ABOUT DFE TECH

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Professional Mud School

DFE Tech Career School is approved and regulated by the Texas Workforce Commission.

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TWC Approved

Patented Processes and Trademarked

Career School offering a World Wide Occupation

Since 2008, our team has succeeded in understanding the needs of the industry and producing unrivaled professionals and products.

DFE Tech is locally owned and operated in Tyler, Texas and is the only Career School we Operate.

DFE Tech is a public Career School as well as a corporate training facility for many Professional Drilling Fluids Companies.

DFE Tech’s curriculum mirrors that of all three Major Fluids Companies and utilizes materials from the manuals of all three majors as well as other manuals and field training materials.

DFE Tech utilizes Technical, Practical, and Proprietary engineering training (patented processes and trademarked {MDR}). Our proprietary curriculum is the basis of the Mud Tech’s Core Responsibility in the field and is not taught at any other Fluids School in the US Industry or abroad.

DFE Tech’s curriculum is focused primarily upon practical and technical aspects of drilling fluids engineering with less emphasis on product margin.

Class training includes extensive discussion and testing procedures on both water based and oil based fluids.

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When our students graduate & leave DFE Tech they are prepared professionals, trained in details of proper fluids engineering.

The Instructors

DFE tech’s instructors have logged over 60 years in the field, operations, and training. The majority of the field work occurred in Deep Water in the Gulf Of Mexico, in technical overseas advisory work, and in South / West Texas. Twenty years of extensive study in practical applications of formal engineering methods & calculations were formulated and applied (patents granted). Another 17+ years were logged in Operations, Technical Advisory, and formal Training / Instruction. DFE tech brings the

knowledge gained in these years of field and Ops experience to the classroom stage with the professional instruction and training techniques of Michael and Harrison Rowden. Harrison is a product of DFE tech Mud School and has over 18 years of field work and study under DFE tech’s patented processes. Michael attended Mud School with IMCO Services and has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Michael brings over 45 years experience in the field, operations,

advisory, training and patented process technology (MDR-tm & DKD-tm) to DFE tech. Our instructors focus heavily on the technical aspects of fluids and equally on the practical application of that knowledge.

DFE Tech is a TEXAS Career School offering a World Wide Occupation

Classroom & Lab Facility

DFE tech has over 2,100 square feet of office, classroom, and lab space.

DFE tech maintains ten mud labs, each complete with the full complement of field fluids analyzing equipment required for teaching and learning proper safety, technique, & procedure for Water and Oil based testing.

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Our past graduates have been employed by every major drilling fluids company in the industry. Check out our class schedule and register today to start your new career!