February 2012
Programming development of SES v4.x continued,
with primary focus to integrate WITSML data
transfer capabilities to SES (beta expected late
this month J).
January 2012 Ultra
Resources, Inc. purchased SES 4.x. Fidelity
Exploration & Production Company purchased SES 4.x.
December 2011 Bill Barrett
Corporation purchased additional SES licenses.
Lewis Energy Group, L.P. purchased SES 4.x. Samson
Resources Company purchased additional SES
licenses. SES training was hosted in
Golden, CO.
November 2011 Sunburst
Consulting, Inc. purchased additional SES
licenses. Anadarko
Petroleum Corporation purchased additional SES
licenses. Pennsylvania General Energy Company
purchased additional SES licenses.
October 2011 Shell E&P
Company purchased additional SES licenses. Carrizo Oil &
Gas, Inc. purchased SES 4.x. Talisman Energy USA
Inc. purchased SES 4.x. Horizon Well
Logging, LLC purchased SES 4.x. Samson Resources
Company purchased additional SES licenses. Bill Barrett
Corporation purchased SES 4.x. Resource
Development, Inc. purchased SES 4.x. SES training was
hosted in Golden, CO.
September 2011 Diversified
Well Logging, Inc. purchased SES 4.x. SES
Upgrade published.
August 2011 Burnett Oil
Company purchased SES 4.x. SES
training was hosted in Golden, CO. SES
Upgrade published.
July 2011 Continental
Resources, Inc. purchased additional SES
licenses. Northeast Natural Energy, LLC
purchased SES 4.x. Warren & Christian,
Inc. purchased SES 4.x. Hess
Corporation purchased SES 4.x. Range Resources
Corporation purchased additional SES licenses. Hoss Consulting Service, Inc. purchased
additional SES licenses.
June 2011 Continental
Resources, Inc. purchased additional SES
licenses. Abraxas
Petroleum Corporation purchased SES 4.x. Pioneer Natural
Resources Company purchased additional SES
licenses. QEP Resources,
Inc. purchased additional SES licenses. Shell
E&P Company purchased formal training. Anadarko
Petroleum Corporation purchased SES 4.x. SES
training was hosted in Golden, CO.
May 2011 Pennsylvania
General Energy Company purchased additional SES
licenses. Devon Energy Corporation purchased
additional SES licenses. Shell E&P Company purchased additional SES
licenses. The Mudlogging Company USA, L.P. purchased
SES 4.x. Courson Oil & Gas, Inc. purchased
SES 4.x. SES Upgrade published.
April 2011 Continental
Resources, Inc. purchased additional SES
licenses. Devon Energy
Corporation purchased formal training. Yates Petroleum
Corporation purchased SES 4.x. QEP Resources,
Inc. purchased SES 4.x.
Computerized Mudlogging Service, LLC purchased
SES 4.x. Dr. Stoner presented a lecture about
technical geosteering to graduate students at
Colorado School of Mines. SES Upgrade published.
March 2011 Newfield
Exploration Company purchased
additional SES licenses. Pennsylvania General Energy Company purchased SES 4.x. Shell E&P Company purchased formal
training. Pioneer Natural Resources Company
purchased additional SES licenses. Cordillera Energy Partners III, LLC purchased SES 4.x. SES
Upgrade published.
February 2011 Anadarko
Petroleum Corporation purchased formal training. PetroEdge
Energy LLC purchased SES
4.x. Sunburst Consulting, Inc. purchased SES
4.x.
January 2011 Newfield Exploration Company
purchased SES
4.x. Whiting Petroleum Corporation purchased SES
4.x. Shell
E&P Company purchased SES
4.x.
December 2010 Devon Energy
Corporation purchased additional
SES licenses and formal training. SES v4.5
became available for download. Revised SES User Manual published,
including updated "Geosteering Analyst's Trade
Secrets" chapter from years of providing
training and technical support.
November 2010 Pioneer Natural
Resources Company purchased additional SES
licenses. EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. purchased additional SES licenses. Continental
Resources, Inc. purchased SES 4.x. SM Energy
Company purchased additional SES
licenses.
