Rocky Mountain, Gulf Coast & Northeast Oil & Gas Awards Winners Yearbook by Marc Bridgen

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Welcome to the 3rd Annual Oil & Gas Awards commemorative yearbook for the Rocky Mountain, Gulf Coast and Northeast regions. W

e hope you like the new format for the yearbook, enabling you to see what happened in the other regional Awards held in March. In this yearbook you can read coverage from the Industry Summit keynotes, presentations and speaker panels discussing the challenges the industry faces. I hope you find this interesting and hope to see you at next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Industry Summits. I would like to congratulate all of the organizations and individuals that were voted finalists by the judges, and to the winners - well done! Many thanks to the thought leading organizations and individuals that participated in

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the Industry Summit and Awards. We especially appreciate the support of our judges, sponsors and partners, without whom the Oil & Gas Awards would not be possible. I hope that you enjoy reading this commemorative Yearbook, please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to share your thoughts and feedback. Best regards,

Daniel P. Creasey Chairman, Oil & Gas Awards.

Changing the Industry One Innovation at a Time

12 Regaining Energy Dominance

20 Why Regulate?

28 Panel Discussion

38 The Colorado Way

40 Owning the Culture

42 Innovation in the Trucking Industry

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60 Regulation By Any Means Necessary

66 Environmental Responsibility

82 Potential for Greatness

88 Safety Gains Traction

92 Distributed LNG Provides Local, Low-Cost Diesel Fuel Alternative

96 In Case of Emergencyâ&#x20AC;Ś

102 License to Drill

108 Guest of Honor

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Settling Down the Unconstitutional Agendas

114 The Lifecycle of a Well Pad

122 Clean Fleet

136 Why Should Everyone Care about Infrastructure Delays?

140 Keeping Teammates Safe

144 Shaping Minds for Safety

158 Taking Responsibility

The Bakken - The Future Still Looks Bright

52 Lawmaking Through Litigation

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Guest of Honor Editorial

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Between misinformation being spread on the Internet and unhappy constituents, John Hickenlooper urges patience from Colorado citizens when it comes to environmental regulations.

The oil and gas industry is not against a regulatory framework that makes sense. That has always been the case. However, as Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper pointed out during his kickoff speech at the awards gala, upset public citizens expect changes to come as soon as regulations go into effect. And if those changes don’t happen quickly enough, the knee-jerk reaction is to create new regulations. Hickenlooper, however, said believes in letting regulations take hold so industry can adjust their operations appropriately, so that is the philosophy his state has undertaken. “Oftentimes, people want to see, if they’re unhappy or dissatisfied with the situation in their life or public affairs, it resolved immediately in real time,” Hickenlooper said. “Yet the history of appropriate regulation has been incremental, or at least that’s where the best regulation happens.” The best bet for all stakeholders in the oil and gas industry is when business leaders sit down with what Hickenlooper calls “civil society” – the nonprofit organizations who lobby on behalf of the public. He believes the role of the government should be as a neutral party monitoring the situation, and nothing more. “[Industry’s] experts are there, the nonprofit experts are there, and hopefully, government’s primary role is to mediate and make sure the facts are adjudicated,” Hickenlooper said. The role of adjudicating the facts, as Hickenlooper puts it, is of utmost importance in today’s age of the digital flow of information. Through the internet – especially social media networks – not all information that is shared is based in fact.

all this social media and how rapidly information – good and bad – gets transmitted, is to make sure we take the time to get on the same page with the same facts.” Hickenlooper has brought this mentality to his dealings with the oil and gas industry in Colorado in a variety of ways since he assumed the governor’s office in January 2011. Two years ago, he brought together industry and the public to regulate fugitive emissions in the state. Anadarko Petroleum, Noble Energy and Encana Corporation – three of the major energy players in the state – partnered with environmental leaders to determine fair regulations of these emissions in a harmonious manner. “It took almost five months for the experts from both sides to agree on what the study said on what the real facts were,” Hickenlooper said. “Once we got that done, it took another five months to come up with a set of regulations that I think are as close to fair as you can get in that context, and even now we’re trying to figure out additional ways we can make them less onerous when prices are as low as they are now.” The common commitment to a shared goal, according to Hickenlooper, allowed energy executives and environmental leaders to come together for the greater good. “One of my senior staff came up to me afterwards and said, ‘If you ever told me that we would see those people standing together with smiles on their faces, you could have knocked me over with a feather,’” Hickenlooper said. “And yet both sides are saying this is a victory, this is the way progress happens.”

“We have a level of social media now that is very powerful and allows information – and I’m not saying facts, but information – to be transmitted very, very rapidly in circumstances and situations where you could have almost incendiary responses,” Hickenlooper said. “It is easy to say, ‘Get the facts, make a decision, check, next’ if we all have the same facts. But generally, we don’t. And I think that is one of the great challenges with

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Industry Summit Editorial

Changing the Industry One Innovation at a Time Executives of oil and gas companies need to raise the profile of their environmental safety efforts, but not at the expense of profits.

Mark Stanley of Themark Corporation echoes the sentiments of many of his fellow executives in the oil and gas industry when it comes to environmental sensitivity – they’re all for regulations, but not at the cost of shrinking profit margins by more than what’s necessary. During his spotlight presentation, “Changing the Industry One Innovation at a Time,” the CEO of Themark Corporation reminded the audience that fate already had befallen another commodity business. “I’ve seen what happens when an industry – i.e., the coal mining industry – doesn’t pay attention to itself and gets legislated almost out of business,” Stanley said. “That should not happen with our business.” Stanley boasts background with stops at every level with countless positions in the oil and gas industry. For the first 13 years of his career, he worked for a major oil company that eventually was acquired by BP, which subsequently laid him off. He joined forces with two colleagues from Halliburton and third from Nalco Exxon Energy to launch a fracturing chemical company, which they ran from 1989 through 2002 as an independent before being acquired by a major oilfield service company. The last five years at that service company, he ran global operations. Now that he is in “retirement” as CEO of Themark Corporation, Stanley has taken it upon himself to improve the image of the oil and gas industry by not only adhering to environmental regulations, but pushing for more chest-thumping, so to speak, of the environmental sensitivity of the business at large. “I recognized a long time ago that things needed to change within our industry,” Stanley says. “We do a terrible job of publicizing what we’re doing. And ‘shale’ is a five-letter word, not a four-letter word.” The oil and industry can start reevaluating its public image by reconsidering how it sees itself. Considering the fracking of a single well requires

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several million gallons of water over the course of two to five days, Stanley said oil and gas industry nothing more than a collection of water pumping companies. He cited the fact that 85 percent of what is pumped into the well is water – although FracFocus.org claims that percentage is 99.2 percent. Nevertheless, Stanley stated this makes the oil or gas the byproduct of a water operation. “Shale is the producing rock – carbonate and sandstone are not,” Stanley said. “Shale is, and it has to be fracked. And the volume of water that has to be used to frack that has changed our industry significantly. And because of that massive volume, the horsepower required, the water required, the products required – that kind of mass gets lots of attention, most of it negative.” Stanley said the industry can handle these massive amounts of water in a safe manner as things stand. Also, companies are working tirelessly to develop the next great innovation in water handling technology, but that is still en route considering fracking only gained widespread popularity less than eight years ago. “We can do it safely, and we can recycle,” Stanley said. “From an innovative standpoint, we didn’t have to handle the massive amounts of water that we’re having to handle now because shale wasn’t even there. It didn’t really come into play until 2008 or 2009. So this is a new thing for the industry, and we’re going as fast as we possibly can one innovative product at a time.” Much of that R&D is aimed toward further eliminating the possibility of contaminating drinking water, which is among the top concerns of residents in communities where fracking occurs. “That’s extremely rare – it really hasn’t been done,” Stanley said.

Speaker: Mark Stanley, CEO, Themark Corporation

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Later in March of 2015, a study determining the amounts found to contaminate drinking water in Pennsylvania aligned with Stanley’s statement. According to Science magazine, the finding of a study of 11,309 drinking water wells in northeastern Pennsylvania concluded that background levels of methane in the water are unrelated to the location of hundreds of oil and gas wells that tap fracked rock formations. However, in April of 2015, that study is under scrutiny due to the authors’ ties to Chesapeake Energy, the company that submitted water samples.

Stanley admitted, however, that is the oil and gas industry didn’t do something to repair its image, regulators will do what they want to make environmental sensitivity a priority.

Along with urging his colleagues to spread the word about the relative harmlessness of the oil and gas industry, Stanley reminded his colleagues that overregulation should be combated to keep profit margins as large as possible.

Stanley cited a suggestion from a previous discussion about the use of evaporation as an environmentally safe way to store frack water. A study by Worcester Polytechnic Institute indicates evaporation pits release evaporated chemicals into the air and chemicals can leak through lining. Also, Stanley pointed out that evaporation causes the loss of water, which means it cannot be reused.

“The reason to be in business is to make money,” Stanley said. “We want to be green, but we don’t want to pay any more money for it. It shouldn’t cost us any less.”

“Every state its own rules and regulations, and they’re constantly changing,” Stanley said. “So how do you keep up with all the individual rules, because the U.S. government basically doesn’t do anything? So, you have to look at it and say, ‘What are we doing, and how do we recycle and reuse this?’”

“It doesn’t do what’s necessary, which is try to preserve a precious resource, which is water,” Stanley said.

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New Technology Development of the Year – General/Products 3rd Annual

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Judges’ Comments: Superior system serves to minimize processing equipment risks and offers a reliable replacement of rupture disks, pressure valves and flaring, an environmentally responsible alternative.

