3D Oil & Gas Land Rig Drilling Graphics by Industrial3D for Honeywell

3D oil & gas land rig drilling graphics created by Industrial3D for Honeywell. These graphics are for showing sensors and switches in oil and gas applications. 

Check out the work on Honeywell's site here. 

3D Strata for Laredo Petroleum

Laredo Petroleum asked Industrial3D to create a 3D strata showing the underground locations that they are going to be drilling into. This helps investors and Laredo's customers better understand what their drilling rig is doing and where they are drilling underground.

ARESCO Areas of Interest Map Created by Industrial3D

Industrial3D recently created a map for ARESCO, which is a company in the oil and gas industry.

We received an email from ARESCO recently sharing where the map was being used on their website.

You can view the map live on ARESCO's website here.

New 3D Animation for GeoTek Energy

GeoTek’s Gravity Head Energy System represents the “Next Generation” in geothermal power plants. GeoTek has developed the first major technological advancement in geothermal power generation in the last 50 years. It uses the forces found in nature to eliminate the need for extensive pumping requirements inherent to the conventional binary cycle. This improves the overall plant efficiency by 25-30% by placing key equipment downhole, making for a smaller plant footprint on the surface.


Find out more by visiting GeoTek's website. 3D Animation created by Industrial3D, Inc.

CNBC Covers Industrial3D's acquisition to Check-6

CNBC picks up the story about Industrial3D's acquisition with Check-6.

Read the full story here.

In The News! Tulsa World: Visual Aid On Board: Check6, Industrial3D combine operations.

Check-6, Industrial3D combine operations

Brian "Bru" Brurud knows that when teaching safety and best practices for dangerous equipment, showing is better than telling.

To help with the showing part, Brurud - founder of Tulsa-based safety consultant company Check-6 - would turn to Beau Brown, president of Industrial3D, an animation company also based in Tulsa.

They realized they had many of the same clients in the oil and gas industry, for which they created safety plans and training videos for drilling equipment.

"We worked with Beau for a number of years, but we would use his products over the course of our interactive simulations," Brurud said. "As our relationship became tighter and more intertwined, it made sense from a linear integration standpoint that an acquisition or merger of the two made a lot of sense."

Check-6 announced earlier this month it had acquired Industrial3D; the companies now share a downtown office and hope to expand both of their operations.

As a former fighter pilot, Brurud knows the importance of watching his back and more importantly, his wingman's back. It's "checking their 6," referring to the 6 position on a clock face and used in a directional sense to mean the person's rear flank, he said.

In his career as a fighter pilot, Brurud was shot at 17 times, he said.

"In every case, I was never the first one who saw the missile come up because I was busy," he said. "That's what saved my life was this planning, discipline and this check-6 culture that I was trained in.

"The translation to that into the oil field is exactly the same. It's an equally hazardous environment - unseen hazards that can reach up and bite you."

Check-6 was founded in 2007 when an offshore drilling rig operator asked Brurud and some colleagues about their military training and how it could translate to drilling safety, citing a report that found the so-called "best practices" in the military could greatly improve safety in other industries.

"He said, 'We seem to do things twice, more than I'm comfortable with, and we're hurting people,' " Brurud said. "That's what started Check-6 ... a training syllabus that we deployed out to drilling rigs."

Those techniques include extensive planning for every contention, communication and a debrief after the task is complete.

"We take techniques that work on aircraft carriers, that every three years have 100 percent turnover of a 5,000 crew component on a nuclear -powered vessel," Brurud said. "To be able to launch and recover aircraft safely and efficiently on it with the average age of 21 is quite a remarkable feat."

Check-6 has since grown to have offices worldwide and works with several big oil and gas players, he said.

Brown said he worked in drafting and design before signing up for the U.S. Marine Corps. Once he got out, the world had changed, he said.

"I came back from the Marine Corps and everybody is in computers," Brown said. "I didn't even know what a mouse was. I had been in the Philippines and Somalia. I was embarrassed and said, I'm going to master this."

He did computer design as a hobby for several years before he was able to expand it to full time and found Industrial3D. The company's work has been featured on CNN and Natural Geographic, and used by companies such as Pioneer Drilling, Transocean and Tulsa-based Helmerich & Payne Inc.

Brown said he realized about 40 percent of his business was already with Check-6, and he was referring some of his customers looking for safety training to Check-6, so the acquisition made sense for both companies. Now they hope to expand the design staff and operate in more locations, Brown said.

Check-6 Inc.

Founded: 2007

Location: Based in Tulsa, with operations on six continents

Workforce: Approximately 300

Growth: Has acquired Tulsa-based Industrial3D, a design and animation company

NEWS: Check6, Inc. Acquires Leading Industrial Animator

Check-6, Inc. Acquires Leading Industrial Animator

Industrial3D Focused on Safety in the Energy Industry
Business WirePress Release: Check-6, Inc. – Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:00 AM EDT

TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 

Check-6, Inc. is announcing the acquisition of Industrial3D, one of the world’s most well-respected computer-generated industrial animators. The announcement was made June 10^th at the Check-6 Board Meeting in Ft. Worth, Texas. 

 “We are extremely pleased to be able to announce that I3D is joining the Check-6 family,” said Yarko “JJ” Sos, Chief Executive Officer. “Beau Brown and his staff bring an incredible wealth of creativity and focus to their work. His experience and engineering insights bring to light what drillers and operators cannot see underground, and that has been invaluable, even life-saving to the industry.” 

 Beau Brown, President of Industrial3D, began creating computer animation in 1995 in his spare time while working in the oil and gas industry. His service in the Marine Corps paid off in persistence and resourcefulness, as he began to learn a technology that few people knew existed. When a member of management saw one of Beau’s 3D animations of a Pressure Relief Valve, he began creating more complex animations for the industry, and his hobby became his full-time job. In 2002 Brown created Industrial3D, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A few years later his 3D animations aided CNN in worldwide coverage of the BP Macondo disaster that was taking place a mile beneath the ocean’s surface in the Gulf of Mexico. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZO0oNRTnFs
 
Industrial3D’s satisfied clients include CNN, as well as National Geographic, Schlumberger, GE, Helmerich & Payne, Pioneer Drilling, and Transocean.

“We are thrilled to be taking this new step with Check-6,” said Beau Brown, President of Industrial3D. “We have been working with the simulator wing of Check-6 for the past few years. We help Check-6 Training Systems graphically portray potential on-the-job hazards for their clients, so rig personnel can use these tools on their own computers for continuous and effective training. With Check-6’s focus on leadership, training, and safety, and our ability to help their clients ‘see’ the potential hazards, it is a perfect combination. We look forward with great anticipation to our future with Check-6.”

About Check-6:
Check-6 (www.checksix.com) was founded in 2007 with a mission to improve safety and efficiency in high-risk, high-reliability operations. The Check-6 team of professionals uses their training from the military, commercial, and nuclear power industries to bring a standardized approach to job planning, briefing and debriefing.

Contact:

Check-6, Inc.
Jennifer Eve, 405-620-6379
Director of Marketing
jenny@checksix.com