WellDog And Shell Collaborate To Commercialize Novel Shale Gas Testing Service

LARAMIE, Wyo., Oct. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- WellDog Pty Ltd ('WellDog') announced  today that it has collaborated with Shell International Exploration & Production, Inc. ('Shell') over the past eighteen months to develop a new technical service for locating natural gas and natural gas liquids in shale formations.

This announcement follows a laboratory and field development program undertaken by the two companies, leveraging WellDog's patented downhole Raman spectroscopy technology and Shell's geochemical and petrophysical experience in shale gas evaluation.

The new service is directed at identifying the locations where natural gas and natural gas liquids occur in shale formations, allowing producers to focus development efforts, reduce drilling costs, optimize production, and reduce the number of hydraulic fracturing stages and associated water usage.  

Shell is now leading beta trials of the technical service that is being developed from the program. 

About WellDog
WellDog (trade name of Gas Sensing Technology Corp and its subsidiary WellDog Pty Ltd) is a privately held energy-focused technical services company that developed its own patented, proven Reservoir Raman chemical sensing systems to provide commercial reservoir analysis services for coal, gas, alternative and conventional resources.

Building on the strength of those services and the company's world-wide customer focus, WellDog now provides several technical services to the shale gas and oil, coal bed methane, coal mining, and conventional oil and gas industries including gas testing, permeability testing, downhole pump and reservoir monitoring systems, production optimization and environmental monitoring services. 

The company has offices in Laramie, Wyoming, USA and in Brisbane and Roma, Queensland, Australia.  More information is available at www.welldog.com.

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