2025 10 25 Profiles of Courage - Colten Wilson MWD

 Oct 25, 2024

This morning, Friday, October 25, 2024, 6:00 am MST, we are drilling at 9,877’ TD, 25 fph. We made 400‘, averaging 17 fph (2 fph min, 30 fph max). P rates decreased from yesterday. We had a change in rock type and/or geology that caused the bit to start dropping angle. Corrective measures decrease our P rate and slow us down. Still, have to fight Green Mountain to maintain the desired trajectory.
 
Today’s video focuses on one of the Measurement While Drilling (“MWD”) Technicians, Mr. Colten Wilson actually works in the same trailer as yesterday's video interviewee Directional Driller Jeremy Cunningham with APS Technologies.

Colten’s downhole tools record and transmit downhole drilling data from the bit to the surface. This data is then relayed to Jeremy who makes a decision on what parameters to adjust to maintain the desired bit trajectory. Colten describes these tools and their function in detail in the video. This data is transmitted up the mud column inside the drill pipe using a series of positive and negative mud pulses. These mud pressure pulses are converted into 1’^s and 0’^s, a form of binary computer language that computers can decode at the surface. Messages in letters and numbers are converted to 1’s and 0’s and sent in one long data chain as shown below. Interesting stuff!! See the images below.