Plan
Build the stages, set the targets, issue the drilling plan, and establish the well definition every downstream module uses.
NWE WellReport™ · Northwest Engineering
The entire well lifecycle.One platform.
NWE WellReport is the directional drilling software that takes a well from planning through P&A in one place. Directional drilling, geosteering, survey QC, well control, completions, coil tubing, frac, production, and workover all work from one Master Well File. Nothing else brings the complete lifecycle together.
The well journey
Thirteen modules.
One continuous well.
Follow the well from the first plan to the as-built file — every module reads from the same survey ledger, one system for survey management across the whole well.
01Well PlanningPlan it.
02GeosteeringLand it.
03Survey QC & BHATrust it.
04Pore PressureKnow the window.
05Well ControlControl it.
06Directional DrillingSteer it.
07MWD WorkspaceMeasure it.
08Frac OpsFrac it.
09CompletionsComplete it.
10Coil TubingRun it.
11ProductionProduce it.
12EngineeringEngineer it.
13Master Well FileOne file.
The entire well.One platform.
The daily billboard
Your 5am email is your reputation.
A well worth millions should not run through disconnected spreadsheets and a Word template from 2003.
The industry norm is a patchwork: one tool for planning, another for drilling, separate calculators for engineering, then new files for every handoff. Every retype creates another chance for the plan, the surveys, the operation, and the daily drilling report to drift apart.
NWE WellReport replaces that patchwork with one platform and one well record that moves with the job.
One continuous journey
The well never starts over. Neither does its data.
The complete lifecycle is live in one platform today. Every operation reads the same well context, adds its work, and hands a richer record forward.
Drill & steer
Run directional drilling, geosteering, survey QC, BHA performance, daily reporting, and the end-of-well package from one accepted survey ledger.
Protect the operation
Work through pore pressure, the mud window, rig sizing, well control, trips, and stuck-pipe response with the current well context already in place.
Complete & intervene
Move directly into completions and coil tubing with depths, capacities, assemblies, and operating context carried forward.
Design & execute frac
Build the frac design, run frac operations, and keep treatment work connected to the well that came before it.
Produce, work over & abandon
Monitor production, manage workover activity, and plan P&A without breaking the well's chain of custody.
Master Well File
Every module feeds the capstone record: one authoritative home for the well from first target through final abandonment.
Inside the live platform
One place to run the well.
AI talks. Math decides.The survey and steering path is deterministic, built from 20 years of field-refined experience and validated number for number. Every remaining module keeps its math visible and is open for field review against your current software.
01 / PLAN
Start with the actual well plan.
A stage-based plan builder creates the engineering foundation the entire operation carries forward.
- Targets and stage geometry
- Transfer-ready drilling plan
- One setup for every downstream module
02 / DIRECTIONAL DRILLING
Motor or RSS. One survey ledger.
Directional drilling, geosteering, survey QC, BHA performance, daily reporting, and the end-of-well record all work from the same accepted surveys.
- Conventional motor and RSS workflows
- Plan-versus-actual trajectory
- 3D position and closest-point miss
03 / ENGINEERING & WELL CONTROL
The working math travels with the well.
Pore pressure, the mud window, rig sizing, well control, completions, coil tubing, frac, production, workover, and P&A all use the same well context. Auto-filled values stay editable, and the field professional always has the last word.
- Connected engineering workflows
- No duplicate well setup at each handoff
- One Master Well File behind every module
Master Well File · Field Map
The front door to every well you've ever drilled.
The Field Map isn't a picture of your field. It's the front door to everything you know about every well you've ever drilled.
See the entire operation from the air. Start with a field-wide satellite view, with wells color-coded as planned, drilling, or completed. One click opens that well's plans, surveys, daily and morning reports, BHA history, completions, and end-of-well records.
3D well design · U-turn development
The wine rack.
Twelve U-turn wells. Four formations. One pad. Watch each well drill down, turn through its target, and extend back beneath the same surface footprint—stacking reservoir contact across the full development.
The complete platform · Live today
This is what one platform replaces.
Not another point solution. NWE WellReport brings the calculations, field workflows, handoffs, and final well record under one roof.
A working hand sees it immediately: fewer disconnected spreadsheets, fewer repeated entries, fewer numbers drifting between the plan, the surveys, and the report. The breadth is the advantage. Built for a global industry, multi-language support is on the production roadmap: English first, then Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.
