Pathfinder Energy Services Selects Learn.com LearnCenter Platform to Broaden Scope of its Employee Training to Reach Higher Levels of Training and Productivity

Learn.com®, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, announced today that PathFinder Energy Services®, a leading provider of logging-while-drilling products and services and subsidiary of W-H Energy Services (NYSE: WHQ), has selected the Learn.com LearnCenter® platform to administer, track and manage vital employee safety training throughout the company.

(PRWEB) July 18, 2007 -- Learn.com®, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, announced today that PathFinder Energy Services®, a leading provider of logging-while-drilling products and services and subsidiary of W-H Energy Services (NYSE: WHQ), has selected the Learn.com LearnCenter® platform to administer, track and manage vital employee safety training throughout the company.

"We wanted to increase the quality of our training while decreasing the time employees spent away from their job functions. Our company is growing very rapidly and we needed to offer more courses with the same resources in a shorter timeframe to increase the quantity of our training and employee productivity," said Mitchell Vest, Global Training Manager at PathFinder Energy Services.

"With the LearnCenter platform, we can better administer our training, save time and be more productive. For example, last year, our instructors utilized 212 days grading exams. The LearnCenter platform will enable them to apply some of that time to student feedback to empower our employees to attain higher levels of job knowledge. We also wanted to track employee skill gaps and competencies and this required a solution that our associates would feel comfortable about using and allow them to reach their career development objectives. Our management team is expecting to see a significant increase in our ROI and for the LearnCenter platform to pay for itself within a short period of time," explained Vest.

About the LearnCenter Platform

Built on Learn.com's award-winning Learning Management System (LMS) technology, the LearnCenter platform has grown into the industry's leading and most complete Talent Management Suite (TMS). The LearnCenter platform manages the entire pre-hire to retire lifecycle by creating a cost effective, high quality training, development and measurement environment designed to empower users with visibility into and control of their career planning while providing management with real-time business intelligence. Learning Management, Performance Management, Content Management, Online Authoring, Succession Planning, Collaboration, e-Commerce, Portal Authoring and more are included within one solution, with one interface and one partner - Learn.com.

About PathFinder Energy Services®

PathFinder® core businesses lie in logging-while-drilling and measurement-while-drilling services, directional drilling services and down-hole drilling motors. PathFinder® is one of a few companies worldwide that currently has the technological capability to offer a full complement of logging-while-drilling products and services. Logging-while-drilling tools provide real-time data about the physical properties of downhole formations. In addition to indicating the possible presence of hydrocarbons, this data also assists in improving drilling performance.

PathFinder® also offers measurement-while-drilling products and services, which use down-hole tools to help locate and direct the tool string to the intended target. This capability is particularly advantageous when drilling directional (non-vertical) wells, which represent an increasing percentage of overall drilling activity. In order to drill a directional well, the driller must be able to determine the precise direction the drill bit is moving during the drilling operation. Measurement-while-drilling tools assist the driller in making this determination by transmitting data to the surface enabling the driller to adjust the drilling path as necessary during the drilling process.

Directional drilling services have grown from select areas internationally to include all of North America. These services involve skilled personnel directing the well-bore along a predetermined path to optimally recover oil and natural gas from a reservoir. These services are used to more accurately drill vertical wells and to drill deviated or directional wells (which deviate from vertical by a planned angle and direction), horizontal wells (which are sections of wells drilled perpendicular or nearly perpendicular to vertical) and extended reach wells (which are deviated over extended distances).

The company is a supplier of down-hole drilling motors and a manufacturer of their components and replacement parts. PathFinder Drilling Motors' product line consists of a wide range of sizes of down-hole drilling motors ranging from 1 11/16-inch to 11 1/2-inches in outside diameter for use at various drilling depths and down-hole environments. The components of the drill motor are designed to operate at various speeds and torque levels and to withstand severe environmental conditions such as high temperatures, hard rock and abrasive drilling fluids. More information about PathFinder® can be found at http://www.pathfinderlwd.com .

About Learn.com

Learn.com® is the worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity with more than 50 million end users around the globe. Our broad suite of on-demand solutions can fully automate the pre-hire to retire lifecycle within any organization. Learn.com's unwavering commitment to understanding client needs, goals and objectives allows us to partner with our clients to increase business performance. The Learn.com family of solutions includes the award-winning LearnCenter® talent management suite, the WebRoom™ Web conferencing suite, the CourseMaker Studio® Authoring Tool, Mentor® EPSS and the 1,000 title Learn2® online course library.

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