Next Steps

Phase 1 — Oil & Gas Data Platform expansion + geothermal methodology adoption

El Mundo is RCI’s formalization and expansion of the data-governance concepts first implemented in our Data Platform for an Oil & Gas Operator — a multi-component well-construction information platform spanning data masters catalogs, field reporting data (from both a legacy 20+-year-old system and a new reporting system), AFE (Authorization for Expenditure) modeling, a Well File lifecycle system, and a drilling-and-completions analytics system. The platform’s seminal system became officially operational in May 2026 for all field types of operations in well construction, and continues to expand through 2026 and 2027. That platform was the first implementation of the ledgering approach this portal describes; El Mundo is its formalization and re-usable expression. Per D-005, Phase 1 advances along two tracks in parallel:

• Track A — Oil & Gas Data Platform expansion: continued production operation and incremental expansion of the platform’s coverage throughout 2026 and 2027 (additional capabilities across data masters, field reporting, AFE, Well File, and drilling-and-completions analytics). The El Mundo formalization — the lexicon-driven architecture, Mode 1 / Mode 2 notarization, the dual-mode Cierre cadence (D-017), the per-tenant Plan de Cuentas authoring patterns (D-016) — is being incorporated as those constructs reach production readiness. Mode 1 is the operational floor; the operator's egress posture keeps Mode 2 declined for now.
• Track B — Geothermal methodology adoption: a geothermal utility — shallow wells under water-well permitting, temperature-equalization project — adopting the methodology's record-keeping concepts for its own planning-and-reporting platform. They use the discipline without deploying our field tier. Validates that the architecture's record-keeping commitments transfer across industrial domains and regulatory regimes.

Phase 2 — frac pilots and Mode 2 generally available

Frac-completions pilots ship in Phase 2 across multiple jurisdictions, joining Phase 1 in production. Mode 2 graduates from opt-in-with-public-chain-pending to opt-in-with-public-chain-committed once the choice is made (candidates per D-019: Energy Web X, Hedera + B4E, Polygon, Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps, or a permissioned alternative). OTA updates for Aperos with Approver gating, mTLS cert rotation automation, and FIDO2/WebAuthn for SOC-2-scoped human users land in Phase 2.

Phase 3 — multi-tenant scale and SOC 2 Type II audit

The Pueblo tier scales to many tenants per region; Pueblo de Houston, Pueblo de Buenos Aires, Pueblo de Madrid federate via Correo Mayor and Diligencias for customers operating across regions. The SOC 2 Type II audit — gap assessment, three-month observation window, formal report — runs to completion. The Bóveda’s long-term retention model is exercised against its first migrations of aged-out Pulpería and Contaduría entries.

Open work in flight

• Hardware SKU selection for the Aperos kit (Round 5 architectural interview).
• Age-key location and Vault topology for the Escribanía key store (backup-and-recovery.md completion).
• Public-chain choice for Mode 2 anchoring (D-019 leaves a candidate list).
• WITS Level 0 vendor-dialect coverage matrix (standards-survey open question 1).
• Per-pilot vendor adapter selection for v1 (Halliburton, SLB, NOV, or pumpdown CSV).

Engagement

RCI is looking for design partners — substrate deployments, methodology adoptions, or both — in industrial domains where the operational ledger needs to actually behave like a ledger. If the commitments described in the white paper match the data-substrate posture you need, the path forward is a pilot conversation.

Contact: pueblo@roderickc.com. For collaboration on the IETF drafts, contact ramon.rodriguez@roderickc.com.