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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Texas Alliance Recognizes
House Science Chairman

SAN ANTONIO-The Texas Alliance
of Energy Producers has honored U.S.
Representative Lamar Smith, the Texas
Republican who chairs the House Science,
Space & Technology Committee, with
its Congressman of the Year Award.
"Chairman Smith has been a tireless
worker for sound energy policy as chairman
of one of the most prestigious committees
in the House of Representatives," praises
Alliance President and Chief Executive
Officer Alex Mills. "He has been a champion for the domestic oil and gas industry
from top to bottom, but especially for the
small independent oil and gas producer."
Mills recalls earlier in 2015, President
Obama issued a proposal to eliminate
key tax provisions for small independent
producers.
"Chairman Smith's quick reaction to
the plan to repeal the tax provisions was
key in the ability of independents, who
drill 96 percent of the wells in Texas, to
continue operations, especially when the
industry was in contraction," Mills says.
He adds Smith also was active in writing legislation that would have required
federal regulatory agencies to show the
science they used when they proposed
new restrictions on industry.
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Global Tubing Delivers Record-Weight CT String
DAYTON, TX.-Global Tubing LLC
reports delivering its second recordbreaking coiled tubing string to the Port
of Houston for shipment to the Middle
East.
The 2.375-inch diameter string weighs
136,000 pounds at a continuous length

This 30,000-foot, 2.375-inch diameter
coiled tubing string, which was manufactured by Global Tubing LLC, is heading for
a project in the Arabian Gulf. The company says it is one of the largest (by
weight) coiled tubing strings ever produced.

Schlumberger Signs Deal For VorTeqTM Frac System
SAN LEANDRO, CA.-Energy Recovery Inc., says it has signed a 15-year
deal with Schlumberger Technology Corp.,
providing Schlumberger with exclusive
rights to Energy Recovery's VorTeqTM

Revised Duoline® System Improves Performance

GILMER, TX.-The Duoline® flush
system provides increased through-bore
while maintaining all the benefits of the
original Duoline DL ring system, the
company says.
Using the same component material
with an enhanced internal geometry, Duoline says its system is an extension and
natural progression of the successful DL
system, which has been used in thousands
of onshore and offshore wells over the
past 10 years.
Duoline is a glass-reinforced epoxy

of 30,000 feet. The company says it is
one of the largest, by weight, CT strings
ever produced, surpassing Global Tubing's previous record by more than 3,000
pounds.
A CT service company will use the
string in an artificial islands project in the
Upper Zakum region of the Arabian Gulf,
Global Tubing says.
The string features Global Tubing's
continuous taper design, which the company says enables rapid wall thickness
transitions. The strategic placement of
those transitions provides additional tubing
strength where is it most needed, Global
Tubing indicates.
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lining system that, when installed into
carbon steel casing and tubing, protects
the base material from corrosion from
carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, oxygen,
chlorides and water that may be present
in the well fluid or gas. According to the
company, the system can accommodate
reservoir cleanup using hydrochloric acid
in concentrations as high as 28 percent.
The system can be installed into threaded oil country tubular goods with most
connection options, Duoline notes. The
Duoline flush system employs a patented
FL-RingTM system that permits lining
shoulder-to-shoulder premium connections
without affecting the connections' geometry or performance, the company says.
For
information,
visit
www.duoline.com.
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The Duoline® flush system, a glass-reinforced epoxy lining that protects carbon
steel casing and tubing from corrosion,
accommodates interventions with coiled
tubing and wireline, the company says.

hydraulic pumping system, the first hydraulic fracturing manifold ("missile")
built to isolate fracturing pumps from
abrasive proppants.
According to Energy Recovery, the
VorTeq system replaces the missiles traditionally used in fracturing, which route
water, proppants and chemicals downhole
at treating pressures as high as 15,000
psi. With VorTeq, the company says fracturing pumps will process clean or proppant-free water, and transfer the hydraulic
energy to the fluid within the VorTeq
missiles.
The heart of the VorTeq system is
Energy Recovery's pressure exchange
technology, which captures and recycles
otherwise wasted pressure energy in fluid
flows through a clean liquid-to-liquid energy exchange between high- and lowpressure fluids, the company says. The
system has a single moving part made of
tungsten carbide, and transfers as much
as 95 percent of the hydraulic energy
from one fluid to the next.
"We believe VorTeq is a paradigm
shift for the hydraulic fracturing industry
as it significantly reduces maintenance
costs associated with pumping downtimes,
and provides considerable redundancy
efficiencies," says Joel Gay, Energy Recovery's president and chief executive
officer.
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