| March 2008 First multi-division corporate license agreement is signed between Stoner Engineering LLC and EOG Resources, Inc., for SES use at four different divisions in the USA and Canada. |
| February 2008 Black Hills E&P purchased SES 3.x after renting for multiple months. |
| 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" presentation 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 (Oklahoma City Division) purchased SES 3.x. |
| March 2007 Nance Petroleum (now, St Mary Land & Exploration) purchased SES 3.x after renting for multiple months. |
| February 2007 GeoScience Limited purchased SES 3.x. |
| January 2007 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. |
| 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. Stoner Engineering became Stoner Engineering LLC. |
| 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. FDS required more than 10,000 lines of code. |
February 2000 software product SES (Stoner Engineering Software) version 1.0 was released. SES required more than 8000 lines of code. |
| | 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." |
