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Technology to restore trust in the energy sector

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How oil and gas software can help the environment

All of us here at RigUp would like to take today as an opportunity to talk about the unique features we are working on and how they are a vital part of our vision for the future.

The goal behind RigUp is to build a business and a technology that will catalyze a positive impact by transforming the way this industry has affected the environment. With companies in the upstream energy industry as large as they are today, it can be extremely difficult to communicate both horizontally and vertically across organizations. When complications arise in the field, such as spilled oil or leaked gas, it is not unusual that those individuals working above them never hear about the incidents. In the wake of environmental disasters it is often discovered that a clearer method of communication could have prevented such disastrous outcomes.  We're building software to remove these communication barriers and hopefully reduce those environmental incidents.

As we move forward, we hope to strengthen our team with individuals who want to make a difference within the energy industry and help us to create a better workplace for the environment. With a strong team, we plan on implementing our groundbreaking ideas in a way that will forever change the market.

Happy Earth Day, Team Rigup

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Why We're Here

When we set out to build RigUp, we wanted to build a business and a technology that would catalyze positive impact across a vital industry. We had hundreds of meetings with energy executives, field operations, petroleum engineers, and community groups about the state of the energy industry. A common theme of improving “trust” emerged; trust between the operators and service companies, trust between field operations and finance teams, and most importantly trust between communities and the companies operating in their backyards. RigUp is building technology to restore trust in the energy sector. We’re putting together a team of world-class petroleum and software engineers to solve problems that at one point in time seemed unsolvable.

To meet demand from a growing global middle class, McKinsey estimates that global energy resource productivity will have to increase at a 3.2% per annum rate going forward compared to a 1.7% per annum rate from 1990-2010. With 66% of oilfield workers set to retire in the next 10-15 years, the great men and women working in the energy industry have a large task at hand to meet the world’s energy needs. Improved productivity must come alongside stronger environmental stewardship and safety benchmarks, and modern technology is required to improve upon legacy platforms and processes.

RigUp helps producers and service companies visualize and manage assets on location. Using big data and analytics, we allow industry participants to optimize their assets for safety, efficiency, and higher environmental standards without sacrificing performance and economics. Asset level safety and tracking is key to formulating optimal development plans. Our team has a strong focus to reduce the “idiosyncratic risk” of field operations, and our platform will eliminate lapse time and disputes for service companies. We have partnered with a select group of operators and service companies as we begin testing the first version of our platform, and we look forward to bringing on additional partners in the coming months.

Recently, we closed a $3mn series seed round led by Founders Fund. We are humbled to have Founders Fund on board as our anchor investor. We’re proud to call Austin, Texas home and excited about fostering a great start-up engineering culture.

Here’s to the future, y’all.

- The RigUp Team