DirectionalPlan Learning Center

Learn DirectionalPlan and directional planning fundamentals.

Choose a software training video or an educational video explaining the engineering concepts behind directional well planning.

Software Training

Training Videos

Step-by-step walkthroughs for using DirectionalPlan.com.

Start here to create a new well, enter basic information, and build your first plan.

Learn how to add targets and use them in the planning workflow.

Learn how to build multiple plan options and compare different trajectories to the same target.

Use the FTP, midpoint, and bottom hole location to create three different lateral designs and compare the trajectories in 3D.

Learn how to add offsets, review uncertainty ellipses, compare center-to-center and separation factor, and generate an anti-collision report.

Add context to your well plan with annotations, lease and polygon boundaries, and formation tops.

Coming soon

Engineering Concepts

Directional drilling math and concepts explained visually.

See where the dogleg severity equation comes from and how it relates to directional surveys.

See why the average-direction method comes up short and how the ratio factor corrects the displacement.

Learn how toolface angle is calculated from survey stations and how it defines the direction of the turn.

Coming soon