Catapult Public Relations

JIM GARDNER, OIL AND GAS EXPERT AT FREEWAVE TECHNOLOGIES, ADDRESSES PLUNGER LIFT & HYBRID NETWORK SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS AT SOUTHWESTERN PETROLEUM SHORT COURSE

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:15:36 +0000

WHO: Jim Gardner
Business Development Manager, Oil & Gas
FreeWave Technologies, Inc.
(www.freewave.com)

Jim Gardner is the oil and gas team leader for FreeWave Technologies, Inc. Prior to joining FreeWave, Gardner was Vice President at Remote Operating Systems. Gardner graduated from the University of Washington in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Gardner is currently a member of ENTELEC, ASGMT and ISHM.

Founded in 1993, FreeWave Technologies is a world leader in the innovative design and manufacture of license-free spread spectrum and licensed band radios and wireless data solutions that are trusted for mission critical applications around the world. www.freewave.com

WHAT: Wireless Plunger Lift Systems

In recent years, artificial lift technologies and processes have become increasingly popular as methods for optimizing oil and gas production. In addition, automation electronics manufacturers have been focusing a great deal of their development efforts on plunger lift control applications. Artificial lift is a process that allows oil and gas producers to optimize well production while also minimizing overall maintenance and life cycle costs. This presentation will explain the benefits of plunger lift control automation and the newest, best, and most novel control methods that are used

Leveraging Hybrid Wireless Systems

Companies with large geographically dispersed remote networks in the oil and gas industry can select one technology, one source, one vendor to collect, retrieve and report data to assess the health of the network. Sometimes, this type of approach makes sense. However, other times integrating other types of technologies offer significant benefits that can easily and more cost-effectively be incorporated into one cohesive network. This presentation will provide attendees with specific ways they can set up and deploy hybrid networks to drive maintenance/monthly costs down - directly impacting their bottom line; decrease polling cycle times; reduce the time needed to identify and rectify problems within the network; and, eliminate system "pinch points" - or single points of failure.

WHERE: Southwestern Petroleum Short Course
Lubbock Memorial Civic Center
1501 6th Street
Lubbock, TX 79401

WHEN: "Wireless Plunger Lift Systems"
Wednesday, April 22 from 2 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Thursday, April 23 from 10 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

"Leveraging Hybrid Wireless Systems"
Wednesday, April 22 from 9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Thursday, April 23 from 3 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

CONTACT: For more information on FreeWave, or to set up an interview with Mr. Gardner, please contact Christin Jeffers at Catapult PR-IR (303) 581-7760, ext. 14 or cjeffers@catapultpr-ir.com.

FREEWAVE TECHNOLOGIES INTRODUCES 2.4 GHZ CATHODIC PROTECTION RADIO TO MONITOR OIL, GAS, WATER/WASTEWATER PIPELINE INTEGRITY

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:18:08 +0000

Newest cathodic protection radio offers increased speed and opens up new markets with 2.4 GHz spectrum

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 29, 2009 - FreeWave Technologies, (http://www.freewave.com), the largest independent provider of high performance spread spectrum and licensed radio products and services, today announced the newest addition to its family of Cathodic Protection (CP) radios for automated pipeline integrity monitoring. The new IMCP 2.4 GHz is a pipeline integrity and cathodic protection radio that communicates at 2.4 GHz and complements the company's previously released 900 MHz versions. According to FreeWave, the new radio has application potential in nearly every market in the world. The IMCP 2.4 GHz radio offers monitoring and reporting of operational values of pipelines, storage tanks, structures and other equipment or facilities subject to environmental corrosion. The IMCP 2.4 GHz also is ideal for pipeline and storage tank companies wishing to extend their investment in remote telemetry automation to cathodic protection

The IMCP product from FreeWave currently is available as a radio only with a turnkey line marker kit option in development. The radio is a multi-purpose, spread spectrum, board-level product with specific inputs and outputs for automated monitoring of pipeline integrity. In the corrosion prevention industry, the IMCP 2.4 GHz monitors pipe-to-soil test stations, rectifier stations, critical bonds, interference points, pipeline pressure stations and pipeline scrubbing stations, for example. Benefits include safeguarding oil and gas pipelines in gathering systems, transmission lines and/or distributions lines. Benefits extend to municipal water and waste water systems by automating the remote monitoring of critical pipes and culverts to help prevent corrosion that can lead to leaks, groundwater contamination and other such adverse scenarios affecting overall water quality, supply and/or public safety - even cataclysmic main failures and the sometimes resultant infrastructure messes.