October 2010 Gastar
Exploration, Ltd. purchased SES 4.x.
September 2010 Seneca
Resources Corporation purchased additional SES
licenses. EXCO Resources, Inc. purchased formal
training. EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. purchased additional SES
licenses. SES v4.4x was released as early
preview to SES v4.5 and full compatibility with
Office 2010 was confirmed.
August 2010
Programming development of SES v4.x continued,
in order to incorporate most popular new-feature
requests.
July 2010 Pioneer Natural
Resources Company purchased additional SES
licenses. EXCO Resources,
Inc. purchased SES 4 and formal training, to
power their real-time geosteering operations
centers. Range Resources Corporation purchased
additional SES licenses. Devon Energy
Corporation purchased SES 4. Samson Resources
Company purchased SES 4.
June 2010 Texas American
Resources Company purchased additional SES
licenses. Stoner Engineering LLC attended the SPE Geosteering Technology Forum in Colorado
Springs, CO, 27 June - 2 July. SES training
series videos hit a milestone with publication of entire demonstration well (70
minutes total of online training available).
May 2010 Energy
Corporation of America purchased additional SES
licenses.
April 2010 Ergon
Exploration, Inc. purchased SES 4.
March 2010 Pioneer Natural
Resources Company purchased SES 4. Texas American
Resources Company purchased SES 4. Range
Resources Corporation purchased additional SES
licenses.
February 2010 Seneca
Resources Corporation purchased additional SES licenses. SES
compatibility with 64-bit Windows 7 was
successfully confirmed.
January 2010 SES training
series videos "Training Well #1" began being published online.
December 2009 EnCana Oil & Gas
(USA) Inc.
purchased additional SES licenses. SES training
series videos "Getting Started" were published online.
November 2009 Seneca
Resources Corporation purchased SES 4. EnCana Oil &
Gas (USA) Inc. purchased formal SES
training. EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. purchased
additional SES licenses. Dr. Stoner presented a lecture
about technical
geosteering to graduate students at
Colorado School of Mines.
October 2009 St. Mary Land
& Exploration Company (now, SM Energy
Company) purchased additional SES licenses. Revised SES
User Manual was published. SES 4 was
made compliant with Windows Vista
(32-bit/64-bit).
September 2009 EnCana Oil & Gas (USA)
Inc. purchased additional SES licenses. SES version 4 became
available for download and the migration from
SES 3.x began. SES 4 includes extreme (e.g.,
color/min/max/log/constants/multi-track/track-placement/track-size/track-content)
multi-LWD-curve user control in ParamTuner and
Cross-Sections, and all of the most popular
requests over the past year like super-fast
loading for ultra-long wells and grid data
interpolation in Cross-Sections.
August 2009 Energy
Corporation of America purchased SES 3.x. Range
Resources Corporation purchased additional SES 3.x licenses.
July 2009 EOG Resources,
Inc. (International Group) purchased additional SES 3.x
licenses.
June 2009 EnCana Oil & Gas
(USA) Inc. purchased SES 3.x and formal SES
training. EOG Resources, Inc. (International Group) purchased SES 3.x.
March 2009 EOG Resources,
Inc. (Ft Worth North Division) purchased SES 3.x.
February 2009 Hoss
Consulting Service, Inc. purchased SES 3.x.
January 2009 Paramount
Resources Ltd. purchased SES 3.x. EOG Resources,
Inc. (Canonsburg, PA and Tyler, TX Divisions)
purchased SES 3.x.
December 2008 With Chinese
interpretation from
Create
Energy Technology Ltd., five personnel from Liaohe Oilfield Logging Company (China) were
trained in Calgary to use all features of SES 3.x.
September 2008 EOG
Resources, Inc. (Ft Worth East Division)
purchased SES 3.x.
August 2008 AKG Energy
purchased SES 3.x. Revised SES
User Manual released, including 'Tips'
summaries at the end of each screen summary.
