Directional Drilling Survey for Mac OS X User Guide
Directional Drilling Survey for Mac OS X
User Guide
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iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad versions available at
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iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad versions available at
A few years ago, we searched for applications in the area of oil and gas for Mac OS X and not found. Then, we develop these applications and we would like to share with friends.
We would like to share our portfolio with very low cost applications to drillers, tool pushers, engineers, chemists, students and other professionals in the petroleum industry. These are productivity tools helpful in drilling of oil wells.
These apps are completely interactive and allow users to define a wide variety of parameters for oil wells and unit system, save data, share them with friends.
These Apps are available on the Mac App Store, only.
Well Control Methods![]() |
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Kick Tolerance |
*** Now available on the App Store ***
This application uses the worksheets based on standardized worksheets of the methods to control oil wells after the occurrence of kick during drilling operations on floating rigs with subsea stack and rigs with surface stack.
This app is great for use in the offices: Toolpusher, drilling engineer, company man, technicians, superintendent and OIM.
It can be used on the rig (offices) by drilling staff and also help in the understanding of the methods of well control.
Well Control Worksheets for Methods:
– Ability to import data from apps on iCloud to fill the worksheets:
Well Control Simulator iPhone | iPad |
Drilling Simulator iPhone | iPad |
Leak-Off Test Simulator iPhone | iPad |
Well Control Methods iPhone | iPad Mac OS X |
Kick Tolerance iPhone | iPad Mac OS X |
Drilling Hydraulics iPhone | iPad Mac OS X |
Importing data from Well Control Simulator
Tap on the Title of the frames to edit Parameters
*** Now available on the Mac App Store ***
This application uses the worksheets based on standardized worksheets of the methods to control oil wells after the occurrence of kick during drilling operations on floating rigs with subsea stack and rigs with surface stack.
This app is great for use in the offices: Toolpusher, drilling engineer, company man, technicians, superintendent and OIM.
It can be used on the rig (offices) by drilling staff and also help in the understanding of the methods of well control.
Well Control Worksheets for Methods:
New in this update:
Well Control Methods iPhone | iPad Mac OS X |
Kick Tolerance iPhone | iPad Mac OS X |
Drilling Hydraulics iPhone | iPad Mac OS X |
Well Control Simulator iPhone | iPad |
Drilling Simulator iPhone | iPad |
Leak-Off Test Simulator iPhone | iPad |
New screenshots:
*** Coming Soon ***
This application uses the worksheets based on standardized worksheets of the methods to control oil wells after the occurrence of kick during drilling operations on floating rigs with subsea stack and rigs with surface stack.
This app is great for use in the offices: Toolpusher, drilling engineer, company man, technicians, superintendent and OIM.
It can be used on the rig (offices) by drilling staff and also help in the understanding of the methods of well control.
Well Control Worksheets for Methods:
– Driller’s Method
– Wait and Weight Method
– Option to select “Subsea Stack” or “Surface Stack”
– Option to Select Unit Systems: METRIC, SI, IMPERIAL and MIX
– Selection of units also per parameter
– Printing and attachments with retina display
– Ability to use gestures
New in this update:
– Ability to import data from apps on iCloud to fill the worksheets:
Other screenshots from previous version
Now available on the App Store
Features:
Well Control Simulator Provides a graphical very useful tool for training of roughnecks, derrickmen, drillers, tool pushers, drilling engineers and students in the well control procedures.
– Interactive System: no pre-set methods;
– Ability to apply methods: Driller’s method, wait and weight, dynamic volumetric and static volumetric (lubricate and bleed);
– Capacities and Volumes;
– Hydraulics and Hydrostatics and critical pressures calculations;
– Behavior of the kick;
– Applied with subsea stack and surface stack;
Kick Model:
The model assumes that the kick starts as a single bubble and migrates upward as a single bubble from the bottom to the surface.
Notes:
New in this update 1.4:
New screenshots
Other screenshots
Driller’s Method:
Wait and Weight Method:
Now available
Features:
1) Panel with the following parameters: pump pressure, mud pump speed, strokes totalizer, flow rate, mud weight, bit depth, rotary speed, hookload and weight on the bit;
2) Instruments with pointers to the parameters: pump pressure, hookload, weight on the bit and rotary torque;
3) Geolograph with parameters: drillpipe pressure, choke pressure, active volume, hookload, weight on the bit, length drilled, flow in, flow out, percent of flow, rotary torque, rotary speed and drilling rate.
4) Panel with alarms: pump failure, vol high, flow high, bop failure, bop status and choke status;
5) Toolbar with buttons: Well Config, Circulation Options, Set Alarms, Graph Limits, X-times faster, Pause/Continue, Restart, Send by email, about;
6) set drillstring with drillpipe1, drillpipe2, heavy-weight, drillcollar1 and drillcollar2;
7) Select floating rig or land rig;
8) Select unit systems: International, field1 (imperial) and field2 (mix);
9) set fluid parameters: mud weight, plastic viscosity, yield point and initial gel;
10) Select rheological models: Power or Bingham;
11) Set gradients: absorption, fracture and temperature;
12) Set jet nozzles or fixed TFA;
13) Set choke parameters and BOP test pressure;
14) Set Surface circulation volume;
15) Set surface circulation equipments (mud pump and lines);
16) Set four formations to drilling (height, pore gradient, fluid density and sof/hard);
17) Save configuration to data files and share by iCloud;
18) Select circulation options: drillpipe -> Riser, Kill -> Riser, and Close BOP;
19) Set alarms: pit gain, flow rate out, max pump pressure and max pump power;
20) Register the kill line losses and pump pressure at the kill speed;
21) show the well with drillstring and the drillbit on rotating;
22) Show schematic of well with drillstring, kick and neutral point (%);
23) Adjust pump speed, weight on the bit and rotary speed to drilling until kick detection;
24) Shut-in the well using hard method;
25) Register shut-in drillpipe pressure (SIDPP) and choke pressure (SICP) and gain volume;
26) behavior of the kick: keeping the well closed and keeping the well opened;
27) Simulations: Drilling, Kick detection, Shut-In, Underground Blowout at shoe and blowout with failure of bop;
28) Capacities and Volumes calculations;
29) Hydrostatic and critical pressures calculations;
30) Hydraulics calculations;
Note: This Drilling Simulator NOT allows to control the well after the kick detection and shut-in. The simulation ends after the simulations of underground blowout and blowout to surface.
Notes:
New in this update:
Other Screenshots (Current versions)
Screenshot on iPhone 4
The following screenshots were taken on iPod 5th gen (iPhone 5 larger display)
Drill, detect kick, close the well and wait for stabilization of the pressures:
Screenshot in real size on iPod Touch 5th gen (640×1136)
Import by iCloud from the app “Well Control Simulator” to control:
Well Control Simulator for iPhone (new version 1.2)
Well Control for iPad (new version 1.2)
Other Screenshots of the Drilling Simulator
Now available

