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[+] During Houston wildfires, Gyrodata provides food for local firefighters Houston - September 12, 2011 (Houston, Texas) As the Greater Houston Area was hit by wildfires threatening local neighborhoods, Gyrodata on Friday the 9th of September provided firefighters in the area with some great home made barbeque. A copious amount of barbeque was cooked up and delivered to those helping to combat and put out the fires and those protecting the areas affected from further threat.

Since early September, the fires have threathened neighborhoods in the Montgomery, Grimes and Waller counties to the north west of Houston. 19,000 acres and at least 60 homes have so far gone up in flames, with residents in the area being told to be extra careful in the days to come. All Gyrodata employees offer their heartfelt sympathies to those that have lost their homes and extend a huge 'Thank You!' to the men and women actively working to contain the fires.

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[+] Gyrodata moves into new offices Houston - April 27, 2011 (Houston, Texas) Our move is complete; as of the 25th of April, Gyrodata Houston is now fully settled in at our new building. It's been a massive change for us, moving from a building with roughly 30.000 square feet to around 150.000 square feet. All our services are now consolidated under one roof as well, which is a very welcome change for all involved.

We're extremely excited to be here, and we hope you will share our excitement with us.

You can find more information about the move and our new facilities at the following link, which also includes our new address and phone number.

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[+] Gyrodata introduces new high inclination Gyro-While-Drilling tool Houston - February 21, 2011 (Houston, Texas) Gyrodata is proud to introduce the commercial availability of its new Gyro-Guide GWD70™ system. The system is the company's latest addition to its highly acclaimed Gyro-Guide Gyro-While-Drilling suite of tools. Launched at the 2011 SPE/IADC Drilling Conference and Exhibition held during the first week of March in Amsterdam this year, GWD70™ represents a major step forward in accurate and reliable wellbore placement and drilling safety. The system, which is either collar or probe based, allows for real-time surveys up to 70 degrees of inclination from vertical while drilling. The GWD70™ system incorporates the new MXY rate-gyroscope, designed and developed in-house at Gyrodata's sensor facility in California, USA. The MXY is the first gyroscope designed and optimized specifically to meet the rigorous challenges of the oil field environment, and it is this new gyroscope that allows the GWD70™ to provide such durable, reliable and highly accurate readings whilst incorporated in the drilling BHA, including many RSS applications.

When the GWD70™ gyroscopic sensor is combined with the new CAP™ data processing firmware and a magnetic sensor, the client receives reliable wellbore placement with a second check providing data redundancy; thus detecting gross errors. In addition, through a new communications link, the system can now be instructed to run a memory multishot while tripping out of the hole all the way back to surface, providing verification of both the MWD and GWD performance and confirmation of the wellbore location prior to setting casing.

"Field trial performance has repeatedly proven the GWD70™ to far exceed our most optimistic expectations. Utilizing this new technology, operators are assured of having the most accurate survey results available to them in real time." said Keith Beattie, Global Product Champion, Gyro-Guide GWD. "The new GWD70™ is a viable solution for faster, safer and more accurate real-time well bore placement, with all the advantages of gross error detection when run in conjunction with magnetic MWD sensors."

Field tests undertaken in North America and the North Sea have shown the tool to be more than ready for use by the industry. During these field tests, the GWD70™ performed admirably under the harshest of conditions, providing the client with the accurate gyroscopic positioning information required.

About Gyrodata
Gyrodata has headquarters in Houston, Texas and engineering and manufacturing facilities in Houston and Westlake, California in the United States; and in Aberdeen, Barrow-in-Furness, 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. ... [read more]

[+] Gyrodata opens new corporate office in Ecuador

Houston - December 30, 2010 As 2010 comes to an end, Gyrodata is happy to announce the opening of a new office in the city of Quito, Ecuador. This new office will allow Gyrodata to improve customer support in the region. Charles Hajek, the Area Manager for the Latin American Continent, says "Having an office in this region is an enormous boost to our ability to better support our local business partners. We are very pleased to be able to provide this level of support and look forward to the years ahead."

From left to right in the picture above are Charles Hajek (Area Manager LAC), Rafael Gil (Operations Manager), Lina Loaiza (Business Development) and Daniela Araque (Administrator).

The address to our new office is:

Gyrodata Ecuador
Republica del Salvador 491 y Naciones Unidas.
Suyana Complex, 4th Floor, Suite 402
Ecuador

Phone: +593-26020853
+593-26020854

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[+] Gyrodata aids in Chilean miner's rescue Houston - October 15, 2010 (Houston, Texas) After being trapped underground for over 67 days, all the Chilean miners have finally been rescued by way of a specially designed rescue capsule that was lowered down a drilled shaft. Several shafts which connected the miners with the surface were surveyed with CAAT™ technology to deliver the fastest, safest and most accurate downhole coordinates, available to date. Surveyor X-4™ technology was selected to provide gyroscopic guidance of the drilling assembly of the Plan C rescue effort. Employees from all over the world, including Argentina, Norway, and the US, were involved in this project, pro bono. Fox26 Houston made the following report.

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