About Us

AppSmiths® is a Artificial Lift technology development company, which also offers production analysis services using the tools we have developed.

AppSmiths® Technology

Who we are

AppSmiths® Technology has its beginnings in Karty, Texas, where we were founded in 1993 to develop a gas-lift design and optimization software tool for Shell Oil Company. Since our inception, we have been at the forefront of developing and deploying the most advanced technologies to serve energy and industrial companies. Our primary focus areas include Production Optimization and gas-lift well nodal analysis software, Well Surveillance, and Well Integrity.

Do you know Dan Dees?

He is the CEO and founder of AppSmiths® Technology, a developer who is passionate about the innovations and rapid technological solutions for the Gas Lift industry.

Do you know Burney Waring?

Yes, the genius of gas lift, the author of “Practical Optimization of Petroleum Production Systems”, one of our gurus.

Our mission is to provide you with innovative technology solutions that increase production in gas lift wells, leveraging the expertise of our best engineers and developers along with our decades of proven track records

AppSmiths® Technology has products and services for software, data surveillance, production enhancement, optimization, simulation, design and more.

AppSmiths® Technology

Company milestones

1993
AppSmiths® founded
The Company is founded in Houston, Texas, USA to develop WinGLUE® gas-lift software for Shell Oil Company
1998
WinGLUE® hits the Market
WinGLUE® software is commercially available outside of Shell
2000
Began R & D for WellTracer®
2003
First Pilot for WellTracer® in Brunei
2006
WellTracer® V1 launched
2008
First Gas-Lift Valve Reliability Database
2013
First Corporate License to Petronas
The National Oil Company of Malaysia uses WinGLUE® software to design, optimize and troubleshoot their gas-lifted wells.
2014
Founded Louisiana U.S. Operations Base
AppSmiths® opened new offices in Lafayette Louisiana to service the onshore/offshore sectors in the continental U.S.
2015
Opened AppSmiths® Asia
2015
Acquired FieldWare IP from Shell
2016
WellTracer® Pilot in Mexico
2017
Exclusive Distributor of the AVT system for testing gas-lift gauges
2018
Enter into Mexico market with Petroleum Oil & Gas Services
2020
Kaizen offers WellTracer® in Canada
2021
Weatherford wins long term WellTracer® contract with Qatar Petroleum
2021
Vision Well took over as distributor offers WellTracer® in US

AppSmiths® Technology

What can we do for you?

Our mission is to provide you with innovative technology solutions that increase production in gas lift wells, leveraging the expertise of our best engineers and developers along with our decades of proven track records

I need to get engineers in the field to speed with the basics of operation.

I am still working to understand how to get the greatest benefit from the tools.

Lots of my wells are older wells and produce low volumes of oil and won’t benefit from costly surveys

Most of my wells are producing at maximum oil production now. What would be the benefit of optimizing this well?

I am not sure if my wells are injecting at the optimal points

I don't know where my fluid levels might be in my wells

I suspect that my well is not optimal, but I am not sure if it would be worthwhile to fix the problem.

We don’t have the resources to give attention to surveillance like we know we should.

I am not sure if my injection rate is accurately being recorded, my metering is suspect.

With the volume of wells that I have to monitor, it’s hard to keep track with all the problems, I have to prioritize my efforts.