July 2008 Range Resources
Corporation
purchased SES 3.x. Liaohe Oilfield Logging Company
(China) purchased SES 3.x. All embedded
graphics in SES 3.x were reprogrammed with a
superior graphics object to provide enhanced
speed and mouse/user interactivity. Even more
embedded graphics were added, each with
zoom/scroll capability and a variety of
need-specific features. SES 3.5 became available
for download.
March 2008 First multi-division corporate license agreement was
executed with EOG
Resources, Inc. for SES use at four different
divisions in the USA and Canada. Revised SES
User Manual published. EOG Resources, Inc. purchased
formal SES training.
February 2008 Black Hills
E&P purchased SES 3.x.
January 2008 Extreme
licensing flexibility became available in SES
3.x (machine-specific, floating-network,
flash-drive, and magic-password).
December 11,
2007 "Technical Geosteering"
was presented at SPE's Computer Applications
Study Group meeting in Denver, Colorado.
Sandra Mark & Mike Stoner, Rocky Mountain
Section AAPG Meeting presentation, "Geo-Steering
Horizontal Wells: Case Studies Demonstrate the
Value of Fuzzy Logic Directional Steering
Guidance", Snowbird, UT, October 8th,
2007.
July
2007 SES 3.1 became available for
download.
June 2007 EOG Resources,
Inc.
(Oklahoma City Division) purchased SES 3.
March 2007 Nance Petroleum
(now, SM Energy Company) purchased SES
3.
February 2007 GeoScience
Limited purchased SES 3.
November
2006 SES 3.0 became available for
public download and trial, and monthly license
rentals started. Discussion about
technical geosteering with 3DStratBlocks and Relative
Stratigraphic Depth (RSD) were first published
here online.
Dr. Stoner presented a lecture
about technical geosteering to students at
Colorado School of Mines.
October 2006 Stoner Engineering LLC
attended the 8th Annual DAPL/RMAG/DGS/IPAMS/SPE
2006 Denver Prospect Fair & TechnoFest in
Denver, Colorado as an exhibitor.
August 2006 SES version 3.0
beta testing commenced.
January 2006
Programming development of SES version 3.0 began; to
integrate technical geosteering with THD and inaugural
commercial availability of the FDD controller
for real-time steering guidance.
November 2003 FDS version 1.1
was released.
July 2003 SES version 2.1
was released.
E&P Magazine article "Fuzzy Logic for Directional Steering," February
2003 --> pg 61 (COVER
listed). Click
here to download a similar paper in PDF format.
September 2000 Stoner Engineering
attended SPE ATCE in Dallas, Texas as an exhibitor.
August 2000 Patent 6,101,444
was granted
by USPTO to Michael S. Stoner. SES version 2.0
was released.
June 2000
Software product FDS (Friendly Drilling Software) version 1.0 was released.
February 2000 Software product SES (Stoner Engineering Software) version 1.0
was released.
Oil & Gas
Journal article "Deviation log, new formulae aids directional
drillers," August 9th, 1999
--> pg 64. Click
here
to download a similar paper in PDF format; was presented at an SPE Drilling Engineering Study
Group meeting in Denver, Colorado.
www.makinhole.com
was launched July, 1999
with information about THD
Technology.
Numerical Control
Unit for Wellbore Drilling.
Patent
6,101,444 filed August 21st, 1998. Abstract: "A
numerical control unit and method is provided for determining a change
in a positional setting in a downhole tool used to drill a wellbore, the
numerical control unit comprising a plurality of rules in an IF...THEN format
based on the current position of the wellbore and a
preferred position of the wellbore."
TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS
Click a link below for more information...
Geosteering Mechanics
- presents an introduction to Technical
Geosteering. Technical Geosteering
updates the planned path, which may affect THD and
directional steering guidance.
THD Logs -
explains a different way of presenting the directional well plan and associated
deviations experienced while drilling a directional
or horizontal well bore.
FDD Controller - Fuzzy
Logic meets directional/horizontal steering guidance for the first
time.
