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IndustryFocus: Companies, People and Products
Babst Calland Opens Office In The District Of Columbia
PITTSBURGH-Babst Calland has
opened an office in the District of Columbia and has added two energy attorneys,
James Curry and Keith Coyle.
The firm describes opening the Washington office, its sixth location, as a significant event in its 30-year history. Curry
and Coyle are joining Babst Calland's energy and natural resources practice group
as shareholders. Both come from a
prominent Washington environmental
and energy law firm and have served as
attorneys for the Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration.

"We are expanding the capabilities of
our nationally-recognized energy and environmental practice by adding Jim and
Keith, and by creating a pipeline and hazardous material safety practice with a
new office in our nation's capital," says
Babst Calland Managing Shareholder
Chester R. Babst III. "We are very
pleased to welcome these well-regarded
attorneys to our firm, as they share similar values and (our) philosophy for serving clients."
For information, visit www.babstcalland.com.
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Nine Energy Service Inc. Completes 50-Stage Frac
HOUSTON-Nine Energy Service Inc.
completed its first 50-stage Divert-AFrac open hole system for a large
independent Williston Basin operator.
The company says all stages were
placed successfully and the stimulation
job was completed as designed with 3.5
million pounds of proppant and 52,300
barrels of fluid. The stimulation took 50
hours. Nine Energy says there was no
nonproductive time related to system
operations.
"The operator was looking for a singlepoint entry solution to increase his stage
count from 35 to 50 without resorting to
limited entry cluster stimulation," says
Rickey Green, Nine Energy's vice
president for the Rocky Mountain region.
"This success was a result of detailed
testing and analysis of Nine Energy's
Divert-A-Frac port sub fracture sleeve to
confirm the 50-stage design was sound."
Nine Energy says its team worked
closely with the operator to engineer the
system for his 10,000-foot laterals. The
fracture sleeves were pressure tested with
dissolvable metallic actuation balls.
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demonstrated that ball-on-seat performance would not be affected by the
planned proppant stimulation in the 50sleeve system, the company adds.
According to Nine Energy, the DivertA-Frac open hole system 50-stage sleeve
capability will enable operators working
in the Bakken and other formations to
stimulate their wells with more stages, at
higher rates, and with more control over
fracture initiation and propagation than
traditional cluster stimulation.
For information, contact Nine Energy
Service at 281-730-5113 or visit
www.nineenergyservice.com.
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Halliburton Unveils DashTM
To Aid Deepwater Safety
HOUSTON-Halliburton has released
the DashTM three-inch subsea safety system, which it describes as a complete solution for electrohydraulic control of
Halliburton's subsea safety tree.
According to Halliburton, this latest
edition of the Dash series employs the
speed of electrohydraulic actuation on
core safety functions, while still providing full direct hydraulic redundant function control to increase reliability and
provide more cost-efficient operation and
maintenance.
Linking with downhole and surface
read-out control systems, the Dash system
enables analysis to help drive optimal performance and avoid nonproductive time
during deepwater dynamic testing, the
company indicates.
Halliburton says the Dash system was
deployed on a deepwater well in Latin
America from a vessel in 7,506 feet of
water with more than 400 hours of inhole operational time. During this deepwater well test, DASH demonstrated a
six-second downhole safety shut-in followed by an eight-second surface shut-in
and disconnect.
For information, visit www.halliburton.com/subsea.
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Sysdrill 10.5 Extends Well Planning, Drill Engineering
HOUSTON-Paradigm® has released
Paradigm Sysdrill® 10.5, the latest version of its integrated suite of well planning and drilling engineering applications. The company says the upgrade
offers numerous customer-driven enhancements.
According to Paradigm, new features
in the release include updated modeling,
including HDGM for declination cal-

culation and ISCWSA Rev 4 error models. The company adds that Sysdrill
10.5 is fully translated into both Russian
and Chinese.
"Building on the Sysdrill 10 solution
suite, the 10.5 release allows drilling
engineers to perform advanced engineering analysis with minimum effort,
in a single, integrated application, thus
saving valuable time," says Simon Verity,
product manager for well planning
and drilling.
For information, visit www.pdgm.com/products/sysdrill.
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This screenshot from Paradigm®
Sysdrill 10.5 shows an engineered
well with geological model.

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