SCHLUMBERGER WATER SERVICES

About Us

About Schlumberger Water Services

Schlumberger Water Services (SWS) is a world renowned leader in the development and application of groundwater software and monitoring instrumentation. For over 15 years, we have been setting the standard in this industry with our user-friendly software solutions for groundwater data management, analysis, modeling and visualization.

Schlumberger Water Services is involved in many domestic and international consulting projects involving groundwater flow modeling, contaminant transport modeling, and environmental data management. Since its foundation, the goal of the company has been to provide powerful, and yet easy-to-use, groundwater software to professionals in the environmental business. As a result of Schlumberger Water Services leadership in this field, a new market for graphically based environmental software has developed and many competitors have entered this new market. Schlumberger Water Service’s competitive edge has been maintained by:

• Organizing and participating in continuing education and training courses offered around the world
• Being actively involved with various national and international groundwater and environmental associations and organizations
• Providing unequalled client services
• Technical support for all SWS software products
• Listening to the end-users and implementing key features that they request
• Following strict guidelines for software development and testing
• Expanding and diversifying our products to keep pace with the advancing technological requirements of the environmental industry

Through these efforts, Schlumberger Water Services has grown to become a thriving company dedicated to providing the best groundwater software, instrumentation, training, and consulting services available.

Groundwater Software

Groundwater Software

Schlumberger Water Services (SWS) is a recognized leader in the development and application of innovative groundwater technologies in addition to offering expert services and professional training to meet the advancing technological requirements of today’s groundwater and environmental professionals.

SWS consists of a complete suite of environmental software applications engineered for data management and analysis, modeling and simulation, visualization, and reporting.

For over 18 years, our products and services have been used by firms, regulatory agencies, and educational institutions around the world. We develop each product to maximize productivity and minimize the complexities associated with data management, analysis, and reporting. To date, we have over 14,000 registered software installations in more than 85 countries!

AquaChem

AquaChem is designed for the management, analysis, and reporting of water quality data. AquaChem’s analysis capabilities cover a wide range of functions and calculations frequently used for analyzing, interpreting and comparing water quality data. AquaChem includes a comprehensive selection of commonly used plotting techniques to represent the chemical characteristics of aqueous geochemical and water quality data, as well includes PHREEQC - a powerful geochemical reaction model.

AquiferTest Pro

AquiferTest Pro, designed for graphical analysis and reporting of pumping test and slug test data, offers the tools necessary to calculate an aquifer's hydraulic properties such as hydraulic conductivity, transmissivity, and storativity. AquiferTest Pro is versatile enough to consider confined aquifers, unconfined aquifers, leaky aquifers, and fractured rock aquifers conditions. Analysis results are displayed in report format, or may be exported into graphical formats for use in presentations. AquiferTest Pro also provides the tools for trends corrections, and graphical contouring of water table drawdown around the pumping well.

GW Contour

The GW Contour data interpolation and contouring program incorporates techniques for mapping velocity vectors and particle tracks. GW Contour incorporates the most commonly used 2D data interpolation techniques for the groundwater and environmental industry including Natural Neighbor, Inverse Distance, Kriging, and Bilinear. GW Contour is designed for contouring surface or water levels, contaminant concentrations, or other spatial data.

Hydro GeoAnalyst

Hydro GeoAnalyst (HGA) is an enterprise-class information management system for managing groundwater and environmental data. Hydro GeoAnalyst supports an entire team of environmental professionals by combining numerous pre- and post- processing components into a single program. Components include, Project Wizard, Universal Data Transfer System, Template Manager, Materials Specification Editor, Query Builder, QA/QC Reporter, Map Manager, Cross-Section Editor, HGA 3D-Explorer, Borehole Log Plotter, and Report Editor. The seamless integration of these tools provide the means for compiling and normalizing field data, analyzing and reporting subsurface data, mapping and assessing spatial information, and reporting site data.

Flexible and intuitive, Hydro GeoBase (HGB) is a user-friendly working environment specifically made for environmental project managers and geoscientists. Featuring powerful tools to help you organize, manage, and report your environmental data in any format, HGB’s flexible Graphical User Interface offers project managers the means for efficiently managing their project data.

