Every metre, measured.

Instrumentation and MWD/LWD systems that measure and log drilling data, from the rig floor to the bit.

Depth Tracker

A standalone, plug-and-play system built to run 24/7 in harsh drilling environments. It reads the drawworks encoder and hookload sensor, then displays, trends and logs your drilling data in real time, and keeps the history.

Nothing else is needed to run it. The Remote Unit on the rig sends data over its own wireless network, or a cable, to a laptop, tablet or touchscreen PC on the rig floor, in the doghouse or in the rig office, and you can add more stations.

The Depth Tracker kit on a table: the yellow Remote Unit case with AC power, slips, hookload and encoder connectors, a black host case with a built-in touchscreen, the hookload sensor, the drawworks encoder, and sensor cables with blue connectors.

What it measures

Depth: Block height
Bit depth
Hole depth
Speed: Rate of penetration (ROP)
Tripping in and out velocity
Weight: Hookload
Weight on bit (WOB)
Slips: Slips in and out, with automatic or manual detection
Optional: Rotary table RPM
Mud pump SPM and flow rate
Spare configurable 4–20 mA inputs

The software

These are real screens from the Depth Tracker software. It was built, and keeps being improved, with feedback from drilling engineers and operators.

Data logging
Real-time trends
3D ROP graph
Straightforward block calibration, with one-touch re-calibration
Sensor disconnect alarm
Animated block travel and a rotating bit while drilling
WITS output over RS232 and TCP

Main screen while drilling. Readouts across the top show block height 12.82 m, ROP 3.75 m/min, bit depth and hole depth 102.09 m, hookload 37,690 lb, WOB 11,100 lb and slips out. Below is a time-stamped log table. On the left are an animated derrick, the wellbore with the bit on bottom, and an ROP-against-depth track.

Meters screen with nine large readouts: block height, pipe velocity, total weight, bit depth, ROP, hookload, hole depth, slips and status, and WOB.

The hardware

The Remote Unit reads its sensors through intrinsically safe barriers and keeps its calibration if the rig loses power.

Remote Unit. Rugged IP67 case for the rig side.
Inside the Remote Unit. Sensor signals pass through intrinsically safe barriers.
Drawworks encoder.
Hookload sensor.

Specifications

Rigmatic Depth Tracking System (DTS)
Remote Unit, drilling rig side
Controller	Xilinx FPGA with a 667 MHz dual-core real-time embedded controller
Sensor inputs	Through intrinsically safe barriers
Link to host	Long-range wireless on a dedicated network, or wired
Duty	Runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Keeps its calibration if the rig loses power.
Enclosure	Ruggedized, IP67
Operating temperature	−40 °C to 70 °C
Power	100–240 V, 50/60 Hz
Host Unit, doghouse or rig office side
Option 1	Laptop or tablet with the GUI pre-installed, for monitoring, trending, logging, block calibration and WITS output. Calibrate the block on the rig floor, up to 10 ft from the rotary table.
Option 2	Built-in touchscreen PC with full functionality and two onboard RS232 serial ports for WITS
More stations	Add PCs as needed. Each connects to the Remote Unit, wirelessly or by cable.
Sensors and output
Sensors	Drawworks encoder, hookload sensor
Optional sensors	Rotary table RPM sensor, mud pump stroke sensors, and pressure, level, flow and temperature sensors
Data output	WITS over RS232 to third-party PCs, and WITS over TCP to the MWD/LWD PC, the RFD and third-party PCs

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How the Depth Tracker works

The Remote Unit sits on the rig floor, as close as 10 feet from the rotary table, and reads the sensors. It sends the data over long-range wireless or a cable to one or more host stations on the rig floor, in the doghouse or in the rig office, which display, trend and log it.

Host Unit

Operator stations, for the rig floor, doghouse or rig office

Laptop, tablet or touchscreen PC. Add as many as you need.

Long-range wireless or wired

Remote Unit

Data acquisition, for the drilling rig side

Reads the hookload sensor and drawworks encoder.

Sensor cables

Sensors setup

Optional sensors and cables

Rotary table RPM sensor
Mud pump stroke sensor
Pressure, level, flow and temperature sensors

WITS goes out over RS232 to third-party PCs, and over TCP to the MWD/LWD PC, the RFD and third-party PCs.

