[+]Gyrodata's New Surveyor X4™ Service Sets a New Standard of Performance and Reliability
Houston - November 17, 2008(Houston, Texas) Gyrodata Incorporated, a worldwide leader in high technology wellbore placement services for the energy industry, today announced the introduction of its new SURVEYOR X4™ service. Based on the high accuracy gyroscopic technology for which Gyrodata is known, the Surveyor X4™ sets a new industry standard of performance for directional survey instrumentation.
SURVEYOR X4™ technology 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.
Central to the development are an enhanced rate-gyroscopic sensor and a fourth generation of downhole electronics. The sensor is a ruggedized version of a state-of-the-art inertial guidance sensor, designed and built in-house specifically for the harsh wellbore environment. Combined with additional shock isolation from a proprietary mechanism - the sensor array now provides an increase in shock resistance of an order of magnitude.
The new single-chassis downhole electronics module, which measures half the size of its predecessor, is also more rugged and reliable with faster and more powerful data processing. Together, the isolated sensor and new electronics provide a significant reduction in the noise-to-signal ratio which, in turn, provides greater accuracy in survey measurement. Performance accuracy has also improved due to the ability to maintain a tight laboratory calibration throughout an operation under vibratory conditions, and new software performance modeling further adds to data quality. The need for fewer full calibrations and maintenance at major repair centers is also improving operational logistics, especially in remote areas.
Overall, the Surveyor X4™ brings its higher level of performance and reliability to a number of important survey applications: it performs high accuracy trajectory surveys to ensure against dangerous and costly wellbore collisions and to position wells on target in reservoirs for optimum production and recovery. The system is also utilized to orient drilling assemblies and other downhole tools, and it can be incorporated in a logging string to survey a well and provide orientation information for logging instrumentation. Whether operating on electric wireline or by battery power, Surveyor X4 can withstand the high shock and vibration of high-speed downhole surveying and drilling operations.
Gyrodata is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has 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 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.
[+]Gyrodata announces first milestone in the evolution of new wellbore guidance technology
Houston - October 22, 2008(Houston, Texas) Gyrodata Incorporated, a worldwide leader in high precision wellbore placement services, today announced the first milestone in a multi-year effort to develop a new range of wellbore guidance technology designed specifically for the harsh conditions encountered in the oil and gas industry.
Less than two years after opening its new navigation design center in Westlake, California, the company has successfully deployed an enhanced guidance sensor offering an approximate ten-fold increase in shock capacity, with an overall performance enhancement of thirty percent. Extensive laboratory tests and field trials confirm the new ruggedized sensor's superior ability to maintain calibration and precision measurement in the high-shock downhole environment.
The new sensor is just the start of a major investment in the evolution of Gyrodata's gyroscopic guidance technology, which is utilized in the energy industry to survey and guide wells for placement in hydrocarbon reservoirs. The increasing complexity in the challenge to find and produce hydrocarbons has brought about the need for a new level of guidance system performance and reliability. Maximizing reservoir recovery from increasingly deeper and smaller horizons brings the accuracy of wellbore placement technology to the forefront of the challenges facing the industry.
Gyrodata is meeting that challenge by taking total control of guidance system design instead of relying on systems built mostly for aerospace applications. Gyrodata's new design team in Westlake, California, has extensive experience in the development of state-of-the-art inertial guidance systems. The Westlake facility houses a clean room with an array of calibration and testing equipment for the manufacture and repair of inertial sensors. Now that the team has channeled their expertise for the challenging wellbore environment, several more important developments are underway. In fact, the new enhanced sensor is integral to a broader whole-system development to be detailed in an upcoming news release.
Gyrodata is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has engineering and manufacturing facilities in Houston, Aberdeen and Cumbria, United Kingdom, and now, in Westlake, California. The company develops and deploys wellbore surveying and guidance systems and rotary steerable drilling services for high precision wellbore placement, plus additional applications in orientation and logging - all with a central focus on increasing the recovery of oil and gas reserves through technical innovation and precision.
[+]New website online
Houston - April 18, 2008Gyrodata launches new company website.
It's taken some time but it's finally here. Gyrodata is proud to launch its new company website. Please note that some functionality might not immediately work as expected, however if you experience any issues that in your opinion should 'just work', please let us know! For now, please enjoy your visit. If you have any questions regarding our company or the services we offer, don't hesitate to contact your nearest office.
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