For over 50 years, Applied Control has been committed to solving the process industry’s toughest challenges providing value-add engineered solutions throughout Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, western Nebraska and South Dakota. An Emerson Process Management Local Business Partner, Applied Control is uniquely capable of combining best-in-class technologies with local expertise to deliver turn-key automation solutions.

We serve a wide breadth of industry segments including oil & gas, refining, power, mining, food, pharmaceutical, OEM’s, and engineering contractors/ EPC’s. A locally-owned Colorado independent business, Applied Control helps clients to improve their business operations; optimize capital expenditure/maximize return on capital investments, reduce project risks, decrease maintenance and operations cost, improve site safety, reduced the cost and risk of environmental compliance, reduce lifecycle costs, and improve the reliability, throughout, productivity, profitability of production assets.

specialists, associates, and shop/ warehouse personnel respond to customer needs surrounding control valves, automated valves, control systems, flow computers, reliability monitoring, safety and instrumentation. $5M in local inventory, a 24/7/365 emergency response network, field services teams, and local education/training programs add additional value to our customers’ businesses. Dedicated to service, we give back to our community though an employee-powered philanthropic committee, ACE of Hearts.

Our people make success possible. Factory-trained product specialists, application engineers, parts

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ARCADIS is the world’s leading natural and built asset design & consultancy firm. From upstream to retail and operating to legacy, ARCADIS has been a key supplier of costeffective solutions to oil and gas clients for over six decades. Our experts provide tailored business strategies that make good business sense.

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Dresser Rand is among the largest suppliers of rotating equipment solutions to the worldwide oil, gas, petrochemical, and process industries. With its short cycle times, global service presence and leading edge technology, Dresser-Rand can help clients gain a competitive advantage in the LNG market.

Scientific Drilling is a global drilling service provider and the Ultimate Partner in Wellbore Placement. We are the only company to offer a complete navigation solution for the energy services sector that includes High Accuracy gyro Survey, MWD, LWD, MagTraC MWD Ranging™, and Cased Hole Solutions.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

Loenbro Midstream Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Good use of facility overview to paint a picture of their operations and a succinct submission that touches on multiple category criteria. Crestwood have scored well on this basis.

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Crestwood Midstream Partners (NYSE: CMLP) is a master limited partnership headquartered in Houston, Texas, that owns and operates midstream businesses in multiple unconventional shale resource plays across the United States. Crestwood Midstream is engaged in the gathering, processing, treating, compression, transportation and storage of natural gas; transportation, fractionation, storage, and terminalling of NGLs; and gathering, storage and terminalling of crude oil.

Crestwood Equity Partners (NYSE: CEQP) owns the general partner interest, including the incentive distribution rights and an approximate 4% limited partner interest of Crestwood Midstream. In addition, Crestwood Equity’s operations include a NGL and crude oil supply and logistics business that serves customers in the United States and Canada.

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Crestwood experienced significant change in 2013 as it merged with Inergy LP and Inergy Midstream LP, then added to its Bakken presence with the acquisition of Arrow Midstream. The result creates a business with a total enterprise value of approximately $8 billion. Crestwood has a liquids-focused growth strategy for its diverse operations linking producers, active in multiple shale plays, and enduser customers across the natural gas, NGLs and crude oil sectors.

Significant player in the major shale plays. Crestwood operate with a clear commitment to health and safety. They show an appetite for the development of their operations and use strategic acquisitions and development projects alongside organic growth.

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First River Energy is evolving the crude oil liquids logistics business for independent producers through seamlessly connecting producers and markets. The strategically located logistics infrastructure, data gathering systems, website and mobile applications are improving customer netbacks and providing access to real-time information enabling customers to run their operations more efficiently.

SECURE Energy Services is a leading North American energy services company that provides safe and innovative solutions to upstream oil and natural gas companies. Its three divisions help customers with their unique challenges at every stage of the oilfield life cycle while maintaining the highest level of environmental standards.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) is a growth-oriented limited partnership focused on owning and operating strategically located midstream infrastructure assets in unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in North America. SMLP currently provides primarily feebased natural gas gathering services in the Marcellus Shale, the Bakken Shale, the Barnett Shale, and the Piceance Basin. SMLP owns and operates 790 miles of pipeline and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

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Award for Excellence in Well Completion

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Judges’ Comments: A leading service provider in well completions, they have a flawless execution that is safe. They are conscientious about safety and the environment.

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Calfrac Well Services is an innovative pressure pumping services provider focused on unconventional natural gas and light oil plays plus strategic international markets. With state-of-the-art equipment, in-house R&D, a diversified customer base, an expert team of employees, and experienced management, Calfrac is strongly positioned for continued success.

Our track record and impressive growth make us one of the most attractive pressure pumping companies in the industry and among the largest in the world. Currently one of the top five pressure pumping companies in the world, the value we place on flawless execution, ethical behavior and decisions, an entrepreneurial approach to

problem solving, continuous learning, and being an energetic, service-focused team is critical to maintaining this position this position. At Calfrac, our purpose is flawless execution. Regardless of where we are operating, achieving this consistently comes from a tireless commitment to safety, quality and service.

Calfrac’s pressure pumping and individual detail to each well, along with their safety record, educational opportunities, and training offered to their employees make them a stand out company in their field. A company with a great reputation for getting the job done and making a great well.

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Packers Plus is the innovator of open hole, multistage completion systems and provides solutions for technically challenging applications in horizontal, vertical, multi-lateral, and high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) wells. The company has operations in Canada, the United States, and internationally to maintain an influential role in key markets.

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RockPile Energy Services provides well completion services in the Rocky Mountain Region. We use innovation and technology to leave the smallest carbon footprint – period!

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS PRODUCED BEFORE

You’re an explorer of the new frontier in oil and gas production. And you’re searching for paths to add reserves without breaking the bank. Have you thought about re-fracturing? Calfrac’s biodegradable diverting agents provide effective diversion and then dissolve and disappear – leaving the perforations, fractures and wellbore open for significantly increased production. When you partner with Calfrac, you gain pioneering technologies that will help you get the most out of your wells—even in the world’s toughest reservoirs.

Welcome to the future of optimized production.

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Industry Summit Editorial

Regaining Energy Dominance With the amount of resources within U.S. borders, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that the domestic energy industry will bounce back.

During the boom period the oil and gas industry recently experienced with the technological advances of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, there wasn’t any inkling that producers could price themselves out of profit through overproduction. Well, that’s exactly where things stand for oil as of April 20, 2015, as the price of light, sweet crude for May delivery rose 1.2 percent to $56.38 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, according to the Wall Street Journal. Christopher Guith, Senior Vice President – Policy for the Institute for 21st Century Energy division of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, delivered a keynote address entitled “America’s Energy Future: Challenges and Opportunities” focused on this very issue and how the industry can adjust to the new reality.

“Collectively, we as a country have been indoctrinated that this is a country with few energy resources, and on top of that, we’re gluttons,” Guith said. “All of our policies reflect that. There was a time 40 years ago that we found ourselves basically in that situation.” With today’s technology able to determine the amount of resources available within U.S. borders, those fears can be put to rest. According to Guith, the United States has over 100 years of natural gas, 200 years of oil and almost 50 years of coal in technically recoverable resources. As for in-place resources, the United States has over 600 years of gas, 500 years of oil and almost 10,000 years of coal.

“We collectively as an industry have been a victim of our own success,” Guith said. “In spite of what I said and others have said, you can, in fact, drill your way to lower prices. And within the oil patch, it obviously has been very painful.”

“Yet our policies, at the federal level especially, are still stuck in an era of the Arab oil embargo, of the 1973 vintage, and it hasn’t progressed to where we are right now,” Guith said. “So it is important whether you’re in the industry or not to make sure the people around you understand what we have because that’s what’s limiting us at the federal level right now.”

Don’t get Guith wrong – there are countless benefits for the American people still happening due to the technical advancement of the oil and gas industry. According to Guith, the United States has had greater price stability for longer periods of time, and there have been lower consumer prices than any time within the last 20 years. In terms of energy security, along with domestic production, the United States has a more reliable and affordable sources in North America.

As an example, Guith cited the declining use of federal lands for energy exploration. He said over the course of the last five years, not only have the number of applications for a permit to drill declined, but so have the number of wells. He also cited a Wood Mackenzie study that found about 3,000 wells have been drilled but not fracked, which evoked a grim comparison to the approximately 800 wells drilled and not completed in Pennsylvania’s gas fields as operators waited out higher natural gas prices.

However, Guith believes the federal government could stand to loosen its grip on energy regulations for today’s industry and stop holding onto the ways of the past. He is referring to the political and economic instability the Arab oil embargo caused the United States and the world in the midst of a lull in production in 1973.

“If we’re now laying rigs down on top of not completing the wells that we have drilled, then there’s this sort of inventory waiting to go,” Guith said. “The bottom line is, what happens if these wells start being completed en masse, and you have a new bunch of production just jump on the market, which puts downward pressure on price, as well.”

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A lift on crude export ban would help the situation, according to Guith. Considering the price of Brent crude oil can be as much as $10 higher than U.S. prices, the ban essentially hamstrings American oil producers against the rest of the world. “Exports is the one thing that the federal government can do to – I won’t say ‘fix’ things, but create the minimal amount of alleviation,” Guith said. “The one thing that is standing in the way of that alleviation is the inability to move this product overseas. This is a bastardization of the market.”