Rigmatic Telemetry

New release

MWD/LWD software for the rig and the office: gamma, surveys, drilling dynamics and alarms. It takes in data from the downhole tool’s decoder and the rig’s EDR, puts every reading at the right depth and shows it live. Then it produces the log, the reports and the LAS files the client is paying for.

It is one Windows program. There is no server to set up: the data pipeline runs inside the window you are looking at.

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Takes it in
From the MWD decoder, the rig’s EDR, a WITSML store or a captured file, over serial, TCP or UDP, as WITS0, JSON or CSV.
Puts it at depth
Readings arrive with a time; the log needs a depth. Sensor offsets come from the tool string you build, not a number you type.
Shows it
Live dashboards, the gamma log, surveys, the wellbore in 3D and alarms, plus a full-screen display for the rig floor.
Delivers it
The printed log, the reports, LAS and CSV files and the end-of-well package, on your company’s letterhead.

See when the hole leaves the plan

Import the directional company’s plan from CSV, text or Excel. Every survey station then shows how far the hole is from it, high or low and left or right, and the page gives a verdict with the tolerance beside it: in window, off plan, or past the end of the plan.

Minimum curvature from every station, recalculated when any station is edited
Surveys filed at the directional sensor’s depth, not the bit’s
A survey report with plan view and vertical section at equal scale

Trajectory tab in 3D, zoomed in on the lateral. The hole rises above the dashed plan line after the landing point and stays above it out to the bit at 3,600 m MD. — Survey page, Trajectory and Surveys tabs. The plan is the dashed orange line.

Trajectory tab looking straight down, zoomed in on the lateral. The hole runs south-east beside the dashed plan line, to its right, and the gap widens toward the bit at 3,600 m MD. — Survey page, Trajectory and Surveys tabs. The plan is the dashed orange line.

The software, page by page

Dashboard in the Company Man layout: hole and bit depth 3,606.05 m, ROP 46.76 m/hr, out of slips, a strip of WOB, hookload, standpipe pressure, flow out, RPM and active pit volume, then ROP and gamma charts. The band at the bottom reads Drilling, On bottom, with the run’s gamma statistics. — Live tiles in four standard layouts or your own. The band at the bottom shows whether readings are reaching the log.

Dashboard in the Geologist layout: bit and hole depth 3,607.90 m, gamma 20.8 API, ROP 47.74 m/hr, a large chart of the last 300 gamma samples, and drilling parameters below. — Live tiles in four standard layouts or your own. The band at the bottom shows whether readings are reaching the log.

Log page from 2,900 to 3,600 m with tracks for depth, gamma, lithology, picks and ROP. Gamma jumps between about 3,005 and 3,100 m, where the picks read Out of zone and Back in zone. — Gamma beside lithology, picks and ROP on a true depth scale. Draw another run, or an offset well, over the same tracks.

Log page with the Compare menu open, offering Run 1 and Run 2 of this well and a second open well, KHOR MAZAN 11H, to draw over the log, each in its own colour. — Gamma beside lithology, picks and ROP on a true depth scale. Draw another run, or an offset well, over the same tracks.

The rig floor display: gamma 21.9 API, ROP 40.05 m/hr, WOB 6.8 kdaN and RPM 153 in large white numbers on black, bit depth 3,612.74 m, and Drilling, On bottom, On depth along the bottom. — What the driller sees on a second monitor: up to six readings, each as large as the screen allows.

Part of the drilling dynamics page: lateral shock, axial shock, stick-slip, downhole RPM, annular and borehole pressure and downhole temperature, each with its reading, its state, a recent trace and its limits. — Shock, stick-slip, downhole RPM, pressure and temperature, against the limits you set.

Part of the alarms page: limits for downhole temperature, lateral shock and stick-slip, all in limits, and this bit run’s breaches: warning and critical lateral shock and a stick-slip warning, each with the worst reading, its depth, the time and how long it lasted. — Warning and critical limits per channel, with a deadband and a minimum duration, and every breach on the run.

