Wellhead Monitoring Software
for Remote Producing Wells

What Wellhead Monitoring Covers

Wellhead monitoring software watches the points that decide whether a well is making money right now: pressures at the tree, whether the pump is running, how much fluid is moving, and how full the tanks are. A down well should announce itself in seconds - not wait for tomorrow's drive-by. Here is what Merobix monitors on a typical producing well:

Every point is historized with no retention limit, so decline curves, pump runtime comparisons, and before/after checks on a chemical program come out of the same system - no spreadsheet assembly. For the full engineering treatment of sensors, telemetry paths, and alarm strategy, see our wellhead monitoring system guide.

How Merobix Monitors a Well

The architecture is deliberately simple. A small gateway at the site connects to whatever is already controlling the well - pump-off controller, ESP drive, RTU, or PLC - over the protocol that equipment already speaks. The gateway forwards data over cellular to the Merobix platform, and every well appears on a single dashboard with live values, trend history, and alarm state.

• Alarms that reach a phone, fast - SMS and email callouts typically within a minute, with escalation to a supervisor if nobody acknowledges. Routing follows the route: the pumper who runs the lease gets paged first. Our guide to oilfield alarm monitoring covers callout and escalation strategy in depth.
• A built-in historian - every pressure, level, status, and runtime is stored with no retention limit, trendable from the same screen that shows live data.
• Mobile access without a VPN - pumpers and on-call engineers see every well from a phone, with the same data as the office.
• Scheduled reports - production and alarm summaries land in your inbox before the morning meeting.
• One dashboard for the whole lease - the same platform covers tank batteries, saltwater disposal, and compressors alongside the wellheads, so the foreman sees the whole picture. The same approach to remote monitoring of industrial equipment extends to any asset that speaks an industrial protocol.

The full platform capability list is on the features page; the platform's security architecture and both hosting models are detailed on the security page.

Works With the RTUs and Controllers Already on Your Wells

Most wells already have the hardware wellhead monitoring needs - a pump-off controller, an ESP drive, an RTU, or a PLC that knows the pressures and statuses. What is usually missing is the software layer that gets that data off the pad and into the hands of the people running the route. Merobix ships drivers for the major industrial protocols (Modbus, DNP3, OPC UA, EtherNet/IP, Siemens S7, and MQTT), so connecting existing equipment rarely requires replacing it:

• Modbus TCP and Modbus RTU - the lingua franca of oilfield RTUs and pump-off controllers
• OPC UA and OPC DA - for existing SCADA servers and modern controllers
• EtherNet/IP and PROFINET - Allen-Bradley and Siemens ecosystems
• Siemens S7 and DNP3 - direct PLC and utility-grade telemetry
• MQTT Sparkplug B, IEC 60870-5-104, BACnet, and HART-IP - IIoT gateways, remote telemetry, and instrumentation

Where a site does need control work - a controller with no spare comms port, logic changes discovered during commissioning, a panel that will not pass inspection - the same Merobix team handles Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLC programming and builds custom industrial control panels, with C1D2-rated hardware options available for classified wellsite locations. One vendor, one work order.

Cloud-Hosted or On-Premise - Same Platform

Merobix is one of the few wellhead SCADA systems sold both ways, so IT policy does not force a platform change later. The cloud service is managed by Merobix end to end; the on-premise edition installs on your servers or VMs, with data residing on your own infrastructure, including air-gapped networks.

The trade-offs between the two architectures are covered in depth in our cloud vs on-premise SCADA comparison.

Stood Up Without a Lengthy On-Premise Rollout

Traditional per-site SCADA projects take weeks to months because every site means server builds, licensing, and integration work. A cloud-hosted Merobix deployment is typically live on a timeline that depends on site count, connectivity and integration scope:

1. Site survey - confirm what your pump-off controllers, RTUs, and PLCs already report, and identify any points that need instrumentation.
2. Gateway install - mount, power, and antenna placement, verified for cellular signal at the actual site.
3. Point mapping - every pressure, level, status, and runtime tagged and scaled correctly on the first pass.
4. Alarm setpoints with your foreman - thresholds set by the people who know the wells, so day one does not drown the route in nuisance alarms.
5. Pumper training - dashboard and mobile app, on the tailgate if that is where the crew is.

Merobix is based in Texas with its field crew working out of the Midland area, serving operators across the Permian, Houston, DFW, and the rest of the US. West Texas operations get on-site commissioning from the local crew - see our SCADA monitoring page for Midland and the Permian Basin.

Plans That Scale From First Well to Full Field

Merobix is offered in Starter, Professional, and Enterprise plans - custom-quoted to your operation and flat once scoped, with no per-tag, per-client, or per-protocol fees, so monitoring well 41 does not require a budget meeting. Enterprise adds hot standby redundancy, enterprise authentication (LDAP, SAML, RADIUS, FIDO2) with SIEM integration, historian federation, and integrations with SAP, Maximo, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, AWS IoT, Azure IoT, Kafka, and Tableau. The full feature matrix is on the plans page - request a demo and a quote in the same conversation.

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