Recent company news ...

(to include formation testing, electromagnetics, rheology, MWD and other updates)

• StrataMagnetic Software, LLC has won four enviable Small Business Innovation Research Award grants from the United States Department of Energy, each carrying a stipend of $100,000 USD! About two hundred are awarded annually, covering high risk research areas in modern energy technology, e.g., nuclear physics, waste remediation, fuel cell development, fusion, and so on. All four awards covered important areas in modern well logging.

• Electromagnetic Explorer, Version 2.0, our fully three-dimensional e/m simulator for large coils in layered media for any dip angle and frequency, with and without metal mandrels, has been licensed by Geoservices S.A. Paris,China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) ,China Oilfield Services Ltd (COSL) and others. The model complements recent industry resistivity tool capabilities by its ability to "see" azimuthally as well as ahead, making it invaluable for modern geosteering and resistivity interpretation. Write us for complimentary copies of papers presented recently in China.

  

• StrataMagnetic Software has completed "flow assurance" modeling for Kellogg Brown & Root, a leading pipeline and offshore contractor. Thought non-Newtonian flow in pipelines was tough to model? What about pipe cross-sections that shrink asymetrically due to wax buildup and hydrate formation? Coupled temperature dependencies? Transient flow in time-dependent geometries? Yes, the real world.

  

• StrataMagnetic Software consults for companies newly entering the formation testing tool market. Technologies like those detailed in Formation Testing Pressure Transient and Contamination Analysis help to lower entry barriers to highly competitive markets ... a move which benefits customers. Now, whose dual probe tool is that below?

  

• Since publishing our first book Borehole Flow Modeling in Horizontal, Deviated and Vertical Wells in 1992, our rheological models - many dealing with highly eccentric annuli with moving inner boundaries - have helped dozens of companies worldwide clean wells and pump cement more efficiently ... write for further details and trial software!

  

• For example, a major rheology breakthrough for a major client ... get ready! Cement displaces mud during cementing jobs, hopefully. And now, the entire non-Newtonian transient flow process from drillpipe to highly eccentric annulus has been modeled for two-phase mixtures, for general pumping schedules, in the presence of axially reciprocating and rotating casing!. Important details like bypassed mixing zones, and transition zone thickness and formation time can be predicted, using high resolution "boundary-conforming, curvilinear mesh systems" in our advanced finite difference methods. Read more about the new methods in our August 2008 publications ... write for complimentary reprints!

  

• And we're introducing a new energy focus in primary and secondary school education. Mr. Chin, Member, Board of Directors and Program Committee, Harris County Education Foundation, is also a curriculum developer and chief multimedia architect for Aldine Independent School District, Houston, the second largest school district in Texas. A worthy cause, since children are society's best asset ...

  

• Finally, a great way to start the second half of 2008. The developer has designed low-torque mud sirens for high-data-rate MWD transmission and also high signal strength telemetry methods taking advantage of constructive wave interference in the past (the latter incurring no erosion or power penalties). Put the two together, "tweak" the system with bits of inspiration, and you'll get 20 "real" bits/sec without data compression ... a "game changing" proposition! And what's more ... our wave filters can remove desurger reflections and mudpump signatures from the noisiest signals ... we've processed information from S/N < 10% data streams. More exciting news to come, but write, if you can't wait!

• Meet Wilson C. Chin, Ph.D., MIT, who runs StrataMagnetic Software, now.

All e-mail inquiries welcome, at staff@stratamagnetic.com.

Contact the developer directly, at wilsonchin@aol.com.

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