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Falcon Technologies Begins Marcellus Shale Operations

noemail@carboceramics.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:00:00 GMT

HOUSTON (August 31, 2010) - Falcon Technologies and Services, Inc. - a leading provider of custom spill prevention, control and countermeasure (SPCC) systems - has announced commencement of operations in the Marcellus shale resource play. The company also currently operates in a five-state region of the Southwestern U.S., including areas such as the Haynesville, Barnett, Fayetteville and Eagle Ford shale basins. Falcon provides innovative spray-in liners for secondary containments, tank liners and tank bases to help mitigate environmental risk and reduce life-cycle economic impact for companies in the oil and natural gas industry. The company's regional operations are located in Horseheads, New York, to service customers throughout the Marcellus shale play. These operations will be overseen by regional manager Larry Glaser and regional sales manager Mike Nordel. We look forward to providing our clients with innovative, cost-efficient containment solutions to...

CARBO Introduces Innovative, Non-Radioactive Traceable Proppant

noemail@carboceramics.com — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:00:00 GMT

HOUSTON (June 28, 2010) – CARBO announced today the introduction of CARBONRT™, an innovative, environmentally responsible development in proppant placement. This technology incorporates a taggant that allows downhole, near-wellbore detection of ceramic proppant. CARBONRTassists in determining fracture propagation and geometry in a manner that is designed to optimize stimulation effectiveness and maximize productive capacity.

With non-radioactive CARBONRT, there is no half-life deterioration of the detectable properties. The proppant is engineered for extended identification, giving operators the flexibility of conducting post-frac logging months or years after fracturing.

The proprietary tracer can be added to any ceramic proppant in CARBO’s extensive product line. It is uniformly distributed through each grain of proppant, assuring consistent distribution of the traceable marker throughout the fracture zone.

“CARBONRTis a unique product that offers the E&P industry a traceable proppant without the half-life and potential environmental hazards involved with radioactive tracers,” said Gary Kolstad, CARBO’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “This provides flexibility to conduct proppant detection analysis with standard logging tools for an indefinite period of time.”

Company Information:
CARBO is the world's largest supplier of ceramic proppant for fracturing oil and gas wells; provider of the world's most popular fracture simulation software; and a provider of fracture design and consulting services. The company also provides a broad range of technologies for spill prevention, containment and countermeasures, along with geotechnical monitoring.

CARBO Purchases FracproPT Software

noemail@carboceramics.com — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT

HOUSTON (June 14, 2010) – CARBO Ceramics Inc. announced today that it has purchased all the intellectual property rights and trademarks for Fracpro® fracture design modeling software from the Gas Technology Institute.

According to CARBO President and Chief Executive Officer, Gary Kolstad, the purchase will allow continued development of the FracproPT software program along with additional well stimulation programs that complement the technology.

“The purchase of Fracpro software reaffirms CARBO’s commitment to our fracturing software business. We intend to continue development, expansion and evolution of the technology to provide our customers with more modern and efficient tools,” said Kolstad.

FracproPT is the most widely used fracture design modeling software in the world. It is used to design and optimize hydraulic stimulation operations, thereby increasing well production. Real-time capabilities allow it to be used before, during and after the job to analyze fracture effectiveness.