User Manual

Home → Field Tools → Gain / Loss Sheet, or from the Drilling Fluids module. The hourly pit balance, worked for a full 24 hours. Requires Kyanite Pro.

The idea is the one every mud hand already works on paper. Each hour you know what the pits should have done — the new hole takes mud away, anything mixed or transferred in puts mud back — and you know what they actually did from the PVT. The difference is the net. A net that will not settle around zero is usually the earliest sign of a kick or of losses, well before anything else shows up.

Starting a sheet

Tap +. A new sheet opens with a single baseline line at 18:00 — the depth and pit volume you are handed at tour change. Nothing is worked against the baseline; it is what the first hour is measured from. Fill in:

• Hole Size. Sets the hole capacity in bbl/ft from D² ÷ 1029.4.
• Hole Capacity. Editable. Type over it to carry a measured figure instead — a washed-out hole rarely takes the textbook number, and the sheets this was built from run 0.088 and 0.083 bbl/ft on the same 8-3/4" hole. Once edited it is marked measured and the hole size will not overwrite it. A one-tap button puts it back on the calculated value.
• Mud Weight and Well / Rig are recorded on the header.

Each hour

Tap Add 19:00 Reading and the fields open with the previous hour's depth and pit volume already in them, because you are reading a gauge that has moved a little, not entering a number from nothing. Type what changed, plus anything Added that hour, any Losses — known losses out of the active system: dumped, transferred out, solids-control discard — and a note if something happened — dust up, centrifuge off, SC transfer 24 bbls.

Known losses are taken out before the net is worked, so a planned dump does not read as the hole taking mud. They show on the ledger row as loss −x and are totalled as Known losses on the sheet, in the PDF and in the CSV.

Sharing a sheet with the crew

On a crew, gain / loss sheets have the same Mine / crew switch as the other shared screens. Crew sheets are shared live with your crew · graph & PDF on the web too: members as well as admins can log readings, the same way members gauge tanks, and every phone and the web console sees the new hour within seconds.

The net for that hour is worked live above the fields, with the footage, the calculated change and the actual change broken out, so a fat-fingered depth is obvious before you save it.

Reading the sheet

• 24-Hour Net at the top, signed, with a plain-language verdict: Balanced, Gaining or Losing. Gains read warm, losses read cool — deliberately not red/green, because a gain is not "bad" and a loss is not "good", they are different problems.
• Gain / Loss Chart — right under the net card; see The chart below.
• Cumulative trend strip. One line against the zero axis. A single hour is noisy; what matters is whether the running total keeps walking away from zero.
• Hourly ledger. Time, depth, PVT, added and net across the top, with footage, hole loss, calculated and actual underneath each row. Tap any row to correct it. The tour change is drawn as a visible break.
• By Tour. Nights, days and the 24-hour figure. Every hour counts once and the two tours always add back up to the day — worth saying because a hand-built spreadsheet almost always sums one row short at the tour boundary and quietly drops an hour out of the day.

Finishing and carrying on

At 24 hours the sheet is complete. Start Tomorrow's Sheet in the ⋯ menu opens the next day with the hole size, capacity and tour setup copied and this sheet's last depth and pit volume already in as the baseline — the way the next day's paper sheet is started from the bottom line of today's.

The chart

Directly under the 24-Hour Net, the Gain / Loss Chart card draws the whole day hour by hour. It starts from the baseline at 0 bbl, so the line appears as soon as the first hourly reading is in:

• Solid line — the running total (cumulative net).
• Dashed line — each hour's own net (actual − calculated).
• The dashed zero line across the middle. Above zero is a gain, below is a loss.

The hour of the day runs along the bottom; barrels up the side, signed.

Exporting

• Export Sheet & Chart to PDF (button under the chart, or Export PDF in the ⋯ menu) builds a PDF with the header (hole size, capacity, mud weight, start hour), the 24-hour summary, the Gain / Loss line chart (drawn as sharp vector lines, with its legend and hour axis), the full hourly ledger — time, depth, footage, hole, added, calculated, actual, net and cumulative — any hour notes, tour totals and sheet notes. Hours of ±2 bbl or more are highlighted. It opens full screen; share from there.
• Export as Text hands the sheet over as a fixed-width text block that pastes into a morning report looking like the sheet it came from.

