranked work loop on top of capture?", is usually a no until well count or asset complexity grows. We will tell you that on the discovery call honestly.
Your existing pumpers love GreaseBook and you would lose adoption replacing it
Adoption is hard-won and we respect that. We have a coexist path that lets GreaseBook stay for a division while WellOPS rolls into others. Most operators fully transition by month six because the ranked plan in the cab makes the simpler capture-only app feel like a downgrade, but adoption-risk operators have a real-pace path.
02When WorkSync wins
You want true pump-by-priority, not a nice dashboard
GreaseBook captures data and shows it back to you. WellOPS uses statistical physics-based models to rank every well by risk to cash flow, environmental risk, failure risk, and personal-safety risk, and assembles the ranked daily plan in the truck cab. The pumper sees the eighteen wells that matter today, not all five hundred. Same price band. More under the hood.
You want a system that works even if SCADA is partial or absent
Most pump-by-priority tools require SCADA as a hard prerequisite. WellOPS does not. The statistical physics models work with whatever data you have, and they recommend where SCADA investment would pay back fastest if you are still standing it up. The bottom of the mid-tier market and any operator with mixed-coverage fields opens up.
You operate 500+ wells and the spreadsheet planning is breaking
GreaseBook captures the day. It does not tell you which twelve wells out of five hundred to visit tomorrow. WellOPS ranks all five hundred on cash flow plus risk plus safety plus environmental and assembles the day in the cab.
You are running multiple field apps you wish were one
If your crews use GreaseBook for capture, a separate app for safety, another for work orders, and a paper packet for compliance, WellOPS collapses that into one closed-loop platform with one app on the truck-cab tablet.
You have engineering pain (hydraulic models, debottleneck studies, M&A integration)
GreaseBook does not address engineering. FlowSync auto-builds hydraulic and process models from existing PDFs, GIS, SCADA, and historian, and runs simulator-ready studies. Two products, one DataHub, one engagement.
You are mid-acquisition and need Day-1 visibility on the new asset
DataHub unifies multiple SCADA + accounting stacks read-only in days. Common pattern at operators integrating a new acquisition who need one ranked plan across the combined asset base by day 91.
Graduate to WorkSync. Here is the path.
Many of our customers were on GreaseBook (or a similar mobile capture app) before WellOPS. The trigger is usually one of three: an acquisition pushed them past 500 wells and the spreadsheet planning broke; alarm volume on partial SCADA became unmanageable; or the CFO started asking for LOE/BOE accountability tied to weekly decisions, not quarterly accounting. None of those are GreaseBook's fault. They are scope mismatches.
The path is non-disruptive. Phase 1 (4 weeks): we connect GreaseBook's exports plus whatever SCADA, accounting, CMMS, GIS, and historian data you have into the DataHub. The statistical physics models rank wells against current cash flow, risk, and safety. The ranked plan goes live for one division while pumpers continue using GreaseBook during the pilot.
Phase 2 (8 to 12 weeks): the truck-cab tablet UI rolls to additional divisions. Teams choose to keep GreaseBook for capture or transition fully into WellOPS Field Data Capture, which is offline-first and integrates the same gauges, run tickets, downtime codes, e-signatures, and photos.
Phase 3 (optional): deprecate GreaseBook entirely. Most customers do this by month six because running two field apps is operational drag once the ranked plan is in the cab.
GreaseBook gets gauges off paper and into a phone, and does it well. WellOPS covers that capture step and adds more under the hood: a statistical physics model that ranks wells on cash flow, risk, and safety.
How to evaluate any AI vendor in oil & gas, including this one.
The head-to-head above is useful if you already know which AI initiative you are pointed at and what it costs. If you do not, four diagnostic questions apply to GreaseBookand to WorkSync equally. If any of these come back unclear for the vendor you are evaluating, the comparison has not really started yet.
Which of the three objectives is this AI initiative actually pointed at?
Replace a SaaS contract, speed up a costly decision, or automate a process. Anything else is dashboard theater. Score it in dollars before evaluating any vendor.