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Speaker: Christopher Guith, Senior Vice President – Policy, Institute for 21st Century Energy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The reason the ban hasn’t been lifted, according to Guith, is Congress’ refusal to act on the issue. With elections always around the corner, members of Congress do not like taking the risk of being out in front of issues like the crude export ban because of the political vulnerability it can create. “The problem is no person in Congress wants to be left out there voting to increase exports, and then as soon as prices for gasoline spike for who knows what reason – a refinery outage, a war in the Middle East, whatever the case may be – and have the people out there with their pitchforks and their torches and say, ‘It is because of her!’” Guith said. “So we need voices from around the country, but especially from producing areas to really support your members of Congress.” Another issue the oil and gas industry must rally against is the ozone rule, according to Guith, because of the unrealistic costs associated with its compliance. A February 2015 study by NERA Economic Consulting commissioned by the National Association of Manufacturers concluded that the new regulation from the Obama Administration could cost the economy $140 billion per year. Guith said this would become the most expensive regulation ever imposed in the United States. “The real issue here is we just finalized the most recent ozone standard four weeks ago and we’re already moving into a new one because I would argue this administration looked at its watch and said, ‘Oh, my, we have two years left, let’s do more,’” Guith said. “That is something – especially a state as important as Colorado – I really suggest you tell your governor, your local official and especially your federal officials, ‘Hey, you guys need to pay attention to this.’”

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VZ Environmental Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship

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Provided multiple examples of innovative renewable energy designs for clients that spanned across a variety of types of projects; methane gathering from seeps for fuel, wind turbines, solar power, water management, etc. (innovative and unique uses for different clients).

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LT Environmental, Inc. (LTE) is a full service, national environmental engineering consultancy headquartered in Arvada, Colorado. Established in 1992, LTE employs 125 employees in 9 offices located in Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah, Idaho, and Florida. A client-centered philosophy dedicating experienced client managers to each project allows LTE to achieve high performance in the areas of responsiveness, quality, and cost efficiency. Our multi-disciplinary approach to technical innovation provides superior solutions that fit our clients’ specific challenges involving remediation, assessment, regulatory compliance, and safety.

LTE’s culture is rooted in 9 corporate values, including working safely, caring for the client, and protecting the environment. In 2014, LTE achieved a triumphant milestone surpassing 1,000 days without a reportable incident. The hard work and innovation of our staff culminated in client savings of more than $5M over the past 12 months across a variety of business sectors, especially the Oil & Gas Industry. Our fleet of CNG trucks has not

only supported our clients’ business, but has proven to reduce fueling costs as well as being a benefit to the environment. A Win, Win, Win! Our mission is to safely complete high quality, costeffective services through long-lasting business relationships. We complete the project – No Excuses!

Compelling examples of unique/ custom solutions.

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Through a recent merger with Williams Partners L.P., Access Midstream joined Williams, a premier provider of large-scale natural gas infrastructure in North America. The Access operating area spans nine states in the Barnett, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, Marcellus, Niobrara and Utica Shales and the Mid-Continent regions.

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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s mission is to deliver a competitive and sustainable rate of return to shareholders by exploring for, acquiring and developing oil and natural gas resources vital to the world’s health and welfare. As of year-end 2013, the company had approximately 2.79 billion barrelsequivalent of proved reserves, making it one of the world’s largest independent exploration and production companies.

Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: NES) is among the largest companies in the United States dedicated to providing comprehensive, full-cycle environmental solutions to customers focused on the development and ongoing production of oil and natural gas from shale formations.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Trucking Company of the Year – Presented by Kenworth

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Great to see a company that is developing and expanding in such rapid time is also contributing to a wide range of community initiatives and charities.

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Cruz Energy Services is part of the Alaska-based Cruz Companies. Together, with sister companies Cruz Construction Inc. and Cruz Marine LLC, our employees have demonstrated their skill supporting oil field services and heavy civil construction since 1981. Our innovative, hands-on management style has made Cruz Companies what they are today: prominent heavy civil, oil field service, and barging companies with a reputation for quality work and service. Our extensive experience in harsh climates, combined with our specialty equipment and consistent high performance on logistically challenging projects, separates us from the competition. We continually perform on time, safely, and under budget.

Our operation is based on professional project management, sound leadership, cost control, and communication. It revolves around rig moving, oil field service, crane service, heavy haul service, and heavy civil projects. We are accustomed to working under the tight deadlines encountered when coordinating with several contractors to accomplish a project.

We have seen significant growth since arriving in the Bakken in 2010. This growth is attributed to the hard work and cohesiveness of the employees. They truly are the reason Cruz has been able to develop itself into a diverse company that is able to assist clients on several fronts.

246% growth in 4 years and working in challenging weather conditions and an everchanging regulatory environment, Cruz are still able to meet customers’ needs and budgets. This sets them apart from other companies in the category.

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A&W Water Service provides efficient and environmentally conscious solutions to service the full cycle of the well, from water sourcing and transfer to reuse and disposal at our own facility. We offer the complete solution; Water Hauling, Frac Tanks, Water Transfer and Manifold, Flatbed Hauling, Pipe Yard Storage.

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JD Field Services, founded by Jason Jensen and David Gurr in 2000 is an industry leader in transportation, roustabout and rig mobilization services within the Oil and Gas Industry. Since it’s inception JD Field Services has grown astronomically. JD’s equipment increased by 875% from 2004 to present.

RMT Trucking, Inc. is committed to excellence in delivering to the customer, and strives to be the best in the transportation industry. This includes excellent customer service, on time deliveries, communication and a safe working environment. Our long history working in the oil patch makes us a specialist in the oil and gas industry.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

Manufacturer of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Kerr Pumps and FlowValve exemplify the American ability to innovate. The potential impact on the industry for their new product, having developed a new grade of steel, is remarkable.

Kerr Pumps and FlowValve are located at the same manufacturing facility in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Kerr Pumps was founded in 1946, and has manufactured high pressure positive displacement pumps ever since.

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We serve a diverse industry with our X-Class and Classic lines, including pumps that run at 11 to 625 horsepower. Kerr Pumps’ Well Service line includes 600 to 2,800 horsepower pumps that are geared for cementing, hydraulic fracturing, double pumper and reversing units. FlowValve was added in 2007, and manufactures a full line of high pressure flow line equipment. Since 1996,

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we have doubled in size every three years. Today, Kerr Pumps and FlowValve employ 205 people in a 230,112 square foot manufacturing facility, housing 215 computer numerical control (CNC) machines. Our incredible growth has been the direct result of providing value to our customers through offering high quality products.

To invent a new type of steel that lasts 62% longer is extremely impressive. Kerr Pumps Super Stainless™ fluid ends last up to 62% longer than 17-4PH stainless steel. This is a remarkable engineering feat that can create value and sustainability for hydraulic fracturing companies.

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Astro Thermal Tec Ltd. is the manufacturer of a large volume high efficiency (95%+) industrial water heater. Efficient, reliable, safe, versatile and environmentally friendly are the best descriptors of our product. Continuous research and development along with quality service and support are the hallmarks of our family centered company culture.

Leistritz offers a complete line of standard Multiphase Production Systems designed to address four specific Oil and Gas Field applications. Each MPS can reliably and economically boost production rates. Capitalizing on Leistritz’ Artificial Lift technology, our standard MPSs are designed specifically for Wellhead, Gathering, Liquid Blowdown and Liquid Unloading applications.

Worthington Industries is the leading global manufacturer of pressure cylinders and related products for industrial, alternative fuel, energy and consumer products markets. Our broad product line, including custom solutions for oil and gas storage, processing and transportation, serves every major U.S. shale region. Our global support team provides unsurpassed customer service with market-leading technical, product, and market expertise.

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DTZ is a proud sponsor

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As a global real estate service provider, DTZ is uniquely positioned to serve the oil and gas industry with any real estate requirement. Recent Example A 224 acre industrial land deal for a new mid-stream rail facility in Northern Colorado. David Schlatter listed the property, targeted oil and gas rail users and brought the buyer to the deal for a mutually successful transaction. The buyer, ARB Midstream, is building a $50M rail facility on the site. arbmidstream.com/nicon-project

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Themark Corporation E&P Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: A top tier E&P company! EOG continually takes steps through training and continuous improvements in its practices to prevent safety and environmental incidents.

EOG Resources, Inc. is one of the largest independent crude oil and natural gas companies in the United States with proved reserves in the U.S., Canada, Trinidad, the United Kingdom, China and Argentina. The U.S.-focused company is a technological leader in horizontal drilling to produce hydrocarbons from shale.

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EOG demonstrated a willingness to give back to the communities where they work and live.

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Quality ownership positions in key producing areas, with a stellar environmental and operating record.

EOG have clearly taken their commitments to operational excellence and community engagement to the next level. The detail provided on their best practices is remarkable. Regular participation in regional NPC councils of excellence and as a founding member of the MSC, EOG’s commitment to showcasing best practice is unparalleled. They don’t just talk the talk, they walk it.

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Austin Exploration engages in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of onshore oil and gas in the United States. Austin is the first Company to drill and produce from the Niobrara shale in this part of Colorado which came on to production at 403BOEPD. Austin has an interest in 5,000 acres in Eagle Ford Shale in Texas as well as producing oil and gas properties in Kentucky, Mississippi and Texas.

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Enerplus Resources is an independent producer with assets in the most productive plays in North America. The company has been active in North Dakota and Montana since 2005, when assets were acquired in the Elm Coulee field. In addition to successful production, Enerplus emphasizes safety, ethical conduct, and community involvement.

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Industry Summit Editorial

Why Regulate? Aside from environmental sensitivity, the oil and gas industry has plenty of monetary motivation to keep the air and water clean.

