SDI is dedicated to its employees, without whom, none of these would have been achieved. The latest highlight from Scientific Drilling takes us off the oil and gas fairway into metropolitan Los Angeles. Scientific Drilling International (SDI) was formed! With his guidance, the company would grow immensely and prosper, continuing to deliver cutting edge technology to the industry.įast forward to 2017, and SDI, under strong leadership, has a vision “to become the ultimate partner in wellbore placement and productivity around the world.” It continues to produce innovative and robust technologies that deliver the ultimate value in accuracy, living up to the founder’s dream. Oil & Gas Transmission Pipeline Construction, Water Distribution Construction, and Sewer Line Construction. In 1986, Don van Steenwyk, a World War 2 veteran (Navy) and electronics engineer, owner of California based Applied Technologies Associates (ATA), acquired SDC to be the execution arm of his engineering designs and concepts in wellbore navigation and real-time communications while drilling. Challenger Drilling, Inc., a Texas corporation founded in 1998, specializes in providing quality Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) services to a variety of markets, including but not limited to. Building upon its earliest triumphs, in 1977 SDC introduced the world’s first surface readout gyro (SRG) tool, then in the 1980s, launched directional drilling and specialized north seeking gyros. Murray soon introduced the world’s first downhole electronic steering tool (called “the Eye”) to enable directional drillers to accurately orient downhole motors to deviate wellbores. Aptly, he named the company Scientific Drilling Controls (SDC). He wanted to use the latest scientific drilling practices and navigation solutions to help oil and gas producers, miners, and geothermal companies plumb this planet’s depths for new reserves. In 1969, James Murray, an engineer living in Houston, TX launched a technology company. When the phrase “Scientific Drilling” was coined, sometime after World War II, it conjured up the notion that independent scientists could probe the earth’s depths to learn more about the nature of this planet and how its resources developed.

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