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Contract lays foundation for continued support to MENA region: Earth Decision Sciences, FZ-LLC, an affiliate of Paradigm, a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to the global oil and natural gas exploration and production industry, has announced that Dubai's national oil company, Dubai Petroleum Establishment (DPE), has extended its strategic consulting contract with Paradigm. "Paradigm's Strategic Consulting team has added significant value to our business by providing consultancy services to create a new petrophysical database with clean, consistent data and parameters for basic interpretation," said Fred Chemin, Head of Production Development, DPE. "This data has been critical to support our ongoing reservoir modeling efforts and drilling campaign." This contract marks the first Paradigm strategic consulting project to be identified, executed and completed in the MENA region. The extended contract provides expansion and continued support of the petrophysical database recently reconstructed by Paradigm consultants. Paradigm will continue to process and interpret the database to provide approaches consistent with DPE's ongoing drilling campaign. "We are pleased to be supporting DPE with strategic consulting that offers local field knowledge, and the ability to quickly mobilize our team, equipment and technology," said Andy Sutherland, Regional VP for the Middle East and North Africa region and located in Paradigm's office in Dubai. "We look forward to the continued development of our relationship within Dubai and beyond." For more information on Paradigm products and services, contact your regional office directly (find office location information at www.pdgm.com or e-mail info@pdgm.com .