The Work Engine is the most sophisticatedprioritization engine in the oilfield.
It takes OT data, financial data, and the rest of your operational record and stitches them together into closed-loop prioritization: every open job priced in dollars per day at risk, ranked against every other open job on one economic ruler, and delivered to the truck cab by 6 AM with the qualified crew and the solved route already attached.
It is the APC of work management: continuously balancing cash flow, safety, and the proactive against the reactive. Running today at a top 25 private producer across 5,000+ wells in three basins. You buy WellOPS from WorkSync; the Work Engine is the prioritization capability inside it.
What it does
Seven capabilities that turn an unranked alarm queue into a priced, routed day.
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Ingests OT, financial, and operational data on read-only connections
SCADA tags, historian trends, well tests and manual gauges on the OT side. Realized price by stream, working interest, lifting cost and cost history on the financial side. Equipment plans, regulatory clocks, crew qualifications and drive time for the constraints. Connections are read-only, stand up on credentials your team issues, and stay clear of your control network.
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Scores every well against what it should be doing, not a fixed threshold
Each well carries a model of its own expected behavior this week, built from its decline, its lift type and its recent history. A flag is raised on departure from that model, so the engine keeps working as wells decline and nobody re-tunes limits by hand across thousands of wells.
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Prices every flag in dollars per day at risk
Production at risk per day of inaction, valued at your realized price and your interests, discounted by how likely the intervention is to recover it and by what the intervention costs. A gassy well and an oil-weighted well with the same pressure drop come out an order of magnitude apart.
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Ranks proactive, reactive, safety and regulatory work on one ruler
One queue, not four. Regulatory deadlines stay absolute where the regulator sets them; everything else earns its position by what it is worth today. The reason a job ranks where it ranks travels with the job.
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Delivers the plan to the truck cab by 6 AM
Mobile and offline-first. Every crew opens their ranked list before leaving the yard, each line carrying what tripped, what it is worth, and what a good outcome looks like.
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Re-ranks mid-shift, within limits
Re-ranking fires on a defined trigger set (a well down, a higher-value flag, a crew change, weather) and pushes only to affected crews, behind a minimum-improvement bar so small re-orderings are not worth the cognitive cost. In-progress work is interrupted only by a safety gate.
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Learns from every close-out
Each completed job answers whether the flag was worth the visit. False positives, recovery outcomes, actual durations and every override with its reason code feed back into the scoring. Two operators can buy identical software; the one whose loop is closed accumulates calibration the other never gets.
What it replaces
Retires the workarounds your team has been stacking for years.
Stale by Monday afternoon.
No economic ranking; alarm fatigue is the outcome.
Doesn't scale past one person's memory.
Great for reporting yesterday, no help ranking tomorrow.
How it works
Three steps from your existing data to the truck cab, and back.
1 · Ingest
Your existing data, validated before it is scored
DataHub, included with the platform, pulls SCADA, production accounting, equipment history and asset lifecycle data into one well master. Sensor drift, stuck values and out-of-range readings are caught and quarantined first, because scoring an unrationalized queue produces precise rankings of garbage.
2 · Rank
Every job priced in dollars per day, then sorted on one ruler
The engine assigns an economic-impact score to every open item: production at risk per day of inaction at your price deck and your interests, adjusted for recovery probability and intervention cost. Preventative maintenance, reactive anomalies, liquid management, safety and regulatory work all compete on that one number.
3 · Execute and close
Ranked plan in the truck cab by 6 AM, outcome back by close-out
The Route Optimizer solves the ranked list into crew-specific days under qualification, hours and equipment constraints. Mobile, offline-first. The close-out generates the ticket and the accrual, and the outcome feeds the next ranking.
What the score is made of
Four terms, one number, one queue.
The engine resolves every open item to a single figure: dollars at risk per day of inaction. That figure is what lets a plunger change, a compressor vibration trend, an LDAR survey and a tank approaching capacity sit in the same ranked list without anyone arguing about which queue owns them.
Exposure
What the well or facility is losing, or stands to lose, per day while the item sits: deferred production measured against what that well should be doing this week, plus the downstream consequence if it compounds into a shut-in or a workover.
Value
Exposure converted to dollars on your realized price by stream, your working interest and your net revenue interest, net of lifting cost. This is the term that makes a BOE stop being a BOE and separates an oil-weighted well from a gassy one.
