No signal where the work happens
Well pads, lease roads and compressor stations sit outside reliable coverage. Crews still need to record readings, tickets and inspections, then have them arrive intact once the truck reaches a signal or camp Wi-Fi.
Industries · Oil & Gas
Oil and Gas Software Built for the Field
Producers, oilfield services companies and midstream operators run on data that starts in places with no signal. We build apps and integrations that capture it offline, sync cleanly and land in the systems your office already uses.
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✓Build passed · 212 tests · 0 warnings
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✓API v2 healthy · 142ms p95
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Oil & Gas, in short
OlDevs is a full-stack technology studio in Vancouver, British Columbia that builds software for oil and gas producers, oilfield services companies and midstream operators across Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC and the United States.The work usually covers offline field data capture, safety and compliance documentation, equipment and asset tracking, contractor and vendor portals, and integrations with ERP, dispatch and historian systems. Every build is designed around poor connectivity, shift handovers and audit trails rather than ideal office conditions. Clients own all code, designs, accounts and IP, and can request a quote for a defined scope.
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Oil & Gas
What makes oil and gas software hard
The problems we are asked to solve most often — and how.
Paper forms that carry legal weight
Hazard assessments, permits, tailgate meetings and incident reports are evidence. Digital versions have to hold signatures, timestamps and revisions well enough that a regulator or an insurer can follow what happened months later.
Equipment that moves and rarely reports
Rental tanks, light towers, pumps and tools move between sites, contractors and yards. Without a shared record of where a unit is, who has it and when it was last serviced, the same asset gets rented twice or lost entirely.
Contractors sitting outside your systems
Service companies, inspectors and haulers need to submit tickets, certificates and insurance without a seat in your ERP. A portal has to give them enough access to be useful and no more, with approvals that match how your operations team signs off.
Systems that do not talk to each other
Production data sits in one system, dispatch in another, invoicing in a third, and a spreadsheet quietly holds the parts nobody automated. Integration work has to reconcile identifiers, units and shift boundaries before any of it reports cleanly.
Hiring trades against every other operator
Operators compete for the same welders, equipment operators and heavy duty technicians, often in the same two week window before a turnaround. Careers pages and campaigns have to load fast on a phone in a truck and make applying short.
Process
How an oil and gas project runs
Discovery
We map the field workflow, the systems it touches and the records regulators and partners expect, then agree what the first release must cover.
Scope and quote
You get a written scope, an architecture outline and a delivery plan. Request a quote and we respond within one business day.
Design and prototype
Screens are designed for gloves, glare and one hand, then tested with the crews and coordinators who will live in them.
Build and integrate
Weekly demos, offline sync hardened early, and integrations with ERP, dispatch and document systems wired as we go.
Field pilot and rollout
We pilot with one crew or one district, fix what the pilot exposes, then roll out with training, support and a documented handover.
How we work
How we work with oil and gas teams
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We start on site where we can
Before design, we walk the actual sequence with the people doing it: what gets written on a glove, what gets photographed, what gets typed twice. Remote sessions cover the rest, with visits when the work calls for it.
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Offline is the default, not a setting
Apps hold their own local data, keep working through a full shift with no signal, and resolve conflicts on sync using rules you agree in advance rather than a silent last write wins.
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One accountable team, a demo every week
You get one team that owns delivery and a working build to try each week, so field supervisors react to something real instead of a slide deck.
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Compliance evidence built in
Records carry who, what, when and which version, exported in the formats your auditors, insurers and joint venture partners already accept.
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Integrations before features
We connect to ERP, dispatch, ticketing and historian systems early, because the shape of that data decides what the app can honestly promise.
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You own everything we build
Code, designs, cloud accounts, app store listings and IP are yours from day one, documented well enough that another team could pick it up.
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Where we’d start
Weekly
Working demo cadence
1 business day
Reply time to every enquiry
Full
Client ownership of code and IP
FAQ
Oil & Gas — questions we hear first.
Yes. We build field apps offline first, so a crew can complete a full shift of readings, inspections and tickets with the device in airplane mode. Data is stored locally, queued, then synced when the device reaches LTE, satellite or camp Wi-Fi, with conflict rules agreed before build so nothing is quietly overwritten.
Regularly. Our studio is in Vancouver and we serve clients in Alberta, Saskatchewan and US basins remotely, with video calls scheduled in your time zone and on-site visits when the work calls for it. Field discovery and pilot rollouts are the moments we most often travel for.
Alongside it, in almost every case. Your ERP, dispatch and accounting systems usually stay where they are, and we build the field and portal layers that feed them. We connect through supported APIs or approved integration files, and we agree with your IT group which system is the record of truth for each field before we write code.
We design records so the evidence survives: signatures, timestamps, device and user identity, photo attachments and a full revision history. Formats and retention are matched to what your regulator, insurer and joint venture partners ask for. We build to your compliance requirements, but we do not give legal advice.
Yes. A contractor portal gives service companies, inspectors and haulers a narrow way in: submit tickets, upload certificates and insurance, see the approvals they are waiting on, and nothing else. Roles, expiry rules and document checks are set by your operations team, not by us.
Yes, through our performance marketing work. That usually means a careers site that loads quickly on a phone with one bar, job pages structured so search engines and AI assistants can read them, a short application flow, and paid social or search campaigns aimed at the trades and rotations you are actually hiring for.
It starts with a conversation about the workflow you want to fix and the systems it touches, followed by a short discovery. From there you get a written scope, an architecture outline and a delivery plan you can take to your budget process. Request a quote and we reply within one business day.
Let’s connect
Tell us about your project.
We’ll reply within one business day with next steps and a tailored quote — no obligation.