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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products

Nine Energy Service
Inc. is rolling out new
wireline trucks that feature windows above
and on the side, as
well as an open back
that allows 90-degree
visibility. Nine says
these SkyVIEW trucks
enhance safety. The reengineered logging
unit makes it possible
to change the wireline
drum in only 20 minutes, allowing different types of cable to be used for varying job requirements, the company adds. To minimize downtime, the trucks have space for an extra
drum and a separate power pack that can keep the operation running if the vehicle fails,
Nine concludes. For information, visit nineenergyservice.com.

Reveal Energy Services Map Fractures Faster
HOUSTON-Reveal Energy Services is
enhancing its IMAGE Frac™ pressure-based
fracture maps with a platform that uses
parallel processing with rigorous algorithms
to determine fracture geometry for large,
complex pad operations in multiple zones.
The platform enables the company's
geoscientists and completion engineers to
rapidly and consistently compute 3-D
fracture map geometry of half-length, height,
asymmetry, and azimuth without interpre-

BASINTEK's New Name
Reinforces Abaco Brand
HOUSTON-BASINTEK is changing
its name to Abaco Drilling Technologies
to align with its parent company, Abaco
Energy Technologies.
Abaco Drilling Technologies notes it
has the same ownership, facilities, people
and products as before. "Our commitment
to bringing leading-edge power section
technology to our customers, with worldclass customer service, will remain unchanged," says President Dan O'Sullivan.
Abaco Drilling Technologies says it
serves clients around the world through
its headquarters in Houston and offices
in Odessa, Tx., Leduc, Canada, and Dubai.
The company reports it employs 300 people and has 300,000 square feet of manufacturing space, with 60,000 square feet
being added in Dubai.
"Our state-of-the-art materials research
center will further enable us to continue
developing elastomers that lead the industry in power section performance for
today's tough drilling environments," says
Pete Cariveau, the company's vice president of engineering.
For information, please visit www.abacodrilling.com.
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tation subjectivity, Reveal says. According
to the company, the ability to rapidly process
large projects and provide fracture geometry
and other fracture attributes for hundreds
or thousands of frac stages lets operators
take full advantage of advances in machine
learning and improve the predictability of
their completion design performance.
"By continually developing our technology, we are enabling operators to
extract further statistical data insight that
leads to more meaningful and informed
decisions that increase hydraulic fracturing
efficiency," says Sudhendu Kashikar, Reveal's chief executive officer.
For information, visit reveal-energy.com.
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Best Lawyers Recognizes
Babst Calland Attorneys
PITTSBURGH-Best Lawyers has selected five lawyers from Babst Calland
as 2019 lawyers of the year in Pittsburgh
and Charleston, W.V. Babst Calland points
out that only one lawyer in each practice
and designated metropolitan area receives
this honor. It reflects respect the lawyer has
earned among colleagues in the same communities and practice areas for their abilities,
professionalism and integrity, the firm says.
The recipients from Babst Calland are:
* Kevin J. Garber, for natural resources law in Pittsburgh;
* Joseph K. Reinhart, for environmental law in Pittsburgh;
* Mark D. Shepard, for environmental
litigation in Pittsburgh;
* Timothy M. Miller, for environmental litigation in Charleston; and
* Christopher B. "Kip" Power, for
environmental law in Charleston.
The firm adds that all five lawyers
also received listings in the 2019 edition
of The Best Lawyers in America under
various categories. These include natural
resources, oil and gas, water, mining and
environmental law, as well as environmental, commercial, regulatory enforcement and "bet the company" litigation.
For information, visit www.babstcalland.com or www.bestlawyers.com.r

Atlas Sand Company Opens Frac Sand Mine
AUSTIN, TX.-Atlas Sand Company
LLC has opened its Kermit, Tx., facility,
with the site completing its first scheduled
deliveries of fracture sand on July 29.
Atlas says the new facility's anticipated
production capacity is 4 million tons a
year, and management expects to reach
this rate before Sept. 30.
"Since the formation of the company
in April of last year, we have been
working hard toward our vision of building the best-in-class, built-to-last frac
sand production facilities. With Atlas
Kermit now operational, we are very
pleased to be able to reliably provide
our customers with the high-quality
local Permian frac sand they need," says

Ben M. "Bud" Brigham, Atlas Sand's
founder and chairman.
According to Brigham, the open dune
deposits mined by Atlas Sand have important advantages relative to buried sand
deposits, including less pedogenesis and
thus fewer impurities, as well as thousands
of years of winnowing and sorting to
enhance sphericity and thus quality.
For more information, please visit
www.atlassand.com.
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Atlas Sand Company LLC is producing
fracture sand at its new facility in Kermit,
Tx. With seven truck lanes and 225 truckloads of dry storage for each lane, the
company says it expects to cycle 500
trucks through the facility each day.

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