Battalion Oil Makes Strategic Investment in Collide, the AI-Native Operations System for Oil and Gas
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Battalion Oil has entered into a strategic partnership with Collide, investing in Collide and assuming the role of strategic partner. Collide is building Riggs, the AI work environment designed specifically for oil and gas to automate the workflows that run the industry, targeting a $20 billion addressable market inside a $3 trillion annual global capital expenditure industry.
Collide provides an AI-native operations system purpose-built for oil and gas that automates high-value engineering and operational workflows across upstream, midstream, and oilfield services sectors. The system is designed to reduce operating costs, compress cycle times, and unlock critical data trapped in legacy systems.
“Collide has solved a problem that has stumped the industry for a decade: building AI that actually speaks petroleum engineering. Oil and gas skipped the SaaS era, but it will not skip AI, and we intend to be at the front of that adoption curve,” said Matt Steele, chief executive officer of Battalion.
“As a strategic partner and investor, we gain both a seat at the table as the Collide operations system evolves and early access to tools that we believe will significantly reduce our operating costs and improve capital efficiency across our asset base. This is exactly the kind of forward-looking investment that fits our strategy of moving from defense to offense,” added Steele.
“Battalion’s partnership is a strong endorsement of what we’re building. Having an operator with Battalion’s Permian Basin expertise as a strategic partner means we build the operations system even closer to the real problems engineers face every day — and that collaboration compounds directly into a smarter, more capable product for the entire industry,” said Collin McLelland, co-founder and chief executive officer of Collide.
Riggs is powered by the collide operations system. Most AI tools answer from a general model that has never seen clients’ wells, leases, or history. Riggs is designed to answer from Battalion’s own data, gathered from the PDFs, spreadsheets, and legacy systems where it’s been stuck for decades, and connected into one live model for the business. Purpose-built agents work on that model, applying petroleum-engineering domain logic, and are designed to deliver analysis, mapping, and reporting to Battalion’s teams in minutes rather than days. And because everyone works from the same model, the land team will be able to see real-time production from the wells they administer, while a completions engineer can see the lease obligations that shape the next drilling decision.
The Collide operations system also captures the hard-won knowledge that has historically lived only in the heads of veteran engineers and operators, preserving it before it walks out the door when a 30-year operator retires. As Collide puts it: stop renting expertise, start owning it.
As a strategic partner, Battalion will join Collide’s product advisory council and deploy the Collide operations system across its upstream operations under an executed subscription agreement. The deployment begins by unifying more than 100 terabytes of well files, land records, contracts and production history into a single queryable model of the business.
On that foundation, Battalion and Collide plan to build applications targeting the largest cost and revenue lines in the field: gas marketing reconciliation, field invoice review, power usage and hedging, and well failure diagnostics.
Riggs, Collide’s AI work environment, is expected to reach Battalion’s production engineers at approximately day 90. Battalion sees Riggs as a natural fit for its Monument Draw cube development program in Ward County, Texas and in the continued efforts to consolidate accretive assets in and out of the basin.
Battalion Oil Corporation is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, production, exploration, and development of onshore oil and natural gas properties in the United States.
Collide builds AI infrastructure for the energy industry. Focused on upstream oil and gas, Collide develops domain-specific AI systems that preserve institutional expertise, activate underutilized operational data, and integrate into complex engineering and commercial workflows. As global energy demand increases and the industry undergoes workforce transition, Collide enables operators to improve efficiency, accelerate decision-making, and reduce operational costs.
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