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Alderley Endorses Acquire™

Alderley becomes the first official Acquire™ Systems Integrator

NORTHCHURCH, England, September 10 2004. Alderley Plc., the UK based oilfield systems integrator, has endorsed Ambrit's web enabled data acquisition and control system Acquire™ by becoming the first official Acquire™ systems integrator. Alderley have held a leading position in supplying turn-key measurement and control packages on a world-wide basis for many years. The inclusion of Acquire™ as part of Alderley's portfolio of measurement and control solutions is in keeping with their intention to supply state of the art technology.

Acquire™ was developed by Ambrit Ltd as a leading edge solution, providing a secure, real time link between process control instrumentation and the Internet. Acquire™ enables Operations and Management to interact with systems locally or remotely using just a standard web browser.

Acquire™ is a server software product which runs on a standard PC under Windows®2000 or Windows®NT. The PC connects to RTUs, flow computers or directly with smart transducers using their proprietary hardware and software protocols. Acquire™ collects data and stores it in a local database, which also acts as an Internet server. This server transmits the data on request, using secure Internet technologies, to an operator anywhere in the world. Subject to satisfying the access permissions, an operator using an Internet Explorer® browser simply logs on the the URL address of of the Acquire™ server to gain access to all the data via Acquire's™ graphic rich interface. An operator from any location, local or worldwide, can have real time access to measurement systems in many locations. Data can be conveyed in both directions - in addition to viewing flow measurement data, constants can be downloaded into a remote flow computer (or smart transmitter), valves can be controlled etc. - all this with only a web browser.

Tony Shepherd, Chairman of Alderley Plc., commented, "We are delighted to be associated with Ambrit and the Acquire™ technology. Alderley saw the potential when Ambrit introduced us to Acquire™ in 2002 during the early phase of its development. The product has matured and is already making an impact in the market. Acquire™ will make a serious contribution to our systems capability where world-wide access to measurement and control data is becoming an increasing requirement."

Andrew Webb, Ambrit's Managing Director, is pleased with the new arrangement: "We are grateful to Alderley for their assistance in the early days allowing us access to systems at their facility at Wickwar where we were able to gain first hand experience with real environments. The result is a first class product that will change the way future systems are implemented." He continued, "Alderley's system integration experience and Ambrit's web enabled database technology compliment each other providing opportunity of success for both companies."