Traditional desktop geosteering software helps geologists visualize the subsurface by trial and error. Try a structure, observe the log correlations, and adjust the structure until the correlations match.
FACTORDRIVE
Your geosteering second opinion
Factor Drive computes the most probable structure from your LWD gamma and surveys. It ranks the alternatives by probability and rechecks the well each time new data arrives by WITSML or email.
Get more infoCan your geosteering software generate hands-free reliable interpretations for days, without intervention, and notify you when the well trajectory veers off target?
Can it identify alternative interpretations and rank them?
Can it assist your directional decision by computing the “best bet” well path?
Factor Drive® can.
Compute better answers, automatically
Factor Drive calculates the best geologic structure fitting the data, and gives you confidence bounds on the answer. Drillers and geologists work with hard, reproducible numbers to make better well positioning decisions, faster.
While drilling, Factor Drive processes the LWD gamma and directional surveys. It uses a sophisticated, peer-reviewed algorithm to calculate the most probable geologic structure. Use it hands-free for automated geosteering, or let it guide your own interpretation.
High-resolution assisted geosteering
Factor Drive is tireless and meticulous. It develops geologic structure at scales much finer than people can interpret. It computes a “most likely” geologic structure, as well as a cloud of probabilities that describe confidence levels and alternatives. It’s not your бабушка’s geosteering software!
Works in challenging geology
Factor Drive computes reliable answers even in this faulted Eagle Ford shale project. It sorts out complex geology and presents you with reasonable choices. New data arriving near the bit can influence the interpretation all the way back up the lateral. Factor Drive recalculates the whole interpretation continuously while drilling proceeds.
Gives you options
Factor Drive shows you not only the most probable structure, but alternate, plausible interpretations you should evaluate. Arm yourself with complete understanding before you make a drilling decision.
Software as a service
Factor Drive works differently than manual, desktop geosteering software packages like ROGII StarSteer or Stoner SES. The computation requires high-performance computing and runs in the cloud. We deliver it as a subscription web service you run in your browser.
Real time and resteer
While drilling, Factor Drive computes incremental updates to the geosteering interpretation in seconds. And you can use it retrospectively to resteer wells. Because Factor Drive runs in the cloud, you can submit dozens or hundreds of resteers to compute at once, and have answers in minutes.
WITSML or email
Factor Drive takes live data from your vendor’s WITSML service or from the emails your MWD crew already sends.
Either way, operation is “hands-free”: Factor Drive updates all screens and notifies geologists if the wellbore is headed out of zone or has deviated from the drilling window you specify.
Award-winning technology
Factor Technology won the Most Promising award at the Rice Alliance Energy Technology Venture Forum, and the Rising Star award at the SPE Startup Competition.
Contact us to get more information about using Factor Drive in your company and to arrange a demo.
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