News and Events

The QL43-ABI Acoustic Borehole Imager has the same technology as the QL40-ABI-2G providing fantastic acoustic images of the borehole wall. The greatest advantage of the QL43-ABI is that it has much higher temperature and pressure ratings than the standard QL40 version, as well as it’s high resolution Casing Integrity measurements

We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Axis Mining Technology to provide sales and support for their product line of gyros within the United States! Gyros are the preferable tool to map the azimuth and inclination of the borehole within magnetic geologic environments or steel casing. The line of Axis products on offer include the Champ Gyro, Champ Navigator, and many others.

For the month of March 2020, the Wireline Workshop dug deep into the theory of nuclear interactions that allow loggers to use radioactive sources for borehole investigations. The following is a brief overview of some of the informative topics covered this this months’ Wireline Bulletin, including source-detector spacing, interesting optical televiewer imagery, and the science behind the density measurement.

Mount Sopris and ALT partner with AGT Systems Ltd. to sell and support our borehole logging equipment and WellCAD petrophysical software in Russia, Kazakhstan, and other nearby countries.

With your WellCAD Support & Maintenance Plan, you get free access to high-quality, timely support from technical experts at Mount Sopris and ALT as well as quarterly upgrades to new program versions. If you purchase or upgrade a license 6 weeks before the release of a new version, you will automatically be upgraded to the newest version when its released!

Mount Sopris Instruments geophysicist Lia Martinez recently visited our customer First Quantum Copper Panama, also known as Cobre Panama, for a training. First Quantum Panama is one of the largest copper deposits being developed worldwide within the past decade. The geotechnical greenfield group had recently purchased a set of Optical and Acoustic Televiewers.

With the release of WellCAD 5.4 right around the corner, let’s look back at the features and improvements from previous versions. In WellCAD 5.2 and WellCAD 5.3, ALT introduced several new modules, improved the Image & Structure Interpretation (ISI) Workspace and CoreCAD functionality, and added numerous enhancements to the basic WellCAD module.

The Covid-19 pandemic is quickly changing the way Mount Sopris Instruments can do business in a global economy. The following updates are based on new “shelter in place” regulations recently announced by the Mayor of Denver.