Honored to support Mitsui E&P USA on the O. Henson hashtag#1H well in Leon County, Texas. We are truly grateful for the opportunity to work with Mitsui’s exploration and production team here in the United States, providing surface logging services including XRF SMWD, and real-time operations support on the O. Henson 1H. It has been an …
Our CEO Dave Tonner had the pleasure to return to the city where he began his career back in 1989 with GeoServices, this time to present at the inaugural Global Surface Logging Workshop organized by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE). Day 1 delivered an excellent series of presentations from both service companies …
Diversified Well Logging’s mission is to ensure that drilling operations maximise their client’s production economics with its suite of high-tech drilling and geological monitoring tools. As the company celebrates its 70th anniversary, it simultaneously celebrates its robust, impressively diverse market position and service offerings that are technologically stronger than ever before. Vice President Sales Tracie …
FORMATION EVALUATION RETURNS TO THE SURFACE Realtime formation evaluation at the wellsite used to be carried out by geologists or mud loggers examining the drilled cuttings and formation gas collected from the mud stream and “lagged” to bit depth. This was mud logging or surface logging or data logging. Over the years, technological advances and …
In a Rigzone article on June 10th, 2020, ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance was quoted as saying “Shale is not broke; shale is not gone; shale will come back.” While the third statement seems to contradict the second, we all know what he means, and we all agree. Shale and other tight unconventional hydrocarbon plays are …
All wells experience problems while drilling. Problems that result in unexpected hazards that can affect the safety of workers, damage to equipment and facilities, cause environmental damage, and greatly increase cost. Offshore, and especially in deepwater environments, if you only practice reactive control, these hazards could potentially add huge direct and indirect costs to a …
This ‘blog’ is inspired by some excellent photography by John Wagner who captured the ‘title-image’ on one of our rigs in Oklahoma. When difficult times hit the upstream oil industry, something which seems to be increasingly frequent, it helps that companies such as Diversified Well Logging, LLC., (DWL) can rise to the occasion and deliver …
Listen to Dave Tonner talk about DWL’s innovative services, thanks to Susan Nash and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) for this great opportunity to share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm4nNoYvLu0&feature=emb_imp_woyt
In response to a couple of posts about the ‘death’ of mud logging in hard times and the scant attention paid to cuttings and gas information by oil companies, I think we need to consider a few things. 1) In the dim and distant past mud logging was the only method of getting realtime geological data …
When a stereoscopic microscope, tweezers, sample probe, some chemicals, and an ultraviolet lightbox were the ‘state-of-the-art’ in cuttings evaluation equipment, mud-loggers and geologists did a very good job in identifying drilled formations all things considered. Similarly, when coach-and-horses and sailing ships were the ‘state-of-the-art’ in transportation, they also did a very good job transporting people …
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