The CP systems from FreeWave can be deployed as standalone communications networks. They also can seamlessly be integrated into an existing FreeWave network. For example, where a FreeWave network already exists, such as in a natural gas field, the CP systems can be positioned on the gathering system pipeline and linked back to the host via the existing network. They are easy to install and can bring data into the network nearly immediately and without monthly service charges.

"A key building block to a cost effective, pipeline integrity, corrosion protection program is vital, timely monitoring and reporting of cathodic protection data. With the IMCP 2.4 GHz, data can be reported from remote corrosion protection field sites to a centralized data collection system that integrates with an automated regulatory reporting system," explained Colin Lippincott, FreeWave spokesperson. "FreeWave's new IMCP 2.4 GHz cathodic protection monitoring radio connects directly into field assets and feeds critical pipeline information into existing company data systems without going outside the company's firewall security protection - an important criteria our customers continue to request."

The IMCP 2.4 GHz board-level product is available for immediate shipment. Additional information regarding FreeWave's cathodic protection solutions, including detailed specifications, is available online at http://www.freewave.com/files/datasheets/FGRCP%202.4%20-%2011.13.08.pdf or by contacting the company at 800-548-5616.

About FreeWave Technologies
Founded in 1993, FreeWave Technologies is a world leader in the innovative design and manufacture of license-free spread spectrum and licensed band radios and wireless data solutions that are trusted for mission critical applications around the world. Based in Boulder, Colorado, the company offers network design, path studies and pre-installation engineering services to enable reliable, error free data-flow in even the most challenging conditions and in environments. FreeWave is the only long term radio provider with in-family 100 percent backward compatibility with fully integrated, best-in-class engineered products. For additional information, contact FreeWave directly at 866.399.4930 or at newsinfo@freewave.com. Visit the company's website at www.freewave.com.

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Press Contact:
Terri Douglas
Catapult PR-IR
303.581.7760, ext. 18 (office)
303.808.6820 (cell)
tdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com

FREEWAVE TECHNOLOGIES TO OUTLINE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES AT ENTELEC 2008

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:57:15 +0000

WHO: Brent McAdams
Director of Sales
FreeWave Technologies

Jim Gardner
Oil and Gas Sales Manager
FreeWave Technologies

Founded in 1993, FreeWave Technologies is a world leader in the innovative design and manufacture of ISM band radios and wireless data solutions that are trusted for mission critical applications around the world. www.freewave.com.

WHAT: The Advantages of Implementing Wireless I/O Over Wired Alternatives
Frequently, a company has geographically scattered assets and sensor data is needed at a central point. Wireless I/O offers a viable, economical alternative to simply digging trenches, running conduit and pulling wire from sensors. Advantages to wireless I/O include substantial and measurable cost savings in terms of engineering, installation and logistics as well as flexibility in remote, wireless field data collection.

In this presentation, McAdams will outline how spread spectrum radio technologies give users the ability to connect instrumentation in the field without the need for costly wired infrastructure. He will share how asset information is available from applied and embedded sensory points enabling sophisticated diagnostics, remote monitoring and control and plant optimization.

Demystifying Wireless Ethernet
In this presentation, FreeWave's Gardner will address one of the most important trends in data communications—the migration from serial networks to Ethernet communications. The advantages of the change are too compelling to ignore. Security, faster polling times, mobile communications, Internet accessibility and IP addressability all provide benefits previously unavailable with serial communications.

The world of wireless Ethernet still is new enough that a lot of myths are associated with it and for many, sorting through this maze of misinformation can be daunting, even unnerving. This presentation will address some of the biggest myths surrounding the implementation of wireless Ethernet.

WHERE: ENTELEC 2008
April 9-11, 2008
George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston, Texas
WHEN: "The Advantages of Implementing Wireless I/O Over Wired
  Alternatives"
  Thursday, April, 10 2008
  9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

"Demystifying Wireless Ethernet"
Thursday, April 10, 2008
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

CONTACT: For more information on FreeWave, or to set up an interview with either Mr. McAdams or Mr. Gardner, please contact Terri Douglas at Catapult PR-IR (303) 581-7760, ext. 18 or tdouglas@catapultpr-ir.com