Wireline Product Development

Since it was founded over 30 years ago, Sondex has developed its own unique technology to provide solutions at the forefront of downhole innovation.

Our Product Design and Development programme is coordinated by Project Managers with practical oilfield experience, within a skills-based organisational structure. In this way technically excellent and coherent tool architecture can be maintained within products which are perfectly aligned to each field requirement.

Developments are conducted in line with ISO9001 principles, including full verification and validation design reviews. The release of finished designs, and subsequent modifications, is carefully controlled through a secure engineering database.

Project Management Group
Experienced ex-Wireline Engineers control the overall engineering programme, as well as individual projects. This team is supplemented with technical authors who ensure that designs are fully documented both for the field and for manufacturing assembly and test.

Mechanical Design Group
This Group includes highly qualified engineers, designers and draftsmen. The department uses Solidworks 3D Computer Aided Design, with simulation modelling capability. A simultaneous engineering approach ensures that designs are optimised for the manufacturing process.

Electronic Design Group
This group is the powerhouse for the wide range of instrumentation requirements inside Sondex tools, including special projects for individual customers, and downhole memory units for slickline logging.

Sensor Design Group
Key developments are conducted, often involving mathematical modelling and sensor physics. Significant work carried out recently includes downhole signal processing for Ultrasonic and Magnetic sensors, and the surface processing algorithms used in our telemetry system.

Software and Systems Group
Acquisition and post-processing software forms an increasingly important part of any measurement technology. An expert group develops and maintains our capabilities, including the software to support both surface data acquisition and downhole memory logging. Products developed include Memlog, MITView and MITPro.