Pinnacle Technologies Pinnacle Technologies is an energy industry engineering service, consulting and software firm specializing in the optimization of hydraulic fracturing.

Pinnacle provides a unique combination of fracture and reservoir consulting services, award-winning fracture diagnostic technologies and the industry's leading fracture stimulation software, all recognized worldwide for enhancing production economics.

Pinnacle does not sell "magic bullets" or catch-all solutions. Instead, our integrated approach provides our clients with the answers and practical solutions that they need

Pinnacle’s award-winning suite of direct diagnostics includes: surface tiltmeter fracture mapping, downhole tiltmeter fracture mapping, microseismic fracture mapping and Hydraulic Impedance Testing (HIT). Both surface and downhole tiltmeter mapping can be performed in real-time to facilitate on-site treatment optimization. Pinnacle's diagnostic tools have been employed to monitor propped and unpropped fracture treatments in vertical and horizontal wells, secondary and enhanced oil recovery processes, subsurface waste disposal and geotechnical monitoring. We have a proven track record of both technically enhancing our diagnostics and reducing the cost of delivery every year. Please contact us to learn how Pinnacle can help you.

Pinnacle’s consulting services include fracture treatment design, execution, and analysis. Fracturing is a highly complex process that has not proven amenable to simplified "theoretical" analysis. Measurement and analysis of fracture treatment data is a critical component of successful fracture engineering.

Pinnacle’s integrated approach combines fracture modeling, production data analysis, pressure transient analysis (well testing) and reservoir simulation. This integrated approach provides far more reliable answers than can be obtained with fracture design/modeling alone. This combination provides our clients with the necessary results to maximize economic returns.

Pinnacle Technologies provides a suite of stimulation software solutions to the industry that have unequalled and battle proven capabilities for on-site real-time analysis. This has enabled recognition and remediation of potential stimulation and cementing problems. Pinnacle's stimulation software is tightly integrated with reservoir simulators, thus allowing for stimulation treatment and production optimization.

Pinnacle's technologies are critical in long-term and permanent installations for reservoir monitoring, providing a continuous picture of how fluids are moving through the earth.Tiltmeters are uniquely able to provide extremely high spatial and temporal resolution of earth movement due to fluid injection or withdrawal. They are ideally suited to providing early warning of subsidence or compaction related casing failures in oil and gas fields and for providing feedback for balancing water or steam injection with production rates. Microseismic sensors monitor micro-earthquakes induced in a reservoir caused by field flooding and production and are used to monitor fluid flow, to pinpoint layers which are compacting or dilating and to detect mechanical problems as they occur in a completion. Pinnacle's clients can log on to a secure area of our website to see how their reservoir changed yesterday, or last week, or last month and are able to see the impact of field operations or get early warning of impending mechanical problems before they occur.

Just as tiltmeters can be used to locate a growing hydraulic fracture underground, they can be used to “locate” events in the geotechnical field. Tiltmeters are deployed on volcanoes to map the rate of expansion as magma comes towards the surface. The tiltmeters can even be used to estimate the depth of the magma. Tiltmeters are used to provide automated warning of landslides and can detect instability in many slopes subject to slides. Other uses include monitoring bridge deflection under load, avalanche detection, monitoring of dam movements under seasonal loads and compaction monitoring of fill areas. Park North Technology Center 219 Airtex Boulevard Houston, TX 77090 phone: 281.876.2323 fax: 281.876.4455 email: fracHouston@pinntech.com http://www.pinntech.com