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   HILLSBORO, Ore.--(Business Wire)--Columbia Industries, the industry leader in the design, engineering andmanufacturing of custom rig moving systems, is proud to announce that their new,revolutionary rig moving system "Atlas" has been delivered to a new customer foran island drilling project in the Middle East. The Atlas Rig Walking System is an innovative custom design for a desert rigmoving system. Columbia has developed a unique hybrid technology of wheels andwalkers to maximize the capability of the Rig Walking System. The wheels offerefficiency over longer distances between drilling pads, with the flexibility tochange to the walkers between individual well sites. This patented combinationof the two systems increases the capability of the moving system and enables onecompact solution for multi-pad drilling operations. This increases thecustomer`s efficiency and flexibility of use for the equipment. The Atlas RigWalking System is only one of many new, more efficient solutions engineered byColumbia in the past six months. Columbia backs their new designs with over 35 years of experience in engineeringcustom rig moving systems. Columbia`s tried and field-tested designs haveallowed the company to grow into the overwhelming global leader with more than100 of Columbia`s custom rig moving systems in use in the field today. "Wemanufacture reliable, quality-built, American-designed equipment and distributeit worldwide," said president and CEO, Saj Shapiro. "We are proud to include theAtlas Rig Walking System among our world-class, innovative products." Columbia is also proud to state they have applied for their API certification(American Petroleum Institute) and has just recently passed stage 1 of theprocess. Columbia is on track to complete the full API, Q1, 4F and 16Dcertifications by June of this year. For more information on Columbia Industries please visit 
  www.columbiacorp.com.
   Columbia IndustriesJennifer Bywaters, 503-531-0600info@columbiacorp.comCopyright Business Wire 2012