The fastest way to get value from 2.0 on a new location. Each step links to its full chapter.

1. Add the well. Home → Field Tools → Wells → +. Type the well name (e.g. Smith 14-2H). The first well you add becomes the active well automatically. → Chapter 25
2. Enter the status. In Current Status, type Current MD, Current TVD, Mud Weight and Active System (active pits + hole, bbl). Type the current operation, e.g. Drilling 8-3/4" lateral.
3. Add the hole sections. Tap Add Hole Section for each section: hole diameter, top and bottom depths, the casing or liner run in it (pick a Standard size to fill OD and ID), shoe MD/TVD, Run and cemented, and the LOT or FIT EMW. Mark the section you are drilling as current.
4. Add the operator details. Under Well Information: Operator, API / UWI, Field, County / State / Region, spud date.
5. Set up the rig. Home → Field Tools → Rig Profiles → +. Enter the mud pumps (liner, stroke, cylinders, efficiency) and the drill pipe, HWDP and collar sizes. Then link the rig to the well under Well Information → Rig. → Chapter 26
6. Build the string. Current Well → Drill String / BHA → +. Add the bit first, then work up. Mark it current. → Chapter 29
7. Bring your stock and tanks. If you came from another well, open Chemical Inventory or Location Volumes and tap Import. → Chapter 35
8. Start the bit record. Current Well → Bits & Records → Add Bit Run. → Chapter 30

From here, any calculator that needs depth, mud weight, hole size, casing or pump output offers Use Well Values / Use Rig Values and fills itself in.

One well is always the current (active) well. It is the well that:

• calculators fill from when you tap Use Well Values;
• new saved calculations, records and bit runs are filed under;
• Chemical Inventory and Location Volumes show stock and tanks for;
• reports are built for.

The Current Well card on Home

The first section on Home. With an active well it shows:

With no well yet, the card reads Add the well you're on — tap it to open Wells. Below the card, the Reports tile (Well · tanks · cement · kill · LCM) opens every report in one place.

Only your own (not crew) wells that are not archived appear in the switcher.

The Current Well hub

Home → Current Well → View Well. Where the well stands, and every well tool in one list.

Status block

Tool groups

Record types show N on this well once any exist.

Home → Field Tools → Wells (or Switch Well → Add or Manage Wells).

The well list

• + (top right) creates a well and opens it. If no other well is active, the new one becomes active.
• Each row shows the well name, an ACTIVE badge on the current well, the operator, and a status line: MD, mud weight, current section and N calcs — or No status entered yet.
• Swipe right → Make Active.
• Swipe left → Archive (or Restore) and Delete. Long-press offers the same.
• Archived wells collapse into an Archived (N) group at the bottom. Archiving the active well leaves no well active until you choose one.

Deleting a well asks Delete this well? — the well and its hole sections are removed; saved calculations stay in History with the well's name. Archive Instead is offered as the safer choice.

Empty state: One well, every tool with an Add a Well button.

Inside a well

The title is the well name. Everything saves as you type; Done above the keyboard closes it.

1. Name and state

• Well name (e.g. Smith 14-2H).
• Underneath: Active well — calculators fill from this one, or a Make Active Well button, or Archived — Restore.

2. Current Status

The footer shows Updated 2 hours ago (amber when stale). Changing any of these fields re-stamps the status time. Closing a Tour Handover also updates this block — see Tour Handover.

3. Hole Sections

Each section row shows its name, a CURRENT badge, a ⚠︎ if something looks wrong, and a summary such as 12.25" hole · 9 5/8" set · 0–3,000 ft MD (planned instead of set when the pipe is not yet marked run and cemented). Tap Add Hole Section for a new one; the first one added becomes current.

4. Bits & Records — opens the well's bit runs (active well only). See chapter 30.

5. Saved Calculations (N) — the 20 most recent results filed to this well. Tap one to open it. Search Calculation History for older ones.

