Our company blog is regularly updated with fresh content, featuring insights drawn from best practices, hands-on experience, industry manuals, and expert opinions from seasoned professionals. If you’re interested in contributing a blog to our website, please fill out the form to get started!
We were deep into a long week of back-to-back cased hole logging jobs. The kind of week where the wireline truck barely gets a break, and the crew runs on muscle memory and good habits. The last well on the list was a high-temp perforation well—deep zone, heavy casing, hot formation. We’d loaded up with …
I remember my first perforation well. Not the formation, not the depth, not even the toolstring we ran—but I remember the way I felt walking up to a live gun for the first time. It wasn’t fear. It was respect. Because from the moment you work with explosives in this business, you learn that wireline …
You don’t really think about the collector—until it becomes the reason your job grinds to a halt. It’s one of those wireline components you trust will work, tucked neatly into the drum housing, doing its job as the wireline spins in and out of the well. That is, until it doesn’t. We were midway through …
There’s one sound no wireline engineer ever wants to hear—a sudden pop followed by silence. It’s the sound of a gunstring parting from the logging cable deep in a perforation well. I’ve been around long enough to know that in wireline logging, you don’t get many second chances. This wasn’t my job, but I was …
There’s a reason why I always say this job teaches you patience—and it’s not just because of the waiting. It’s because in the wireline business, success isn’t just about getting the guns downhole or logging data. It’s about doing it safely, predictably, and with the right tension at the right time. This is the story …
Some jobs stick with you—not because of what went wrong, but because of what had to go exactly right. This one wasn’t your typical wireline and perforating run. This was a full-blown TCP (Tubing Conveyed Perforation) operation where wireline logging simply couldn’t reach, and we had to adapt. It was a horizontal well, deep into …
There’s a moment in every wireline job when everything either comes together—or comes apart. On this particular cased hole wireline operation, it was a pumpdown job in a tight horizontal well, and it reminded me why wireline logging isn’t just a technical skill—it’s a discipline forged by precision, pressure, and practice. We were assigned a …
Some wireline jobs teach you about the well. Others teach you about yourself. But this one? It taught me the importance of knowing your tools inside and out—especially when those tools can make the difference between a successful perforation well and a dangerous misfire. We were gearing up for a standard cased hole logging run—wireline …
There’s something about the rhythm of a wireline job—the calm before arming the panel, the measured current readings, the sharp focus right before firing. You learn to trust your training, your team, and most importantly, your tools. This story takes me back to a cased hole logging operation where the Dyna and Multitronic systems reminded …
The crane isn’t the first thing most people think about when they talk wireline logging. Most attention goes to the logging cable, the perforating gun, or the downhole sensors used in formation evaluation. But if you’ve been out on enough cased hole logging jobs—especially in the high-stakes world of wireline and perforating—you know that without …
