| September 2010 EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. purchased additional SES licenses. |
| August 2010 Programming development of SES v4.5 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 4 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 now 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. (Dallas Division) purchased formal SES training. EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. (Denver Division) purchased SES 4. Dr. Stoner presented a technical geosteering lecture 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 users manual was published. SES 4 was made easily compliant with Windows Vista (32-bit/64-bit). |
September 2009 EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. (Dallas Division) 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 for use at multiple divisions. |
| July 2009 EOG Resources, Inc. (International Group) purchased additional SES 3.x licenses. |
| June 2009 EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. (Dallas Division) 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 help 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 Users Manual released, including 'Tips' summaries at the end of each screen summary containing best of the best information from years of providing technical support. |
| 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 Users Manual released. 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. |
 | E&P Magazine article "Technical Geosteering Finds the Sweet Spot," November 2007 --> pg 71. Click here to download an identical paper in PDF format. |
| 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 general public download and trial. Discussion about technical geosteering with 3DStratBlocks and Relative Stratigraphic Depth (RSD) were first published here online. SES 3 rentals started. Dr. Stoner presented a technical geosteering lecture 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. |
| September 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 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. Click here to download a similar paper in PDF format. Click here for extra details about Figure 6. |
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. It's the second article listed on the COVER --> pg 64. Click here to download a similar paper in PDF format. This paper 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." |
