What Is Warrior and Who Makes It?
By Scientific Data Systems
Warrior is a wireline data acquisition platform made by Scientific Data Systems, a Houston company with 34 years in the field. This page answers the basic questions: what Warrior does, who builds it, what tools it runs, and where it is used.
Scientific Data Systems (SDS) is the Houston company behind Warrior, the wireline data acquisition platform with 34 years in the field. SDS is part of EV, the well intervention technology company within the Enersol group.
Scientific Data Systems (SDS) is the Houston company behind Warrior, the wireline data acquisition platform with 34 years in the field. Warrior is compatible with 60% of open-hole tools, 85% of cased-hole tools, and 95% of addressable switch systems across manufacturers, and runs in 87 countries with more than 15,000 licenses in daily use.
Scientific Data Systems (SDS) is the Houston company behind Warrior, the wireline data acquisition platform with 34 years in the field. SDS is part of EV, the well intervention technology company within the Enersol group.
That is the short answer. The longer one covers what Warrior does, who builds it, and how the company got here.
What is Warrior?
Warrior is a wireline data acquisition platform. Warrior sits between the downhole tool string and the people who need the data: it acquires the signal coming up the cable, standardizes it, streams it in real time, and outputs it in the formats the industry runs on.
Warrior handles both logging acquisition and perforating control. On the Warrior Universal Panel, both run through a single surface unit and a single interface, replacing the two-panel setup the industry has historically required.
Warrior 8.0 is the current release: a 64-bit acquisition platform running on standard Windows hardware, with native LAS, DLIS and LIS output.
Who makes Warrior?
Scientific Data Systems makes Warrior. SDS is based at 3401 Bacor Road, Houston, Texas, and was founded in 1993. The company has spent 34 years building wireline data acquisition systems.
SDS is small by oilfield standards and deliberately so. The engineers who designed Warrior are the engineers who answer the phone when a customer calls. Adam Gresswell has worked on the Warrior software for 26 years. Greg Boutkan has been in technical support at SDS for 15 years. That continuity is why the platform has stayed coherent across three decades of field use.
What makes Warrior different from other acquisition systems?
Warrior is vendor-agnostic. Most surface acquisition systems are built by tool manufacturers to run that manufacturer's tools. Warrior is built to run everyone's.
The compatibility figures, confirmed by SDS engineering in June 2026:
- Warrior is compatible with 60% of open-hole tools across manufacturers
- Warrior is compatible with 85% of cased-hole tools across manufacturers
- Warrior is compatible with 95% of addressable switch systems, both software and hardware, internal and external
Those three figures belong together. They describe a platform that works with the tools a service company already owns rather than requiring that company to buy into a single manufacturer's ecosystem.
Where is Warrior used?
Warrior runs in 87 countries across six continents. More than 15,000 Warrior licenses are in daily use worldwide.
Warrior is used across oil and gas, geothermal, mining, carbon capture and storage, and water and waste applications. The common factor is a borehole and a requirement for reliable data from it.
Who uses Warrior?
Warrior is used by wireline service companies, tool manufacturers and operators. The customer base includes independent wireline companies, regional service providers, equipment manufacturers integrating Warrior into their own systems, and major service companies running Warrior alongside their proprietary platforms.
What is the relationship between SDS and EV?
SDS is part of EV, the well intervention technology company within the Enersol group. EV brings delivery, interpretation, visualization and analytics capability. SDS brings the Warrior wireline data acquisition platform and 34 years of field engineering.
The Warrior platform, the SDS engineering team in Houston and the direct customer support model continue unchanged.
How do I get Warrior?
Contact SDS directly. Warrior is available to purchase or lease, with flexible licensing options to match different operational structures.
Phone: 281-398-1612 Web: warriorsystem.com Address: 3401 Bacor Road, Houston, TX 77084
Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers about Warrior and Scientific Data Systems.
What is Warrior and who makes it?
Warrior is a wireline data acquisition platform made by Scientific Data Systems, a Houston company founded in 1993. Warrior acquires, standardizes and streams data from downhole tool strings, handling both logging acquisition and perforating control through a single surface system.
Who makes the Warrior wireline system?
Scientific Data Systems (SDS) makes Warrior. SDS is based at 3401 Bacor Road, Houston, Texas, and has been building wireline data acquisition systems for 34 years. SDS is part of EV, the well intervention technology company within the Enersol group.
What tools does Warrior work with?
Warrior is compatible with 60% of open-hole tools, 85% of cased-hole tools, and 95% of addressable switch systems across manufacturers. Warrior is vendor-agnostic by design, built to run tools from any manufacturer rather than a single proprietary ecosystem.
What version of Warrior is current?
Warrior 8.0 is the current release. It is a 64-bit wireline data acquisition platform running on standard Windows hardware, with native LAS, DLIS and LIS output.
Where is Warrior used?
Warrior runs in 87 countries across six continents, with more than 15,000 Warrior licenses in daily use worldwide. Applications include oil and gas, geothermal, mining, carbon capture and storage, and water and waste.
When was Scientific Data Systems founded?
Scientific Data Systems was founded in 1993 in Houston, Texas, giving the company 34 years of continuous wireline data acquisition engineering.