6. Well Information

7. Notes — anything worth keeping about the well.

The hole section editor

Opens as a sheet with Cancel and Save. Cancel discards every change made in the sheet.

Standard sizes are nominal API dimensions — confirm OD, ID and weight against your casing tally.

Check These. The editor flags (but never blocks) numbers that look wrong:

• Top MD is deeper than bottom MD. / Top TVD is deeper than bottom TVD.
• Bottom (or top) TVD is deeper than MD — TVD can't exceed MD.
• Casing ID must be smaller than casing OD.
• Casing OD is not smaller than the hole diameter.
• Shoe MD is below the section's bottom MD. / Shoe TVD is deeper than shoe MD.
• Liner top is not above the liner shoe.
• Shoe test EMW looks unusual — check it is in ppg (outside 7–25 ppg).

Delete Section is at the bottom of an existing section.

Home → Field Tools → Rig Profiles. Enter a rig once and any calculator that needs pump output, pipe or hole sizes can fill them with one tap — Use Rig Values. Filled inputs stay editable and are labelled with where they came from.

The rig list

• + adds a rig; the empty state reads Set up your rig once with an Add a Rig button.
• The active rig carries an ACTIVE badge. Swipe right → Make Active; swipe left or long-press for Duplicate and Delete.
• Each row summarises the pumps (Pump 1, Pump 2) and pipe, or Nothing entered yet.

The rig editor

Rig — Rig name, Rig number, Contractor, and Make Active Rig (or Active rig — calculators fill from this one).

Mud pumps — one card per pump; Add Pump for more.

The output uses the same equation as the verified Pump Output calculator:

Output (bbl/stk) = n × (π ÷ 4) × D² × S ÷ 9702 × (Eff ÷ 100)
   n = cylinders, D = liner ID (in), S = stroke (in), Eff = volumetric efficiency (%)

Drill String — Drill Pipe Preset (fills nominal OD/ID), Drill Pipe OD / ID, HWDP OD / ID, Collar OD / ID (in). The drill pipe ID caption shows its capacity in bbl/ft.

Casing & Hole — Casing Preset, Last Casing OD / ID, Hole Size / Bit (in), each with its capacity in bbl/ft.

Notes — anything worth remembering about the rig.

Rig values vs well values

When a well is linked to a rig (Well Information → Rig), calculators offer both: the well supplies depth, mud weight, hole size, casing and shoe; the rig supplies pump output and pipe sizes. Each filled box says which one it came from, and you can overwrite any of them.

On any calculator whose inputs match something on the well or rig:

1. Tap Use Well Values (or Use Rig Values) above the inputs.
2. Matching boxes fill — depth, TVD, mud weight, hole size, casing ID, shoe depth, pump output, pipe OD/ID — each labelled with its source.
3. Anything the well doesn't have stays blank; nothing is guessed.
4. If the well's status is older than 12 hours, a warning says so before you rely on it.
5. Edit any filled value freely; the well itself is not changed.

Saving a result

After any calculation, tap Save. The Save Calculation sheet shows the inputs and result read-only, so you can see exactly what is being kept, plus:

If you reopened a saved calculation and changed it, you choose Update Saved or Save as New Copy.

Finding results

Home → Field Tools → Calculation History. Newest first.

• Search — Calculator, well, notes: matches the calculator name, well, notes and result.
• Favorites filter, Well menu (All wells or one well), Discipline menu (All disciplines or one module). Clear Filters resets them.
• Swipe right → Favorite / Unfavorite. Swipe left → Delete.
• Long-press → Duplicate, Share Result, Favorite, Delete.

A saved calculation

If the calculator has been revised since, a banner says This calculator has been revised since this was saved. Reopen it to recalculate with the current equation. If it has been retired, the saved values are kept as a record.

Six record types live under the current well. Open them from the Current Well hub.

How every record list works

• + starts a new record, filed under the active well.
• Show switches between Active well and All wells.
• Swipe or long-press for Duplicate and Delete (This can't be undone).
• Each record has a share button that creates its PDF (and CSV where it applies).

Pipe Tally

Joint-by-joint lengths. Tally pipe joint by joint with a running total.

