For decades, the best oil and gas software was built for the largest operators. Majors and supermajors had the budgets, the engineering teams, and the IT departments to deploy it. Independents and the service companies that worked alongside them — the people doing most of the actual work in this industry — were left with tools that never quite fit.
Ken Hartman spent his career watching this gap up close. He saw it as an ERP consultant. He saw it in oil and gas IT. And he saw it from the inside at Baker Hughes, where he built a successful career working on the kind of enterprise-grade software that only the biggest operators could afford to run.
The longer he worked in the industry, the harder it was to ignore the obvious. The independents needed the same caliber of tools. Nobody was building them.
So in 2015, he left to do it himself.
Wellsite was founded on a simple idea: enterprise-class software, built for the independent operator and the oilfield service company. Engineered to the standard the majors expect. Priced and designed for the businesses that have been overlooked for too long.
That's still the company today, and that's still the work.
