Oilfield Asset Repurposing Platform
Selected Innovator - Q Station Energy Challenge
Selected as an innovator in the Q Station 2026 Energy Challenge

Turn Oilfield Liabilities Into
Clean Energy & Critical Resources

WellScout AI screens orphaned and retiring oil & gas wells to identify the best candidates for geothermal power, grid-scale energy storage, and direct lithium extraction — before the plug-and-abandon order.

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Every Well. Every Resource.

WellScout AI evaluates orphaned and retiring wells across three complementary revenue streams, letting operators extract maximum value from legacy assets before plug-and-abandon.

🌡️ Thermal

Geothermal Power Generation

Repurpose casing heat from retired oil wells to generate continuous, baseload electricity via modular Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) hardware deployable in under six months.

  • Subsurface digital twins from existing well logs
  • NPV ranking vs. 20-year thermal yield model
  • Containerized Geo-Pod ORC units — trailer mobile
  • Replaces $150,000 plug-and-abandon cost with revenue
Energy Storage

Grid-Scale Energy Storage

Leverage wellbore geometry and subsurface thermal mass to deploy compressed-air and thermal energy storage solutions, turning idle infrastructure into dispatchable grid assets.

  • Wellbore suitability scoring for CAES & TES deployment
  • Grid interconnection and substation proximity overlay
  • Capacity & round-trip efficiency projection models
  • Integration with virtual power plant aggregation layer
🔋 Lithium

Direct Lithium Extraction

Identify produced-water streams from existing wells with battery-grade lithium brine concentrations, enabling DLE deployment with no new drilling required.

  • Produced-water chemistry analysis from well records
  • Li⁺ concentration ranking and DLE viability scoring
  • Regulatory overlay for brine handling & water rights
  • Offtake proximity to battery supply chain hubs

De-Risk. Accelerate. Scale.

WellScout replaces speculative greenfield exploration with data-driven conversion of known assets.

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Accelerated Time-to-Revenue

Operational in under 6 months versus the 5–7 year timeline of traditional geothermal or greenfield resource development.

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De-Risking the Transition

Converts Asset Retirement Obligations into lease revenue. Operators replace a $150,000 plugging liability with a long-term income stream.

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Uncapped Scalability

Progresses from single-well diesel displacement to multi-well Virtual Power Plants to a global SaaS and hardware licensing model.

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Multi-Vertical Asset Optimization

Every evaluated well is screened across all three verticals simultaneously — thermal, storage, and lithium — maximizing value-per-asset.


PINN Physics-Informed Neural Networks

AI That Knows the Laws of Physics

WellScout is built on PINNs — a class of neural network that doesn't just learn from data, it also obeys the fundamental equations governing heat, fluid flow, and pressure underground. The result: accurate subsurface predictions even when well data is sparse.

Explained Simply

What is a PINN? (Think of it this way...)

Imagine you're trying to find hidden treasure underground — heat, lithium, or storage potential — without drilling everywhere. A regular AI is like a student who memorized past test answers: it guesses based only on the measurements it has seen before. If the data is patchy, the guesses get sloppy.

A Physics-Informed Neural Network is a student who also understands why the answers are correct. It has the laws of physics baked in — how heat travels through rock, how fluids move underground, how pressure changes with depth. So even when measurements are missing, it fills in the gaps the same way a physicist would: by following the rules the Earth itself obeys. It literally cannot predict something that breaks the laws of physics.

∂T/∂t = α ∇²T + Q(x,t)
Heat diffusion equation embedded in the network's loss function
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Sparse Data? No Problem.

Most orphaned wells have incomplete records. PINNs use physics to interpolate between sparse measurements rather than guessing blind — critical for screening wells with decades-old or partial logs.

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Subsurface Temperature Modeling

Heat conduction PDEs constrain the thermal gradient predictions, ensuring estimated bottom-hole temperatures are physically plausible — not just statistically convenient.

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Fluid & Brine Flow Prediction

Navier-Stokes and Darcy flow equations guide lithium brine concentration and energy storage reservoir modeling, catching physically impossible predictions before they mislead an investment decision.

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Fewer False Positives

Because the model cannot violate thermodynamics or fluid mechanics, it self-corrects overfit predictions — surfacing only candidates that are physically viable, not just statistically correlated.


Software + Hardware Stack

WellScout AI pairs a data intelligence layer with modular field hardware, covering the full lifecycle from screening to deployment.

Software Layer

Well-Scout AI Engine

  • Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) — heat, fluid, and pressure PDEs embedded in the model so predictions obey physical law
  • Subsurface Digital Twins — aggregates well logs, thermal gradients, brine chemistry, and formation data
  • NPV Ranking Algorithm — evaluates retrofit costs vs. 20-year yield projections across all three verticals
  • Regulatory & Grid Overlay — maps substations, grid interconnects, industrial heat offtakers, and water-rights data
Hardware Layer

Geo-Pod Deployment Unit

  • Containerized Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system — trailer-compatible for repositioning between wells
  • Vacuum-insulated co-axial heat exchanger for maximum thermal capture
  • Supercritical CO₂ working fluid enabling turbines 1/10th the size of conventional steam alternatives
  • Modular design scales from single-well pilot to multi-MW Virtual Power Plant aggregation

Three-Phase Growth Model

A staged rollout from on-site diesel displacement to global licensing across all three verticals.

Phase 1

Remote Operations

Field diesel displacement at active drilling sites. Single-well pilots validate thermal, storage, and lithium economics with real operators and real infrastructure.

Phase 2

Virtual Power Plants

Multi-well aggregation feeding local grids. Thermal, storage, and lithium output streams combined into unified energy and resource offtake agreements.

Phase 3

Global Licensing Play

International SaaS and manufacturing licensing of the WellScout AI platform and Geo-Pod hardware across all three verticals worldwide.


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