1. Choose Mode: Joint mode (one length per joint) or Stand mode (one length per stand).
2. Type the length and tap Add — the box clears for the next joint. Add a Note (e.g. pup, damaged box) if needed.
3. Undo reverses the last change.

Import reads a CSV of joint lengths from Files. If nothing usable is found: No joint lengths found in that file. Tally totals can fill the drill string — see Use Pipe Tally Lengths below.

Drill String / BHA

Components, weight & volumes. Build the string from the bit up. The list shows it top of hole first.

1. Tap Add Component — add the bit first.
2. For each component: Type, Dimensions (OD, ID, tool joint OD), Length or joints × Length per joint, and weight per foot.
3. For the bit: Bit size, Nozzles in 32nds (e.g. 16, 16, 16) → TFA is worked out.
4. Optional From Spec Sheet values (capacity, displacement, adjusted weight, pressure drop at your flow rate) override the calculation — use them for tool joints or tool internals.
5. Drill Pipe Presets fill nominal API body dimensions.
6. Use Pipe Tally Lengths sets the joint count and length of matching drill pipe, HWDP and collar lines from a tally's totals.

Totals

Volumes & Strokes — from the well's hole sections and this string: Annular volume, Bottoms-up volume, Total circulation (string + annulus, excludes surface volume), Strokes to bit and Bottoms-up strokes (need a rig with a pump linked to the well). With no current MD on the well, only fixed lengths are used.

Tour Handover

Events & shift handover.

Start of Tour — Tour start time, Depth, TVD, Mud weight, Active volume, Operation, BHA, Pumps (liner, SPM, output) and Mud properties (Use latest mud check copies them in).

Events — tap an event type to log it with the time now. Each event can carry Details, a Quantity, and Flag as issue. Tap an event to edit or Delete Event.

End of Tour — end depth, mud weight, volume and operation; Notes for incoming crew, Outstanding tasks, Problems / issues.

Close Tour & Hand Over stamps the handover time and updates the well's current status with the end-of-tour depth, mud weight, volume and operation you entered. Reopen Tour undoes the close. Share Handover PDF sends it to the incoming crew.

Daily Mud Report

Checks, treatments & stock.

Trip Sheet

Calculated vs actual fill.

Setup

Entries — Add Entry: Stands, Depth (suggested), Trip tank bbl or Actual bbl, Note. Each entry shows Calculated, Actual, Difference, Running diff and Cumulative bbl. The Calculated vs Actual chart plots both series.

Highlighted entries passed the threshold you set. The sheet shows the numbers only — interpreting well conditions is the crew's call.

Directional Surveys

TVD, N/S, E/W, VS & DLS by minimum curvature.

Setup — Azimuth reference (True, Grid or Magnetic — keep one throughout), VS azimuth, and the tie-in: Tie-in TVD, Tie-in N/S, Tie-in E/W (blank = surface).

Stations — Add Station: MD, Inclination, Azimuth, note. Each row works out TVD, N/S, E/W, VS and DLS (°/100 ft).

View — Table, Plan View or Vertical Section.

Import reads a CSV of MD / Inc / Azi rows. Update Well TVD from Last Survey writes the last station's TVD to the well's current status.

Current Well → Bits & Records — the second item in the Well group, directly under Wells & Hole Sections and above Drill String / BHA — or the Bits & Records row inside a well. One record per bit run, kept with the well.

The bit list

• Summary at the top: Bits, total Footage, total Hours.
• Each run shows the bit number and size, make and model, depth in–out, footage, ROP, dull grade and photo count. A run still in the hole carries an IN HOLE badge.
• Add Bit Run at the bottom. Swipe left → Delete (Its notes and photos are deleted with it).
• The document button (top right) creates the Bit Record PDF.

Starting a bit run

Tap Add Bit Run. The new run is seeded from the last one so you only correct what changed:

The bit run editor

Everything saves as you go.

Results (top) — Footage, Hours and Avg ROP, shown once their inputs exist.

Bit Out Now stamps the end time when the bit comes out.

