FEI Receives Bookings Worldwide From Oil & Gas Companies
June 07 2012 - 6:00AM
FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) announced today that it has received multiple
bookings for its "Core-to-Pore" petrography workflow and QEMSCAN®
WellSite™ analysis solutions.
"FEI has made great inroads in developing technology and
workflows to better characterize reservoirs around the world, from
sandstone to carbonates to shale. In the past few months,
bookings of these systems have increased worldwide – including
China, Europe, the Middle East and the US," stated Paul Scagnetti,
FEI's vice president and general manager of the Natural Resources
Business Unit. "And it is not just the research centers," he adds.
"We are receiving orders from service suppliers and the oil &
gas companies as well. For example, we recently signed a
fee-based agreement with a major oil service company to provide
on-site automated surface logging using the QEMSCAN WellSite
analysis solution for a U.S. customer."
The QEMSCAN WellSite analysis solution enables surface logging
service providers to greatly enhance the quality, consistency and
value of their mudlogging services for the oil & gas industry.
It can quickly separate and classify the rock types (lithologies)
represented in a cuttings sampling interval with greater accuracy,
analytical sensitivity and textural resolution than existing manual
methods, permitting a highly-detailed analysis of cuttings
properties, such as clay type, matrix density or grain size, on a
lithology basis. It is rugged and portable―designed for and tested
at remote locations, such as on- and off-shore drilling rigs.
In Europe and the Middle East, multiple operators have added the
QEMSCAN 650F system to their central lab facilities to characterize
core and cuttings samples from different types of oil and gas
reservoirs. In addition, it enables users to look at large areas
with high resolution through the use of the MAPS tiling &
stitching software.
Soren Frank, Head of the Maersk Oil Research and Technology
Centre (MO-RTC) at Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), sees
the QEMSCAN as part of a workflow to better characterize the
carbonate and complex sandstone fields in the Maersk Oil
assets. "The QEMSCAN data have proven crucial in the past to assist
in improving geological correlations and understanding mineral
distribution of 3D images from micro-CT scans."
The MAPS software on the QEMSCAN system is FEI's latest addition
to its core-to-pore petrography workflow. MAPS enables customers to
make mosaics of high resolution SEM images. Traditionally, high
resolution means very small field of view; raising considerable
concerns about the representative nature of the submicron features
imaged. With MAPS it becomes possible to image the full core plug
surface at whatever resolution the user selects. Access to
nanoscale information at the core plug scale is an example where
multi scale imaging benefits both drilling and production companies
in making more informed decisions.
"The next few months will be very exciting for FEI as we
continue to help our customers make progress in exploration and
production," Scagnetti commented, "and we move from the lab to the
wellsite where direct access to data can mean both huge savings and
increased output."
For more information about FEI Natural Resources, please visit:
www.fei-natural-resources.com.
About FEI
FEI (Nasdaq:FEIC) is a leading diversified scientific
instruments company. It is a premier provider of electron- and
ion-beam microscopes and solutions for nanoscale applications
across many industries: industrial and academic materials research,
life sciences, semiconductors, data storage, natural resources and
more. With more than 60 years of technological innovation and
leadership, FEI has set the performance standard in transmission
electron microscopes (TEM), scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and
DualBeams™, which combine a SEM with a focused ion beam
(FIB). Headquartered in Hillsboro, Ore., USA, FEI has over
2,200 employees and sales and service operations in more than 50
countries around the world. More information can be found at:
www.fei.com.
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FEI Safe Harbor Statement
This news release contains forward-looking statements that
include statements regarding the performance capabilities of the
"Core-to-Pore" petrography workflow and QEMSCAN WellSite analysis
solutions (and related hardware) for the oil and gas industry,
order bookings for these products and about aiding progress in oil
exploration and exploitation. Factors that could affect these
forward-looking statements include but are not limited to: failure
of these solutions to achieve wide-spread adoption by the oil and
gas industry; cancellation of orders by customers; failure of the
technologies to achieve expected benefits in improved mudlogging
capability; failure of the ruggedized scanning electron microscope
platform to perform as expected in adverse conditions; and failure
of the "Core-to-Pore" and QEMSCAN solutions to perform as expected
for varied customers and use cases. Please also refer to our Form
10-K, Forms 10-Q, Forms 8-K and other filings with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission for additional information on
these factors and other factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from the forward-looking statements. FEI assumes
no duty to update forward-looking statements.
CONTACT: FEI Company
Fletcher Chamberlin
Treasurer & Communications Director
(503) 726-7710
fletcher.chamberlin@fei.com
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