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PRESS EVENTS & TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS

 

PRESS EVENTS

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.

Technical GeosteeringE&P Magazine article "Technical Geosteering Finds the Sweet Spot," November 2007 --> pg 71.

Geo-Steering Horizontal Wells: Case Studies Demonstrate the Value of Fuzzy Logic Directional Steering GuidanceSandra 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.

Introducing SES 3.1 PresentationSeptember 2006 Stoner Engineering LLC attended SPE ATCE in San Antonio, Texas as an exhibitor; SPE Exhibitor Showcase presentation.

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.

Fuzzy Logic for Directional SteeringE&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.

Deviation log, new formulae aids directional drillersOil & 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 DrillingNumerical 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...

  1. Geosteering Mechanics - presents an introduction to Technical Geosteering. Technical Geosteering updates the planned path, which may affect THD and directional steering guidance.

  2. Technical Hole Deviation (THD) - presents an introduction to THD, including the equations and reasons for inventing it.

  3. THD Logs - explains a different way of presenting the directional well plan and associated deviations experienced while drilling a directional or horizontal well bore.

  4. FDD Controller - Fuzzy Logic meets directional/horizontal steering guidance for the first time.

  5. GLOSSARY of terms related to THD Technology.

 

   
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