"Considering the well, everything went fine after the emails we exchanged at the start of the phase when we had some concern. 13.5 PPG was perfect for drilling at high angle. Furthermore the well turned out to be a great producer after testing. So... champagne!"

Maurizio Grandi
Well Operations Manager
Agip Oil Ecuador B. V.

"The Mad Dog Wells Team has undertaken the task of developing a very complex graben structure in southern Green Canyon. The distillation of geologic information by GMI has greatly aided us in delivering our goals and better understanding the risks. The GMI Team has delivered accurate and timely information every time."

Louis Romo
Drilling Engineer - Mad Dog Wells Team
BP America Inc.

“As a result of the tremendous work done by GMI, we have a much better understanding of the shale stability problems we face in the Cleveland horizontal drilling program in the Anadarko Basin. Thanks to GMI's thorough analysis, we are confident that we can mitigate the risks to a successful drilling program.”

Ron L. Brogdon
Senior Geologist
BP Exploration Operating Company

“This was the twin to our well in Terrebonne Parish , LA where we had a large amount of shale breakouts. To make a long story short, we followed the GMI recommended mud weight curve and ended up with a near perfect gauge hole. The follow-up cement bond log also showed excellent results.”

Larry W. Berkovsky
Burlington Resources

“In all my dealings with GeoMechanics International, I have received substantive, insightful, practical and timely answers to all the questions that I have asked.”

Joseph P. Vogt
Texaco E&P Technology

“The drilling environment in Colombia is the most challenging ever faced by BP Exploration. GMI's experience in structural geology, borehole image log interpretation and analysis, and software capabilities using the borehole stability code SFIB proved insightful in helping to resolve many of the borehole instability problems experienced.”

Dr. Stephen M. Willson
BP Exploration Operating Company

"We decided not to drill the well with severely depleted sands as a result of the large risk highlighted in the geomechanical study. The GMI team did great work in a short time frame that saved us an untold millions of dollars."

Eric Vosburgh
Sr. Petrophysicist
Unocal

"GMI's combined theoretical and practical approach helped us to drill our Deepwater development with no borehole stability problems. Their work is of the highest quality."

Simon Zoller, Drilling Superintendent - Enterprise Oil, Brazil

“For the past 8 years or so, GMI has been BP's ‘vendor of choice' when requiring wellbore stability and geomechanics consulting services and has provided technical wellbore stability support to all areas of BP's drilling activities worldwide.”

Dr. Stephen M. Willson
BP Exploration & Production Technology Group

“GMI are adding significant value to our projects. We would like to get GMI involved even earlier in the process and are considering forging an even closer relationship by placing a GMI specialist in our offices.”

Jon Rowse
Oil Search Ltd.

"Utilizing the results of GMI's study in Ecuador led to the modification of AEC's development well design, resulting in much improved drilling performance and significant cost savings."

Charle Gamba
Occidental Petroleum Corporation

“I was very much involved in that course because we were having problems at West Delta 109 at the time. After taking the course we saw the value in GMI doing a study for us at WD 109, and it enabled us to accomplish our drilling objectives by re-orienting our wells in the proper azimuth.

Since then, you guys have also done work for me here at Goodrich. We did an extensive study on our S/L 17203 "Tunney" well in our Burrwood/WD 83 field. That well was also drilled successfully.

You guys are batting a thousand."

Jim B. Davis
Sr. V.P. - Engr & Ops
Goodrich Petroleum Corp.