WellOPS · Route Optimizer · Crew Dispatch
Not the shortest route. The most profitable one.
For Field Superintendents · Dispatch · Operations Managers
Part of WellOPSYou buy WellOPS from WorkSync. Route Optimizer is the route optimization capability of WellOPS, the operating platform for production operations, and it ships with the platform.
Category guideThis page covers the WellOPS module. For the buyer's guide to the category, including how oilfield routing differs from delivery routing and five questions to ask any vendor, start with route planning software for oil and gas.
What the module does
A lease operator's day is not a delivery route
Route Optimizer solves a harder problem than a delivery router does. A lease operator's day mixes six classes of work (scheduled maintenance, failure response, regulatory deadlines, risk-based visits, liquid management, routine gauging), each with its own time windows, qualification requirements, and cost of deferral. The stops interact: a hauler dispatched late shuts in a well; an inspection missed by an hour erases a month of capture credit. Generic fleet routing has no way to see any of that.
The deeper difference is the objective. Delivery routing minimizes distance because every stop is worth the same. In the oilfield, stops differ in value by orders of magnitude on the same day: a failing pump on a high-rate producer against a routine gauge on a stripper. A solver that minimizes miles first is optimizing the wrong number, which is why Route Optimizer scores before it sequences.
Value density beats the shortest path
Route Optimizer plans around value density: dollars of production impact per crew-hour, not miles per stop. Each candidate stop carries the economic score from the ranked work plan. The solver then builds the day that captures the most value the field can physically execute, subject to qualifications, time windows, and hours of service. The shortest route and the most profitable route are rarely the same day; the difference between them is what fixed loops leave on the table. Operators who follow that logic all the way stop maintaining standing routes entirely and run sensor-driven dispatch instead of a route sheet.
The result, measured across 5,000+ wells in live deployments: 35% fewer miles driven at equal economic coverage, because crews stop driving to low-value stops out of habit. The category-level treatment of that trade, including the constraint reality and the dispatch decision behind it, is in the guide to oilfield route planning and dispatch. The dollar economics are modeled on the route economics calculator, the operator-level playbook lives at lease operator and pumper routes, and the ranking that feeds the solver is pump by priority.
How the day gets solved
One objective, six binding constraints.
- 01
Qualifications
H2S-certified crews to sour wells, pressure-vessel inspectors to PV assets, electrical work to electricians. An unqualified crew never sees the stop, so the constraint holds before the audit rather than after it. - 02
Time windows
Site access hours, landowner and surface-use restrictions, regulatory inspection windows, and the windows on other people the job depends on, such as a hauler or a third-party inspector. - 03
Hours of service and shift shape
Shift length, mandatory breaks, yard start and yard end, and travel to the first site. No crew is assigned more than it can safely complete, which is what keeps a value-maximizing plan from becoming an unsafe one. - 04
Equipment co-routing
Jobs that need a pulling unit, a hot oil truck, a vac truck or a specific tool get that equipment scheduled to arrive with the qualified crew, rather than a crew arriving to a job it cannot start. - 05
Drive time on real roads
Travel is estimated on the road network and on your own traversal history, because no public feed covers private lease roads. Your crews driving the leases is the data that makes the estimates true. - 06
Value density, the objective
Each candidate stop carries its economic score from the ranked work plan. The solver maximizes dollars of production impact per crew-hour, which is why the shortest route and the most profitable route are rarely the same day.
And when the day changes
The 6 AM plan is a forecast, so it re-solves within limits.
Re-optimization fires on a defined trigger set: a well down, a higher-value flag, a crew or vehicle out, a weather event, a hauler slipping. It pushes only to affected crews, behind a minimum-improvement bar so small re-orderings are not worth the cognitive cost of a changed plan, and in-progress work is interrupted only by a safety gate. Every override a field team member makes is one tap with a reason code, and that reason is recorded as data, because a stop the field consistently pulls forward is carrying information the scoring has not captured yet.
What it does
6 capabilities that turn your existing stack into action.
- 01
Multi-stop optimization across a crew's whole day
A constraint-based solver assembles stops into a coherent route, formalized as a multi-class vehicle routing problem with synchronization constraints. It factors site access windows, yard start and end, vehicle capacity, and turnaround time. - 02
Crew qualifications enforced in the route
H2S-certified crews routed to sour wells. Pressure-vessel inspectors routed to PV assets. Unqualified crews never see the stop in their plan. No post-hoc audit failures. - 03
Ranked work priority drives sequencing
Pulls from Work Engine's economic ranking. High-impact tasks scheduled first in the crew-day; low-impact backfill fills gaps. Priority can re-rank mid-shift if conditions change. - 04
Real-time re-optimization when conditions change
Weather event, vehicle breakdown, new high-priority alert, remaining stops re-assigned across all crews without a call to dispatch. Continuous optimization, not a once-a-morning batch. - 05
Mobile-first, offline-capable
Plans delivered to truck cabs via mobile. Cached offline for cellular-dead zones. Field completion feeds back into the ranking for tomorrow's plan. - 06
Hours of service and equipment co-routing respected
Shift length, mandatory breaks, and travel-to-first-site time are built into every plan; no crew is assigned more than it can safely complete. Tasks that need a pulling unit or a hot oil truck get the equipment co-routed with the qualified crew.
The whole field, one plan
Every route, drawn where the value is.
- Critical flags reached
- 5 of 5
- Value reached
- $34,214/d
- Drive, 375 mi
- $1,031
- Net of the drive
- $33,183/d
Against nearest-first: 2 more critical flags reached, $7,852/d more net of the drive, for 206 more miles. The drive is spent where the value is.
- Critical flag, sized by $/day
- High flag, sized by $/day
- Medium flag, sized by $/day
- Well, no open flag
- Crew yard
What it replaces
Retires the workarounds your team has been stacking for years.
How it works
Three steps from your existing data to field action.
- 1 · Pull priorities
Ranked work list from Work Engine
Route Optimizer reads the economic ranking every morning. Each task has a dollar-impact score, a qualification requirement, and a time window. - 2 · Solve
Constraint-based optimization
Solver assigns stops to crews, respecting qualifications, yard locations, vehicle capacity, and geography. What a superintendent used to build by hand runs before the shift starts. - 3 · Dispatch
Plan in the truck cab by 6 AM
Mobile delivery to each crew. Offline-capable. Real-time re-optimization as conditions change.
Works with your existing stack
Reads the systems you already run.
- Samsara
- Geotab
- Azuga
- Esri ArcGIS
- Google Maps
- Mapbox
- iOS
- Android
- Offline caching
- ISNetworld
- Avetta
- Cornerstone
Pricing · WellOPS
Scoped to your operation.
Impact Guarantee · license fees only when the metrics move
You buy WellOPS from WorkSync; the tracks beside this are rollout scopes of that one purchase.
Scoped to your well count and systems with our implementation team when you plan your pilot. The pilot runs four weeks on one field, and DataHub is included.
- GOOD
- Route Optimization + Field Data Capture
- BETTER
- adds DataHub + Work Engine + Field Work Management
- BEST
- adds Field Safety + Operations Dashboard
Before you ask
Common questions
What is the WellOPS Route Optimizer module?
How does Route Optimizer replace a fixed pumper route?
Do I need Work Engine for Route Optimization to work?
How is this different from generic fleet-routing or telematics tools?
Does this work for mixed fleets (pumpers + technicians + contractors)?
What does it cost?
How fast can we deploy?
Is this validated in the field, or just a model?
See Route Optimizer on your data.
Bring one area, your crew roster and your qualifications. We solve a real day against your own stops and show you the plan beside the route your crews actually drove, with the value difference between them.