Worked figures

Footage = Depth out − Depth in
Hours   = Drilling hours (on-bottom) if entered, otherwise End − Start (elapsed)
Avg ROP = Footage ÷ Hours        (ft/hr)

The footer says which hours were used. Elapsed time includes connections, surveys and anything else that happened during the run — enter on-bottom drilling hours for a true ROP.

Flagged:

• Depth out must be deeper than depth in.
• End time is before the start time.

The IADC dull grade

Eight boxes, entered as the bit came out and shown as one line, e.g. 1-2-WT-A-X-I-NO-TD. The boxes accept free text so you can use your company's codes; the standard IADC meanings are below for reference.

After-run photos

1. Take photos of the dull bit — cutters, gauge, nozzles — with the Camera app.
2. In the run, tap Add After-Run Photos (or Add More Photos) and pick up to 12.
3. They are resized (long edge 2000 px) and stored on the phone with the run.

Tap a photo to view it full screen: pinch or double-tap to zoom, share it, or Delete Photo.

The Bit Record PDF

Summary (well, operator, bits, footage, hours), a bit summary table (bit, size, make/model, in, out, footage, hours, ROP, dull), then a page section per run with every field, the notes and the after-run photos.

The drawn schematic

Current Well → Well Schematic. Drawn from the well's hole sections and current drill string:

• open hole at each section's diameter;
• casing and liners (solid when run and cemented, dashed when planned), with shoe labels and the LOT/FIT EMW;
• the current string and bit, and the current MD.

Depth is to scale; widths are scaled by diameter. The Casing Program table lists each section. Share well summary creates the Well Summary PDF with the schematic. It redraws whenever the well changes.

Operator schematic sheets (PDF)

Current Well → Schematic Sheets (PDF), or Operator Schematic Sheets (PDF) on the Well Schematic screen. Keep the operator's or company man's wellbore schematic with the well.

1. Tap Upload Schematic PDF (or +).
2. Pick one or more PDFs from Files, iCloud Drive, or anything saved from Mail or Teams.
3. Each sheet is filed under the current well with a first-page thumbnail, page count, file size and upload date.

Files that are not PDFs, or password-protected PDFs, are refused by name. If a file won't open, save it to Files first and upload it from there. Sheets open with no signal.

Current Well → Advanced Hydraulics. Pressure losses, ECD, HSI and annular velocity by the API RP 13D power law method, for the well as it stands.

From the Well (read-only, with where each came from): Bit depth & mud weight, MD / TVD, Hole sections, Current drill string and Bit nozzles.

Inputs

Results

Data gaps are spelled out instead of producing a number: Enter current MD and mud weight on the well. · Add hole sections and casing on the well. · Mark a drill string current on this well. · Enter nozzles on the bit in the drill string. · Enter MD/TVD on the well or add surveys (needed for ECD).

Equations and Assumptions & Limitations are listed on the screen. Share hydraulics report creates the PDF.

Current Well → Kick Tolerance. Volumetric single-bubble kick tolerance (IADC / IWCF method).

From the Well — Bit MD / TVD, Mud weight, Last casing shoe (Shoe MD / TVD), Shoe test (LOT / FIT) EMW and the Current drill string (for annular volumes around the BHA).

Design Inputs

Result — Kick tolerance (bbl), V1 — at the bit, V2 at shoe, V2 at bottom, Max influx height, MAASP, and Governed by (which limit controls).

Data Gaps tell you exactly what is missing, e.g. Enter the LOT/FIT EMW on the casing's hole section. or Mark the casing run-and-cemented with shoe MD and TVD in the hole section. Share kick tolerance report creates the PDF.

Current Well → Mud Trends. Pick a Property and see it plotted against Depth (ft MD) across every Daily Mud Report on the well, with the Readings listed underneath. Useful for spotting a creeping solids content, a rising YP or a chloride change across a section.

Chemical inventory and location volumes are kept per well. The banner at the top of both screens shows which well you are looking at, with an Import button.

