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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
MarketView By Drillinginfo
Named Best Data Manager

AUSTIN, TX.-For the second year in
a row, Drillinginfo has secured the 'Data
Management House of the Year' award
for its market data and enterprise data
management solution, MarketView.
According to Drillinginfo, MarketView
has become a leader in the oil and gas
analytics field for its unique ability to
provide intuitive access to a comprehensive
collection of global energy and commodity
market data. MarketView helps users visualize, track, and analyze real-time and
historical market data as well as global
news and proprietary data, which Drillinginfo says enables the most profitable decisions in a relatively short time.
The 2017 Data Management House
of the Year award is presented by Energy
Risk to the most exceptional offering in
enterprise data for the energy and commodity industry, Drillinginfo says. The
company reports it got top spots in the
Energy Risk Rankings survey of energy
and commodities companies, including
first place in the ease of using system,
preferred data management system and
best data management customer service
categories, and third place in the best at
integrating with other systems, best data
analytics and charting and ETRM software
customer support services categories.
For information, visit drillinginfo.com.
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AOCS Honors Randal Hill
For Surfactant Research

HOUSTON-The American Oil
Chemists Society has awarded Randal Hill
its 2017 Samuel Rosen Memorial Award.
Hill is a research fellow and formulation
development manager at Flotek Industries
Inc. The award recognizes his work on
high-performance products for upstream oil
and gas, including the next generation of
Flotek's Complex nano-Fluid® chemistries,
which the company describes as a nontoxic
alternative to traditional surfactants.
"Hill has made many noteworthy contributions to our research and innovation
efforts at Flotek, including developing
more than 40 approved and pending
patents related to our oil field chemistry
products," says James Silas, vice president
of research and innovation. "We are so
proud of his accomplishments and look
forward to his continued contributions to
the field of surfactant chemistry."
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Trendsetter, Add Energy Partner For Offshore Safety

HOUSTON-Trendsetter Engineering
and Add Energy report they have secured
a contract to supply engineering expertise
and Trendsetter's patented Relief Well
Injection Spool (RWIS) in support of
an operator's drilling campaign on a
newly sanctioned field development.
According to Trendsetter, the RWIS
enables well control experts to pump
more than 200 barrels of kill mud a
minute through a single relief well using
multiple vessels, as opposed to the conventional method of multiple relief wells.
The RWIS is installed on the relief
well's wellhead beneath the blowout
preventer to provide additional flow
connections into the wellbore. Using
high‐pressure flex lines, the inlets enable
pumping units from separate floating
vessels, in addition to the relief well
rig, to deliver a high‐rate dynamic kill,
Trendsetter describes.

By moving the required pumps and
mud storage tanks to separate vessels,
the RWIS increases redundancy and operational flexibility, Trendsetter and Add
say. They indicate the technology creates
the potential for an off-bottom kill,
which could reduce spill volumes by
providing a faster relief well intercept.
"We are eager to implement our combined expertise with this client to ensure
safe and economic drilling operations,"
says Morten Haug Emilsen, senior vice
president at Add Energy. "Our enhancements in well control technology will allow
for drilling of prolific reservoirs and still
maintain single relief well contingency.
The RWIS technology has a huge cost
saving potential that enables larger completions and optimized casing design."
For information, visit www.trendsetterengineering.com or www.addenergy.no.
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The Relief Well Injection Spool from Trendsetter Engineering (left) enables several
vessels to send kill mud through a single relief well (right). This eliminates the need for
multiple relief wells during blowouts that only can be contained by pumping mud at
rates exceeding a single drilling rig's capacity, Trendsetter says.

Wave And Motion Predictor Eases Offshore Operations

GROTON, CT.-Applied Physical Sciences Corp. now offers FutureWaves™, a
wave and vessel motion forecasting product
it says will progress offshore operations.
Developed initially by APS under
funding provided by the U.S. Navy, FutureWaves is a real-time ship-borne system that uses a specialized X-band radar
to measure and forecast ocean waves in
the vicinity of the ship, APS describes.
The company says the system determines
the timing of waves and their impacts,
then predicts ship motions (such as
heave, pitch and roll) for minutes into
the future.
According to APS, the system provides
feedback for operational planning such

as the best course and speed for a particular
operation, and uniquely delivers critical
timing information during ship and deck
operations.
Though FutureWaves' development
initially focused on helping the U.S. Navy
load and offload heavy equipment at sea,
APS says the technology's applications
are vast and varied. A world-leading international oil and gas marine contractor
is planning to install the product on its
largest deepwater construction vehicle,
APS illustrates, adding that it is discussing
installations on drilling and production
vessels and platforms.
For information, visit aphysci.com/products?id=70.
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