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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.

StrataGen's Brian Dzubin speaks to SPE - Gulf Coast Section about the Barnett shale

noemail@carboceramics.com — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Brian will speak to the Completions & Production study group on Monday, August 23. The title of his talk is "It took years to get it, but we have another lesson from the Barnett shale!"

Click here to register: http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1748

CARBO Purchases Fracpro 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.

CARBO's Mark Chapman speaks about proppant to SPE Gulf Coast Section

noemail@carboceramics.com — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:00:00 GMT

Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know about Hydraulic Fracturing Proppant... But Were Afraid to Ask!

Click here to register: http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1667

CARBO Announces Sigmund L. Cornelius Elected to Board of Directors

noemail@carboceramics.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:00 GMT

HOUSTON (November 17, 2009) -- CARBO Ceramics Inc. (NYSE: CRR) today announced the company's board of directors (Board) elected Sigmund L. Cornelius as an additional member of the Board. Mr. Cornelius is the Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of ConocoPhillips and has over 25 years of experience in the oil and natural gas industry. Mr. Cornelius has also been appointed to the Compensation, Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees of the Board. We are pleased with the addition of Sig to our Board and look forward to gaining the value of his experience in the energy industry, said Gary Kolstad, President and CEO. He brings a wealth of expertise in global operations and has a deep understanding of finance and accounting principles, concluded Mr. Kolstad. CARBO is the world's largest supplier of ceramic proppant, the provider of the world's most popular fracture simulation software, and provides leading fracture design and consulting...

CARBO Ceramics Inc. Announces Acquisition of BBL Falcon Assets

noemail@carboceramics.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT

Houston, Texas (October 2, 2009) -- CARBO Ceramics Inc. (CARBO) announced today that it has acquired through a wholly owned subsidiary the assets of BBL Falcon Industries, Ltd., a leading supplier of spill prevention and containment systems for the oil and gas industry. President and CEO Gary Kolstad commented, Falcon is an excellent addition to CARBO's current product and service offerings. We are excited about adding another growing business to CARBO, and are pleased that we will be selling Falcon's products and services to our existing client base of E&P and oilfield services companies. Falcon uses proprietary technology to provide value-added solutions that are designed to enable our clients to extend the life of their storage assets, reduce the potential for hydrocarbon spills and provide secure containment of stored materials. We believe these issues remain important as the oil and gas industry continues to increase its focus on environmental responsibility and compliance...