Oilfield Professional Tools

Three Wells Down, One Crew, and Nobody Can Say Which One Is Bleeding Most.

The loudest well gets the rig. The biggest well gets the rig. The well the superintendent mentioned twice gets the rig. Meanwhile a $4,200 six-hour fix that is deferring 495 BOE sits behind a $118,000 workover that will never pay itself back at today's prices. This ranks every opportunity on the actual numbers — deferred BOE, gross lost value, cost per recovered barrel and risk — and tells you what to fix first, with the arithmetic shown so you can defend it on the call.

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Deferment gets measured after the fact.
The decision that caused it gets made in ninety seconds.

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Rate × hours is not the answer

A 210 BOPD well down for four days looks worse than a 64 BOPD well down for two. Put gas in and the ranking flips: the small oil well was making 1,100 MCFD. Every barrel and every MCF gets counted, converted and priced.

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The cheap fast fix usually wins

Six crew hours and $4,200 to recover 495 BOE is $8.49 a barrel-equivalent. Sixty-two hours and $118,000 to recover 1,950 BOE is $60.51. The bigger job defers more — and is still the wrong one to send the rig to first.

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A number you can be challenged on

Every score breaks down into its four weighted parts on the row itself. When someone asks why their well is third, you show them the arithmetic instead of defending a hunch.

A deferment report tells you what it already cost you.

The problem

Ranking by gut is ranking by whoever spoke last

Most operations run the morning call off a whiteboard and a shared spreadsheet with a rate column and a date column. That is enough to know what is down. It is not enough to know which one to fix first, because the answer depends on four things at once — what it is deferring in dollars, how long the fix takes, what the fix costs per barrel it brings back, and what gets worse if you leave it.

Hold four variables across a dozen wells in your head and you will consistently pick the big obvious well over the small profitable one. Every operator does it. It is not a competence problem, it is an arithmetic problem.

What changes

The queue sorts itself, and the reasoning is on the row

Enter the rates you would be making, the hours you expect to be down, the crew hours and the repair cost. The board returns deferred oil, gas and water, deferred BOE, gross lost value, net value of the fix, cost per recovered BOE and value per repair hour — then a 0–100 priority score and a recommended Next, Schedule or Monitor.

Change your oil price and the whole board re-ranks. Mark a job in progress and it stays visible; mark it done and it drops out of the comparison so the rest re-rank against each other honestly.

Nothing here is a black box

These are the exact formulas the app uses, and they are printed inside the app on their own tab. If your engineer wants to check a number on a calculator, they can — and they should.

  • Deferred volumesoil rate (BOPD) × downtime hours ÷ 24 · gas rate (MCFD) × downtime hours ÷ 24 · water rate (BWPD) × downtime hours ÷ 24
  • Deferred BOEdeferred oil (bbl) + deferred gas (MCF) ÷ 6 — the standard 6 MCF = 1 BOE energy-equivalent convention
  • Gross lost valuedeferred oil × your oil price ($/bbl) + deferred gas × your gas price ($/MCF). Water is not revenue and is never counted as lost value.
  • Cost per recovered BOErepair cost ÷ deferred BOE
  • Net value of the fixgross lost value − repair cost
  • Value per repair hourgross lost value ÷ estimated repair hours
  • Avoided water disposaldeferred water × your disposal cost ($/bbl) — shown for information, because while the well is down you are not paying to handle that water. It is a saving, not a loss, and it never moves the score.
  • Priority score (0–100)0.40 × Value + 0.20 × Speed + 0.25 × Efficiency + 0.15 × Risk
ComponentWeightHow it is scored
Value40%This row's gross lost value against the biggest in your queue
Speed20%The shortest repair in your queue against this row's repair hours
Efficiency25%The lowest $/recovered BOE in your queue against this row's
Risk15%High = 100 · Medium = 60 · Low = 30

Value, Speed and Efficiency are scored relative to the rest of your queue, so the score answers "what first, out of these" rather than "is this job worth doing in the abstract". The top-ranked row and anything scoring 70 or more is Next; 40 to 70 is Schedule; under 40 is Monitor.

One row per opportunity, up to thirty

The well

Well or asset name, and the crew or contractor who would take the job.

The rates

Oil in BOPD, gas in MCFD, water in BWPD — what it would be making if it were running.

The clock

Expected downtime hours, and the estimated repair hours the crew will actually be on it.

The money

Repair cost, against your own oil price, gas price and optional water disposal cost.

The risk

Low, Medium or High — how much worse it gets if this one waits another week.

The status

Planned, In progress or Done. Done rows leave the ranking so the rest compare honestly.

Everything saves to the device as you type. Close the browser, lose signal, come back tomorrow — the board is exactly as you left it. Export the whole thing to CSV with every calculated field and score component intact, or print the board as a dated one-page queue for the morning call.

Built for the morning call, not the quarterly review.

🛢️ Production Deferment Prioritizer
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Priority boardAdd / editPricesFormulasExport / data
What should we fix first?
Eagle Ford 8-3
It is deferring 494.7 BOE and $14,460 of gross value over 48 hours down, against $4,200 and 6.0 hours to repair. That is $8.49 per recovered BOE. The repair costs 29% of the value it recovers.
3,605
BOE deferred
$187,060
Gross lost value
$148,200
Cost to clear queue
$38,860
Net if all fixed
2 Permian 22-14H
Basin Well Service — Rig 4 · Planned · 96 h down · 18.0 h to repair
Schedule
54.5
Priority
Deferred BOE
1,160.0
oil + gas ÷ 6
Gross lost value
$63,600
at $70 / $2.50
Cost / rec. BOE
$22.41
$26,000 ÷ 1,160
Net value of fix
$37,600
value − cost
3 Bakken 5-11H
Northern Workover — Rig 2 · Planned · 240 h down · 62.0 h to repair
Schedule
49.9
Priority
Deferred BOE
1,950.0
oil + gas ÷ 6
Gross lost value
$109,000
at $70 / $2.50
Cost / rec. BOE
$60.51
$118,000 ÷ 1,950
Net value of fix
-$9,000
value − cost

The three rows above are the worked examples the app loads on first open, at $70/bbl and $2.50/MCF. The biggest deferment ranks third — and it is the only one where the repair costs more than the value it brings back.

What it does not do

It does not know your permits, your rig availability, your take-or-pay obligations, offset well interference, or the conversation you had with the landowner last week. It does not forecast decline or model a restart curve. It takes the numbers you enter, applies published arithmetic to them, and ranks the result. The judgment stays yours — this makes it an informed one instead of a fast one.

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$19
one-time · no subscription · no account
  • Up to 30 opportunities, added and edited freely
  • Deferred oil, gas, water and BOE on every row
  • Gross lost value, net value and cost per recovered BOE
  • Transparent 0–100 priority score with its four parts shown
  • Next / Schedule / Monitor recommendations
  • Your own oil, gas and water disposal prices
  • Planned / In progress / Done status workflow
  • CSV export, JSON backup and a printable board
  • 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.