News and Events

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.

Don’t miss meeting Mount Sopris Instruments and ALT at the 2019 Fall Symposium for the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) and the Denver Well Logging Society (DWLS). The Symposium will be held on October 22nd and will focus on Multiscale Imaging for Reservoir Optimization through a wide range of insightful talks from industry leaders.