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44 MAY 2013 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® To sign up for E-News Flash by WorldWide Drilling Resource ® use your mobile device to scan the box, call 850-547-0102, or e-mail: e-news@worldwidedrillingresource.com Safe and Efficient Hydraulic Fracturing Adapted from a Press Release by Picarro, Inc. Picarro, Inc., Houston, Texas, unveiled its Picarro Surveyor for natural gas emissions, the world’s first mobile and cloud processing platform for measuring fugitive methane emissions across an entire natural gas production field. The new solution allows natural gas producers and hydraulic fracturing engineering firms to accurately identify and quantify fugitive emissions to improve site efficiency and safety, minimize production losses, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. Experts forecast domestic natural gas deposits will make the United States energy independent, and a net exporter of natural gas in the coming decades. To achieve this, producers and regulators need a highly accurate, quick, and simple means of measuring fugitive emissions to ensure production efficiency and safety. Picarro Surveyor for natural gas emissions simplifies the application of sophisticated greenhouse gas measurement instrumentation and geoinformatics to display and quantify the flow rate of natural gas emissions in a real-time graphical format on a mobile tablet or other Web-enabled device. “Picarro Surveyor enables every producer to ensure that they are extracting natural gas from production fields, including fracking sites, in the most efficient, safe, and environmentally-sound manner,” said Michael Woelk, CEO of Picarro. “The eco- nomic savings from stopping fugitive losses alone can be enormous, but moreover, producers and regulators now have the means to credibly demonstrate and assure the public that natural gas production is safe and sustainable - or not.” ! " # !