Houston, 19 June 2008 – Blade Energy Partners announced that it has officially expanded its service offering to include laboratory and consulting services supporting root cause failure analysis.

HPHT wells, pipelines and underbalanced drilling implementation often present challenges to materials compatibility due to high temperatures and corrosive environments. When failure happens, root cause analysis will help explain why and how it happens. Root cause determination involves thorough understanding of failure mechanisms, potential synergistic interaction of materials, chemical inhibition, quality control and exposure time that affects component and system performance. Root cause analysis is an essential tool to address failure-causing weaknesses of process or approach and to identify appropriate future solutions.

Root cause failure analysis lab services are expected to strengthen Blade Energy’s capabilities in reservoir engineering, field development, asset management, underbalanced drilling, critical well design (advanced tubular analysis and wellbore integrity), as well as deepwater and offshore structural engineering.

Blade Energy Partners is an independent upstream consulting company focusing on engineering and delivery of complex projects in the oil and gas industry. Working from an operator’s perspective, Blade Energy offers leading-edge expertise to solve drilling, completion, production, reservoir and pipeline challenges.

For further information, please contact:

Rick McNealy, Houston
+1 281 206 2000, ext. 20
rmcnealy@blade-energy.com