American Oil and Gas Reporter - August 2018 - 133

IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Quadrant™ Sliding Sleeves
Minimize Operational Risks
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CALGARY-The Quadrant system
from Packers Plus Energy Services Inc.
brings simplicity and reliability to operators
running coiled tubing-activated completion
systems, Packers Plus says.
According to the company, the system
combines closeable sliding sleeves with
a simplified shifting tool specially engineered to activate the sliding sleeves without a packer element. This unique design
reduces wellbore drag and operational
risk in long laterals, while enabling operators to deliver high-rate stimulation treatments with precise placement.
Quadrant was first run by an operator in
Western Canada in a horizontal well with a
measured depth exceeding 9,000 feet, Packers Plus relates. Every sliding sleeve in the
system was successfully shifted for production testing, the company reports.
For information, visit packersplus.com.
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Hi-Crush Buys Provider
Of Fracture Sand Silos
HOUSTON-Hi-Crush Partners LP reports it has entered an agreement to
acquire FB Industries Inc., a manufacturer
and marketer of silo-based fracture sand
management systems, for a total initial
consideration of $60 million.
"We are extremely excited to expand
our last mile service capabilities with the
addition of silo-based systems," says Robert
E. Rasmus, Hi-Crush's chief executive officer. "With the acquisition of FB Industries,
Hi‐Crush will be the only provider of
both silo and container solutions in the
frac sand logistics industry, providing customers the flexibility to choose the solution
that best fits their specific well site needs."
FB's silo solution maximizes singlesystem storage capacity at the well site,
Hi-Crush says, explaining that each system
is capable of storing 1,680 tons of proppant, 30 percent more than alternative
silos. The extra storage minimizes pad
size and footprint requirements while offering significant flexibility and enabling
mobile forward-placement of proppant
inventory, Hi-Crush reports.
The company adds that the silos' fully-enclosed top-fill conveyor system enables proppant to be transported and
loaded with belly-dump trucks, which
are faster than pneumatic trailers and
generate less silica dust.
For information, visit www.hicrush.com.
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SGS Partners With BHGE On Corrosion Monitoring
HOUSTON-SGS, which provides visual inspection and nondestructive testing
services for large industrial assets, and
Baker Hughes, a GE company, have
formed an alliance to jointly deploy and
commercialize BHGE's solution for predictive corrosion management (PCM).
PCM generates wall thickness and
temperature measurements from BHGE
Rightrax PM ultrasonic sensors placed
on critical equipment such as pipes, tanks
and vessels, BHGE describes. The solution
applies advanced analytics to assess and
predict corrosion in real time, the company
says, adding that these data traditionally
are gathered through risky and time-consuming manual inspections.
"This partnership with BHGE will enable SGS to broaden its asset integrity

service offering with advanced digital inspection solutions that will greatly benefit
our oil and gas clients," comments François
Marti, SGS chief operating officer for
North America.
Holger Laubenthal, chief executive
officer for BHGE's inspection technologies, says, "We are looking forward to
working with SGS to accelerate deployment of PCM, a predictive digital solution
that is becoming a benchmark for corrosion
monitoring across several industries. This
agreement will play a key role in improving safety, reducing equipment downtime and improving operations for our
customers globally."
For
information,
visit
www.sgs.com/en/campaigns/predictivecorrosion-management.
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Latest Roxar™ RMS Eases Reservoir Characterization
STAVANGER, NORWAY-Emerson
announces it has launched Roxar™
RMS 11, the latest version of its reservoir
characterization software.
According to the company, the software includes an intuitive interface for
facies modeling of channelized reservoirs,
as well as smarter algorithms, less iterations and more flexible geometries that
make well conditioning easier to achieve.
Emerson adds that RMS 11 features new
tools to control volume fractions when
modeling facies in facies associations.
Other enhancements provide unified
and integrated concepts for describing
and defining regions, geometries and
attributes in structural and grid models,
Emerson reports. Users can incorporate
a combination of region geometries and
attributes in modeling-for instance, in
map generation, volumetrics and flowmodel building. According to the com-

pany, this ability increases automation
and improves the user experience in
multirealization workflows.
The suite also comes with a new
plug-in technology designed to ensure
it is placed ideally for future Web and
cloud-enabled workflows and remains
one of the industry's most open and
flexible reservoir characterization solutions, Emerson adds.
"Roxar RMS 11 is all about the
users-enabling them to work smarter
and get the reservoir modeling results
and decision making intelligence they
need in less time," summarizes Kjetil
Fagervik, vice president of Roxar software product development and marketing
at Emerson Automation Solutions.
"Users can look forward to a fully open,
highly automated interactive reservoir
modeling solution, leading to better and
faster decisions and the very best information for future drilling,
production and field development strategies."
For information, visit
www.emerson.com/roxar.r
The latest version of Emerson's Roxar™ RMS reservoir
characterization software features a new graphical user
interface for facies modeling
that improves the user experience while allowing more
geometries to be included in
models, Emerson says.

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http://www.sgs.com/en/campaigns/predictive-corrosion-management http://www.packersplus.com http://www.emerson.com/roxar http://www.hicrush.com
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