National Legacy Well Heatmap
Color-coded national map of documented oil and gas wells, ranked by predicted bycatch potential per category. Filterable by state, basin, era of completion, primary product, current status, and operator class.
MotherLode ReservoirU.S. Provisional Patent Application Filed
Per-well hydrocarbon legacy intelligence across America’s 3.7 million documented oil and gas wells.
MotherLode Reservoir integrates AI with state oil and gas commission records, federal orphan-well inventories, and modern produced-water chemistry to predict per-well bycatch value at fidelity not previously available, at speeds measured in hours instead of months.
$50K to $200K
Per-site engineering analysis under legacy consulting methods
Hours
Per-well predictive intelligence with MotherLode Reservoir
3.7M+
Documented wells. 120K+ orphaned. Most never assayed for bycatch.
Resolves the per-well data gap that holds back domestic lithium, helium, and critical-minerals supply.
Oil and gas operations across the twentieth century measured one thing: primary hydrocarbon production curves to non-economic. Lithium in produced water, helium in associated gas streams, rare earth elements in formation brine, residual recoverable hydrocarbons at modern prices, and geothermal potential at the borehole were not measured because they had no commercial value at the time. The United States is sitting on millions of legacy wells whose bycatch potential is unknown, and federal agencies are openly funding solutions to close that gap.
The platform combines AI-driven integration of state oil and gas commission records, EPA orphan-well inventories, USGS produced-water chemistry, era-specific completion analytics, and modern basin-level signatures to produce per-well bycatch predictions with confidence intervals, directly usable by program managers, operators, and engineering consulting firms.
Five integrated layers that turn historical well data into actionable intelligence.
Bycatch Prediction Engine
Per-well predictive model with confidence intervals for lithium concentration in produced water, helium in associated gas, rare earth elements in formation brine, geothermal gradient at borehole depth, and residual recoverable hydrocarbons at modern recovery economics.
Federal Grant-Ready Reports
One-click pre-formatted reports aligned to DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law orphan-well program, DOE Earthshot lithium R&D, DOE NETL CORE-CM, EPA Methane Emissions Reduction Program, and state abandoned-well plugging applications. Direct submission alignment, citation-ready.
Operator Decision Engine
Per-well reactivation analysis including bycatch potential, residual hydrocarbon, geothermal, aboveground asset salvage value, and plug-and-abandon alternative cost. Output: reactivate, sell rights, plug, or hold.
Sourcing Network Bridge
High-confidence lithium-brine, helium, and rare earth identifications route to vetted strategic and sovereign buyers through a curated network with provenance-grade documentation. Identity isolation preserved on both sides. Patent pending.
Cross-Basin Novel Site Discovery
Geological signature matching identifies undiscovered analogs to historically productive bycatch clusters. Surfaces high-potential wells that are absent from existing databases. Patent pending.
Speed, coverage, technical depth, patent protection, and a system that compounds with use.
Speed
Predictive intelligence per well in hours instead of months. Confidence intervals tighten as field outcomes feed back into the model.
Coverage
Where modern engineering consulting reaches one well at a time, MotherLode Reservoir's data integration covers every documented well in the active states.
Technical Depth
Multi-modal integration of state oil and gas commission records, EPA orphan-well data, USGS produced-water chemistry, era-specific completion analytics, and basin-level signatures. None of which exists in a single system today.
Patent Protected
U.S. Provisional Patent Application Filed. Multiple novel mechanisms protected, including AI-scored hydrocarbon legacy reactivation potential, bycatch prediction with confidence intervals, integrated sourcing network bridge, and cross-basin discovery.
Compounds With Use
The system improves with every well evaluated. Partners benefit from a tool that becomes more accurate the more it is deployed across the network.
The Data Flywheel
A verification network that compounds the moat with every deployment.
Every operator who deploys MotherLode Reservoir on a well generates ground-truth data: confirmed brine assay results, observed helium recovery, residual hydrocarbon yields, encountered formation pressures, real-world economics. Verified field outcomes feed back into the model, tightening confidence intervals per bycatch category, refining era and basin-specific recovery functions, and improving cross-basin signature matching.
1
Verified field outcomes flow in
Operators contribute confirmed brine assay results, helium recovery rates, residual hydrocarbon yields, and post-extraction economics through a verified-contributor framework.
2
The model tightens
Confidence intervals narrow per bycatch category. Recovery functions per era, formation, and basin context recalibrate. Cross-basin signature matching becomes more discriminating.
3
Every subsequent well benefits
The next operator evaluating a comparable well receives sharper predictions, better economics, and a stronger grant-ready report than the operator before them.
This is the data nobody else has. State oil and gas commissions hold the historical completions. USGS holds the contemporary water chemistry. Operators hold the ground-truth. MotherLode Reservoir is the first system to integrate all three with a feedback loop that compounds across deployments.
Beyond Known Wells
Cross-basin signature matching identifies wells no one has scored yet.
The platform extracts geological, geochemical, and completion-history signatures from historically productive lithium-brine, helium-rich, and high-residual basins. It then scans the broader oil and gas legacy landscape for wells that share those signatures but were never assayed for bycatch, never reported to federal inventories, or never analyzed against modern recovery economics.
The result is a new class of opportunity: high-potential wells that are absent from current bycatch databases, absent from state geological survey priority lists, and absent from every commercial energy intelligence product on the market. They exist in the data, just not in anyone’s index.
This capability is patent pending and is unique to MotherLode Reservoir.
Domain credibility paired with engineering execution.
Larry Corey Strange
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Lucid Tech LLC
Twenty-plus year technology operator and inventor. Founder of Lucid Tech LLC and the Adaptive Compound Intelligence (ACI) framework. Lead architect of the MotherLode platform family.
Patents and Intellectual Property
- Fourteen-plus U.S. utility patents filed across a twenty-year career
- MotherLode CMI, U.S. Provisional Patent Application Filed
- MotherLode Reservoir, continuation in preparation on hydrocarbon legacy asset reactivation
Operating Companies
- Founder, AppStudioPro (twenty-person full-stack engineering organization)
- Founder, Web Design Pros 365 (BBB Accredited, A rating)
- Founder, Mobile Computer Specialists (Google 4.8 rating, BBB A+, Three Best Rated 2026 Top Three)
Education and Recognition
- Oxford University AI Program, Top 1% of cohort, completed 2026
- Seventeen years of continuous operating record across three companies
Industry Advisory
Hydrocarbon Legacy Asset Domain
In Formation
MotherLode Reservoir is actively forming its industry advisory team across petroleum engineering, lithium-brine extraction, helium recovery, federal energy policy, and state oil and gas commission relationships. Early conversations are underway with academic researchers, former national laboratory leadership, and veteran operators with direct stripper-well and orphan-well field experience.
- Petroleum engineering, leading energy schools
- Lithium-brine extraction, national laboratory spinout track
- Helium recovery and the National Helium Reserve technical community
- Federal energy policy, former DOE orphan-well and critical-minerals portfolio
- Veteran operator and family-business derrick-construction lineage, multi-state coverage
Advisor announcements forthcoming.
Built for the institutions advancing domestic energy and critical-minerals supply.
We are actively engaging federal program managers (DOE, DOI, EPA), state oil and gas commissions, lithium and helium strategics, engineering consulting firms producing federal grant submissions, and independent operators evaluating well reactivation.
If your work touches the per-well bycatch gap, we welcome a discussion.
For program inquiries, partnership conversations, and access requests, reach out directly.
info@webdesignpros365.com