Advanced Technology is the guiding force that has steered Arcturus rapid growth through the digital drill bit in the search and discovery of "Mineral Wealth" in drilling in a "Digital Age". Technology stimulates innovation, enhances efficiency, reduces finding costs, improves safety, safeguards the environment, enhances productivity and buttresses "Superior Partnership Value". For nearly a decade, Arcturus has actively participated in the "Digital Revolution" transitioning from an "Analog Platform" to a "Digital Universe" through innovative interpretation and meticulous evaluation in computerized reservoir modeling that has ushered in an era of "Smart Wells". Seismic interpretation, depth conversion, time migration, High resolution 3-Dimensional Imagery, calculated volumetrics, reservoir stimulation, AVO and elastic impedance, and stochastic and petrophysical modeling that have culminated in reduced risk extraction and enhanced High Impact recoverables." Delivering value through real-time digital 3-D imagery and sophisticated visualization technologies, high performance computing and radical new drilling methods and advanced extraction techniques, the industry and Arcturus are positioned to identify and tap crude oil and natural gas resources that are invisible to conventional techniques. The deployment of "Visualization Technology" through enhanced functionality of advanced software applications such as SMT, Eclipse, GeoQuest and Landmark has created stunning clarity in digital mapping of earth-model geological trapping features. Digital 3-D evaluations in the amplitudes of seismic reflections are the purest form of "Next Generation" 9c-3D that combines both fully sourced shear wave and compression wave seismic in a single survey can detect subtle changes in acoustic velocity and density caused by variations in lithological events in the earth's strata. The frequency amplitude "Bright Spots" of a reflection can identify increased porosity throughout the reservoir matrix delineating hydrocarbons "Sweet Spots" due to acoustic impedance allowing for surgical precision in the dissection of subsurface pay zones. These advances from seismic analog into digital 3-Dimensional processing tie the seismic character to petrophysical well data through virtual reality technology (Computerized Geo-Modeling) required for "staying ahead of the drill bit" through real-time geosteering and interactive well planning. The innovative and disciplined application of "Next Generation" drilling practices such as advanced directional and horizontal drilling techniques turns a well on its side, entering the targeted reservoir matrix on it's edge and allowing for deep penetration of multiple pay zones that results in multiple production opportunities. The multiple horizontal computerized designs that have created prevailing industry publicity encompass  a conversion process by integrating offset log data into digital form by determining the optimal position point for maximum horizontal displacement relative to the defined target zones. The imputed gamma ray and offset directional survey information initiates a correlation process that strategraphically positions every data point on the horizontal log. This "Geo-Modeling" enables our planners to calculate target projections by computing the strategraphic and digital survey information using calculated steering coordinates which can be displayed in a computerized cross sectional model. The mechanical application of these advanced drilling practices utilizing technologies such as MWD, Multi-lobe Motors, space age Composite Metal Alloys, Diamond PDC bits, and Gamma Ray analysis allow for a precise centerline of penetration interlinking a multitude of reservoir matrix designed for maximum marketable recovery of strategic recoverables.

These "Next Generation Technological Breakthroughs" in sophisticated digital imaging, integrated software systems and advanced drilling and recovery techniques hold the promise for lowering drilling risks and finding costs and extending the industry's reach. There are no guarantees that these technologies will be applied quickly enough to head off the possibility of petroleum shortages in the future. Exploration & Production (E&P) companies have embraced the "Digital Revolution" through reduced processing time, better quality and processing sequence of seismic data sets, improved integrated interpretation, rapid characterization of reserve estimates, and enhanced extraction of mineral deposits. This transformation into Real-Time technologies reduce exploration and production costs, alter current risk equations, and unlocks vast reserve potentials leading the industry and Arcturus as an innovative pacesetter in enhancing "Superior Partnership Value" in the next generation of technological innovations.