How we workRemote geosteering, start to finish.
Here's what working with Total Depth looks like, from the first meeting in your office to the final report.
The processSix steps, from your office to TD.
Brief us once. We carry it to TD.
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We start in your office, or on a screenshare.
We sit down with you, walk through your maps, and learn the setting: the target, the risks, and how your team likes to work.
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We brief the team once.
We pass everything to the geologists on your well, with your maps and notes in one place. You never repeat yourself.
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The same people steer your well.
One geologist on days and one on nights, all week, and the same weekend team. Questions route through Jason, so nothing gets lost.
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We work for the rig, not against it.
We work alongside your directional drillers and company men without stepping on their jobs. We don't ask a rig to slow down for us, and we talk to the directional driller before a target change goes out, so our changes are easy to follow and nobody is surprised.
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We come to the wellsite when you need us.
Quoted as a day rate up front, with no mileage.
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When you stop drilling, we stop billing.
You get a final report and your files, and your invoice shows the days we worked.
The methodReading difficult geology
Most wells sit in rock that looks the same for miles. The hard ones don't: shoals, reefs, pinchouts and faults that change over a few hundred feet.
We read the rock from the physics of how the gamma ray tool sees it, and we use the type log to confirm an interpretation, not to lead it. The method is Total Depth's own, built over a decade of wells in more than a dozen basins.
On one well, the faults we picked from the gamma ray alone were confirmed afterward by the operator's image log.
Illustration: folded beds and a fault, steered from the gamma ray.
“Steering using dip finding is basically like creating a new type log as you drill.”
Jason Harms, President
TimelinesHow long a project takes
It depends on the basin and the well. Here's what a typical steering job looks like.
Have a well coming up?Tell Jason the basin and when it spuds.
Talk to Jason