Importing from the last well

1. Add the new well (Home → Switch Well → Add or Manage Wells) and make it current.
2. Open Chemical Inventory or Location Volumes. The banner shows the new well.
3. Tap Import on the banner (or Import from Another Well in the menu).
4. The Import from Another Well sheet opens:

5. Tap Import and confirm. Import Complete summarises what came across.

How it lands

• Chemicals arrive as Transferred In on the transfer day, noted Transferred in from previous well, so the ledger shows where the stock came from.
• A product already on the new well with the same name and unit is not duplicated — the quantity is added to it.
• Tanks arrive with a gauge reading on the transfer day, which carries forward like any other reading. A tank with the same name is skipped.
• The old well keeps its full history.

Home → Reports (or Current Well → Reports). Every PDF in one place.

Prepared By — Your name / position. Printed on every PDF report.

Every field sheet also has a report button at the top of its own screen: cement job, kill sheet, LCM build, tank volumes (for the day on screen), gain / loss sheet and bit record.

The End-of-Well Report

Built from records already on the well — nothing is re-entered:

• Status — spud, final MD / TVD, final mud weight, operator, rig.
• Hole sections and the casing program.
• String — components of the current string, bit up.
• Surveys — stations, last MD, max inclination, max DLS.
• Mud reports — count, dilution, surface losses, losses to formation.
• Tours — tours logged, gains and losses logged.
• Trip sheets, Saved calculations and chemical On hand.
• Lessons Learned — What would you do differently on the next well? — typed on the Reports screen.

Mud-report and tour volumes are separate records and may overlap; they are listed side by side, not added together.

Viewing and sending

Every PDF is built on the phone with no signal, opens full screen first so you see exactly what will be sent, and is shared from the button at the top right — Mail, Messages, Files, AirDrop, Teams or print.

Current Well → Crew Dashboard. One screen that tells you what is shared and what isn't.

Links: Set up crew sharing / Create or join a crew, and Crew settings & roster.

Offline edits are queued and sent when signal returns. A record edited on this phone is never overwritten by an incoming change until it has been sent.

Home → Field Tools → Translations. English ⇄ Spanish for the location — northern Mexican field wording.

Type to Translate

1. The direction button reads ENGLISH → ESPAÑOL; tap to swap.
2. Type anything (Type in English… / Escribe en español…) and tap Translate.
3. Under the result: Speak reads it aloud (Stop to cut it off), Show puts it full screen to hold up to a driver, Copy puts it on the clipboard.

It uses Apple's on-device translation. The first time needs a signal to download the Spanish language pack; after that it works offline. If it isn't available: Translation isn't available right now. Connect once to download the Spanish language pack, then it works offline.

Phrasebook

Ready-made field phrases, searchable in either language (English or español) and filtered by category. Tap a phrase to hear it; tap the expand icon to show it big.

Build a dispatch order

Action · barrels · fluid · tank → Spanish. Builds a full instruction in Spanish from choices:

Say it, Show and Copy work as above.

Update notes and offers from Kyanite appear as a banner at the top of Home on every install — no account needed.

• Tap the banner to read the full announcement. A photo icon on the banner means it includes a photo, shown at the top when opened (Photo unavailable offline with no signal).
• Got It dismisses it on this phone.

For the publisher account only — Settings → Publisher → Announcements:

Last Broadcast shows what is live.

Kyanite Ultra is the top plan. It includes everything in Kyanite Pro, plus:

Discover Kyanite Ultra

Settings → Discover Kyanite Ultra (or the Ultra card on Home, or any locked Ultra tile) opens a screen that lists every Ultra feature, grouped as above. Tap a feature for a full explanation. Locked Ultra screens stay visible with a lock and the same explanation, so you always know what is there.

Plans and prices

Ultra is offered monthly and yearly. The paywall shows the price in your local currency, the saving on the yearly plan (SAVE x%) and any free trial you are eligible for. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period.

• Restore Purchases brings back Kyanite Ultra or Pro on this phone if you bought it with this Apple Account.
• Manage Subscription opens Apple's subscription settings to change or cancel.
• Subscribing needs a connection. Once you're subscribed, Ultra works offline.

Ultra on the web

If you are signed in (chapter 43), your Ultra plan also unlocks DrillIQ, MudIQ and Live Rig in the web console. There is no checkout on the web — subscribe and buy question packs here on the phone.

