Aligned by Design: How Traces Brings Well Data Together

Traces are the backbone of daily drilling and completions workflows, but the real challenge isn’t viewing data. It’s getting the right data into one place, in a clean and consistent format, fast enough to act on it.

In today’s webinar, Corva experts Chris Schneider, VP of Drilling Transformation, and Agustin Maqui, VP of Operations, walked through how Corva’s Fusion data ingestion platform and Traces application work together to connect real-time streams, non-standard inputs, and operational context into a single, fit-for-purpose workflow, allowing teams can spend less time hunting for information and more time making decisions.

Traces are one of the most familiar tools in well construction. But the way teams use them has changed.

Today, decisions aren’t based on one or two curves; they rely on context such as:

That’s where Corva Traces comes in. It’s designed to bring those pieces together so teams aren’t jumping between disconnected sources when it matters most.

Throughout the webinar, the theme was simple: the best trace displays are built for the decision in front of you.

Corva Traces supports both depth-based and time-based views, making it easier to shift between perspectives while keeping the full picture intact. Whether teams are monitoring pressure windows, validating trends, or tracking operations in progress, the goal is the same: make the workflow clear, fast, and actionable.

One of the most practical takeaways from the session was the reminder that trace-based workflows rely on more than “standard” real-time feeds.

Corva Traces can incorporate non-standard sources like files, tool outputs, and model data, helping teams move beyond basic curve viewing into a more complete operational picture.

Traces only works as well as the data behind it, which is where Corva Fusion plays a critical role.

Fusion is Corva’s ingestion and integration platform that supports real-time connections, digital integrations, and document-based ingestion at scale. During the webinar, Corva experts shared how Fusion handles large volumes of global well data while maintaining reliability and consistency through multiple layers of quality checks.

Showing messy reports turning to usable data, we also walked through how Fusion can extract structured information from documents that aren’t always standardized. Instead of relying solely on rigid templates, Fusion uses AI-assisted extraction to handle reports that vary by vendor, layout, or formatting. The end result is data that becomes consistent inside Corva, making it easier to use across operations, analytics, and repeatable workflows.

Traces offers flexibility, but the webinar emphasized something just as important: usability.

Teams can create templates and workflows that are assigned by rig, persona, or company standard, so users can get to the right view quickly without rebuilding displays from scratch. That reduces friction across shifts and helps drive consistency across assets.