Add Korby Bracken to the list of oil and gas industry veterans who believes the business does not need to be regulated to the extent it has been, especially the last few years. Bracken, HSE Director, Rockies, for Anadarko Petroleum, said it is inherent for oil and gas operators to capture everything it produces as part of a successful business model as well as for responsible environmental practices – something the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should understand. “We’re in the business of producing those natural resources – whether it’s oil, natural gas or condensate – and it’s in our best interest and our revenue stream to keep that stuff in the pipeline,” Bracken said. Bracken took part in the panel discussion entitled “Minimizing Environmental Impact through Innovative Water Management, Well Site Construction and Logistics,” which focused primarily on a number of regulations the oil and gas industry faces and how operators can stay in step with them in cost-effective and efficient ways. Bracken specifically cited the new methane rules that could take effect in summer 2015. According to the Wall Street Journal, the plans unveiled by the Obama administration in January propose federal regulations to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 to 45 percent over the next decade from 2012 levels. This is an example of what Bracken believes is unnecessary regulation of the oil and gas industry. He said the industry can and does appropriately handle these types of pollutants already, especially since a byproduct like methane can be repurposed and sold. “EPA, in all their wisdom, thinks that we need to modify some existing rules to include routine flare inspections or routine fugitive inspections in order to reduce the amount of methane oil and gas companies have,” Bracken said. “It doesn’t take regulation for us to keep methane in the pipeline. It doesn’t take regulation for us to control methane, or put catalysts on our engines to reduce NOx emissions, or put clean-burn engines out. You find that industry has done a great job going above and beyond current regulations to reduce our impact.”

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Aside from air regulations, the oil and gas industry must keep abreast of a variety of water regulation currently on the books as well as those that may take hold in the future. Every operator must contend with how to best deal with produced water from fracking operations. Tom Fisk, Director, Environmental, Health and Safety for Whiting Petroleum Corporation, said his company basis its plan on the location of the site and the technology available. In North Dakota, for instance, a company nixed a plan for a water recycling facility on one of Whiting Petroleum’s fields because the decline in production stemming from low commodity pricing would not produce the amount of water necessary to create a profit over five years. However, Whiting Petroleum has discovered the produced fluid from basins in Colorado is easier to recycle. Also, Whiting Petroleum does not need as clean of water for fracturing purposes in Colorado as it does in North Dakota. No matter where the resource is located, Fisk said one of the ways to reduce water impact is to use gathering systems whenever possible. Whiting Petroleum estimates how much water it will need for a given field and plans a gathering system early on to collect resources and move them to a centralized location. “If we do get some good technology for recycling, it will be very, very easy for us to bring that in and start that business,” Fisk said. In order to determine whether recycling produced water makes sense for a project, Thomas M. Murphy, President of LT Environmental, said his company relies on 300 to 400 parameters, each with its own assigned dollar value, to determine what technology would best serve the application. The parameters include chemistry, volumes, sustainability programs and public perception. “We can look to see whether or not some kind of simple physical separation is good enough to allow that water to be reused, or do we have to do some kind of chemical separation,” Murphy said. “Those kinds of aspects obviously influence the cost of the water management.” All these parameters help narrow down the cost of water down to the price per barrel, which Murphy said helps

Moderator: Kari Cutting, Vice President, NDPC

companies make informed decisions about their water management options. Murphy also said oil companies and their environmental consultants are now looking to reduce the environmental impacts in the fields by looking at contamination that exists. He specifically sites the occasional spills of saltwater and hydrocarbons, which once meant digging up contaminated soils and hauling to landfills without treating the soil itself. Today, according to Murphy, operators are leaning toward in-situ solutions via a number of technologies that have been launched in the last 10 years. These applications often involve the injection of a solution that reduces contamination where it exists. “It generally reduces the cost, it cleans up the groundwater faster, it eliminates trucking and filling up landfills,” Murphy said. “These kinds of innovations are really making a big difference in how the oilfields look. They look cleaner, they look better, and you’re not sending big truckloads to the landfill. “Destroy the contamination in place if you can,” Murphy added. “That’s going to save you time and money.” According to Howard Dieter, Director, Environmental, Health and Safety, and Corporate Regulatory Compliance for Jonah Energy, the oil and gas industry already is looking to capitalize on a number of what are now considered waste streams. With the ingenuity within the oil and gas sectors, Dieter doesn’t view the regulations in as negative a light as others do. “I think these are a lot of challenges that our industry can face, and I think that a lot of folks are starting to look at

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Speakers: Korby Bracken, HSE Director, Rockies, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Tom Fisk, Director; Environmental, Health and Safety, Whiting Petroleum Corporation, Howard Dieter, Director, EHSR, Jonah Energy LLC, Thomas M. Murphy, President, LT Environmental, Inc.

it very differently just than how we operated in the past,” Dieter said. “I see those as growth opportunities, and I see them driven by economics versus regulations. I think any solution that’s driven by economics is going to be stronger than a solution that’s being driven by regulation.” Bracken said this is already happening by virtue of efficiency in operations, and it will only get better as technology advances. Regarding surface disturbance, operators have essentially reduced the size of pads to drill and complete a four-well horizontal production facility from 10 acres to five. This wouldn’t have been possible without simulation centers, remote hydraulic fracturing and smaller rigs. “One of the common things we hear is, ‘If you’re to develop the resource in our area, we don’t want it to look like pockmarks all over the place,’” Bracken said. “And we don’t, either. It’s hard for us to maintain, and it’s hard for us to maintain those facilities. We want to have as least an impact as possible, so we will pull those facilities back.” Moderator Kari Cutting, Vice President of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, acknowledged that the bulk of the industry recognizes the “technology revolution” underway. Fisk said part of that revolution has advanced how the industry is able to collect data about the ways it has minimized its impacts. However, it is time for the oil and gas business to improve how it tells the general public just how much it has their best interests in mind. “We’re not so good at publicizing the data and putting out there for people to see,” Fisk said. “I think it’s only a matter time before we get proactive and be a corporate responsible citizen and start publishing reports on our corporate sustainability and responsibilities.”

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Water Management Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: The trilogy of solutions make the Themark Water Treatment Technology stand out. Scored highly on many of the key points of the criteria. A thorough and well-structured case for the Water Management Company of the Year Award.

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Themark Corporation® is proud to combine an ideology that reduces costs and complies with all industry environmental regulations. All products and services are designed to protect and preserve our environment, making the world a better place one product at a time and service at a time. Our products have been proven effective in the industry for over 37 years.

We provide the highest quality environmentally safe products drilling through to refining needs including: hydrogen sulfide scavengers, sand control agents, soil stabilization products, environmentally safe thermal fluids that reduce carbon footprint and are at least 34% more efficient than conventional fluids, and nonchloride based de-icing agents. All products are paired with organic base structures. In the area of water treatment, our signature product, the HydroPod™ provides cost reduction strategies that

minimize exposure to fines, restrictions, and limited access to natural resources. The HydroPod™ water treatment system provides solutions for contaminated processed and fracking water. The HydroPod™ is capable of separating water from all unique geological characteristics of each shale formation in the US and Canada. Treated water has been approved by the EPA for redistribution into natural water shed systems in Colorado. Other states, including Ohio and Pennsylvania, are pending.

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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s mission is to deliver a competitive and sustainable rate of return to shareholders by exploring for, acquiring and developing oil and natural gas resources vital to the world’s health and welfare. As of yearend 2013, the company had approximately 2.79 billion barrelsequivalent of proved reserves, making it one of the world’s largest independent exploration and production companies.

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bilfinger westcon Engineering Company of the Year

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Samuel Engineering, Inc. (SE) is a Denver, Colorado based multi-discipline engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) company started in 1996. SE has grown to over 185 full time professionals and has successfully executed hundreds of projects. Beyond SE’s center of excellence and corporate headquarters in the Denver Tech Center, are satellite offices in Durango, CO, Salt Lake City, Utah and Rock Springs, Wyoming.

From its genesis, traits such as humility, gratitude, generosity and client focus solutions, coupled with the relentless pursuit of excellence, were embedded in SE’s culture – “We do it once we do it right”. SE’s view is that neither the oil & gas sectors nor its clients need (nor want) just another engineering company. SE sees undisciplined growth at all cost, as a business vice/temptation rather than a sustainable virtue.

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Although SE continues to grow and has been recognized by Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing companies in our sector, SE pursues excellence rather than size; repeat satisfied clients rather than many new clients; successful projects rather than high volume, optimal solutions rather than “one size fits all” approaches.

Judges’ Comments: A company that get’s it. Samuel delivers a best in class product while remembering that people - both the client and their own employees - are what is important.

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Halker Consulting is a nationwide provider of fit-for-purpose, multidisciplined engineering, design and field services for the oil and gas and other energy industry sectors. The firm is headquartered in Englewood, Colo. with field operations in Midland, Texas; Greeley, Colo.; Durango, Colo.; and Dickinson, N.D.

Since 1938, KLJ has provided multi-disciplinary engineeringbased solutions for national, largescale operations, with the local expertise to drive projects forward and deliver successful results. Our strong regional connections, indepth local knowledge, responsive personal service and industry experience create strategic advantages for all clients.

Spartan Engineering is a professional engineering firm serving the energy sector with QUALITY ENGINEERING, CUSTOMER SERVICE, VALUE and unbeatable RESULTS. Our professional, full-service engineering, construction management and GIS mapping services are provided throughout North America, Russia and the Middle East. Spartan’s corporate office is located in Tulsa, OK, with team members in Oklahoma City, OK, Denver, CO, and Minot, ND.

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STV/GWD is an established and highly regarded full-service provider of engineering, design, environmental, project management and field services for the liquid petroleum, natural gas processing, and pipeline transportation markets. STV/GWD’s experienced staff has an in-depth knowledge of plant operations, which enhances communication and efficiency and gives us a big-picture perspective to successfully develop innovative solutions for our clients.

