CygNet Software Helps Atlas Pipeline Drive Down Costs, Increase Productivity Across the Enterprise

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA, Nov 09 (MARKET WIRE) --
CygNet Software, provider of the leading enterprise operations platform
for the oil and gas industry, today announced that Atlas Pipeline
Mid-Continent LLC, a full-service midstream company providing gas
gathering, compression, processing and treating services, has implemented
the CygNet Enterprise Operations Platform (EOP) to manage its business.
(For the latest CygNet EOP news, see the "CygNet for Pipeline" press
release.)

CygNet's EOP, the oil and gas industry's most advanced solution for
collecting, managing and distributing data, has enabled Atlas Pipeline to
increase productivity, optimize assets and reconcile imbalances between
the company and its suppliers and customers. With CygNet, Atlas can now
measure and track in real time the product it receives and ships, and put
this information into the hands of employees across the company.
Additionally, Atlas Pipeline has reduced its IT hardware requirements by
80 percent and has launched a number of new business intelligence
initiatives.

"With CygNet EOP, we're optimizing our assets, making our employees more
productive and launching BI initiatives that put more information at the
fingertips of everyone from field technicians to C-level executives, to
our customers and partners," said Tony Dionisio, chief information
officer at Atlas Pipeline. "CygNet is a modular solution that's easy to
expand, and the small network footprint means we can add more users and
data nodes without degrading network performance. Thanks to CygNet, we've
significantly reduced our total IT hardware footprint while maintaining a
robust disaster-recovery solution."

About CygNet at Atlas Pipeline

Operating in the Mid-continent region of Oklahoma and western Texas, Atlas
Pipeline owns and operates approximately 7,900 miles of active intrastate
gas gathering pipelines that transport gas to eight processing plants and
one treating facility. In total, the company has approximately 250
compressors producing 500,000 hp of field compression.

In 2006, the company purchased a regulated pipeline and had five months to
establish 24x7 real-time monitoring, instead of relying on native polling
engines that had no real-time functionality. The company looked at several
traditional SCADA solutions, but the CygNet EOP went far beyond SCADA's
limited capabilities, while being less expensive. CygNet even offered a
30-day free trial. By the end of the 30 days, Atlas Pipeline had an entire
district running under the control of CygNet, and with the system
exceeding operational requirements, the company went ahead with a
purchase to deploy across the enterprise.

Currently, CygNet is used by more than 100 people from every department at
Atlas Pipeline, including field technicians, compressor mechanics,
optimization, engineering, accounting, sales and marketing, and C-level
executives.

"Unlike traditional SCADA solutions, CygNet provides our broad spectrum of
employees with access to real-time information that's contextually
relevant for their needs and therefore helps them make better decisions
and perform their jobs more efficiently," added Dionisio. "We have been
extremely impressed with how CygNet brings together end-to-end expertise
and best practices, from gathering the data all the way to reporting. And
the fact that CygNet EOP is a complete solution eliminates the hassle and
finger pointing of integrating various products from multiple vendors."

The CygNet EOP includes automated alerts that give Atlas Pipeline the
ability to detect and fix problems in a matter of minutes, eliminating
hours of downtime and increasing volume on the system. Support for
virtualization in the CygNet solution has allowed Atlas Pipeline to reduce
the number of servers from 12 to five. Access to real-time data lets Atlas
Pipeline accurately track a variety of imbalances, such as the difference
between a contracted flow amount of gas from a producer and the actual
amount received. This capability also functions as an effective
early-warning system for gas leaks and measurement problems.

"The CygNet enterprise operations platform has become the de facto
enterprise solution for exploration and production because it offers
companies like Atlas Pipeline a very simple value proposition," said Steve
Robb, vice president of business development at CygNet Software. "CygNet
helps companies run their businesses more efficiently at far less cost,
while providing new capabilities to help them compete more effectively."

About CygNet Software

CygNet Software provides products and solutions that improve the
operational efficiency and market responsiveness of many of North
America's leading oil and gas companies. Based on a revolutionary,
network-optimized architecture, CygNet is rapidly becoming the de facto
standard throughout the industry. More than 100 companies rely on CygNet
to collect, manage and distribute massive volumes of operations data from
field, production and business systems, creating a unified information
ecosystem. Users spanning every business function can view and analyze
real-time and historical information to support daily operations,
strategic decision making and regulatory reporting requirements.
Customers include super majors, major independents and key participants
in the domestic production and transmission market. Combined, these
companies represent 43 percent of domestic gas production and thousands
of miles of major transmission pipelines in North America.

For more information, visit www.cygnetscada.com

All products mentioned in the release are trademarks or registered
trademarks of CygNet Software. All other trademarks, trade names, and/or
product names are used solely for the purpose of identification and are
the property of their respective owners.

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