The next DD should not have to rebuild the well.
Hand over the survey, projection, plan, current BHA response, recent slides, rotary tendency, and the next thing that needs watching.
Read the field note →Field Notes from the Directional Chair
This is directional drilling from the chair—not from a conference room.
What the well is doing, what the BHA is doing, where the bit should be, what changed on the last tour, and what the office needs to know in the morning.
Steven Startz
I write about the problems I’ve actually had to solve.
I’ve spent more than 29 years in drilling and roughly 21 in directional work. IronSuit grew out of running wells, troubleshooting BHA response, handing over tours, and getting the damn reports out when the office needed them.
29+ years drilling
~21 years directional
IronSuit creator
Field-first review
Four problems worth solving
These are the places where a directional job starts coming apart.
Tour change, string mechanics, geosteering, and morning reporting. Get these right and the whole job runs cleaner.
Review torque, drag, tension, compression, and buckling together.
One surface number does not describe the whole string. Review the string section by section and keep the inputs beside the result.
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Use the right offsets without losing the current well.
Show how this well compares to the wells that actually help explain dip, strike, gamma, or BHA response.
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The morning report should not take half the morning.
Build it from the job you already worked: surveys, projection, BHA, activity, costs, tickets, and the directional summary.
Read the field note →The editorial standard
Say what the well did. Show what the software does.
These notes come from directional work: what changes between surveys, what the BHA is actually doing, what the next DD needs at tour change, and what the office needs in the morning.
Bring the field problem
Show me the part that keeps breaking down.
Tour change, mechanics, geosteering, or morning reporting—put it on the screen and let’s work through it.