Two AI engineers, one for drilling and one for fluids. Both are on Home, each on its own card.

Before your first question

The first time you open an assistant, Before you ask explains:

• What's sent — your questions and, while Use Well & Live Data is on, your current well's details, latest mud report, string, sections and live rig readings.
• Who processes it — Kyanite sends it through the Rork AI gateway to a third-party AI model provider (Anthropic, with OpenAI or Google as backup) solely to generate the answer. Your name and Apple ID are not sent.
• What's kept — conversations are saved on this phone only, and you can delete them at any time.

Tap Agree & Continue to go on, or Not Now.

Quick actions

Below them, TRY ASKING offers example questions — for example Check my kill sheet: 12.4 ppg, SIDPP 450 psi, TVD 9,850 ft or Weight up 800 bbl from 10.2 to 11.0 ppg with barite.

In a conversation

• Use Well & Live Data — on by default when a current well is set. The header shows what is shared: the well, and Live Data Connected or Simulated Data from Live Rig. Turn it off and answers use only what you type (General engineering questions).
• Answers are formatted with headings, tables and the working shown step by step.
• Generate PDF / Share Conversation PDF turns the conversation into a PDF to send or file.
• RECENT CONVERSATIONS on the assistant's home screen lists past chats. Touch and hold one to Delete Conversation.

Questions and packs

• Ultra includes 100 questions a month, shared by DrillIQ and MudIQ. One question = one answer.
• The allowance refills on the 1st of each month. Unused monthly questions do not carry over.
• Get More Questions sells one-time question packs: Starter Pack (50), Value Pack (100, Most Popular) and Professional Pack (300, Best Value). Not a subscription.
• Pack questions never expire, are used only after the monthly allowance, and follow you to your other devices through iCloud Keychain — and to the web console when you are signed in.
• The remaining balance shows at the top of each assistant. When it runs out you see You're out of questions, with when your Ultra questions refill and a Get More button.

Home → Live Rig Dashboard (Ultra). Hookload, WOB, ROP, gamma, torque, pressures, pit volumes and toolface live from an authorised feed, with time and depth graphs you arrange yourself.

Connecting a data source

Tap Set up on the Home card, or the status header on the dashboard, to open Data Source:

For WITSML and Pason, ask your Pason representative or the operator's data team for:

• Server address, Username and Password (kept in the iPhone Keychain)
• Well UID, Wellbore UID and Time Log UID — use the time-indexed log; depth graphs are drawn from its bit and hole depth curves
• Optional Display Name (e.g. Rig 42 · Smith 3H)

Timing sets Poll Every and Stale Warning After. Channel Mapping matches curves to channels by their usual mnemonics (HKLD, WOB, ROP, GR, SPP, TPO…); type an exact mnemonic to force a match, or Clear All Overrides. Test Connection checks it before you Connect.

Reading the dashboard

• Status header — LAST DATA, SAMPLES and the connection state: CONNECTING, SIMULATED, STALE (No new data for…), FEED LOST (with Reconnect), OFFLINE or NOT CONNECTED.
• Readouts — big tiles with the current value. Tap one to Replace With another channel, change its Trace Colour or Hide This Readout.
• Graphs — tracks of traces, indexed by Time or Depth, over the Time Range or Depth Range you choose.

Customising

Customize dashboard sets Show Readouts and Visible Channels (readouts appear in the order you turn them on), the Arrangement of graphs, Tracks (Add Track, add a trace to a track, swipe to delete), Trace Colours and Trace Scale. Reset Dashboard Layout returns to the standard 15 channels and 7 tracks.

Signing in is optional. Without it, everything stays on this phone and works exactly as before. Signing in adds three things:

1. Your wells and saved calculations sync to your Kyanite account.
2. They open in the Kyanite web console on any computer.
3. Your Ultra plan and question balance work on the web too.

Signing in

Settings → Group Access → Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google. It is the same sign-in as Crews — you do not need to join a crew to sync.

What syncs

• The first time you sign in, the wells and saved calculations already on the phone are uploaded, so nothing has to be re-entered.
• When it syncs — when you save, and about every 15 seconds while the app is open. With no signal, changes wait and go up when you are back in coverage.
• When two devices edit the same record, the newest edit wins. A phone that was offline cannot overwrite a newer edit made on the web.
• Deleting a well on one side deletes it on the other.

