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Western Atlas Inc. Acquires Heartland Kingfisher Inc. A Canadian Well-Logging Company

Western Atlas Inc., recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of Heartland Kingfisher Inc., a highly respected provider of well-logging services in Canada. Heartland Kingfisher's revenues in 1997 are expected to exceed C$12 million.

OSEA 98

Once again the Canadian oil and gas sector is returning to South East Asia's premiere trade event for the industry OSEA 98. The 12th Offshore South East Asia Conference & Exhibition will be held in Singapore, December 1-4, 1998 and will have a Canada Pavilion group of exhibitors.

For further information, contact Derek Complin, UNILINK, 50 Weybright Court, Unit 41, Agincourt, Ontario MIS 5A8, Phone: 416-291-6359, Fax: 416-291-0025, email: unilink@istar.ca.

Scott Pickford Adds Data Processing to its Houston Operation

Scott Pickford announces the opening of seismic data processing services in its Houston office.

A particular area of expertise which will be available in Houston is the processing of large volumes of difficult data from the sand dune terrains of North Africa - especially Algeria and Tunisia. Many thousands of kilometres of data from this area have been processed over the last three years, both 2D and recently 3D.

Scott Pickford will also be offering many special capabilities in interpretive processing such as wavelet estimation, well ties, inversion and AVO from its own suite of software which is configured around a core ProMAX system. Close links are provided between the processing software and Scott Pickford's proprietary products: VELIT and IC2. VELIT, the velocity modelling package, is used in conjunction with Pre-Stack Depth Migration to produce Time Depth Solutions, and IC2 is acknowledged as one of the most complete seismic attribute analysis packages available today. Both packages are additionally used by Scott Pickford to provide extensive QC facilities in 3D processing.

Changes Made to Oil-Link Web Directory for Oil and Gas

As of December, 1997, Oil-Link has moved to a considerably faster server with DS3 (fibre optic) connectivity to better provide for our users.

Currently, Oil-Link has over 2,600 oil and gas websites listed in 47 different categories. Oil-Link is a resource for oil and gas employment with 60-100 new job openings being posted each month. Oil-Link receives approximately 6,000 user visits monthly from over 45 different countries. These visitors include representatives from every major oil and gas service company. Visit our site at http://www.oillink.com.

Western Atlas Acquires Paramagnetic Logging, Inc. and its Technology to Detect Bypassed Oil and Gas

Western Atlas Inc., recently announced that it has acquired ParaMagnetic Logging, Inc., of Palo Alto, California. PML has developed technology to measure formation resistivity behind the metal casing of producing oil and gas wells to identify and quantify the remaining hydrocarbons.

Western Atlas Names John Russell President and CEO

John R. Russell has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of Western Atlas Inc., upon the distribution of shares of UNOVA to Western Atlas Inc., shareholders effective October 31, 1997. Russell served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Oilfield Services Group of Western Atlas Inc., prior to distribution.

Zeringue Named Chairman, President and CEO of Input/Output

The Input/Output, Inc., Board of Directors recently announced the election of W.J. "Zeke" Zeringue to the positions of Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 1998.

Mr. Zeringue, 48 was President of Halliburton Energy Services until November 1997. He joined Halliburton Services in 1972 as a Petroleum Engineering graduate of Louisiana State University. For the past 25 years he has served in various capacities at Halliburton.

Velocity Modelling – More Functionality Available In VELIT 1.4 Release

Scott Pickford, now part of the Core Laboratories Group, announces the release of VELIT Version 1.4.

In addition to the methods developed by Dr. M. Al-Chalabi, the more traditional techniques of kriging, kriging with external drift and cross-plotting with regression methods are now available.

A direct link to Landmark's Open Works has been created to enable well data to be easily accessed. A link to Geoquest's Geoframe will be released in Q1 l1998.

Appointments in Petroleum Engineering at Scott Pickford

Scott Pickford announces the following appointments in its new Petroleum Engineering Department, based in Croydon UK.

Harry McPahil has been appointed Head of Petroleum Engineering. He brings over 30 years of Petroleum Engineering experience to the company, having worked for a number of oil companies including Amoco and Mobil, as well as many years as an independent consultant.

John Kendal has been appointed Senior Reservoir Engineer. Kendal has joined the company from PGS Reservoir, ERC and was previously with British Gas for six years.

Median Line UKCS/Norway Interpreted Lithology Project (MEDIL)

Scott Pickford is pleased to announce the production of the latest Interpreted lithology Project covering the UKCS Quadrants adjacent to the UKCS/Norway Median Line.

This project covers the southern part of UKCS Quadrant 3 and Quadrants 4, 9, 15 and 16 and offers a database of 104 released wells. With the current high level of exploration interest in Tertiary targets on the margin of the Viking Graben, Witch Ground Graben and Fladen Ground spur and adjoining areas the MEDIL Project provides an ideal interpretative dataset for companies wishing to study, correlate between and review reservoir geometry encountered in wells over the subject areas using workstation applications.