(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.

See our product page here: Surveyor X-4™ or download the product flyer here.

For more information, contact:
Jeffrey G. Leonard
(+1) 713 461 3146
jeffl@gyrodata.com