Settings → Kyanite on the Web shows the state: Sign in to sync, Syncing…, or Synced with the time.

Kyanite on the web

Open app.kyanitepro.com on any computer and sign in with the same Apple or Google account. You get all 133 calculators, your wells and saved calculations, every crew screen, reports and PDFs, and — with Ultra — DrillIQ, MudIQ and Live Rig, on a big screen with a keyboard. The separate Web User Manual covers it.

Signing out

Settings → Group Access → Sign Out. It only affects sync and crew features. Everything stored on the phone stays exactly where it is.

Deleting your account

Settings → Group Access → Delete Account permanently deletes your account from our servers: your profile, your place on every crew, your synced wells and saved calculations, and your question balance. It cannot be undone.

• If you are the only admin of a crew, that crew and everything it shares is deleted for everyone on it. The app lists those crews and asks you to confirm.
• The calculators, sheets and records kept on this phone are not affected.

Crew wells

Current Well → Crew Dashboard → Crew wells. Crew wells are the status your whole crew works from. Your own wells stay under Wells.

• On Location lists the crew's active wells; Archived (rig moved off) keeps the old ones.
• An admin taps + to Add crew well — Well name, Operator, API / UWI, Field, County / region and Notes — and keeps the Current status up to date: MD (ft), TVD (ft), Mud weight (ppg), Active system (bbl) and Current operation.
• Share one of my wells offers your personal wells. It shares a copy: your own well stays on the phone for calculators, and later edits to either one do not change the other.
• Members read crew wells. They show on the web console under Crew Wells.

Your crew profile

Crew Dashboard → My crew profile, or tap yourself on the roster and Edit my profile.

Tap anyone on the roster to see their profile — position, company, hitch, years In the field, certifications and On the crew since — with their role and What They Can Change. Admins can change their role or Remove from Crew.

A calculator didn't fill from the well. The well has nothing in that field (blank is never used), the field doesn't match a well value, or the well you expected isn't the active one. Check the Home card, then the well's Current Status and the section marked current.

Shoe depth or LOT didn't fill. Only casing marked Run and cemented, with a shoe MD and TVD, counts as the shoe. Planned pipe is ignored on purpose.

The status says it's stale. It hasn't been touched for 12 hours. Update MD, mud weight or any status field, or close a Tour Handover.

My inventory or tanks disappeared after switching wells. They didn't — they belong to the other well. Switch back on Home, or use Import to bring them across.

Strokes to bit / bottoms-up strokes show —. Link a rig with a complete pump (liner, stroke, cylinders, efficiency) to the well under Well Information → Rig, and enter the current MD.

Buoyed weight shows —. Enter the mud weight on the well.

ROP looks low on a bit run. With no Drilling hours, ROP uses elapsed start-to-end time, which includes connections. Enter on-bottom hours.

Translation says it isn't available. Connect to a signal once so iOS can download the Spanish language pack.

A PDF won't open or share. Try again; if it fails, screenshot the alert including its Code line and send it to support.

I deleted the app — can I get my data back? Wells and saved calculations, if you were signed in: yes — sign in again with the same account and they sync back. Crew-shared records are still on the crew. Everything else was held only on the phone. Share important records out as PDFs.

My wells don't show up on the web console. Sign in on both with the same account — Sign in with Apple and Sign in with Google are separate accounts. Check Settings → Kyanite on the Web says Synced, and keep the app open for about 15 seconds.

DrillIQ says I'm out of questions. Ultra's 100 monthly questions refill on the 1st. Buy a question pack under Get More Questions; pack questions never expire.

Live Rig shows SIMULATED. You are on the preview feed. Connect a data source under Data Source (chapter 42).

I subscribed to Ultra but the web console is still locked. Sign in on the phone under Settings → Group Access first, so the purchase is linked to your account, then sign in on the web with the same account and reload the page.

Where's the latest manual? Settings → User Manual opens it online; this PDF can be downloaded from the support site.