Wednesday, October 16, 2002

COMPANY PRESS RELEASE

Curtis Jordan Joins the Spartek Systems' Team

Curtis Jordan joined Spartek Systems, Inc. in August 2002 as Product Line Manager. In this role Curtis will work with the Spartek team to commercialize and market its "best value" production logging products. Prior to joining Spartek, Curtis worked 23 years for Atlas Wireline Services through the Dresser, Western and Baker transitions. During his tenure at Atlas Wireline Services, Curtis performed as Field Engineer, Operations Manager, District Manager for their field operations groups, as well as Senior Project and Staff Engineer for Baker's Technology Development Group. In these roles he focused on strategic planning and plan implementation for Atlas' production logging products. Curtis has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Norfolk State University.

SPARTEK specializes in providing the oil and gas industry with high quality data to monitor well performance and diagnose potential problems. The company’s center for research and development, and manufacturing is located in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, with sales and support centers in Canada, United States, Venezuela, China, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. The products developed by the company include quartz pressure gauges, sapphire pressure gauges, well head pressure recorders, production logging instrumentation, and surface acquisition loggers.