Prime Horizontal Milestones...
Since its inception, Prime Horizontal has been the driver, co-developer with Vector Magnetics and the prime user of ParaTrack. As a result,
Prime Horizontal is considered the foremost authority on the deployment of the ParaTrack system in all horizontal directional drilling applications.
Prime continues to be a prime driver for new developments of ParaTrack and continues to be a co-developer with Vector Magnetics.
Together, they have introduced ParaTrack-1, ParaTrack-2, the Rotating Magnet Source (RM), The Pressure While Drilling Tool (PWD) and the AC Beacon.
Following are several milestones in the history of Prime Horizontal since 1998:
| 1998 | Prime Horizontal (Prime) and Vector Magnetics (Vector) enter a co-development agreement to commercialize new tracking methodology for the HDD market originally developed by Vector for the downhole oilfield market. |
| April 1999 | Prime successfully completes first ParaTrack HDD feasibility project in France. |
| 1999 | Prime obtains product line of DDI Rock Reamer Hole Opener and carries inventory in UK from 4” through 62” |
| August 1999 | Prime successfully completes first 3 commercial ParaTrack-1 projects of three 1,100 meter crossings using a guidewire installed inside a 36” steel product line within a 3 meter corridor. |
| September 2000 | Prime introduces ParaTrack-2 by guiding a crossing in Falmouth Harbor. |
| November 2000 | Prime successfully replaces competition and completes a ParaTrack-2 project in Holland where a number of re-drills had occurred due to heavy magnetic Interference. |
| Mid 2001 | Prime successfully guides the first planned underground intersect in Holland, proving the value of the technique. |
| 2001 | Prime becomes the Sharewell agent for provision of the Lo-Torque Hole Opener and maintains large inventory in Holland from 6” through 64” |
| April 2002 | Prime successfully guides the first hard rock underground intersect in France by introducing Vector’s Rotating Magnetic Source to the market. |
| November 2002 | Prime Introduces Vector's Pressure While Drilling (PWD) tool to the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) market to avoid mud overpressures downhole. |
| June 2003 | Prime successfully guides the fourth planned underground intersect, the first in the U.S.A. |
| August 2003 | Prime replaces competition in Alaska where ParaTrack-2 is used to track with the guidewire offset more than 200 feet Away. |
| November 2003 | Prime Introduces the AC Beacon to the HDD market in Europe—the first surface wireless magnetic source. |
| 2004 | Prime begins production and sale of large diameter Split Bit Hole Openers from 36” through 64” |
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