PowerDrive Gyro

Better well placement

PowerDrive Gyro™ RSS and integrated gyro service improves confidence in wellbore positioning by placing the gyro measurement significantly closer to the bit than conventional survey solutions. This closer measurement location helps reduce uncertainty and provides a more accurate representation of the actual well trajectory.

Reduced uncertainty

By combining solid-state gyro technology with advanced survey processing, PowerDrive Gyro service delivers a smaller ellipse of uncertainty, allowing operators to drill with greater confidence in their well position and trajectory.

Simplified BHA

Integrating the gyro directly into the PowerDrive Gyro service architecture eliminates the need for additional survey assemblies, reducing BHA complexity while improving operational efficiency.

Enhanced field development

More accurate well positioning supports reservoir development strategies, anticollision management, and field planning decisions. Improved survey confidence helps operators maximize reservoir exposure and optimize field economics.

Digital survey assurance

Integrated digital workflows automate survey quality checks and support remote operations, providing consistent survey assurance and reducing the risk of positioning-related errors.

Improve well placement confidence with closer-to-bit gyro surveys that reduce uncertainty and improve quality.

• Wellbore positioning in high-value reservoir targets
• Reduced survey uncertainty and improved positional confidence
• Field development optimization and reservoir placement accuracy
• Anticollision management in crowded well environments
• Offshore and deepwater drilling applications
• Magnetically challenging drilling environments
• Integrated RSS gyro surveying
• Digital survey assurance workflows
• Precise sidetrack and reentry operations
• Extended-reach and complex well trajectories
• Survey QC and definitive positioning
• Remote drilling operations enabled by digital workflows

• Gyro integrated within the PowerDrive Gyro service receiver architecture
• Closest sensor-to-bit positioning for improved survey accuracy
• Simplified BHA with fewer survey components
• Reduced positional uncertainty through high-accuracy gyro measurements
• Smaller ellipse of uncertainty compared with conventional surveying methods
• Solid-state gyro technology engineered for harsh drilling environments
• Survey transmission through mud pulse, EM, or wired drillpipe telemetry
• AI-enabled survey QC
• Remote survey monitoring and support capability
• Digital survey workflow integration

PowerDrive Gyro service integrates gyro surveying into the receiver section, creating a compact drilling assembly that combines steering and survey functions. The system uses advanced solid-state gyroscope technology to generate high-accuracy inclination, azimuth, and toolface measurements. Survey data can be transmitted through mud pulse telemetry, EM telemetry, or wired drillpipe systems.

Built-in digital processing and automated QC continuously validate survey integrity, enabling consistent survey confidence and supporting remote drilling workflows.

PowerDrive Gyro service combines rotary steerable drilling performance with integrated gyro surveying to provide more confident well placement throughout the drilling process.

The integrated design places the gyro measurement closer to the bit, reducing survey uncertainty and improving positional confidence. With fewer BHA components and streamlined survey acquisition, operators can simplify drilling operations while maintaining high-quality survey data.

Improved positioning confidence helps teams make better drilling decisions, optimize well placement, and enhance overall field development outcomes.

Gyro-while-drilling tools at the BHA