Neolift — Smart Artificial Lift for Unconventional Wells

The Philosophy

Unconventional challenges. Unconventional solutions.

The Full Life of the Well

Shale wells are engineered and optimized for flowback and early production — the first chapter of a much longer story. At Neolift we design the production strategies for everything that follows: unlocking efficiency through semi-flowing and mature stages, where the real sustainability of the asset is decided.

Engineering firstSustainable by design−90% installation CO₂

Autonomous by Design

Just as autonomous cars drive themselves, our systems run the well on their own. The engineer sets what the well has to achieve and the limits it has to respect; from there HM Autopilot takes over — reading the pump, the rod string and the well's response in real time, and governing stroke, speed and motion to get there. Stroke by stroke, always connected. People set the strategy; the system executes it 24/7.

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Fewer Failures. More Barrels.

Every detail is engineered to extend the well's runlife and minimize NPT: smooth rod control, diagnostics that pinpoint fatigue and wear by depth before either turns into a failure, fewer moving parts. And our patented mounting technology — the only one that installs on shale's high-pressure wellheads without concrete foundations, piles, wellhead modifications or touching pressure barriers — makes even the workover unnecessary.

Extended runlife−90% NPTPatented technology

Assembly this simple is the whole point: from arrival to pumping in just hours.

Simple machines. Robotic intelligence.

When you redesign the operating strategy, the equipment follows. Our Digital Linear Unit replaces the gearboxes, belts and manual balancing of a traditional pumping unit with a single hydraulic linear drive and a digital brain. +12 years of operating heritage and 400+ units in the field, re-engineered by Neolift for the toughest shale conditions.

Up to −80% CAPEX vs. a conventional pumping unit
Dynamic speed control finds the strategy that produces most while protecting the whole string — rod by rod, down to the pump
+30% energy efficiency — no VFD, no DBR burning energy
Designed for deviated, deep, slim and high-friction wells
−90% installation-related CO₂ — no concrete, lighter logistics, fewer machines on location
Transported, installed, started and producing the same day — with 90% fewer heavy-equipment hours

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A glimpse of the brain. Always watching, stroke by stroke.

Engineering & Diagnostics

Operating an unconventional well demands analytics built for it.

We are an engineering company. We develop and deliver solutions that optimize production in unconventional wells — engineering, equipment and field service, with our people on location. Measuring every well in real time lets us resolve what the classical theory of rod pumping, written for vertical wells, cannot describe in a two-mile deviated string — and operate with strategies that simply weren't available before.

Three views of a real deviated wellbore trajectory, coloured by rod taper

Surface dynamometer card and the reconstructed downhole pump card

Rod string load, buckling, dogleg severity and side load plotted against depth

Current card and the energy delivered and returned over a full pumping cycle

Pumping speed, stroke length, rod power and load envelope over the last hour of operation

Every calculation runs along the well's real three-dimensional trajectory — never a vertical approximation corrected afterwards.

What the surface measures, resolved into what the pump is actually doing almost three kilometres below.

Load, buckling, curvature and contact along the whole string — so wear stops being a guess and becomes a depth.

An unconventional well demands energy that changes cycle after cycle. Governing it takes a system that measures it and optimizes it in real time.

Hundreds of strokes an hour. The answer is never in the average — it's in what moves.

Smart Rental Contracts

Capacity on demand. Just in time, just enough.

No, not blockchain — smarter contracts. Rental and as-a-service models that follow the life of your field: scale up when wells demand it, scale down when they don't. Your lifting strategy stops being CAPEX — and OpEx follows the well, not the other way around.

Neolift units on a Vaca Muerta pad at sunset

A smaller surface footprint per well. Wells can sit closer — more per pad, fewer workover interferences. No foundations, no wellhead changes.

Packaged Neolift units on a Vaca Muerta pad — Fully packaged, skid-mounted systems — portable, safe, and built to the pad's layout.

Linear units arriving on location in Patagonia — Plug & play, engineered for shale — units arrive field-assembled and ready to run.

Neolift unit being installed on a wellhead with a light crane — Installed in hours with light cranes — a leaner, safer operation in the field.

Operator at the digital control panel of a Neolift unit — HM Autopilot decides and executes, stroke by stroke — always connected

Already transforming Vaca Muerta — the world's second-largest shale play

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Straight Answers

The questions we get asked

What is Neolift?

We are an Argentine engineering and technology company. We develop and deliver solutions that optimize production in unconventional wells, bringing together our own engineering, the equipment we build and field service. Vaca Muerta is where we were born and where our people work every day, on location. We build on Tier 1 components and international supply chains. Ready for global markets.

What does Neolift do?

Three fronts that work as one. Engineering: we diagnose the well, the rod string and the pump in real time, and the production strategy comes out of that. Equipment: hydraulic pumping units governed by our own control system, HM Autopilot. Service: we operate those systems in the field under Smart Rental Contracts, so a well is accompanied for its whole life and not simply equipped once.

What makes Neolift different from conventional artificial lift?

Conventional artificial lift was designed for stable vertical wells — and so was the theory used to analyse it. We start from the other end: every solution we develop is conceived for what an unconventional well actually demands, and it is proven there. Today that takes the shape of hydraulic units and real-time control. The form can change; the focus will not. It is what lets us cut non-productive time by up to 90% against our own baseline.

How is HSE built into Neolift?

HSE by design, not a layer added afterwards: less exposure for our people, active leak prevention, lighter intervention on location, efficiency and fewer emissions. Against a reference installation: no concrete, 92% fewer field man-hours, 82% less diesel, up to 90% lower CO₂. And the same system that runs the well looks after the equipment — HM Autopilot tracks the oil balance in real time and watches the critical points through on-board cameras and video analytics. Redundant systems and AI sustaining operational excellence: the Neolift commitment.

How is a Neolift unit installed?

Our units arrive at location assembled and skid-mounted. We set them with light cranes directly on the wellhead — no concrete foundations, no piles, no wellhead modifications, and without touching a single pressure barrier. Assembly takes about four hours: the same day, a unit is transported, installed, started and producing.

Where does Neolift operate, and how do I reach you?

In Vaca Muerta: our people on location and our own operations in Neuquén. Everything is proven there, and none of it stays there: international supply chain, Argentine engineering, systems for any unconventional basin. Write to us at info@neolift.com.ar; if you are nearby, we come to you. Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok and in the press.

Born for the
Unconventional.