Our Horizontal Time-Delayed Ballistics Actuated Sequential Transfer (HTD-BLAST ™ ) perforating system is a technology useful for the  effective and efficient perforation of extended-reach horizontal completions in the Bakken, Eagle Ford, and other shale formations.  The HTD-BLAST $_{ }$™ perforating system can be deployed via coiled tubing and currently enables up to 10 perforating events, beginning  at the farthest reaches, or toe regions, of extended-reach horizontal wells, or up to 27 perforating events in vertical wellbores. The toe  region is the most difficult section of an extended-reach well to effectively perforate and fracture stimulate. The HTD-BLAST $_{ }$™ system  significantly improves the potential for production from those sections. A proprietary, time-delayed detonating sequence allows the  operator to position and perforate each of the discrete zones being completed in the toe-end of the wellbore. This efficiency, coupled  with Core’s effective SUPERHERO ®  Plus perforating charges, results in superior perforations at a greatly reduced operating cost.  Superior perforations then allow effective fracture stimulation programs that can maximize production from extended horizontal wells. We have developed KODIAK ™  Enhanced Perforating Systems energetic technology which combines our HERO-HR ™  technology, now  API-certified as the industry’s deepest penetrating perforating charges, with proprietary accelerator propellant pellets to boost the  effectiveness of the perforating/stimulating event. The detonation of the perforating charges initiates a complex, sequentially oxidizing  reaction of the propellant pellets, thereby generating a high-pressure pulse of gases, which initiates and propagates fractures into the  unconventional reservoir sequence, allowing for cleaner perforation tunnels, improvement of the stimulant/proppant injection, and  increased hydrocarbon production. We have experienced technical services personnel to support clients through our global network of offices for the everyday use of  our perforating systems and the rapid introduction of new products. Our personnel are capable of providing client training and on-site  services in the completion of oil and gas wells. Our patented X-SPAN ®  and GTX-SPAN ®  casing patches are supported by our techni- cal services personnel. These systems are capable of performing in high pressure oil and gas environments and are used to seal  non-productive reservoir zones from the producing wellbore. Reservoir Management Marketing and Sales 4 We market and sell our services and products through a combination of sales representatives, technical seminars, trade shows and  print advertising. Direct sales and marketing are carried out by our sales force, technical experts and operating managers, as well as  by sales representatives and distributors in various markets where we do not have offices. Our Business Development group manages  a Large Account Management Program to better serve our largest and most active clients by meeting with key personnel within their  organizations to ensure the quality of our services and products are meeting their expectations and we are addressing any issues or  needs in a timely manner. We engineer and manufacture permanent real-time reservoir monitoring equipment that is installed in the reservoir for our oil and gas  company clients. Our non-electronic ERD ™  Pressure and Temperature sensors are characterized in the industry as having some of the  highest reliability (95% in 20 Years) and temperature (600° Fahrenheit) ratings. The real-time data obtained from these sensors are  used by drilling engineers to make real-time decisions, production engineers to optimize production, and reservoir engineers to prove  up models and obtain a clear picture of the reservoir over time. Reservoir description and production enhancement information, when applied across an entire oilfield or formation, is used to maxi- mize daily production and the ultimate total recovery from the reservoir. We are involved in numerous large-scale reservoir manage- ment projects, applying proprietary and state-of-the-art techniques from the earliest phases of a field development program until the  last economic barrel of oil is recovered. These projects are of increasing importance to oil companies as the incremental barrel is often  the lowest cost and most profitable barrel in the reservoir. Producing incremental barrels increases our clients’ cash flows which we  believe will result in additional capital expenditures by our clients, and ultimately further opportunities for us. We also develop and  provide industry consortium studies to provide critical reservoir information to a broad spectrum of clients in a cost effective manner  such as our multi-client regional reservoir optimization projects for both North America and international studies, especially studies  pertaining to unconventional reservoirs such as our ongoing global shale study that examines the shale potential in Central and  Southern Europe, North Africa, India, China and Australia among other regions and a joint industry project evaluating the petrophysi- cal, geochemical and production characteristics of the Eagle Ford shale in South Texas. Additional studies being performed are our long  running deep water Gulf of Mexico studies, a worldwide characterization of tight-gas sands, with special emphasis in the Middle East  region, deepwater studies off the coasts of West Africa and Brazil and a study on the petroleum potential of offshore Vietnam.