American Oil and Gas Reporter - September 2017 - 118

IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Tracts Uses Automation
To Speed Title Reporting

HOUSTON-To accelerate mineral
ownership reporting, Tracts has introduced
its title software. Designed for land departments, the company says the product
automates much of the title process to
significantly reduce legal preparation
time.
Tracts calls its software a modern solution to the historically complex problem
of running title. Designed using a patentpending math engine and data visualization
approach, the software guides users
through the process of entering data from
legally executed ownership records, or
instruments, obtained from physical or
digital courthouses. As instruments are
added, the software dynamically creates
chain of title, run sheet, ownership flowcharts, and other reports, Tracts describes.
"Tracts has the immediate upshot of
saving oil and gas companies time, which
translates to 50 percent or more cost savings on title projects that can run into
millions of dollars," says Ashley Gilmore,
the company's chief executive officer
and co-founder. "But even more importantly, Tracts enables companies to lower
title risks and capitalize on opportunities
faster than ever, such as acquiring a hotly
contested tract in the Permian Basin. In
today's fast-paced and competitive leasing
arena, that is a real edge."
For information, visit www.tracts.co.r

Best Lawyers® Honors Babst Calland Attorneys
PITTSBURGH-Five attorneys from
Babst Calland have been selected as 2018
Best Lawyers® of the year. The firm says
only a single lawyer in each practice area
and designated metropolitan area is honored
as the "Lawyer of the Year," making this
accolade particularly significant.
The Babst Calland attorneys named
"Lawyer of the Year" in Pittsburgh are:
* Kevin J. Garber, for environmental
law;
* Blaine A. Lucas, for land use and
zoning law;
* Joseph K. Reinhart, for energy law;
and
* John A. McCreary Jr., for labor

AmerLink™ Service Loops Boost Top Drive Reliability
HOUSTON-Nexans AmerCable has
launched a new category in top drive
service loops. The company says its
AmerLinkTM "jacketed" loops have a
mold-cured outer jacket and are lighter,
more flexible, smaller, and more durable.
According to Nexans AmerCable, the
service loops, available in power, control
and instrumentation, are key to efficient
top-drive operation on rigs. To illustrate the
loops' durability, the company cites a set
of TDS-11 Amerlink service loops that has
completed 40 wells and still is going strong.
The "jacketed" loop design produces
a natural centering of conductors within

OTC Donates $200,000 To Aid Hurricane Victims

HOUSTON-The Offshore Technology
Conference announces it has donated
$200,000 to the Salvation Army for Hurricane
Harvey disaster relief. The show says this
donation was made possible through support
from its 13 sponsoring organizations, as
well as exhibitors and corporate sponsors.
"Houston and Harris County are home

law-management.
Timothy M. Miller was named the
environmental litigation "Lawyer of the
Year" for Charleston, W.V., Babst Calland
adds.
Best Lawyers, which Babst Calland
describes as the most respected peer-reviewed publication in the legal profession,
also recognized 26 of the firm's attorneys.
Two received recognition for oil and gas
law: Miller and Christopher B. Power.
Power also was honored in the natural
resources law category, alongside Kevin
K. Douglass, Garber and Reinhart.
For information, visit www.babstcalland.com or www.bestlawyers.com.r

to OTC and many of its exhibitors, attendees and volunteers. Our hearts are broken
seeing the devastation that Hurricane Harvey and the floods are wreaking on our
beloved city and the Gulf Coast region.
We are eager to provide support in many
ways, including this financial gift," says
OTC Chairman Wafik Beydoun.
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In response to customer demand, Vista Proppants & Logistics has built a fracture sand
terminal in Pecos, Tx. According
to VPROP, the facility has 21,000
feet of track, enough to hold
two 130-car unit trains. The company adds that the terminal is
the ﬁrst unit train-capable facility
in the southern Delaware Basin
that is served directly by Union
Paciﬁc Railroad. For information,
visit www.vprop.com.

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the loops, balancing tensile loads on components and creating a much stronger
product, the company says.
The company adds that its service loop
package takes up less space in the mast,
and is ideal for the new top-drive upgrades
that require two power loops. The AmerLink
also meets the 2017 revision of API RP14F.
For information, visit www.nexansamercable.com.
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Business Magazine Says
Moblize One Of U.S.' Best

DUBLIN, OH.-Insights Success, a
business enterprise magazine, has named
Houston-based Moblize one of the country's 20-most promising companies.
Moblize says its goal is to improve oil
and gas engineers' daily lives by helping
the industry exploit software. It says only
20 percent of the oil- and gas-centric software is used today by knowledge workers.
Moblize offers ProAct, enterprise software that provides business and operational
insights to help users do daily planning
and operations, post-well analysis and reporting. The company says ProACT is
backed by full services such as data aggregation and data preparation, which automatically detect quality issues, including
data gaps, missing or incomplete data, and
poorly calibrated data, and fix them through
operations centers in near real time.
The company adds it is close to releasing ProFRAC, a well completion analytics platform, and ProWISE, an artificial
intelligence-based knowledge platform.
For more information, visit
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www.moblize.com.

http://www.babstcalland.com http://www.babstcalland.com http://www.bestlawyers.com http://www.nexansamercable.com http://www.nexansamercable.com http://www.tracts.co http://www.vprop.com http://www.moblize.com

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