Features:
1) Panel with the following parameters: pump pressure, mud pump speed, strokes totalizer, flow rate, mud weight, bit depth, rotary speed, hookload and weight on the bit;
2) Instruments with pointers to the parameters: pump pressure, hookload, weight on the bit and rotary torque;
3) Geolograph with parameters: drillpipe pressure, choke pressure, active volume, hookload, weight on the bit, length drilled, flow in, flow out, percent of flow, rotary torque, rotary speed and drilling rate.
4) Panel with alarms: pump failure, vol high, flow high, bop failure, bop status and choke status;
5) Toolbar with buttons: Well Config, Circulation Options, Set Alarms, Graph Limits, X-times faster, Pause/Continue, Restart, Send by email, about;
6) set drillstring with drillpipe1, drillpipe2, heavy-weight, drillcollar1 and drillcollar2;
7) Select floating rig or land rig;
8) Select unit systems: International, field1 (imperial) and field2 (mix);
9) set fluid parameters: mud weight, plastic viscosity, yield point and initial gel;
10) Select rheological models: Power or Bingham;
11) Set gradients: absorption, fracture and temperature;
12) Set jet nozzles or fixed TFA;
13) Set choke parameters and BOP test pressure;
14) Set Surface circulation volume;
15) Set surface circulation equipments (mud pump and lines);
16) Set four formations to drilling (height, pore gradient, fluid density and sof/hard);
17) Save configuration to data files and share by iCloud;
18) Select circulation options: drillpipe -> Riser, Kill -> Riser, and Close BOP;
19) Set alarms: pit gain, flow rate out, max pump pressure and max pump power;
20) Register the kill line losses and pump pressure at the kill speed;
21) show the well with drillstring and the drillbit on rotating;
22) Show schematic of well with drillstring, kick and neutral point (%);
23) Adjust pump speed, weight on the bit and rotary speed to drilling until kick detection;
24) Shut-in the well using hard method;
25) Register shut-in drillpipe pressure (SIDPP) and choke pressure (SICP) and gain volume;
26) behavior of the kick: keeping the well closed and keeping the well opened;
27) Simulations: Drilling, Kick detection, Shut-In, Underground Blowout at shoe and blowout with failure of bop;
28) Capacities and Volumes calculations;
29) Hydrostatic and critical pressures calculations;
30) Hydraulics calculations;
Note: This Drilling Simulator NOT allows to control the well after the kick detection and shut-in. The simulation ends after the simulations of underground blowout and blowout to surface.
Notes:
New in this update 1.5:
New Screenshots (version 1.5)
Drill, detect kick, close the well and wait for stabilization of the pressures:
Import by iCloud from the app “Well Control Simulator” to control:
Well Control for iPad (new version 1.2)
Other Screenshots of the Drilling Simulator





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Version 3.0 now available on the App Store

Current Versions
| for iPhone | for iPad | for Mac |
| User Guide (html) | User Guide (html) |
Others software on the App Store
– Bug Fixes

for Mac OS X 3.0
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