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Construction Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Great safety record and best documentation of timely execution. 3rd Annual

Loenbro is an energy construction / maintenance services company working throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. Services include Oil, Gas and Water Pipeline Construction and Installation; Pipeline Expansion, Repair and Maintenance; Pipeline Integrity Inspections; Anomaly Work; Rightof-Way Restoration; Emergency Callouts; Hydrostatic Testing; Hydrovac Truck Service; and Directional Boring.

Loenbro specializes in working with mid-stream and downstream companies. Whether it is oil, gas or water pipelines, Loenbro has the resources to complete projects of all sizes. We have more than 500 crew members working in Montana, Wyoming and

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North Dakota. Our Industrial Construction Division provides; Certified Welding Services; Turnaround Work; Fabrication, Prefabrication, and Assembly; Underground Utility Installation; Insulation, Fireproofing; and Heat Treat.

As Loenbro mention in their write-up, they appear to be a single-source solution for a variety of projects - from LNG plants to pipeline construction. At the same time, their commitment to safety, the environment and to their employees continues to be strong and growing.

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Bilfinger Westcon Inc. is an Industrial General Contractor with 34 years of experience serving the oil/gas industry in oil plays throughout the United States. Safety is critical to the success of our projects. In order to ensure that our employees make it home every night, our goal is “zero incidents”.

Corval Group is a full service industrial general contractor and engineering firm offering solutions and services that deliver results. As an industry leader, Corval’s unwavering commitment to excellence builds confidence with every client. Building Confidence is more than a motto; it’s a century of delivering results and saving clients millions.

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Northern Electric, Inc. (NEI) is a full service electrical, special systems and instrumentation contractor primarily specializing in Industrial, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Institutional and Commercial projects. NEI’s unique competitive advantage revolves around it’s ability to perform fast-track electrical construction services for diverse projects in the United States.

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The Oil & Gas Financial journal Transaction of the Year - Over $1bn

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Whiting aims to deliver sustainable growth through a combination of our high return Bakken assets and our long lived enhanced oil recovery projects.

Whiting Petroleum is an independent exploration and production company with an oil focused asset base. We control one of the largest acreage positions in the Bakken resource play in North Dakota, where we are the #2 oil producer in the state. We also operate one of the largest enhanced oil recovery projects in the United States at our North Ward Estes Field in the Permian Basin of Texas.

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Whiting is headquartered in Denver, Colorado where we operate one of the few in-house geoscience core labs in the oil and gas industry.

Not only have Whiting created the largest Bakken/ Three Forks production with over 107,000 BOEP/D, the efficiency benefits are impressive through complimentary acreage positions and the increase in the combined number of drilling locations.

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Jonah Energy is a growth oriented exploration and production company focused on acquiring and operating oil and gas properties located onshore in North America.

Tesoro Logistics LP (NYSE: TLLP) is a leading full-service logistics company operating primarily in the Western and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. TLLP owns and operates a network of over 3,500 miles of crude oil, refined products and natural gas pipelines.

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Industry Summit Editorial

Panel Discussion Task force on state and local regulation on Oil and Gas Operations.

There were countless goals laid out by Colorado Gov. John W. Hickenlooper when he called for the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force in September 2014. One of the most urgent needs was giving local jurisdictions more of a say in oil and gas operations within their borders. The consortium of 21 oil and gas stakeholders has faced some criticism for not giving enough might back to Colorado cities and counties since the task force’s final report was released in February 2015. However, the task force’s nine were a success to at least one member of the task force, who represents the county with the most oil and gas activity in the state. As Weld County Commissioner, Steve Moreno has over 22,000 drill sites in his jurisdiction, which represents 80 percent of Colorado’s production. As a member of the oil and gas task force, he learned, above all else, that a willingness for government and industry to work together to eliminate problems before they arise. “What I learned most of all is the complete circle is really collaboration, communication and education,” Moreno said at the “Task Force on State and Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations” retrospective panel discussion. “That means the industries, the municipalities, counties and the citizens must be involved in this process here.” The Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force was charged with finding common ground between state and local regulatory structures associated to oil and gas operations. The 21 members of the task force, each one appointed by Hickenlooper, was comprised of six members representing the oil and gas, agriculture, and homebuilding industry; six representatives of local government and the conservation community; and seven members from a variety of interests. The task force met seven times between September 2014 and February 2015 before voting on a series of

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recommendations. In order for a recommendation to become final, it needed a supermajority of 14 votes. Seven of the nine recommendations received unanimous votes. The final nine recommendations from the Colorado Oil and Gas Task force are: §§ Recommendation No. 17 – Recommend Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) rulemaking to address local government collaboration with operators concerning locations for large scale oil and gas facilities in urban mitigation defined in COGCC rules. This process is intended to provide interested local governments a defined and timely opportunity to participate in the siting of such large-scale multiwall oil and gas production facilities before an operator finalizes such locations. §§ Recommendation No. 20 – Proposal to require operator registration with certain local government designees (LGD), and upon request of a municipal LGD, submission of operational information for the purpose of incorporating potential oil and gas development into local comprehensive plans. §§ Recommendation No. 25 – The COGCC should work to ensure that the local government that the local government designee and the local government liaison functions are fully utilized and that they are adequately and properly resourced. §§ Recommendation No. 27 – The General Assembly should authorize COGCC to hire 12 additional full-time employees (FTE) to increase the number of staff responsible to inspect oil and gas wells, conduct environmental investigations and response actions, conduct intake of and track citizen complaints, process permit applications, and perform data analysis to support data and information requests from the legislature, media, public, industry and other stakeholders.

Moderator: Amy Oliver Cooke, EVP Director, Energy Policy Centre at the Independence Institute

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Speakers: Mike King, Executive Director, CDNR Brad Holly, Senior Vice President - Rockies Operations, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Steve Moreno, County Commissioner, Weld County

§§ Recommendation No. 31b – A four-pronged recommendation that suggests converting five temporary FTEs with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to permanent status; supporting CDPHE’s recommendation to establish a health complaint and information line; encouraging CDPHE to seek authorization and funding and urges the General Assembly to consider providing support for a mobile air quality monitoring unit and associated staffing; and encouraging the CDPHE to seek funding from the General Assembly and other sources to conduct a human health risk assessment.

§§ Recommendation No. 37 – Reduce truck traffic on public streets, roads and highways for oil and gas activities. §§ Recommendation No. 49 – The General Assembly should approve SB15-100, the 2015 Rule Review Bill, endorsing all new rules not otherwise legally invalid. §§ Recommendation No. 52b – The COGCC should implement and emphasize a compliance assistance program to help operators comply with complicate and ever-changing operating rules and policies, and to assure that inspectors are enforcing those rules and policies in a consistent manner.

§§ Recommendation No. 41 – Establish a clearinghouse to communicate information regarding Colorado’s oil and gas industry.

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According to Mike King, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, the task force was a necessity to head off potential ballot issues regarding state versus local oversight primacy for oil and gas activities. King said the issues in Colorado were too complex for any one ballot initiative to solve.

Independence Institute, reminded the audience and panelist that Colorado is a “process-oriented” state where citizens want to feel like a part of the process. King admitted that ballot initiatives will never completed go away considering it only requires 86,000 signatures to place a measure o a ballot.

“The governor was absolutely committed that a ballot initiative dealing with such a complex issue in such a simple manner was going to be horrible for the state,” King said. “We have a long history in Colorado of answering really complicated questions with really simple answers, and it hasn’t really done well for us.”

However, the recommended actions from the Oil & Gas Task Force hopefully will bring some regulatory certainty to Colorado’s oil and gas industry. Holly said operators throughout the state need this in order to continue investing in Colorado.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force’s open meetings were held in communities where oil and gas was either an established industry or new to the area. The common thread throughout the task force’s five months of work was that blanket regulations handed down from state government were not always going to fit the needs of individual local jurisdictions, according to Brad Holly, Senior Vice President – Rockies Operation for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. “One of the universal themes that we heard is that one size does not fit all in this state,” Holly said. “Each part of the state is very unique, and the places where oil and gas development has actually taken part, it has worked.” As productive as the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force was, not all of the processes and parameters laid before its members were ideal. For example, while King was charged with overseeing the task force, he was not named an active member, which he found “painful in ways you can’t imagine.” Also, one rule King said he hadn’t encountered on countless tasks forces he’s participated in over his career prohibited members from speaking with each other directly. The Colorado attorney general’s office made it clear this was not allowed, which King said didn’t make sense since task forces typically are used to exchange ideas to be presented to legislators. “I’ve never heard of a task force being precluded from talking to each other,” King said. “It’s different if it’s legislators and they can’t vote off the record or the board of a commission and you can’t vote off the record. You need to do those things in public. But a task force is fundamentally a brainstorming group that brings the best ideas from a community forward for consideration by those people who have to do all the votes in public.” Although part of the mission of the task force was to develop tools that could be used to stave off ballot initiatives aimed at banning oil and gas activities, moderator Amy Oliver Cook, Executive Vice President Director of the Energy Policy Center at the

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“We need some regulatory certainty to be able to make long-term investments in the state,” Holly said. “Oil and gas is a very capital intensive process, and we’ve got to have some certainty.” Although it was in the minority report because of the lack of votes, Holly said he was very encouraged that one civic leader – Ruse George, President of Colorado Northwestern Community College – came up with a recommendation to give newly minted rules the proper amount of time to take shape instead of constantly changing the standards. “I do think it puts the business community at risk to continue to do operations in the state if we don’t stabilize some of that,” Holly said. “So, we’ll see how this goes. I’m certainly hopeful that we allow some of these to take some shape and form, and let us live with these things for a while and see.”