01 · Directional Drilling
Plan it. Land it. Prove it.
One accepted survey record drives the call, the performance review, and the report.
- Stage-based well planningBuild the well section by section from targets, DLS, inclination, and azimuth, then carry the approved geometry into every downstream view.
- Survey ledger & minimum curvatureBring in the full 14-column survey set and automatically solve TVD, north/south, east/west, vertical section, course length, and DLS by minimum curvature.
- Plan vs. actualSee where the well is against plan at every station, with the current trajectory and directional performance held against one source of truth.
- Geosteering & landing solverProject the point ahead, solve the landing path, and keep the footage-in-zone count current as the lateral advances.
- Survey QCCheck every station's total field, dip, and gravity against the reference, screen for axial magnetic interference, and surface exceptions before bad data travels downstream.
- MWD WorkspaceThe MWD hand's panels on the same record: second-check survey QC with every rule showing its source, the DD verification hand-off, depth reconciliation that keeps both records, deliverables released only by the hand, tool health at a glance, and a signed tour handover.
- Motor & BHA performanceTrack build-up rate, compare slide and rotate response, review motor yield, and plan the next slide from actual BHA performance instead of a flat assumption.
- Daily reportingRun the time log, daily drilling report, BHA, bit and motor records, invoice helper, and operating KPIs from the same activity and survey data.
- Five-minute morning workflowThe activity log calculates hours, footage, ROP, and operation comments; the polished 5am email, subject line, and report package write themselves for final DD review.
- End-of-well packageClose the job with as-built surveys, plan-versus-actual performance, BHA history, the daily archive, and the final well record together.
02 · Engineering & Well Control
Engineer the whole operation.
The well context is already there. Open the calculation, verify the inputs, and keep moving.
- Pore pressure & mud windowCalculate pore-pressure gradients with Eaton and Matthews-Kelly, define the operating mud window, and evaluate casing-seat decisions from the same well profile.
- FIT / LOTRun the test from the pump-in table: see pressure versus volume, pick the leak-off point, analyze hold and decay, calculate fracture gradient, and feed the result straight into MAASP and kick tolerance.
- Rig sizingCheck the operation against hoisting capacity, pump requirements, and BOP configuration before the equipment decision reaches the field.
- Well control & tripsBuild the kill sheet and full kill schedule, work through trip sheets, and keep swab and surge calculations beside the current well data.
- Stuck pipe responseKeep free-point and jarring calculations in the same operating record instead of reaching for a separate workbook under pressure.
- CompletionsWork from the pipe table through capacities, volumes, hydrostatics, and API 5C3 burst, collapse, and tension ratings.
- Coil tubingPlan the operation with hydraulics, drag, and buckling calculations held together with the current well context.
- Frac design & operationsBuild pump schedules, run step-down analysis and DFIT, and keep the design and execution record connected to the well.
- Production, workover & P&AMonitor well tests, manage the workover record, and build the abandonment plug program with a cost roll-up.
03 · The capstone hub
Master Well File
Enter well data once.Every module reads the same well definition, plan, surveys, assemblies, and operating context—then feeds its completed work back into the record.
See the whole job.The plan-versus-actual dashboard, operational history, reports, and exports stay connected from the first target through final P&A.
One well. One chain of custody. The first and only platform built to carry the complete lifecycle from planning to P&A.
NEW — THE MWD WORKSPACE
Two chairs. One record of the well.
The MWD side now runs in the same platform. The MWD Workspace — shaped by a working MWD hand's own answers — gives the hand second-check survey QC, a verification hand-off the DD checks himself, depth reconciliation that keeps both records, deliverables released only by the hand, and a signed tour handover. Surveys land in the one shared record. No hand-off files. No second version of the truth.
- Second-check survey QCAn independent comparison; judgment stays with the hand.
- DD verification hand-offNothing overwrites the DD's record silently.
- Panels, not pagesDealt across the hand's own screens.
Real product · Fictional demo data
This is what it looks like.
The actual NWE WellReport app puts the plan, accepted surveys, actual trajectory, targets, offsets, and directional projections into one working view.
Screens shown from the running product with fictional demo data.
Report
Five-minute mornings.
Type only what no system knows.
Hours, footage, summaries, survey files, and report documents come from the run data. The DD adds the judgment: tour notes, the next-tour plan, and final review.
