PBIOS - October 2021 - 153

IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
NexTier Allies With Silixa
To Ease Frac Evaluation
HOUSTON-NexTier Oilfield Solutions
Inc. announces it has launched the IntelliStim
fracturing optimization system and
completed its first project for a major
operator in the Mid-Continent region.
The proprietary IntelliStim system
packages NexTier's NexHub®
digital technologies
into a comprehensive, valueadded
offering, NexTier describes. According
to the company, the system enables
customers to monitor every aspect of the
completion operation in real time, including
detailed downhole visualizations
to verify the fracturing treatment is performing
as planned.
From pre-job treatment design to offset
PEOPLE
and successfully integrated eight acquisitions
in 90 days while consistently producing
on-target and on-time releases.
Bickford previously held senior software
engineering and management positions
at Global Software, where he nurtured a
team that met every release target. ❒
TOM H.
MCCASLAND
The Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance
has elected Tom H. McCasland
III to its board of directors.
McCasland is president of Mack Energy
Co., a privately owned exploration,
drilling and production company that
works in Oklahoma and South Louisiana.
He joined the company in 1984 and has
been president since 1996.
McCasland serves on the boards for
Mack Energy Co., Investors Trust Co.,
Enerwest Trading Co., McCasland
Foundation and BancFirst Corp, as
well as the Communities Foundation
of Oklahoma and the University of
Oklahoma Foundation.
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W Energy Software has appointed
Scott Bickford as its vice president of
software engineering.
Bickford has 15 years of enterprise
software development and leadership
experience. Most recently, he was senior
director of software engineering at
Insight Software, a provider of financial
reporting solutions, where he led an
initiative to scale the engineering factory
Quorum Software has named Paul
Langenbahn its president. He will be
responsible for worldwide customerfacing
operations.
Most recently, Langenbahn was executive
vice president and president of
the commerce business unit of NCR
Corp., a global enterprise technology
provider for the financial, retail and hospitality
industries. Before NCR, he served
as executive vice president and president
Chemical manufacturer Shotwell Hydrogenics
has appointed Len Wall its director
of commercial operations. Wall
has 20 years' experience in the chemicals
industry and joins Shotwell from Chemisol
Energy Solutions and NuAgro Resources.
A serial entrepreneur, he previously held
roles at Betz Laboratories (now GE Betz),
Entec and Betz Power.
Shotwell also has hired Chris Acosta
as regional sales manager for the Permian
Basin. Acosta comes to the company
after nearly 10 years with Basic Energy
Services, where he held sales, operations
and district management roles. The Midland
native has spent his career focused
on the Permian Basin.
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of Radiant Systems' hospitality division
from 2007 until the company's sale to
NCR in 2011. During his 25 years
with Radiant and NCR, Langenbahn
held several senior leadership roles in
general management, sales and professional
services.
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well monitoring, stage-by-stage performance
assessments and detailed visualizations
of downhole fracture propagation
during pumping, all surface and downhole
data will be hosted on the NexHub Digital
Center and displayed using Corva's industry-leading
visualization platform,
NexTier clarifies. The company says this
empowers all decision-makers, whether
they are at the well site or working remotely,
with precise control to make dynamic
adjustments to optimize completion
performance.
The IntelliStim system uses Silixa's
Carina®
sensing system to assess frac
design performance in real time, NexTier
says, noting that the Carina system incorporates
a Constellation fiber-equipped
sensing wireline cable to cost-effectively
monitor fracture growth, azimuthal development
and cluster efficiency while
pumping. With the ability to be repeatedly
deployed and retrieved in multiple offset
wells by a NexTier wireline truck, this
proven solution achieves the most accurate
measurements and highest signal-to-noise
ratio in the industry, NexTier praises.
" Partnering with Silixa brings our leading
completions expertise together with the
global leader in fiber-optic sensing, " says
Robert Drummond, NexTier's president
and chief executive officer. " In real time,
as the operation progresses, the IntelliStim
system provides an unprecedented level of
quality control and efficiency over every
component of your completion program. "
For more information, visit www.nextierofs.com
or silixa.com.
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DUSTIN
PONTHIEUX
Foster Marketing has named Dustin
Ponthieux event coordinator. He will
be responsible for coordinating and
managing trade shows and client
events in the United States and overseas.
Ponthieux
holds a degree in business
marketing with a minor in international
business from the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette. He has coordinated
more than 250 events for Oklahoma
State and Ragin' Cajuns athletics
programs.
Ponthieux is a five-year U.S. Marine
Corps veteran with diplomatic experience
from his time as a Marine Corps
security guard at the U.S. embassies in
Qatar, Singapore and Russia. He also
studied in Italy and France.
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