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Jon Haubert Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED) was created to help educate the general public about the energy, economic and environmental benefits of safe and responsible oil and natural gas development. Our message is simple and clear: get the facts on fracking first before you make a decision.

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ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION

PROVIDING FOR TODAY, INNOVATING FOR TOMORROW Anadarko is safely and responsibly producing energy resources vital to the Rockies. We are proud to operate in and be a part of the great Colorado communities where we live and operate.

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Award for Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility

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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s mission is to deliver a competitive and sustainable rate of return to shareholders by exploring for, acquiring and developing oil and natural gas resources vital to the world’s health and welfare. As of year-end 2013, the company had approximately 2.79 billion barrels-equivalent of proved reserves, making it one of the world’s largest independent exploration and production companies.

The sheer scale of Anadarko’s direct community engagement is daunting, almost placing them in a class of their own. The company’s strong commitment to its clearly articulated categories of volunteerism (Youth, Arts & Culture, Health & Human Services, Education, and the Environment) coupled with its successful emphasis on employee involvement in their community relations elevates them above the other fine candidates for the CSR Award. Particularly notable were the hours put in by employees in youth monitoring and education.

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Successfully and economically implemented various projects to help the environment; spill reduction, water conservation, and use of an all-electric drilling rig (reduced noise and CO2 emissions and lower fuel costs). Also implemented techniques to reduce light and sound associated with drilling operations. Reduced pad size with single locations for frac equipment.

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Fortis Energy Services, headquartered in Michigan, offers oil and gas well services throughout the Rocky Mountain and Northeast regions. Fortis’ core value ”Safety First” is demonstrated through their Fortisafe Certified program reducing non-productive field time, while protecting both customer’s investment and our employees. Fortis recently launched Fortis4Vets hiring initiative.

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Award for Drilling Excellence

Judges’ Comments: Pioneer Energy Services have been doing great work across the US in the last year. Their range of services in support of their new rigs serve to meet their clients expectations and then supersede their expectations. Pioneer have been moving up the rankings.

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Pioneer’s entry describes their “Live Safe” initiative to promote a culture of safety both at home and on the job across their organization. Pioneer’s adopting the “it can wait” campaign addresses a very current risk of accidents from talking or texting while driving. Pioneer drives personal commitment to safety as key to maintaining a culture where everyone watches out for each other’s safety.

Pioneer operates a modern fleet of drilling rigs throughout onshore oil and gas producing regions of the United States and Colombia. Pioneer production services are supported by 100 wellservicing rigs, more than 100 cased-hole, open-hole and offshore wireline units, and a range of advanced coiled tubing units. The health and safety of our employees and their families, as well as our clients, vendors, and the public is one of our core values at Pioneer. As part of our safety culture, we

believe it is unacceptable for anyone to get injured at work, and we want our employees to take this culture home to their families and local communities. Our vision is to create a future where living safe is part of the fiber of everyone’s being—a future where everyone in the workplace is committed to, and recognizes the possibility of, working without incident or injury. We focus on our culture because we believe that great results can be achieved by building strong relationships and a positive team spirit.

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Trinidad Drilling provides modern, reliable, expertly designed oil and gas drilling equipment operated by welltrained personnel. Our drilling fleet is one of the most adaptable, technologically advanced and competitive in the industry.

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General Industry Service Award

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Produce more. Spend less. Well Master Corporation (“Well Master”), based in Golden, CO and founded as a Colorado Company in 1984, designs and manufactures premium plunger lift systems for the oil & gas industry. Well Master focuses on optimizing oil & gas production (utilizing plunger lift systems) by minimizing total cost of ownership and maximizing return on investment for customers using Well Master products and services.

Well Master continues to achieve record revenue growth and profitability over five consecutive years with an annual revenue CAGR (Compounded Annual Growth Rate) of 55%. This impressive growth is led by new product innovations protected by international patents and backed by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Aerospace Engineering. Global Channel strategies combined with a culture of delighting customers has driven dramatic growth.

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Well Master has accomplished much of the above by compiling an entrepreneurial and visionary leadership team determined to deliver service and value to its customers, channel partners, and employees. Employee talent has grown seven fold since 2009, each engrained in the corporate values of “trust”, “respect”, and the authority to “do the right thing” in all relationships. Corporate social responsibility and community service remains a core commitment of the organization.

Although serving the smallest niche market of the contestants, gas lift plunger equipment, Well Master Corp. distinguished themselves by their exceptional upgrading of the standard services of plunger lift to upstream gas producers. They were able to accomplish this through innovative new product development based on an R&D research plan that involves coordination of their in-house development team together with partnership with two world-class research universities. Such attention to product improvement for the customer base differentiated the company from the competition.

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CDM Resource Management LLC provides contract natural gas compression and production services with 98% runtime guaranteed per month on all contracts, including first-call response, preventative maintenance and pre-emissions testing, all with no hidden charges. Our Cat® Gas Engine /Ariel Compressor fleet exceeds 1.2 million horsepower, and our gas treating fleet utilizes our patented MQC® design technology.

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Industry Summit Editorial

The Colorado Way The Colorado Oil and Gas Association aims to help all oil and gas stakeholders find common ground, but some are more willing than others.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s (COGA) Doug Flanders says his organization prefers constructive dialogue with opponents of his industry much more than resorting to litigation so all parties involved walk away satisfied. However, in the last few years, a number of Colorado municipalities insisted on testing their lawmaking mettle against state primacy, and COGA has managed to have three fracking bans or moratoriums reversed by going to court. “COGA, who believes more in dialogue than most associations, we did take them to court because at some point you draw a line in the sand and say no moratoriums, no bans,” said Flanders, Director of Policy and External Affairs for COGA. “That gets to the crux of oil and gas development and the Colorado way of doing business.” According to Flanders, “The Colorado Way” of doing business involves a gathering of opponents and operators who work to “find common ground” to determine how to best approach oil and gas regulations. “What you don’t find in the Colorado way is when people walk away from the table and say, ‘No, I didn’t get everything I wanted, so therefore it’s a failure, now I’m going to just ban it,’” Flanders said. “You actually have to work together, roll up your sleeves, and actually break a sweat and figure out, ‘How do I find a solution with the person across the table that I know wants to put me out of business?’ It’s working with your neighbors and your colleagues to be able to find the right way to go.” With the economic benefits the oil and gas industry produces for the state, it typically is easy to work

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with Colorado communities benefitting from the windfall. Flanders said COGA has worked with over 40 communities who wanted to place a ban or moratorium on fracking, or implement regulations stricter than the state. The association managed to convince 35 municipalities to work with operators in their borders or return back to community norms, according to Flanders. Flanders reminded the crowd that there were still a few Colorado communities who enacted bans, moratoriums or stricter records despite state primacy. According to the Denver Post, COGA has sued three municipalities – Longmont, Lafayette and Fort Collins – to successfully overturn local bans and moratoriums on oil and gas operations. The organization also played a role on Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s oil and gas task force, which developed nine recommendations, seven of which were unanimous, according to Flanders. However, as reported by the Denver Business Journal, numerous members of the task force deemed it a failure because the recommendations did not result in more power for local authorities over oil and gas operations. “They weren’t willing to be able to come to a compromise and call it a victory, when at the end of the day they know this is what they’re going to get,” Flanders said. Despite some contentiousness with certain Colorado communities and activists, the state is overwhelmingly open to the oil and gas industry because of its economic windfall. Flanders cited the fact the oil and gas industry produced $500 million in tax revenue earmarked for

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education. Considering the state recently had a nearly $1 billion ballot initiative to increase taxes for education, Flanders believes restricting the industry that creates half that amount is dangerous. “This is a tremendous impact on our K-12 education that if we forget about and can’t talk about and tell our neighbors about, they’re never going to know it,” Flanders said. “Our industry isn’t the best at walking in and presenting ourselves within K-12 education. But I can tell you if we walk away or if for some reason we’re not providing that, our children will know.” Flanders also addressed OPEC’s attempt to drive the price of oil down in order to stifle American production. As the sixth-largest natural gas producer and seventhlargest oil producer, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Flanders cited the innovative methods Colorado operators are using on the Piceance, Denver-Julesburg or any basins in the state that have forced the OPEC nations to drive the price of U.S. oil down to $51.40 a barrel as of March 25. “Colorado is a key player not just because of what we do economically but throughout the United States,” Flanders said. “We hear a lot about the innovation, but the innovation that you have provided for the world is what’s moving these numbers in Colorado.” Over the next year, Flanders said he is unsure what the oil and gas industry should expect in the state legislature specifically, but he did predict a bill allowing local governments to veto state authority could be in the works. If such a bill is ratified, the oil and gas industry will have a large hurdle to maneuver. But now that the industry has proven to be such a vital economic contributor and job creator, Flanders does not expect any such bill to pass. “Don’t confuse local control for anything other than a ban when you hear that,” Flanders warned. “I also think that because of many of you in the room and the work that you do, we’ve been able to move the ball forward quite a bit to where I don’t think they have the votes in the legislature to pass something like that, which is encouraging.”

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Industry Summit Editorial

Owning the Culture The safety culture that now permeates the oil and gas industry is embraced at every level.

