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Suncor Energy and Synodon Ink Contract for Remote Airborne Leak Detection

Oct 6 2012

Synodon, announces that it has signed a contract with Suncor Energy ("Suncor") for remote airborne leak detection using its realSens™ system.

The contract covers all the natural gas and liquid hydrocarbon pipelines operated by Suncor between Edmonton and their Northern Alberta oil sands production fields.

"As was announced earlier, Synodon has successfully demonstrated the ability of the realSens™ technology to detect both liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon emissions. This contract represents the first commercial use of realSens™ to conduct a leak survey on an oil pipeline and illustrates the oil industry's move towards acceptance of this new capability", stated Adrian Banica, Chief Executive Officer of Synodon.

The flights are scheduled to be completed in the next 30 days.

Source: http://www.synodon.com

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