50 Years of Service

A handful of men in 1958, a business of almost 5,000 people in 2008; the history of Geoservices over this half-century is not just one of quantitative growth. It is also the history of the birth and progressive development of a new service - Mud Logging. In the 1950s, all the prestige lay with the drillers. The wellsite ‘geological technicians’ were considered hardly more than ‘sample catchers’, who recovered rock cuttings from the drilling mud and drew up elementary logs by hand. There was no specific training for a service that had not yet been defined. Geoservices would introduce it, establish its pedigree, develop its technologies and organise training for it. Today, with the FLAIR service, a Geoservices engineer can be the first person to advise oil companies on the fluid composition of a newly discovered reservoir.

Between these two points lies the whole history of a group of talented engineers who were the first to introduce computers onto the wellsite for mud logging, who faced up to the “digital revolution” and sometimes trained its other oilfield users; who represented one of the first service companies to have a role in the whole life of a well, from exploration to production. Now working in three areas: Mud Logging, Well Intervention (slickline) and Field Surveillance, Geoservices is today recognised by the world’s major oil & gas producers for the fundamental contribution its services make to their exploration and production processes.

For more details on Geoservices company history, see the History section..
View “A Memorable Half-century” the book printed in 2008 to commemorate Geoservices 50 years of existence.