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Access Midstream Expands Synodon realSens Contract

EDMONTON, Alta. -- Synodon Inc. has announced that Access Midstream has added its Eagle Ford operating area to the current realSens pipeline integrity management services contract. This additional order requires annual survey flights for the entire 1,500 kilometre gas gathering pipeline infrastructure in this region.

“We are very pleased to receive an additional order from Access Midstream only three months into the original contract. We look forward to continuing to provide our services to the existing three service areas and to expanding further into other territories as required over the coming months,” stated Adrian Banica, CEO of Synodon Inc. 

The accumulated annual survey length between the Barnett Shale and Eagle Ford regions is now roughly 5,500 kilometres.

Synodon Inc. is a technology company which has developed an advanced airborne remote gas sensing system called realSens, based on technologies developed under the Canadian Space Program and by Synodon scientists. The company currently provides advanced airborne pipeline integrity management services to the oil and gas sector through a suite of services including natural gas and liquid hydrocarbon leak detection, pipeline threat assessments, and waterway crossings analysis among others. 

Access Midstream Partners, L.P. is the U.S. industry’s largest gathering and processing master limited partnership as measured by throughput volume and owns, operates, develops and acquires natural gas gathering systems and other midstream energy assets. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the partnership's operations are focused on the Barnett, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Marcellus, Niobrara and Utica Shales and the Mid-Continent region of the U.S. and comprise over 6,000 miles of natural gas gathering lines.