There is no doubt that the oil and gas industry can be a dangerous one. Resources often are based in remote locations with less-than-ideal working conditions that require heavy materials and large pieces of equipment to extract a commodity thousands of feet underground – there are bound to be accidents. However, the oil and gas industry has taken great strides over the last few decades to make sure its field employees are protected as much as possible in these situations. “In the last 22 years I’ve been in the industry, the most evident piece is that we all as clients, as industry leaders, as constructors and certainly our folks in the field have raised our expectations,” said Michael Brueggemann, District Manager for The Industrial Company “I remember when we used to come onto a project and set a goal for safety that was something other than zero. I think everybody has come to the conclusion or in the process of getting there that we don’t ask for volunteers at the beginning of a job to see who would want to get injured. The first step is that it’s an expectation that we can and will do the project, the job, the day safely without injuring anybody.” Accidents come in all shapes and sizes, and the general public typically only becomes aware of the major catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. However, the smallest mistakes can lead to tragedy, as well, like when a construction worker in Jersey City, New Jersey, was killed after a 1-pound tape measure fell about 50 stories and hit him in the head after it had fallen off the belt of another worker. Either way, accidents great and small are the product of a string of events that lead to problems. According to Lee Haven, Chief Strategy Officer for Loenbro, this is the top reason otherwise preventable incidents occur. “Typically, an accident is a series of events,” Haven said. “So if you concentrate on the small things and do those right and take a little bit of extra time, and have the

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authority and capability to stop even if it’s a superior, then you’re going to be more likely to be safer.” All the safety training available via OSHA mandates as well as individual company programs will bring safety to the forefront of field employees’ minds in the classroom, but it is difficult to determine how much carries over to the field. The biggest difference Brueggemann has noticed with the industry’s attitude toward safety is what he described as “craft ownership” of the safety processes. For the longest time, management simply handed down safety mandates from the office to the field instead of discussing what was necessary to improve safety with those on the front lines. “For too long, we have mandated what we wanted it to look like instead of engaging the experts who are the people in the field working those 13 million-plus man-hours to really be an active participant in how safety evolves on a project and what specific hazards need to be recognized and mitigated,” Brueggemann says. “I think that has been a big step for us in really making some leaps in terms of our safety culture.” Oil and gas companies throughout the United States implement a safety culture in a variety of ways, but one of the most common techniques is through creating accountability in its field employees. Oftentimes, this means giving all levels of the workforce authority to stop work if they see an unsafe activity taking place – even if that means stopping their supervisor. “We’re trying to ramp up all of our auditing process, our behavioral-based safety programs so that we have more and more eyes on what’s going on in the field,” said Rikk Wampler, Corporate Safety Compliance Manager for Bilfinger Westcon. “I personally feel like the accountability that we hold our employees to is where it really starts. That’s where our best practices come in – we teach them, we train them, and then we hold them accountable for doing it the right way.”

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Speakers: Lee Haven, Chief Strategy Officer, Loenbro Michael Brueggemann, District Manager, The Industrial Company Rikk Wampler, Corporate Safety Compliance Manager, Bilfinger Westcon

One way Bilfinger Westcon implements this culture is through its mentorship program. Wampler said his company hires many young and inexperienced employees who simply do not know what they’re doing is unsafe, so upfront training on the do’s and don’ts of the industry from experienced veterans is imperative. “They really don’t know what best practice is – they haven’t been there yet,” Wampler said. “Our mentoring program is huge to make sure they stay safe while they learn what safe is.” Once employees are trained appropriately, they must take what they learned to the field and implement safe practices at all times. Companies in the oil and gas industry have been searching for ways to reward safe behavior instead of penalizing accidents, and The Industrial Company has come up with a card system to reward vigilant employees for their keen eyes for safety. “We give out card every day as we expect our folks to document items or steps they’ve taken to stop somebody from doing something that isn’t safe,” Brueggemann said. “Rather than punishing the unsafe behavior, we’re rewarding the step that was taken that is positive, which is to intervene and potentially save a life.”

watching out for me, and we’re going to make sure at the end of the day, we go home.’ That’s the real key to safety.” Safety has to be part of a process of learning, not just one-time training and ongoing reinforcement, according to Brueggemann. The Industrial Company involves its craftspeople in this process as much as possible, even going so far as to put on skits that portray real-life scenarios like stopping unsafe work. “This is really about getting some camaraderie about it and building that culture from all aspects to be allinclusive to stop work,” Brueggemann said. “It absolutely is effective for the very reason that it is unexpected. If you do something that sticks out, it is more memorable and will have a greater impact. And they have fun with it.” Management should look for any way possible to keep safety training fresh, according to Wampler, so employees remain engaged. “As soon as your program becomes stale, you’ve lost your program,” Wampler said. “Then you start losing your culture.”

Along with rewarding safety vigilance, companies often find ways to reinforce safety standards and expectations on a daily basis. Wampler said Bilfinger Westcon has a pre-task plan, which includes the stop-work authority. Every morning, the company has a different employee read the stop-work authority to drive it back home. Panel moderator MJ Clark, Executive Editor of the Wyoming Business Report, referred to this initiative as “the pledge of allegiance, except for construction.”

Considering the cost savings associated with safe operations just in regards to insurance costs should be enough motivation for management of oil and gas companies to make safety a top priority. An audience member asked the panel to discuss the relationship between insurance rebates and decreased premiums to safety records, and Brueggemann responded by explaining the experience modifier rate. Insurers need data from a number of years, however, so it is not something companies should expect right away. Nevertheless, Haven said it is well worth the wait.

Wampler said it is necessary, however, since North Dakota is one of the most dangerous states to work in. In 2014, the AFL-CIO’ annual “Death on the Job” report stated the state had 65 workers killed on the job in 2012.

“Any time you can take advantage of loss control personnel from the insurance company or from a thirdparty consultant that can help you notify the insurance company, that is to your benefit,” Haven said.

“How do we stop that? How do we keep 65 employees from not going home?” Wampler said. “The stop-work authority is basically, ‘I’m watching out for him, he’s

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Industry Summit Editorial

Innovation in the Trucking Industry to Reduce Emissions and Increase Safety Operator comfort and environmentally friendly functionality are key drivers for innovation in the trucking industry.

There was a time when the commercial truck industry had a significantly longer development cycle than passenger cars, which meant technological advances were far slower to market. However, as Jeff Stevens tells it, that is changing as customer requirements, legislation and technology bring new innovations in the trucking industry to consumers faster than ever. “Our product development lifecycles have been cut in half,” said Stevens, Specialty Markets Director for Kenworth Trucks. “We’re rapidly catching up with the passenger car industry in terms of comfort, safety, emissions efficiency and, yes, even complexity.” In his spotlight presentation, “Innovation in the Trucking Industry to Reduce Emissions and Increase Safety,” Stevens focused on the comfort of drivers and the emission performance of Kenworth’s most recent product launches. Whether it is the size of the cabin or the interoperability of controls, driver comfort has a direct effect on safety, according to Stevens. That is why Kenworth Trucks performed a variety of experiments to determine how to best protect its customers right in the cockpit.

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“At the end of the day, it’s all about the driver,” Stevens said. “And a comfortable driver is likely to be a safer and more productive one.” One of the first areas Kenworth Trucks changed was the driver cockpit. Stevens said the company gathered a great deal of data to identify a number of key factors for driver comfort, including eye position, body position and pedal packages. Kenworth Trucks then used this data on its R&D to design five test configurations for its existing products, which were test by drivers ranging in gender and body shape. After redesigning the cockpit, Kenworth Trucks turned its attention to secondary interactions. Stevens said when Kenworth Trucks evaluated the 5th percentile of female drivers and 95th percentile of males, the clutch position and stroke was one of the key things these demographics agreed made the them more comfortable. “Because of this, we shortened the stroke on our clutch and we reduced the pedal effort to be able to engage the clutch,” Stevens said. “We reduced it down to about 33 pounds, which is similar to what a European car is.”

Speaker: Jeff Stevens, Specialty Markets Director, Kenworth Trucks

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Along with operating the vehicles, Kenworth Trucks considered how drivers simply enter and exit the products. Stevens said this was important considering many drivers get in and out of their vehicles between 60 and 70 times a day.

compared OBD to the “check engine” light on passenger vehicles that many drivers often ignore until necessary.

“Many of us take for granted what it takes to get in and out of the vehicle,” Stevens said. “The driver needs to be safe, and it needs to be easy for them to get in and out of the vehicle.” Kenworth Trucks has added a deeper offset, stairs, grab handles and LED courtesy lamps entering in and out of the vehicles.

Kenworth Trucks isn’t ignoring alternate fuels, either. Natural gas is the leading candidate as a fuel source for the commercial vehicle market, yet it only represents 3 to 5 percent of the overall market. However, in some applications including refuse, it has surpassed 50 percent of the take rate, according to Stevens. This is critical as fuel infrastructure continues to expand into utilities and public and private facilities alike.

While an innovation in driver comfort mostly is driven by customer demand, advancement in emission control technology often is driven by government regulations. Since 2007, the EPA requirement stands at 0.1 grams particulate and 0.2 grams nitrous oxide per horsepower hour for exhaust.

“Even with diesel prices where they’re at today, some of our key customers have been investing in the fueling infrastructure and have become comfortable with using natural gas trucks,” Stevens said. “They’re continuing to purchase these vehicles. There still is an ROI even with fuel prices where they are today.”

Kenworth Trucks turned its focus from the engine upgrades to developing post-combustion cleanup of the exhaust. “After treatment” technology involves that involve exhaust gas recirculation, diesel particulate filters, selective catalyst reduction and diesel exhaust fluid, among others, that combine to clean up exhaust gas to meet Clean Air Act emission standards.

As for its vehicles, Kenworth Trucks has made some enhancements to existing product lines to cater to the demand for natural gas options. Stevens said examples include the methane detection as well as a storage system and engine.