Probability
How likely the intervention is to recover the exposure, learned from your own close-out history for that failure mode, that lift type and that crew type. It is what keeps a low-confidence long shot from outranking a certain fix.
Cost and constraint
What the visit consumes: crew hours, drive time, equipment that has to travel with it, and any qualification that limits who can do it. Regulatory and safety clocks enter here as hard bounds rather than as score, because a deadline is not negotiable against dollars.
Worked illustration · not a measured claim
Two flags, same alarm class, two orders of magnitude apart.
Low-pressure flag, low-rate well
A few barrels a day of exposure, gas-weighted, high recovery probability whenever someone gets there, and a stop that adds an hour of driving. It ranks into the backfill and gets picked up when a crew is already nearby.
Same flag class, high-rate oil producer
Thousands of dollars a day of exposure at your realized oil price and your working interest, compounding while the well sits, and a qualified crew twenty minutes out. It goes to the top of the day.
A classical exception engine renders these two items identically: same color, same row height, same notification. The scoring is what separates them, and the routing is what acts on the separation.
Works with your existing stack
- Ignition
- AVEVA PI
- Cygnet
- eLynX
- IronIQ
- Honeywell Experion
- Enertia
- Quorum
- W Energy
- Oildex
- Peloton WellView
- Quorum Aucerna
- Esri ArcGIS
- IBM Maximo
- eMaint
- MaintainX
Pricing · WellOPS
Impact Guarantee · license fees only when the metrics move
You buy WellOPS from WorkSync; the tracks below are rollout scopes of that one purchase. GOOD: DataHub + Work Engine. BETTER: adds Opportunity Scoring + Route Optimization. BEST: adds Field Work Management, Field Data Capture, Operations Dashboard.
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.
Proof
The Work Engine puts deferred-production data, the equipment record, and the morning route on one list, so the crew, the foreman and the office read the same ranking and the same reason. The measured result on that deployment: same crew, 15% more free cash flow, 35% fewer miles driven.
Deployment figure from live operations · a top 25 private producer · Western Anadarko, Permian, Wyoming · 5,000+ wells
Common questions
How is Work Engine different from a well-lifecycle tracking system?
Tracking systems record work that's already been identified. Work Engine GENERATES ranked work from SCADA anomalies, engineering recommendations, and production drift, then routes it to crews. Different jobs. They complement: your tracking system stays as system of record; Work Engine runs the operational loop on top.
Do I have to replace Enertia, Quorum, or Oildex?
No. Work Engine integrates with them read-only through DataHub. Operational data flows in; financial results flow back. Named systems stay as systems of record.
How fast can we deploy?
The stand-up is four weeks: integration in week one, configuration in week two, field crews live on the ranked plan in weeks three and four. First ranked plan typically lives in the truck cab by Day 14.
What does Work Engine cost?
You buy WellOPS from WorkSync; Work Engine is its prioritization capability, and the tracks are rollout scopes of that one purchase. GOOD (DataHub + Work Engine), BETTER (adds Opportunity Scoring + Route Optimizer), BEST (adds Field Work Management, Field Data Capture, Operations Dashboard). Scoped to your well count and systems with our implementation team when you plan your pilot. See /pricing for how the model works.
What data does Work Engine need to work?
SCADA / historian data (pressures, flow rates, temperatures, runtime hours) and production accounting data form the foundation. Optional: CMMS work order history and engineering recommendations sharpen the ranking further. If you have Ignition + Enertia, you have enough.
Does this work for small operators?
Sweet spot is 500+ wells. Below that, superintendents can usually run priority from memory. Above 500 wells, the economic ranking compounds, more wells, more data, better rankings.
Every task moves through one loop and nothing disappears.
Agents generate the work. Crews run it. Exceptions escalate to engineering or defer with an approver on record. One state machine. Full chain of custody. Closed loop.
Every generated item has a state. Operators can audit every disposition.
When the field flags a problem the engine didn’t anticipate, engineering sees it in minutes.
Approved holds re-surface at the next cycle with aging visible to leadership.
See Work Engine on your data.
Bring one field. We run the engine on your data and show you the ranked plan your crews would have worked, with the dollars attached. The 4-week pilot puts it in the truck cab, under the Impact Guarantee: we charge when your number moves.