This feature-rich and cost-effective log plotting software delivers an unmatched balance of power and value - all within a convenient database structure. Hydro GeoLogger (HGL) offers robust features not found in any other logging application. From flexible design tools to fully customizable lithology libraries, HGL satisfies your specific logging needs.

UnSat Suite Plus seamlessly integrates multiple one-dimensional unsaturated zone flow and solute transport models into a single, intuitive working environment. Models include SESOIL, VS2DT, VLEACH, PESTAN, Visual HELP and the International Weather Generator. The combination of models offers users the ability for simulating the downward vertical flow of water and the migration of dissolved contaminants through the vadose zone. UnSat Suite Plus includes tools for project management, generating synthetic weather data, modeling flow and contaminants through the unsaturated zone, estimating groundwater recharge and contaminant loading rates, and preparing compliance reports.

Visual HELP is a one-dimensional, unsaturated zone flow modeling application built for optimizing the hydrologic design of municipal landfills. Visual HELP is based on the US E.P.A . HELP model (Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance) and has been integrated into a 32-Bit Windows application. It combines the International Weather Generator, Landfill Profile Designer, and Report Editor. Applications include designing landfill profiles, predicting leachate mounding, and evaluating potential leachate seepage to the groundwater.

Visual MODFLOW Premium is a three-dimensional groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling application that integrates MODFLOW-2000/2005, SEAWAT-2000, MODPATH, MT3DMS, MT3D99, RT3D, VMOD 3D-Explorer, WinPEST, Stream Routing Package, Zone Budget, MGO, SAMG, and PHT3D. Applications include well head capture zone delineation, pumping well optimization, aquifer storage and recovery, groundwater remediation design, natural attenuation simulation, and saltwater intrusion.

Visual PEST-ASP combines the powerful parameter estimation capabilities of PEST-ASP, with the graphical processing and display features of WinPEST. Visual PEST-ASP can be used to assist in data interpretation, model calibration and predictive analysis by optimizing model parameters to fit a set of observations. This popular estimation package achieves model independence through its capacity to communicate with a model through its input and output files.

Groundwater Instrumentation

Groundwater Instrumentation

Groundwater is the primary source of water for people, industry and nature. All over the world we face serious problems such as water depletion, excess water (flooding), Stalinization and a shortage of clean drinking water. Frequent, reliable measuring of the groundwater situation forms the basis for solving these problems. Monitoring the groundwater levels is now more important than ever. Schlumberger Water Services produces a wide variety of groundwater monitoring instruments and equipment.

Groundwater Dataloggers

Groundwater monitoring instruments and equipment which set the standard for reliability and longevity in data acquisition.

Multilevel Groundwater Well Monitoring Systems

Multilevel monitoring technology designed for long-term groundwater monitoring and data acquisition. The Westbay System is designed for collecting subsurface data at any number of discrete positions within a single well.

Diver-NETZ

Diver-NETZ is an all-inclusive groundwater monitoring network system that integrates high-quality field instrumentation with the industries latest communications and data management technologies. All of the Diver-NETZ components are designed to optimize your project workflow from collecting and recording groundwater data in the field - to project delivery in the office.

Groundwater Training Courses and Monitoring Workshops

Groundwater Training Courses and Workshops

Schlumberger Water Services offers numerous, high quality training courses globally. Our courses are designed to provide a rapid introduction to essential knowledge and skills, and create a basis for further professional development and real-world practice. Open enrollment courses are offered worldwide each year.

Applied Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling (AFTM)

This course covers simple to complex applications of groundwater flow and contaminant transport models and is ideally suited for professionals with some field investigation and modeling experience who wish to further advance their modeling knowledge and whose responsibilities include model development, review, and project management.

Making Sense of Environmental Data with Hydro GeoAnalyst (HGA)

This course presents and introduction to the management and analysis of groundwater data. Additional topics covered include where the data comes from, how it is analyzed and used in groundwater models.

Integrated Aquifer Characterization and Groundwater Modeling (ACGM)

This training course provides you with the skills to manage and visualize your groundwater data in HGA and then analyze the groundwater flow system using Visual MODFLOW.

