S01 / System hero
The system
A pump, a listener, a brain. End-to-end brownfield.
Buy the whole stack, or just the piece that fits. The Echo listener and the Brain control layer run on any artificial-lift system you already operate.
Defined
An anti-buckling rod pump is a drop-in sucker rod pump that keeps the rod string in tension at every stroke, so the bottom of the string never goes into compression and has nothing to buckle. It solves buckling at the source instead of adding sinker bars.
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S02 / The three instruments
Hardware · Hardware · Software
Two instruments. One brain.
We mechanically stop buckling in the rod. We listen down the well with sound. Then a control layer reads both and runs the pump for you. The whole stack, or any piece.
1 · hardware
2 · hardware
3 · software
2 · hardware
3 · software
01 / Hardware
The pumpSRABS Pump
Anti-buckling rod pump
A mechanically re-engineered sucker rod pump that keeps the rod string in tension where it would otherwise buckle. The buckling problem, solved at the source.
OriginLeading European universities
Patents6 granted
RetrofitDrop-in · API spec
02 / Hardware
The listenerSRABS Echo
Acoustic multi-measurement · edge
An automated acoustic edge device. Reads fluid level, bubble point, reservoir pressure & pump conditioning, from a single signal, fully remote. Works with any artificial-lift system.
Measures4 well states
ModeAutomated · remote
HeritageAcquired acoustic IP
03 / Software
The brainSRABS Brain
AI control & SCADA optimization
A physics-informed control layer that reads the pump, Echo and your existing SCADA, predicts buckling, retunes the VSD, and runs the well autonomously. Set guardrails. We close the loop.
Latency< 60 s loop
DeployYour cloud or ours
CoverageAll AL systems
Buy the whole stack, or just the piece you need. Echo & Brain run on any artificial-lift system.
S02b / On the roadmap
What comes next · 2026 → 2028
The roadmap. In order.
Each step unlocks the next. The anti-buckling pump removes the rod string, which lets us run a powered cable downhole, which lets us put real sensors at the pump, which feeds the Brain real data instead of inference. Two adjacencies along the way.
04 · R&D
05 · concept
06 · partnership
07 · concept
05 · concept
06 · partnership
07 · concept
04 / Hardware
The spineSRABS Line
Powered steel cable · fiber + conductor
Steel cable bundling power, fiber optics, and sensor lines into a single downhole spine. The anti-buckling pump frees the casing for it, and everything after Line hangs off it.
EnablesPulse · real telemetry
TradeoffWorkover is involved
StatusPrototyping splice-free retrieval
05 / Hardware
The pulseSRABS Pulse
Downhole sensor head · on the pump
A sensor head on top of the pump. Pressure, temperature, vibration at the source, plus distributed temperature sensing along the entire fiber. Pings back up Line. Real telemetry, not inference.
RequiresSRABS Line
MeasuresP · T · vibration · DTS
FeedsBrain (no model gap)
06 / Service
The liftSRABS Enhance
EOR · downhole production stimulation
A downhole enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) service that wakes tired wells. Electric-pulse and resonance-frequency stimulation reset the producing baseline. Install the SRABS stack to hold the gain. Wells don’t have to age.
MethodPulse + resonance · downhole
WhenPre-install or standalone
OutcomeLift baseline, then lock it in
07 / Adjacency
The flareSRABS Flare
Stranded gas → wellhead compute
Stranded or flared gas at the wellhead powers a modular Bitcoin-mining container. Waste becomes a revenue line item. Pairs naturally with Brain, same dispatch logic, same telemetry.
InputStranded gas
OutputBTC revenue + flared CO₂
ToneYes, really
Pump (today) → enables → Line·Line → enables → Pulse·Pulse → feeds → Brain (today)·Enhance + Flare run alongside
S03 / How they fit together
Above the wellhead, downhole, in the cloud.
schematic · full system
S04 / Mix & match
Pick what you need today.
The right-hand columns are dashed, roadmap products. Reserve a slot when you’re ready.
Outcome
Pump
Echo
Brain
Line*
Pulse*
Enhance*
Flare*
Best fit
Stop rod parting & tubing wear
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Pump only
Know your fluid level, remotely
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Echo only
Autotune pumps across the fleet
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Brain + your SCADA
End-to-end mature field uplift
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Full stack
Optimize an ESP / PCP field
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Echo + Brain
Wake a stalled well before SRABS
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Enhance (pre-install)
Real downhole telemetry, no inference
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Pump + Line + Pulse + Brain
Monetize stranded gas at the wellhead
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Flare (adjacent)
● required · ○ optional, multiplies the outcome · * roadmap product
S05 / Heritage
SRABS Pump · since 2003
20 years of buckling research, productized.
The anti-buckling method came out of two decades of sucker rod research at European technical universities, published in SPE journals and field-tested before it became a product.
OriginLeading European universities
Patents6 granted
See the mechanism →SRABS Echo · acquired acoustic IP
Acoustic edge technology, brought in-house.
The acoustic fluid-level technology was acquired with its team and rebuilt as an automated edge device: one signal, four well states, no SCADA.
HeritageAcquired · brought in-house
Field recorddeployed by majors
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