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You Tested the Bradenhead. Can You Produce the Record?

Colorado ECMC and New Mexico OCD both expect routine bradenhead and annulus testing on operated wells, and both expect the paperwork behind it. The test itself takes twenty minutes. Finding last year's on a truck-seat notebook, a phone photo and a spreadsheet nobody has opened since the last pumper left is what actually costs you. This keeps every well's test history in one place: every casing string, what came back during the vent, the 30-minute buildup, what was done about it, where the report got to, and the date the next one falls due.

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The test is easy. The record is what gets audited.

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Every string, not just one number

Bradenhead, intermediate annulus, production annulus and tubing, each recorded per test. Leave a box empty and it reads as "not present" on that well, never as a zero you did not measure.

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The buildup is the finding

A well that bled to zero and stayed there is a different animal from one that rebuilt to 38 psig in half an hour. Readings at 5, 10, 20 and 30 minutes are part of the record, and the rebuild is called out against your trigger.

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Your interval, your trigger

Set the test interval in months and the anomaly trigger in psig per well, from your own procedure and the rule that applies to it. Nothing is assumed on your behalf and there is no hidden site-wide default.

"When was this well last tested, and what did it read?"

The question

It is always asked about the well you have the least paper on

Bradenhead testing is a routine, repeating obligation on operated wells in Colorado and New Mexico, with annulus monitoring expectations behind it. That makes it exactly the kind of record that goes missing: done every year, by whoever is on that route, written wherever there was room to write.

The exposure is per well and it is administrative. Nobody is arguing about whether the test happened. They are asking you to show it, with numbers, on a date, signed by somebody — and to show the one before that.

The other half

A test that found something and was never filed

Finding sustained pressure is not the problem. Finding it, writing it on a tally book, and having nothing on record about what was done next or whether anything was ever submitted — that is the problem.

Every test carries a report status: not filed, not reportable, filed and awaiting response, or accepted, with the submission reference alongside it. The status page counts them, so you can see at a glance what is still sitting on somebody's desk.

Five bands, worst first

Every well sits in exactly one band — the worst one that applies — so the register reads from the top down. A well with nothing recorded is not treated as clean; it lands in the emptiest band of all, because no evidence is worse than bad evidence. Tap any band tile and the register opens filtered to those wells.

  • Nothing recorded — no test logged and no prior test date entered.
  • Open anomaly — the last test screened as an anomaly against that well's trigger.
  • Overdue — past this well's own test interval since the last recorded test.
  • Due soon — the next test falls due inside 60 days.
  • Current — last test clean, inside its interval, nothing outstanding.

One row per well, one row per test

The well

Name, API number as the regulator has it, field or pad, jurisdiction, strings present.

The interval

Test cycle in months and the anomaly trigger in psig, set per well from your own procedure.

The pressures

Shut-in readings on bradenhead, intermediate annulus, production annulus and tubing.

The vent

Duration, whether it bled to zero, gas or liquid flow observed, liquid type and barrels recovered.

The buildup

Shut-in readings at 5, 10, 20 and 30 minutes, with the peak called out against the trigger.

The follow-through

Corrective action — required, not optional, on an anomaly — plus report status and reference.

And the pack. One button builds a dated submission record: the whole register at a glance, or one well's complete test history as a table, ready to print or save as PDF for a submission package. Print styles strip the navigation so the paper copy is just the record.

Field-ready. Built for the truck, not the office.

โ— Bradenhead Pressure Test Log
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StatusNew testTest historyWell registerAudit packExport
2
Nothing recorded
1
Open anomaly
3
Overdue
4
Due โ‰ค60d
18
Current
Open anomaly
Sanchez 12-4H
API 05-123-45678 ยท Wattenberg Pad 7 ยท 12-month interval ยท trigger 0 psig
Open anomaly
Bradenhead
45 psig
Intermediate
n/a
Production ann.
120 psig
Tubing
310 psig
Would not bleed to zero ยท gas flow 12 min ยท 0.5 bbl produced water ยท rebuilt to 38 psig in 30 min. Corrective action on record: vented and monitored, CBL scheduled 15 Sep. Report: filed, awaiting response.
Overdue
Delaney 7-19
API 30-025-33417 ยท New Mexico (OCD) ยท 12-month interval
Overdue
Bradenhead
0 psig
Intermediate
n/a
Production ann.
85 psig
Tubing
240 psig

What it does not do

It does not perform a bradenhead test, decide whether a well is in compliance, or file anything with a regulator. It does not replace your operator's procedure, ECMC or OCD guidance, or an engineer's judgment. It records what was tested, when, what the gauges read, what came back during the vent, what was done about it and where the paperwork got to. The result on each test is a screening call against the trigger pressure you set on that well — the determination stays yours.

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$19
one-time ยท no subscription ยท no account
  • โœ“ Unlimited wells and tests
  • โœ“ All four casing-string pressures per test
  • โœ“ Vent returns, flow duration and liquid recovered
  • โœ“ 30-minute shut-in monitoring with rebuild called out
  • โœ“ Per-well interval and anomaly trigger, never a global default
  • โœ“ Drillable band tiles and a filtered test history
  • โœ“ Report-status tracking with submission reference
  • โœ“ Printable dated submission pack, per well or whole register
  • โœ“ CSV export and JSON backup / restore
  • โœ“ Installs to your phone, works with no signal
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Everything stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded, no account is created, and the app keeps working when the pad has no bars.