1980 headquarters houston tx number of employees 1000 website www.gyrodata.com gyrodata incorporated is an privately owned company headquartered in houston texas with principal offices in aberdeen scotland and kuala lumpur malaysia . gyrodata delivers a wide range of services including directional drilling gyro surveying and wellbore logging . gyrodata was formed in 1980 with funding from several major oil companies such as shell . by 1982 using the same sensors as those used in aerospace guidance systems gyrodata developed a means to increase survey accuracy tenfold . gyrodata s precision gyro survey services have had a major impact on drilling and production operations . high accuracy surveys assure precise wellbore targeting and reservoir delineation and they prevent costly problems such as missed objectives and wellbore collisions in multiwell structures . the company had to lay off over 1000 employees in mid 2015 . with offices in several countries with system manufacturing and testing facilities in houston texas aberdeen scotland and kuala lumpur malaysia . services edit gyrodata provides directional wellbore surveying tools such as the gyro guide gwd gyro while drilling 1 suite of tools which can be seen as an mwd measurement while drilling tool with a gyroscope instead of a magnetic sensor and a vastly increased surveying resolution . the company also designs manufactures and provides a rotary steerable system the well guide rss mud motors em electromagnetic and mp mud pulse mwd . references edit gyrodata services drilling gwd90 precision wellbore placement . gyrodata . retrieved 23 august 2013 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gyrodata & oldid 743465592 categories multinational companiescompanies established in 1980energy companies of the united statescompanies based in houstonoilfield services companieshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk nynorsk edit links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 19 54 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view