Questions and answers
What Touchdown is, what it does and how it is sold, in plain words.
What is Touchdown?
Touchdown is well planning, casing design and directional drilling software. It plans the well, checks the casing, sets lease and hard lines off the surface plat, shows the whole pad in 3D, runs anti-collision, prints plan sheets and wall plots, and puts the next stand on the directional driller's phone.
Who is Touchdown for?
Operators who want to check the plans and casing programs they are sent, directional drilling companies who plan and steer wells, drilling engineers, consultants, and anyone else who plans a well or has to check one.
Does Touchdown do casing design?
Yes. Each hole section carries its casing string. Touchdown checks every string for burst, collapse, tension and triaxial load by depth against the design factors you set, draws the strings to scale in 3D along the well's own path, and prints a casing report. It is an engineering check for your review, not a certified design.
Does Touchdown do anti-collision?
Yes. It works out separation factors against every loaded offset well on the ISCWSA error model, with a ladder plot, a travelling cylinder plot and an anti-collision report. Use it alongside your own anti-collision process, not as the only check.
Can Touchdown read a surface plat and set lease lines?
Yes. Drag the surface plat onto the well as a PDF, a TIFF, a Word file or a DWG. Touchdown reads the surface location, the targets, the lease corners and the footage calls, places the lease, and lets you draw or correct it by hand on the plat. You can set a hard line on any lease shape. Always check the lease and hard lines against the plat.
What calculation methods does Touchdown use?
Minimum curvature for plans and surveys, and the ISCWSA error model for position uncertainty and separation factors. Every release is checked against the public ISCWSA test wells, error model workbooks and clearance set, and a failed check stops the release.
Can I plan a well from a sentence?
Yes. Type the plan the way you would say it, for example "Land at 9,000 ft TVD with a 10 degree per 100 curve, 9,500 ft lateral at 346 degrees". Touchdown shows what it understood and what is still missing before it draws the plan.
What do the printed plans look like?
Wall plots and plan sheets come out in the layout that COMPASS and Well Seeker users recognise: vertical section, plan view, target and section tables, north arrow and magnetic box. Wall plots print true to scale at 24 x 36 in and 36 x 48 in. Plan sheets print on Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A4 and A3.
Does Touchdown work on the rig and on a phone?
Yes. Touchdown is installed software for Windows and Mac, with a phone app for the rig. On the phone the directional driller sees the next stand, enters surveys and sends the slide instruction. It keeps working with no signal.
How is Touchdown priced?
By the seat, by the year. The licence includes one standard seat, which is one person on two devices, one at a time. Each seat you add costs less than the first. Every seat includes everything in Touchdown today, and it can be billed monthly. Roughneck customers get 5% off. Prices are quoted on request.
How do I see Touchdown?
Request a demo. A demo takes 30 minutes and is run on a well like yours.
Who makes Touchdown?
Touchdown is made by Bootstrap Digital Inc., a Texas corporation, and is part of the Roughneck suite. The people who own it have been in the oil business for more than 40 years.
Is Touchdown connected to Roughneck?
Touchdown is part of the Roughneck suite, where oilfield service companies keep their accounts, quotes and jobs. If you run Roughneck, a job's surface plat can come straight into Touchdown and the finished plan goes back to the job. Touchdown also works without Roughneck.