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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Danos Provides Personnel
To Gulf of Mexico Producer
GRAY, LA.-Danos announces it has
been awarded a multiyear contract for
production operations with a major oil
and gas producer in the Gulf of Mexico.
The contract calls for Danos to provide
traditional production service operations
and maintenance personnel, such as operators, shipping and receiving clerks and
electricians, Danos details. The company
mentions that many of these personnel
will be located off shore or in the customer's Lafayette, La., warehouse.
Danos reports it transitioned 107
personnel to the client's employment
in 30 days without any safety or operational issues.
" Our production services team is second to none, " says Owner Paul Danos.
" In the last few years, we have successfully completed more than 10 contract
transitions, representing more than 1,300
people. I am proud of our team and its
ability to remain in lockstep with our
customers' needs. "
For more information, visit
www.danos.com.
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STEP, UCS Form Alliance To Offer Affordable IOR
CALGARY-STEP Energy Services
Ltd. and Universal Chemical Solutions
Inc. have signed an agreement they say
will facilitate delivery of post-production
stimulation services to producers in the
Eagle Ford, Permian Basin, Niobrara-DJ
Basin and Bakken.
The agreement supports Single Shot
IOR™, which STEP describes as a patentpending, post-production stimulation technique that uses liquid petroleum gasses
and proprietary chemistry to mobilize
hydrocarbons in shale or tight sand, oilbearing reservoirs. According to STEP,
the system is designed to combat postproduction challenges and access pay left
behind by completions.
" The opportunity to utilize STEP's
LPG fracturing equipment and intellectual
property with UCS' Single Shot IOR
technology is expected to represent a
marked advancement in improved oil recovery methods, " comments Mike Burvill,
STEP's vice president of business development and innovation. " STEP expects
producers will be able to increase recovery
rates from their declining assets with a
single pumping treatment into the hy-

Caterpillar Wins Award For Well Service Engine
DEERFIELD, IL.-Caterpillar Inc.
has received the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's Clean Air Excellence Award in the clean air technology
category for the Cat® 3512E Tier 4
DGB™ engine.
Through dynamic gas blending, the
3512E Tier 4 DGB well service engine
enables operations to reduce diesel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions
while maintaining power, performance
and reliability, Caterpillar says. With
this innovative dual-fuel technology, the
company continues, the engine automatically maximizes natural gas use to

achieve the industry's best diesel displacement rate of up to 85%.
" It is a great honor to be recognized
by the EPA for our Cat 3512E DGB
engine, the first and only DGB engine
on the market certified to meet the U.S.
EPA Tier 4 Final emission standards, "
says Caterpillar Vice President Tana
Utley. " Many Caterpillar engineers, myself included, have built a career around
the journey to reduce diesel emissions
from heavy equipment to near-zero levels. Dynamic gas blending is another
game-changing step on our journey to
help customers meet their total cost of
ownership and greenhouse gas reduction
goals and build a better world. "
For more information, visit
www.cat.com.
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In addition to receiving a Clean Air Excellence award from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Caterpillar's 3512E
DGB engine was named " Engine of the
Year " by Diesel Progress in 2019. Caterpillar
mentions that it offers retrofit kits to enable
dynamic gas blending on existing 3512
diesel engines.

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drocarbon bearing reservoir. This could
represent a substantial cost saving when
compared with other high pressure, compression oil recovery operations. "
For more information, visit www.stepenergyservices.com, open the " Services "
menu and click " Innovation. "
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VAM® Connection Refined
To Push Offshore Envelope
HOUSTON-Vallourec has unveiled
VAM® SLIJ-3, the latest generation of
VAM semiflush premium connections for
critical offshore applications.
VAM SLIJ-3 was specifically designed
to meet the requirements of deep offshore
projects, Vallourec reports. The company
calls the connections a perfect fit for
complex well architectures that must handle pressures as high as 20,000 psi and
temperatures as hot as 350 degrees F.
VAM SLIJ-3 builds on decades of field
experience and expertise gained with VAM
SLIJ-II, Vallourec mentions. The company
says SLIJ-3's optimized design offers a
larger performance envelope, higher tension
and compression strength and greater torque
capacity, while still allowing for clearance.
The semiflush connection was validated
in priority on high-performance grades, including high collapse and sour service, and
has passed the industry's latest and most
stringent testing programs, such as API RP
5C5: 2017 CAL-IV, Vallourec assures.
For more information, visit
solutions.vallourec.com.
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Halliburton Aids Scholars
At Prairie View University
HOUSTON-Halliburton announces it
has established a $1 million scholarship
fund at Prairie View A&M University in
Prairie View, Tx., for junior or senior
students majoring in accounting, management information systems, finance
and engineering.
" We are grateful for Halliburton's commitment to the success of our engineering
and business students. Their provision of
scholarships, mentoring and internships
for Halliburton scholars will enhance
greatly these students' prospects for successful careers, " says Prairie View A&M
University President Ruth J. Simmons.
Students interested in applying can
do so through March 15. For details, visit
pvamu.academicworks.com.
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