Highlights
Benefits
- Maps multiple beds at a seismic scale up to 150 feet (45.7 m) from the wellbore
- Provides enhanced azimuthal sensitivity for remote boundaries
- Predicts measurement responses and decision points
Applications
- Deepwater
- Complex, geology with channelized sands
- Horizontal and deviated wells
Overview
Overview
The VisiTrak™ geospatial reservoir navigation and analysis service lets you see more of your reservoir – a 360° view of the wellbore from up to 150 feet (45.7 m). You’ll know exactly where you are and where you need to go to build a better well.
Land your well more efficiently
With conventional logging-while-drilling (LWD) mapping and navigation technology, it’s possible to see only about 20 feet (6.10 m) away from the wellbore. Because the VisiTrak service can map the reservoir up to five times that distance in real time, drilling costly pilot holes to confirm the top and bottom of the reservoir isn’t necessary. Worrying about coming in too low or too high and spending unnecessary time steering back into the reservoir is eliminated, saving you time and money.
Find the sweet spot and stay in it longer
The navigation technology of VisiTrak’s extended range signal identifies and gathers reliable data, allowing immediate review and analysis. The data provide a real-time, 360° view of the wellbore, allowing you to not only see the target, but to drill straight to it and stay in it. The advanced navigation technology behind the VisiTrak service lets you identify the optimal producing zone and helps you avoid early exits – keeping you in the sweet spot longer.
Build a better long-term plan
The ability to see 150 feet into the reservoir to map approaching beds, boundaries, and pay zones reduces seismic uncertainly in real time, so you can design a completion and field management plan that maximizes long-term production potential.
Place your well in the most productive zone with precise, real-time reservoir mapping
The VisiTrak™ UHD high-definition geospatial navigation and mapping service was developed to address drilling horizontal and extended-reach wells in challenging geologically complex reservoirs. This geospatial reservoir navigation and mapping service delivers ultra-high-definition bed boundary detection—both distance and direction—and mapping at a depth of up to 200 ft (60.96 m) away from the wellbore under favorable conditions.
By providing a real-time, 360-degree view of the reservoir around the wellbore, the VisiTrak UHD service gives operators the necessary insights to optimize well placement in complex, productive formations while steering clear of nonproductive boundaries.
This UHD service combines advanced hardware and 3D software that enables geosteering, lookahead, and mapping capabilities for improved oil and gas production and recovery.
Contact Baker Hughes to learn how the VisiTrak UHD service can help you minimize drilling risk, improve reservoir navigation, and maximize production from your wells.