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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Gardner Denver HPS Excels In Client Satisfaction Survey
HOUSTON-Gardner Denver High
Pressure Solutions reports it has achieved
a top rating in total satisfaction in the
2021 Oilfield Products Customer Satisfaction Survey, a global survey EnergyPoint Research has conducted annually
since 2007.
More than 50 major product suppliers
were listed in this year's survey, with 34
companies receiving the minimum number
of evaluations to be included in the final
rankings. Gardner Denver notes it has
placed among the top five companies
overall, garnering the top rating in five

product categories: mud pumps; performance and reliability; horizontal and directional applications; HPHT applications;
and harsh-environment applications.
" We are proud to have been rated so
highly in this survey in multiple categories
for the tenth consecutive year, " comments
Edward Bayhi, Gardner Denver HPS' vice
president and general manager. " Our top
ranking this year in such key categories
underlines our ongoing commitment to
customer service and technical expertise. "
For more information, visit
www.pumpingperfected.com.
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United States Steel Joins ResponsibleSteel™ Effort
PITTSBURGH-United States Steel
Corporation announces it has joined ResponsibleSteel™, a global nonprofit forum
for all members of the steel supply chain
and civil society organizations to work
together to promote steel's contribution
to a sustainable future.
" ResponsibleSteel is an important part
of U. S. Steel's environment, social and
governance commitments and the 2050
carbon neutrality goal we just announced, "
comments U. S. Steel President and Chief
Executive Officer David B. Burritt. " By
joining ResponsibleSteel, we are demonstrating our intent to take our efforts beyond
goals and actually deliver profitable solutions for our stakeholders and the planet. "
Anne-Claire Howard, CEO of ResponsibleSteel, says, " We are absolutely
delighted to welcome U. S. Steel as our
first North American steel maker member.

As one of the world's leading steel producers, U. S. Steel brings a vast amount
of experience and influence to help us
achieve our mission and goals. "
Noting that the steel industry accounts
for 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions,
she adds, " U. S. Steel joining makes us a
truly global organization, covering all
corners of the globe with nearly 10% of
global steel production. "
For more information, visit
www.ussteel.com or www.responsiblesteel.org.
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KATY, TX.-U.S. Silica Holdings Inc.
has released its Corporate Responsibility
Report, which the company says summarizes
its global sustainability activities, performance and results from calendar year 2020.
U.S. Silica says it views its sustainability efforts through the lens of its core
values-respect, safety, integrity and community-and has 10 value-consistent " Bold
Goals " it aims to achieve by 2025. For
2020, U.S. Silica created 29 goals aligned
with the Bold Goals.
According to the company, highlights
include:
· Integrating company products into
environmentally-friendly supply chains;
· Significantly reducing several facilities' water use;
· Fostering a culture of leadership
and growth, with women representing
36% of total salaried employees and 20%
of senior management positions; and
· Achieving its safest year on record,
with a total recordable incident rate of
0.77, a 10% improvement year-over-year,
and a lost time incident rate of 0.11, a
38% improvement year-over-year.
To read the report, visit ussilica.gcsweb.com.
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Ambyint, Microsoft Partner To Optimize Lift On Azure
HOUSTON-Ambyint reports it has
formed a co-sell qualified partnership with
Microsoft Corp. to provide solutions that
optimize rod lift and plunger lift wells.
Ambyint says its solutions leverage

Piñon Building Sour Gas Plant For Delaware Basin
HOUSTON-Piñon Midstream LLC
announces that construction has begun
on its green-field Dark Horse sour gas
treating and carbon capture facility and
associated pipeline infrastructure in Lea
County, N.M.
The project includes a centralized
amine treating facility, an 18,000-footdeep acid gas sequestration well and
30,000 horsepower of full NACE field
compression and is expandable to treat
up to 400 million cubic feet of sour gas a
day, Piñon describes. The midstream firm
says these assets are designed to gather
and treat natural gas containing any concentration of hydrogen sulfide and carbon
dioxide, with the ability to deliver treated
sweet gas to multiple third-party gas pro-

U.S. Silica Publishes Report
Highlighting Record Safety

cessing plants.
" Our goal is to provide the most creative and cost-effective sour gas solution
for the Delaware Basin, " says Piñon Midstream co-founder and President Steven
Green. " Not only does our project provide
a comprehensive solution for sequestering
CO2 and H2S, it also substantially reduces
flaring and greenhouse gas emissions in
southeast New Mexico. "
Piñon indicates the Dark Horse Facility
will begin operations in July 2021 with
the capacity to treat 85 million cubic feet
of sour gas per day. A second amine
treating plant is scheduled to come on
line in the fourth quarter.
For more information, visit pinonmidstream.com.
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Microsoft Azure within its platform to
increase production, lower operating expenses and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by delivering production optimization
at scale. According to Ambyint, the solutions draw on advanced physics-based
models, deep subject matter expertise
and artificial intelligence to automate
anomaly detection, controller setpoint
recommendations, setpoint changes and
production versus plan analytics.
Ambyint's partnership with Microsoft
Azure allows for seamless deployment
of Ambyint's automated, domain-driven
data ingestion and contextualization capabilities for SCADA systems and other
oil and gas software's batch and streaming
data, Ambyint relates. The company adds
that the partnership enables deployment
of its production and artificial lift optimization applications into companies'
existing Azure environments.
For more information, view the Azure
Marketplace's listings for Ambyint InfinityRL™, InfinityPL™ and SmartStream™ or visit www.ambyint.com. r

http://www.pumpingperfected.com http://www.ussteel.com http://www.responsiblesteel.org http://ussilica.gcs-web.com/ http://www.responsiblesteel.org http://ussilica.gcs-web.com/ http://www.pinonmidstream.com http://www.ambyint.com http://www.pinonmidstream.com

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