Wednesday, January 15, 2003

COMPANY PRESS RELEASE

Spartek Acquires New Automated DH-Budenberg Oil Operated Pressure Balance System

Spartek Systems has continued its commitment to unsurpassed quality with the recent purchase of a Budenberg oil operated automatic dead weight pressure balance system. This will allow our calibration technicians to increase overall efficiency of the calibration process. The system utilizes the basic principle of the traditional dead weight tester in conjunction with automatic servo controlled variable volume technology designed for fast and precise pressure generation. On command of a preset program the system automatically calculates and loads the required mass values to drive the pressure generation to the target point.

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.