Regulatory Review of Hydrogeology Studies (RRHS)

This course will give regulators and model reviewers the in-depth understanding of how groundwater models work and what to look for when reviewing reports. Attendees will learn the importance of numerical versus analytical models, the practical basis for reviewing models, key points of focus, and to recognize when a groundwater specialist is required.

Modeling for the Mining Industry (MMI)

This modeling course was designed to present the theory behind site characterization, database management, geochemical analysis, and groundwater flow and solute transport modeling for mine site development, operation and closure.

Finite Element Groundwater Modeling (FEM)

This course covers background theory, limitations and practical considerations of finite element modeling using FEFLOW. This course is ideally suited for groundwater modelers who wish to advance this modeling knowledge, or have reached limitations in their current groundwater models.

Water Quality Data Management & Modeling (WQDM)

This course is designed to give water professionals hands-on experience applying AquaChem to projects requiring geochemical data interpretation and management of water data. It provides hands-on experience in temporal and spatial data interpretation, including the use of convenient computer software for organizing and plotting the data.

Aquifer Test Analysis (ATA)

This course covers a wide variety of techniques used for analyzing pumping test or slug and bail test data. Theories behind the various techniques are reviewed with actual hands-on experience analyzing aquifer test data collected from a variety of field conditions using AquiferTest Pro.

Custom On-Site Courses

Custom courses where our instructors will work directly with you to determine the technical level of your personnel, identify the specific topics you wish to cover, and develop and deliver a customized course specifically tailored to your company.

Schlumberger Water Services Workshops

A free informative, hands-on groundwater monitoring workshop showcasing Diver Dataloggers and their integration into Schlumberger Water Services Software suite of products.

Consulting Services

Consulting Services

Schlumberger Water Services provides comprehensive water resource management services specializing in groundwater assessment, development, and management. Schlumberger Water Services’ provides our public and private sector clients with reliable, cost-effective, and innovative solutions for a wide range of groundwater projects.

Our Services team delivers integrated technological solutions for small and large-scale groundwater and environmental projects.

As leaders in groundwater management, our experts act as instructors in many of our professional courses, presenting practical and advanced solutions to real world problems.

Our Services Team

Our wealth of project experience is derived from our staff of professionals, each with different backgrounds and experiences, working as a team to effectively resolve a variety of environmental challenges. Our team includes:

• Professional Engineers
• Professional Geoscientists
• Hydrogeologists
• Hydrologists
• Data Management Specialists
• GIS and Geomatics Specialists
• Environmental Technicians

Our Services

Our team develops technically sound environmental solutions by combining their expertise with advanced computing technologies. Our capabilities include the various stages of groundwater projects such as site characterization and monitoring, data management and GIS, and groundwater modeling. We provide consulting services in the following key areas:

• Groundwater resources management
• Environmental impact and risk assessment
• Contaminated site solutions
• Advanced groundwater modeling solutions
• Environmental solutions for mining
• Environmental data management
• Model review and litigation support

We're convinced that our experience in developing technological solutions in these areas can be applied to help you effectively protect and manage your groundwater resources. We welcome the opportunity to discuss teaming with you to provide solutions to a wide variety of groundwater and environmental challenges.

Technical Support

Schlumberger Water Services Technical Support

Our support team is dedicated to providing our customers in the groundwater and geo-environmental industries with specialized solutions that consider your specific technical and environmental requirements, and provide you with cost-effective resolutions. We are here to help you work as efficiently as possible to minimize the time you spend working with in the software so you can concentrate on the results.

We recognize the value of providing our users with outstanding service and support, and we work hard to earn your loyalty. Our friendly, full-time technical support representatives are dedicated to providing you with the level of support and service you need, when you need it, to make your project a success.

Extended Support

This service was designed to support environmental professionals working on projects that require management of groundwater, borehole, and environmental data. Through rigorous review of your data, our team will recommend appropriate strategies and assist you in effectively addressing your data issues. This service ranges from reviewing data sources/structures to importing your project data directly into our popular products.