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other milestones during 2013 and

Fluid transfers drill cuttings up 2014.

the tool’s center to a compacting

This phase is slated for three element at the top. This flls the years. The company plans to deliver void space, as a spooled power/ the tool for its frst feld pilot tests communications cable pays

Drilling after completing the DP later this out from inside the tool.

year. These pilots will be undertak-

EYEBROW commercial and its Demonstrator en as a separate program, to which

Program (DP). Exxon and Statoil the Research Council of Norway has carried over into this phase and already awarded NOK8 million of

Chevron replaced Shell as a sup- support. porter. The company received a The frst feld pilot is slated for boost recently when it added a the Canadian oil sands, even though fourth sponsor, Wintershall, to some qualifcation and permits the DP. are required. Other sites, some in

The DP establishes a design basis Norway, were investigated to avoid for the next generation Badger tool, any delay in the technical program. where lessons from the prototype The frst pilot tool will face the will be used to develop and confg- challenge of glacial tills, mudstones ure the tool for commercial appli- and relatively unconsolidated for- cations. This involves choosing mations, conditions similar to many tion of new sponsors fulflls condi- sensors and instrumentation for use locations across the globe. A second tions for additional funding from during the drilling process, as well pilot will test geology representative

Innovation Norway. The frst part as sensors for long-term reservoir of the Barents Sea. of a grant of NOK20 million will be monitoring and management. Badger Explorer expects to intro- given to Badger to support the DP, According to the company’s 4Q duce the tool to the commercial with remaining payments based on 2012 Quarterly Report, the addi- market sometime in 2015.

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