Senior geosteering.
The same team, every shift.
Total Depth Geoservices is a Denver-area remote geosteering firm for operators who can’t afford a learning curve on their well. Senior geologists, one consistent team from kickoff to lateral TD, and a live interpretation you can open any time.
Track record
Results that are on the record.
107
consecutive Bakken wells without a shale strike.
Jason Harms and Emily Brehm, WPX Energy, 2012 to 2015.
7 of 10
of the ten best first-year Niobrara horizontals in the Piceance Basin were steered by our geologists, including the #1 well.
Colorado state production data, October 2026.
200,000+
barrels of oil in ten months from one Delaware Basin lateral we steered in New Mexico in 2025.
New Mexico state production data, through May 2026.
2 in 1 week
back-to-back two-mile drilling records in the Midland Basin.
November 2023.
WHERE WE WORKWells steered across the country
From the soft chalk of the DJ Basin to the hard rock of the Permian, and the shoals and reefs where the geology changes every few hundred feet.
We steer remotely, so your well can be anywhere. What matters is that the geologist on it has seen rock like yours before. Across our team, that covers nearly every major U.S. basin, from “pancake” geology that looks the same for miles to reef and shoal settings that can shift within a single lateral.
Dots mark every basin we’ve steered in. Diamonds mark results worth calling out.
- Williston Basin 107 consecutive wells with no Bakken Shale strikes
- Appalachian Basin Best in-zone percentage in the Marcellus Fold Belt
- Piceance Basin 7 of the top 10 producing Niobrara wells, including #1
- San Juan Basin #1 fastest and #1 producing laterals
- Delaware Basin · 2016 2 top-5 wells by 30-day rate
- Delaware Basin · 2025 #1 producing Brushy Canyon well
- Midland Basin · 2023 Back-to-back 2-mile drilling speed records
Also steeredMadison Group, Powder River, Green River, Uinta, Sand Wash, DJ Basin, Aneth Reefs, Decorah Carbonates, Point Pleasant, Illinois Basin, Cherokee Platform, Anadarko · SCOOP/STACK, Barnett, Cotton Valley, Haynesville Salt Domes, Eagle Ford
CONSISTENCYTell us once.
Many geosteering firms rotate staff. Every week or two a new person sits down on your well and has to be caught up. At Total Depth, the same day geologist and the same night geologist carry your well all week, with a written handoff at every shift change and the same weekend team behind them. You brief us once. We carry it the rest of the way.
A typical rotation · 4 weeks
A new face every week or two.
Each day: top = day shift, bottom = night shift
Total Depth · 4 weeks
The same team, every shift.
Each day: top = day shift, bottom = night shift
SENIORITYPeople who’ve done your job.
Only a small share of geologists ever work an operations desk. Ours have, at operators like WPX Energy, Apache, HighPoint and Jones Energy, steering their own company’s wells before steering yours. They’ve been tested over years, and they show up.
Before Total Depth, our geologists were in-house Dev and Ops geologists for
- 01WPX Energy
- 02Apache
- 03HighPoint
- 04Jones Energy
LESS WORK FOR YOUOur job is to make you look good.
Hiring a service provider shouldn’t create more work. Hand us the maps and files you already have and we take it from there: the data feed from the rig, the setup, and the details your team shouldn’t have to chase. We know where our job ends and the directional driller’s begins. You get the credit. We get hired again.
We try to take as much weight off of your shoulders as possible, as early as possible.
BILLINGWhen you stop drilling, we stop billing.
One day rate from kickoff point to lateral TD. No mileage, no fees for log prints, no charge for the setup and the files. If you want a geologist at your wellsite, we quote that as a day rate up front, so there is nothing to decode later.
What’s included in the day rate
Setup and the live data connection to your rig
Daily steering and reports
A written handoff at every shift change
The final report and your files
A typical geosteering invoice
Eighteen lines to check.
Illustrative. Line items vary by provider.
A Total Depth invoice
Two lines. That's it.
Days worked × day rate
When you stop drilling, we stop billing.
No mileage, no log print fees, no charge for the setup and the files.
LIVE INTERPRETATIONYou can always see where we are.
Our interpretation lives online, not in an email you wait for. Open it from your desk or your phone, send the link to the wellsite, and see the same picture we see. Someone from Total Depth is online with your rig team around the clock. During a trip we tell you there’s no new data, rather than leave you wondering whether anyone is watching.
We steer in ZoneVu, where Jason is a named superuser and beta tester, and in StarSteer, which we’ve licensed since 2015 as an early adopter. Live rig data comes in over WITSML, and the rig team and ours share a live chat channel for the length of the well.
OTHER SERVICESBeyond geosteering.
Geosteering is our focus. We also provide operations geologists, mapping, field analysis and permitting for drilling programs. Ask Jason what your project needs.
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Operations geology
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Mapping
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Field analysis
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Permitting
TESTIMONIALSWhat operators say.
“The TD team has been our go-to, with consistently great results in the field and responsive personnel in the office. I recommend them highly.”
Matthew R. Silverman
Senior Geoscience Advisor, Robert L. Bayless, Producer
GET IN TOUCHHave a well coming up?
Call or email Jason directly. If a form is easier, it reaches Jason and Chloe the same day.