Thursday, December 12, 2002

COMPANY PRESS RELEASE

Spartek Systems Appoints Harry Wortelboer as Business Development Manager for Europe/Africa

Harry Wortelboer joined Spartek Systems Inc. in December 2002 as Business Development Manager. Harry joins our Europe/Africa/Middle East team and will be based in The Netherlands. Starting out in the mid seventies as a field engineer for Flopetrol in the Middle East, he has since worked in different capacities for several oilfield Service and Manufacturing companies in the Europe and North America. Most recently he was Cased Hole Customer Service Manager for the Baker Atlas Central Europe District.

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.