First sheet of a daily drilling report on a service company’s letterhead: well details, then the period with depth at start 2,764.3 m, depth at end 3,421.9 m, footage 657.6 m, 17 h 11 m on bottom and average ROP 38.3 m/hr, the bit run, formation picks and the surveys taken. — Each report is saved as PDF, HTML or CSV, on your letterhead. The end-of-well package links them all from one contents page.

First sheet of a bit run summary for Run 3, an 8½-inch lateral: bit, motor, depth in 2,280 m and out 3,600 m, gamma and directional sensor offsets, footage 1,320.3 m, 29 h 10 m on bottom, average ROP 45.3 m/hr, gamma over the interval and the seven-part tool string. — Each report is saved as PDF, HTML or CSV, on your letterhead. The end-of-well package links them all from one contents page.

It does not guess

A job will not start on a feed that has never delivered a byte.
Gaps in the telemetry are drawn as gaps, not as straight lines.
A stale value is held back from the EDR, not repeated as current.
No alarm limits ship with it. The ones you set are the only ones it uses.

Everything in one program

Set up and support

The well, its bit runs, the tool string and the depth references
Every incoming connection, with its uptime and last frame
Units, the alarm sound, and backups to a folder you choose
Raw packets as they arrive, and a recording of the session for support

Watch

Live readings as tiles, in a standard layout or your own
A full-screen display for a second monitor on the rig floor
Warning and critical limits, an alarm sound, and every breach
Shock, stick-slip, pressure and temperature: what the tool has been through

Interpret

The gamma log beside drilling tracks, with corrections and memory merge
Survey stations, the wellbore in 3D, and the plan
Formation tops, markers and notes

Deliver

Daily, bit run, survey, tool performance and end-of-well reports
WITS to the EDR, WITSML files and timed exports
A live link from the rig to the office

What comes out

The log and the paperwork are what the client pays for. Every document in a package is built from one snapshot of the job, so no two can disagree about the depth of the well.

LAS: LAS 2.0, one file per bit run, with any corrections listed in the file
PDF: The log at a true 1:200, 1:500 or 1:1000, and every report. You see the sheet count before you print.
CSV: Each bit run, and a data appendix with one file per table
JSON: The logged curves, with the run’s survey stations
WITSML: Log and trajectory documents, written to a folder
WITS: Gamma, surveys and toolface sent live to the rig’s EDR, so they reach the company man’s screen

The end-of-well package is a folder, not a zip: a contents page linking every report, the log print and the LAS files, ready for a memory stick or an email.

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BHA Data Logger

A self-contained logger that runs in the bottom hole assembly and records torque and weight on bit, time-stamped, through the whole run. Nothing is connected at surface while it is in the hole.

Set it up from a Windows PC before the run. When the tool comes out, connect it again and download the run as a CSV.

Records: Torque and weight on bit, with date and time
Interval: 1 s by default; 5 s, 10 s or 60 s for long runs
Logs when: Torque or WOB passes the threshold you set, so near-zero noise stays out of the file
Storage: SD card. A 200-hour run at 1 s is about 720,000 rows, roughly 25 MB.
Power loss: Keeps its calibration, thresholds and active job file
Software: One Windows program, nothing to install. Works offline once activated.

BHA Data Logger software, not yet connected: a connection panel with port, Sync RTC and Flash Firmware buttons, a live readout for date, time, torque, WOB and temperature with a 1 s interval, torque and WOB thresholds, separate calibration for torque and WOB, a file manager showing the active log LOG.CSV, and an empty session log table. — The logger software, waiting for a tool to connect.

Before the run

Sync the logger’s clock to the PC with one click.
Zero both sensors, then calibrate torque and WOB against a known mass.
Set the logging thresholds and interval.
Start a new job file for the run.

After the run

Connect the logger over USB.
Download the run as a CSV.
Open it in Excel or your own analysis tools.

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Engineering services

The team behind the Depth Tracker also takes on custom work.

Software design
Systems integration
PLC, HMI and SCADA
Control panel design

Contact us

Tell us about your rig and what you need to measure. We answer quotes, questions and support requests.

Sales and general questions: info@rigmatic.com
Support: support@rigmatic.com
Phone: +1 403-689-5551
Address: Rigmatic Measurements Inc.
Calgary, Alberta
Canada