- Daily drilling report
- BHA report
- Daily revenue
- Survey exports
- End-of-well package
- Branded 5am email
One well record · every deliverableHow it works
One chain of custody for the well.
Define it once.
The plan, well setup, assemblies, reporting period, and operating limits establish one shared well definition.
Run every operation.
Directional drilling and engineering tools read the same accepted surveys and current well context.
Carry it forward.
Completions, coil tubing, frac, production, workover, and P&A continue the same record instead of rebuilding it.
Keep the whole well.
The Master Well File preserves plan-versus-actual data, operational history, reports, and final export packages.
The founder
Built by a directional driller, at 5am.
I’ve spent 20 years steering wells. As a directional driller, my day starts long before most people are awake — and for most of those years, the most dreaded part wasn’t the drilling. It was the morning report.
Every morning, 5am. Fill out a Word template. Copy it into an email. Attach the files. Send it to the distribution list before 6. Every single day.
One morning it hit me: that email is our daily billboard. It’s the one thing the whole operation sees from us, every day. And ours looked unprofessional — typos baked into the template, an email that looked like it was built in 1998.
Meanwhile, the tools I’d used for years never respected my time. Same data, retyped into system after system. Surveys in one place, reports in another, costs in a third — none of them talking to each other.
So I started building the thing I wished existed. Two rules, still the rules today: “Type only what no system knows” — the machine writes what the numbers say. And “AI talks, math decides” — AI explains, but never touches a steering decision.
What started as a better morning report became the entire well, beginning to end, all in one platform. One survey ledger feeding everything.
— Scott Roberts, Founder, NWE WellReport
Common questions
Questions, answered straight.
What is directional drilling software?
Directional drilling software covers the full job: building the well plan, steering the wellbore against it, quality-controlling surveys as they're drilled, managing the engineering and well-control math, and producing the daily drilling report and the 5 AM morning package. NWE WellReport is one platform for that entire lifecycle — plan it, steer it, report it — built by a 20-year directional driller.
Is NWE WellReport oil and gas software, or just for directional drilling?
Both. NWE WellReport is oil & gas software built from the directional drilling workflow outward. The directional driller's daily work — surveys, steering, BHA records, morning reports — is the core, and the same single well record carries well planning, engineering, daily costs, completions, and the end-of-well package. Oil and gas teams run the whole well in it, not just the directional slice.
How do I automate the daily drilling report — the 5 AM morning report?
The morning report is a retype problem: hours, footage, surveys, BHA details, and costs get copied from three tools into a template. NWE WellReport generates the report from the run data — the activity breakdown, slide and rotation footage, surveys, BHA, and daily revenue all flow into the Daily Drilling Report, the BHA report, and a branded morning email with an automatic subject line. The directional driller types only what no system knows: tour notes, the next tour's plan, and final review. Five-minute mornings.
Does NWE WellReport quality-control surveys as we drill?
Yes. You enter only measured depth, inclination, and azimuth — the survey sheet computes the full survey solution. Every survey is checked against QC rules as it's accepted, so projection discrepancies, high dogleg severity, and out-of-tolerance stations are flagged before they steer the well wrong. One accepted survey ledger feeds steering, geosteering, and reporting alike.
Can I plan the well and track plan-vs-actual in the same system?
Yes. A stage-based well plan builder creates the drilling plan, and the directional modules steer against it from the same survey ledger — so plan-vs-actual trajectory, 3D position, and closest-point miss are always measured from one set of numbers. Our plan solver reproduces reference well plans to within fractions of a foot at every stage boundary.
Will it work with the software I already use?
Yes. Import your survey exports from any system you run — NWE WellReport becomes the single, versioned home for the well's surveys instead of another disconnected file: the cleanest data source for the geosteering, operator, and automation platforms around it. Your current software stays your system of record until NWE WellReport has proven itself on your well.
Founding pilots now open
Put it on real wells.
Bring your current workflow, your survey exports, and your field team. We verify the math against your current software before your team relies on it in the field, train your DDs, review what works, and make anything that does not work right.
Independent verification sweep · October 6, 2026. Every module’s calculations were independently reimplemented from the engineering workbooks and compared number-for-number against the app: tens of thousands of values agreed to approximately 1e-9, and ten findings were fixed.