CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - April 18, 2013) - Logan International Inc. (TSX:LII) ("Logan" or the "Company") announced that it completed the purchase of the Sup-R-Jar product line. In addition to a cash payment at closing of approximately USD$15.6 million, the Company is obligated to pay an additional USD$1.6 million upon the delivery of certain inventory by the seller. The purchase was funded under Logan's revolving credit facility.
Gerald Hage, Logan's Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We are excited to add the Sup-R-Jar to our product offering. This tool will be rented alongside our Xciter tool to drilling contractors and operators in North America and sold internationally by our Logan Oil Tools international sales team. We also gain a full service facility in Oklahoma City to redress the Super-R-Jar and Xciter tools to midcontinent customers."
Logan manufactures and sells a comprehensive line of fishing and intervention tools, including retrieving, surface, stroking and remedial tools for a variety of well workover, intervention, drilling, and completion activities (LOT); manufactures and sells high-performance poly- crystalline diamond compact (PDC) cutters and bearings (Dennis Tool Company); manufactures and sells packers, bridge plugs, and other completion products (Kline Oilfield Equipment, Inc.); provides proprietary multi-zonal completion technology and conventional completion production products and services (Logan Completion Systems Inc.); provides proprietary and patented products and services that are focused on production optimization in sand-laden heavy oil wells (Scope Production Development); and provides proprietary tools that are used to improve the effectiveness and reliability of horizontal drilling (Xtend Energy Services). Common shares of Logan are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the ticker symbol "LII".
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