Answers for every
stage of your well plan.
Step-by-step instructions, short tutorials, and engineering explanations to help you get more from DirectionalPlan.
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Choose the part of the workflow you are working on.
Getting Started
Follow the workflow from first sign-in to your first completed report.
Workspace & Well Setup
Manage wells, coordinates, targets, datums, and survey settings.
Directional Planning
Understand the seven planning methods and their inputs.
Anti-Collision
Select offsets and interpret clearance and uncertainty.
Graphs & Reports
Inspect views and create reports and wall plots.
Troubleshooting
Find practical answers to common engineering-workflow issues.
Six guides for your first project
A practical path from exploring the demo to exporting your first report.
Explore the Demo Workspace
Get familiar with DirectionalPlan using a preloaded multi-well project before entering your own data.
Create Your First Well
Choose Quick Create for a blank plan or Full Setup when you have coordinates, magnetics, and reference elevations ready.
Import a COMPASS EDM Project
Bring an existing EDM XML or ZIP project into DirectionalPlan, check its survey-tool mappings, and inspect the result.
Build a Directional Well Plan
Create a trajectory by combining planning methods, then review the calculated stations and graph views.
Run an Anti-Collision Analysis
Select relevant offset designs and inspect center-to-center distance, separation factor, and the associated warnings.
Create and Export a Directional Report
Configure a directional report, review its survey stations and reference data, and create the report output.
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Short planner and setup videos are available in the app, with longer engineering explanations in Learn.