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Gyrodata's New Office Building (2)
Houston - June 1, 2010
(Houston, Texas) Progress at the building site has been swift, with all the major wall sections of the building now in place. The internal gridwork supporting the roof and internal walls is also taking shape quite nicely. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so we'll let the new photographs below do the talking!
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Gyrodata's New Office Building
Houston - May 10, 2010
(Houston, Texas) Later this year, the corporate headquarters and North American head office will be moving to a new location. We'd like to share some photographs of the new building in progress with you.
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Team Gyrodata finishes the MS150
Houston - May 1, 2010
(Houston, Texas) After 2 days of cycling over 150 miles, Team Gyrodata finished the BP MS150, arriving safely in Austin.
Our team, consisting of 28 people, left on Saturday morning and arrived later that day in La Grange, TX, where our support team made sure we had some great barbecue waiting on us.
A early Sunday morning departure (6 am!) brought us to Austin early in the afternoon.
Click the picture above to see our team foto, or click this link to see the rest of the pictures.
GO TEAM GYRODATA!
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Gyrodata Announces New SQ³ Quality Assurance Initiative
Houston - February 10, 2010
(Houston, Texas) Gyrodata Incorporated, a worldwide leader in high-technology wellbore placement services for the energy industry, today announced the introduction of the SQ³ Quality Assurance Initiative - an internal certification program designed to take quality management to the next level.
"Gyrodata is all about quality, and this is an important initiative for both the company and our customers," said Stephen Klopp, Gyrodata's Chairman and CEO. "SQ³ integrates every control aspect of the quality objective, from design and engineering to manufacturing and field deployment, so that all employees understand their link in the service quality chain. SQ³ has been initiated worldwide to all districts and employees, and we expect to soon see the bar raised for a new standard of excellence in the industry."
The SQ³ initiative is both an informational program and a certification process for the company's field operations. When a completed survey report is approved and stamped with the SQ³ Seal, both Gyrodata employees and its customers will be informed of the technology and the exact processes and procedures applied to assure a high level of performance. SQ³ provides Gyrodata's customers with the confidence to make critical wellbore placement decisions safely and accurately.
The SQ³ program highlights three main aspects of Gyrodata's services relevant to quality assurance: - System Quality - Precision engineered gyroscopic systems, designed and manufactured in-house for the harsh wellbore environment, lay the groundwork for field accuracy and reliability.
- Survey Quality - Data accuracy through standardized calibration and modeling procedures.
- Service Quality - Controlled processes and procedures required for SQ³ certification from service call-out to return-to-base.
SQ³ documentation goes beyond the issue of Gyrodata's quality of service by providing additional useful information. As a resource, SQ³ points customers to industry-recognized survey performance models for safe and effective well planning; and it discusses the latest industry perspective on survey accuracy with references and links to studies and technical papers. Overall, SQ³ not only informs and provides certification to instill confidence in survey performance, it also serves as an educational/training mechanism for both employees and clients.
Gyrodata has headquarters in Houston, Texas and engineering and manufacturing facilities in Houston and Westlake, California in the United States; and in Aberdeen, Cumbria, and Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The company develops and deploys premium wellbore surveying and guidance systems and rotary steerable drilling services - with a central focus on providing safe drilling operations and increased recovery of oil and gas reserves through highly accurate wellbore placement.
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Gyrodata's New CAAT Surveyor X-4™ Achieves the Highest Level of Accuracy
Houston - February 10, 2010
(Houston, Texas) Gyrodata Incorporated, a worldwide leader in high-technology wellbore placement services for the energy industry, today announced the introduction of the new CAAT SURVEYOR X-4™ (Continuous All-Attitude Tool). The inertial guidance-based CAAT™ system provides three-dimensional trajectory profiles for oil and gas wells by surveying while transiting the wellbore, rather than stopping at periodic intervals to take readings.
The CAAT™ system has evolved from Gyrodata's new X-4™ technology, which incorporates advancements in downhole sensors, electronics, software modeling and mechanisms to increase resistance to shock and vibration - leading to significant gains in performance, speed, accuracy and reliability. Along with these advancements, the CAAT™ system has taken continuous surveying a step further with all-attitude capability (i.e., the system can survey a well while moving at high speeds from vertical to horizontal). Previous systems had to reach a certain angle of inclination before starting in continuous mode.
The CAAT™ system has successfully performed 12 commercial jobs to date, two of which surveyed to horizontal in the active Marcellus Shale Field in the Appalachian Basin. All-attitude surveying and increased ruggedness have led to faster surveying times for significant rig-time savings.
Gyrodata's continuous surveying provides the most accurate means of wellbore trajectory definition, due to the quality of the inertial guidance-based data and the ability to profile the well in much smaller increments than with other methods. Now, combining continuous all-attitude capability with advanced X-4 technology, the CAAT™ system has become the most accurate tool in Gyrodata's fleet of instrumentation.
High-accuracy continuous surveying provides numerous benefits over the entire life cycle of an oil and gas development: reduced risk of costly and dangerous wellbore collisions, optimum wellbore placement and reservoir delineation for increased recovery, and reduced well maintenance and workover costs.
Once Gyrodata performs a continuous survey, a client has the ability (now or at any time in the future) to examine the well profile at any incremental resolution down to 0.1 of a foot. Typical oil industry surveying employs 100-foot intervals. The high data density of continuous surveying allows identification of micro doglegs and other structural problems that could adversely affect a maintenance program over the life of a well. Many operators have used continuous data to optimize the placement of downhole pumps and rod guides in artificial lift operations for significant reductions in tubing wear, equipment failures and overall workover frequency.
Gyrodata has headquarters in Houston, Texas and engineering and manufacturing facilities in Houston and Westlake, California in the United States; and in Aberdeen, Cumbria, and Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The company develops and deploys premium wellbore surveying and guidance systems and rotary steerable drilling services - with a central focus on providing safe drilling operations and increased recovery of oil and gas reserves through highly accurate wellbore placement.
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(Houston, Texas) After 2 days of cycling over 150 miles, Team Gyrodata finished the BP MS150, arriving safely in Austin.
Our team, consisting of 28 people, left on Saturday morning and arrived later that day in La Grange, TX, where our support team made sure we had some great barbecue waiting on us.
A early Sunday morning departure (6 am!) brought us to Austin early in the afternoon.
Click the picture above to see our team foto, or click this link to see the rest of the pictures.
