Geotechnical data underpins engineering decisions. That is why Damasco controls how each piece of data is generated, identified and verified, from the field to the bench. It is part of our quality management system, not a feature on the side.
Every number that appears in one of our reports has been through control: captured at source, identified, tracked and auditable. The goal is not to have technology, it is to have confidence in the data.
To sustain that control day to day we use AURA, the in-house platform that follows the borehole from the field to the laboratory. It is the tool. What matters is what it guarantees: that the data delivered is the same data the ground revealed, with no missing link along the way.
In November 2023, Damasco became the pioneer on a Vale rig-monitoring project. The programme, named Drilling 4.0, brings together initiatives to raise health and safety in the field: onboard telemetry on the rigs and real-time monitoring through cameras, microphones and satellite internet.
A pioneering project in partnership with Vale, focused on rig monitoring, launched in November 2023.
Standard practices in our operation, from the field to delivery.
The step is recorded at the point and moment it happens, with photo and timestamp, not reconstructed later at the office. Less transcription, fewer memory errors.
The sample receives its own identifier (RG-DP) and a QR label when it is received. Who handled it, when, and in which test is all recorded. The chain of custody is never broken.
The laboratory works from a catalogue of 59 test types referenced to ABNT standards, entered on the digital bench. The procedure is the same every time it is run, regardless of who performs it.
Every record keeps who created it and who changed it. The archive sits in a single database hosted in Brazil, available for reference throughout the life of the project.
Data quality is built by preventing the error and by checking the result.
The way the work is organized already reduces the chance of error, before any checking takes place.
Every result can be checked and traced back to the borehole that produced it.
The same data moves through the stages without switching systems or being re-keyed.
Stages in orange already run on AURA today. The rest follow controlled spreadsheets and are being rolled out in phases.
A log reconstructed from memory loses detail and opens room for error. When the step is recorded the instant it happens, with photo and timestamp, what reaches the report is what the ground revealed. This is the first point of control.
The result is born linked to the sample, the project and the client, with the test type already referenced to the norm. Fewer loose spreadsheets, less transcription, and the ability to audit any value back to the borehole.
Data control rests on the same management system that governs our operation. In the laboratory, procedures follow the applicable ABNT standards, taking the requirements of ISO/IEC-17025 as a reference for good practice.
It is what lets us answer, in front of an expert review or a client audit, where each number came from and whose hands it passed through. Without it, data is opinion.
Every result has an origin traceable back to the borehole and the sample. On a sensitive project or an expert review, that is what supports the engineering decision.
Investigation, laboratory and interpretation under one roof. The parameter does not degrade passing from supplier to supplier.
The project archive remains available for reference. A new phase starts from what has already been investigated, not from scratch.
