About Us

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

AppSmiths® Technology

Who we are

AppSmiths® Technology has its beginnings in Katy Texas in 1993; its story begins with the needs of a young man named Burney Waring who had the desire to create a tool that would help improve gas lift production analysis data with a fast technological solution, free of extensive administrative processes and a young man named Dan Dees who shared the same desire in common.

Waring programmed algorithms that could perform the analysis operations faster and with less margin of error than was possible in the 1990s, but he needed a team of developers to help him with the software that would accomplish his goal.

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.

Years later Waring meets Dan and chooses him for the realization of his project. Together they developed the first GLUE (Gas Lift User Environment) software that would become the basis of a larger project that would break global boundaries and become a multicultural family that would take the name AppSmiths® Technology.

Our mission is to provide you with technology solutions that increase production in gas lift wells with the knowledge of our best engineers and developers.

AppSmiths® Technology has products and services for 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

POGS enters into a Framework Agreement with PEMEX

2020

Kaizen offers WellTracer® in Canada

2021

Weatherford wins long term WellTracer® contract with Qatar Petroleum

2021

Kaizen offers WellTracer® in US

AppSmiths® Technology

What can we do for you?

Our mission is to provide you with technology solutions that increase production in gas lift wells with the knowledge of our best engineers and developers.