Which of the four closed loops does this vendor cover, and where do they stop?
Operations, Automated Engineering, Safety Analysis, Preventative Maintenance. The QA discipline (six elements) runs underneath. Vendors that ship one loop force you to stitch the rest yourself.
What is the Year-3 TCO at full deployment, not the Year-1 pilot quote?
Personal-use AI subsidies do not scale. Token spend, inference compute, integration, ongoing maintenance. Vendors who cannot give you a defensible Year-3 number with a confidence range have not thought about their own cost curve.
Is this designed for the workflow, or are you stitching tools together that were not?
Build-it-yourself runs seven figures and degrades quietly. String-tools-together fragments the data layer and multiplies SaaS contracts. The third path is a system designed for the loop from the data layer up.
Common questions
How does WorkSync pricing work next to GreaseBook?
WellOPS is list-priced at $20K-$95K per year, with the DataHub at no license cost for the integration phase. GreaseBook does not publish pricing, so we will not state theirs. What operators evaluating both tell us drives the decision is scope: ranked work, route optimization, anomaly detection, Field Work Management, and FlowSync access on the engineering side, on top of the field-data capture both do. GreaseBook is a great mobile capture app; WellOPS is a closed-loop pump-by-priority platform.
Does WellOPS need SCADA to work?
No. WellOPS uses statistical physics-based models to rank wells on risk to cash flow, environmental risk, failure risk, and personal-safety risk against whatever data you have. Manual gauges, run tickets, lease files, accounting records, partial SCADA, full SCADA, or any combination. The same models recommend where SCADA investment would pay back fastest if you are still standing it up. Most legacy pump-by-priority tools (including JOYN 2 and the W Energy stack that absorbed Seven Lakes) require SCADA as a hard prerequisite. WellOPS does not.
Does WellOPS have all the field-data-capture features GreaseBook has?
Yes. Gauges, downtime codes, run tickets, well tests, photos, e-signatures, offline-first mobile capture, all of it. Plus the ranked plan, route optimization, ranked work order list, and Field Safety enforcement that GreaseBook does not generate. The Field Data Capture module is part of WellOPS, not a separate purchase.
Does WorkSync replace GreaseBook, or run alongside it?
Either. Most operators fully transition because running two mobile apps in the field is operational drag. But during the 4-week pilot we run alongside GreaseBook for one division, and you decide based on field feedback whether to deprecate GreaseBook or keep it for a subset of operations. We do not require a hard cutover.
I am at 200 wells. Should I just stay on GreaseBook?
Probably yes, unless one of the trigger conditions is biting: you cross 500 wells via M&A or organic growth, alarm volume on partial SCADA is becoming unmanageable, your CFO starts asking for LOE/BOE accountability tied to weekly decisions, or you want to deploy the statistical physics models to figure out where SCADA investment would pay back. Below those triggers, GreaseBook is the right tool and we will tell you that on the discovery call.
How long does it take to migrate from GreaseBook to WellOPS?
Integration with GreaseBook's export format: under 1 week. Full standup with whatever SCADA, accounting, CMMS, GIS, and historian data you have: 2 weeks. Field rollout: 4 weeks. Most operators run both in parallel for 30 to 60 days during the pilot, then transition once field crews prefer the ranked plan in the cab.
How do you compare to JOYN 2 / W Energy and other pump-by-exception platforms?
Different competitor profile from GreaseBook but related. JOYN 2 (now under W Energy after the May 2022 acquisition) was the first pump-by-exception mobile app for oil and gas in 2018. It was the right product at the right time. WellOPS is the next generation: pump-by-priority, statistical-physics-based scoring, runs without SCADA as a prerequisite, closed-loop architecture with QA discipline. Same purpose-built oilfield approach. A whole lot more under the hood. The full WorkSync vs JOYN 2 head-to-head is in the works.
See WorkSync on your data, alongside your existing stack.
See it on your data. Qualified operators get a 4-week proof of value at no license cost. Integration in under 1 week; full standup in 2.