“To put this into perspective, a truck built in 1990 produced as much emissions as 60 trucks that are built today,” Stevens said. In 2013, the U.S. EPA required all trucks must be equipped with on-board diagnostics (OBD). These systems are designed to monitor the performance of some of an engine’s major components including those responsible for controlling emissions, according to the EPA. For a commercial vehicle, if its emission related, the truck will go into a “D” rate, which will limit the power down anywhere from 20 to 5 percent of max power, ultimately rendering the vehicle inoperable, Stevens said. He

“Unfortunately, we can’t just ignore it in this case,” Stevens said.

“The fuel storage system as well as the engine’s development is happening rapidly in both of those areas,” Stevens said. “We’re seeing lots of competition, so we expect the pricing of those come down.” As the demand for natural gas trucks grows, so grows the need for service. Kenworth Trucks already is outfitting services stations as well as its own dealerships with the capability to service these vehicles alongside their diesel counterparts. “We need to make sure that our dealerships as well as other industry professionals are ready and capable to service these vehicles just as they would a dieselpowered vehicle,” Stevens said.

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Total Safety salutes the industries we serve. Total Safety introduced In-Plant Service Centers to the process industries more than 20 years ago. Today, as we celebrate our 20th anniversary year, we have more than 150 active IPSCs in 21 countries. Let Total Safety help you achieve award-winning safety records and lower your cost of operations with our EHS consulting services and fire protection services. We are on site day and night providing complete safety solutions to help you protect people and assets. Over the past 20 years, we have acquired 25 of the best safety companies on earth to create one smart solution called Total Safety. Some of these acquisitions and the employees who joined us have more than 40 years of safety experience. Today we work together as one family â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so you might just say, Safety is our DNAâ&#x201E;˘. Total Safety is active in the Upstream oil and gas industry in key energy markets around the world. From exploration to drilling to production, we are there to support you for the life of your project. We can handle all of your mission-critical H2S safety services for the most stringent regulatory requirements in hazardous environments. Total Safety can help you meet even your most demanding safety goals and requirements in any sector of the oil and gas industry using our GPS-enabled smart inspections. Smart Inspections help you manage the regulatory inspection process electronically, improving accountability, accuracy, and reliability.

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Consultancy of the Year

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With increasing regulation and complicated compliance requirements within the industry, Total Safety are equipped to support and advise their clients on wide ranging matters at every opportunity.

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Total Safety is the world’s leading provider of service solutions to upstream, midstream, downstream, refinery, chemical, petrochemical, power generation, mining and industrial markets. We provide highquality safety solutions in a measurable, cost-effective manner, without compromise. And we stand behind our promise to each customer to protect lives, property and the environment.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with more than 144 locations in 22 countries, Total Safety offers services and equipment tailored to specific business needs in gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance, SMART inspection, tank watch, centralized confined space monitoring, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/ paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, flare services, flare design and materials management.

strong leadership and coaching by field supervisors, and the personal and emotional involvement of the entire workforce.

Total Safety’s goal is to secure an accident-free environment through our demonstrated commitment by management,

For more information about Total Safety and its unwavering commitment to safety, visit www.totalsafety.com.

Everyone at Total Safety has an intense focus on hazard identification, elimination and control; early intervention and feedback about unhealthy and unsafe work practices; and positive reinforcement of safe work practices. We integrate safety into engineering, fabrication and construction, as well as the protection of people and the environment “by design.”

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Intertek Oil and Gas personnel, laboratories, and offices support North Dakota and global clients with expert exploration and production, engineering, refining, testing, inspection, quality control, supply-chain support, research, and other services.

LT Environmental Inc., founded in 1992, is a recognized consultant specializing in environmental compliance, engineering, remediation, and health and safety for the Oil & Gas Industry. LTE helps upstream, midstream, and retail clients throughout the Rocky Mountains and U.S. identify and eliminate environmental liabilities. We complete the project – No Excuses!

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Industry Supplier of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Border States is an employee owned company that provides total customer satisfaction with it’s products and solutions. Job trailers are supplied to provide immediate supplies for emergencies.

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Border States has transformed over 60 years into the eighth largest independent electrical distributor in the United States, with 80 locations in 16 states. Today, our more than 1,900 employee-owners provide products, materials management solutions, and delivery and logistics expertise to tens of thousands of customers across diverse industries, including commercial, datacomm, education, electrical construction, government, health care, industrial, mining, oil and gas, plumbing, renewable energy, and utility.

We’re one of the largest 100 percent employee-owned companies in America. Each of our employee-owners has a stake in our long-term success. Employee-ownership drives our commitment to delivering total satisfaction. We are empowered and expected to act decisively, exceeding our customers’ changing expectations at every turn with every interaction.

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As employee-owners, we’re committed to the communities where we live and work. We’re involved in community cleanup projects, annual community development campaigns, and participating in community athletic teams. We’re also members of community groups, church groups, youth groups and educational institutions.

An industry supplier in every sense. Good community investment and great to see this company evaluating the performance of their manufacturing partners to ensure good supply, product and service delivery.

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ABUTEC, an acronym for Advanced Burner Technologies, is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly combustion solutions. ABUTEC specializes in offering high-efficiency, low-emission burners and flares to the upstream and midstream oil & gas segments. ABUTEC manufactures burners, enclosed combustors/ flares, vapor combustors, incinerators and thermal oxidizers, all aimed at reducing emissions and increasing efficiency.

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For over 50 years, Applied Control has been committed to solving the process industry’s toughest challenges by providing value-add engineered solutions. As Emerson Process Management’s Local Business Partner in the Rockies, Applied Control has the unique capability to deliver best-in-class technologies combined with local expertise to deliver turn-key automation solutions.

Davis & Davis Company is a manufacturer’s representative specializing in Oil & Gas measurement equipment. We provide flow, analytical, level and control equipment and services to the natural gas exploration, transmission and processing industry. We excel in after sales support including startup, phone and onsite technical services and training.

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Oilfield Services Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Fortis’s high degree of customer satisfaction and education are more than admirable. Their veteran and employment initiative is second to none and speaks for itself. Not only do they honor and respect our returning veterans but open avenues of education and training to those who have unselfishly served our country.

Fortis Energy Services, headquartered in Michigan, offers oil and gas well services throughout the Rocky Mountain and Northeast regions, specializing in well completions, workovers, down-hole repairs, maintenance, plugging and abandonment. Fortis has worked hard to be successful in a highly competitive part of the oil and gas industry; providing rigs and personnel to service oil and gas wells. What makes Fortis stand out is its commitment to providing proper training to its personnel, a very strong commitment to safety, excellent rig maintenance, and most importantly, the company’s program to hire and train Veterans. Fortis’ “Fortis 4 Vets” program truly makes them a standout in this group.

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Fortis’ experienced crews are Fortisafe Certified. Our fleet consists of 350 and 550 series workover rigs and ancillary equipment including tri-plex pumps, mud tanks, power swivels and hydraulic catwalks resulting in a high degree of efficiency, finishing work in 15-20 percent less time than our competition. Fortis’ culture of safety, recruiting and preventative maintenance reduces nonproductive time in the field. Fortis’ strategic growth plans target all the major shale plays across the US over the next 3-5 years, including the Williston, Appalachian, Eagle Ford, Permian and

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Niobrara basins. Fortis has experience working safely under extreme well pressures in the Northeast, in line with their core value “Safety First”. Fortis’ employees are Fortisafe Certified, a rigorous program to promote a high standard for safety throughout the operations. Fortis Energy Services strongly supports corporate responsibility as indicated by the Fortis4Vets hiring initiative. The company is listed by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest growing companies in the US and was voted one of the top 100 energy companies.

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Through its two operating subsidiaries – Heat Waves Hot Oil Service and Dillco Fluid Service – ENSERVCO is one of the energy service industry’s leading providers of hot oiling, acidizing, frac water heating and fluid management services. The Company serves customers in 13 states and seven major domestic oil and gas fields.

Katch Kan™ is based on a commitment to sustainable development, by protecting and preserving the land and water where the upstream oil and gas industry operates. The central achievements of Katch Kan™ are the Rig Safety System™ and Zero Spill System™. These innovative systems of technology work together to optimize the health and safety of those involved with upstream projects, drastically minimize pollution and enables oil and gas production to occur in a proactive eco-efficient manner.

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US Solids Control is a leading independent energy service company. Solids control is one of the most crucial jobs when drilling. For the best solids control we attract, develop and retain highly talented technicians who play key roles in taking the rig to the next level of on-demand performance.

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Industry Summit Editorial

The Bakken - The Future Still Looks Bright The state of North Dakota supports the oil and gas industry through measures that keep business moving when commodity prices plunge.

There’s no doubt the oil and gas industry is facing a critical juncture in 2015 as commodity prices hover around $50. Instead of panicking, however, Kari Cutting, Vice President of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, believes in finding cost-effective ways to remain profitable by bringing industry and government together. “When faced with these challenges, you step up to the plate, you find solutions, you generate greater efficiencies, find ways to cut costs and adapt to that challenge,” Cutting said during her keynote address, “The Bakken; The Future Still Looks Bright.” “In North Dakota, sometimes you get a little help from the North Dakota government.” For example, the North Dakota state legislature passed a number of tax triggers that take effect when the price

of oil reaches a certain level. Cutting said these triggers are meant to serve as incentives to the oil and gas industry to move forward in difficult times. North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger announced an oil extraction tax rate reduction for new wells, which when into effect February 1. According to a statement from the state of North Dakota, this was the “small trigger,” which lowered the oil extraction rate from 6.5 percent to 2 percent on the first 75,000 barrels produced or the first $4.5 million of gross value during the first 18 months after completion of a well. Once the small trigger is in effect, it will only be triggered off when the average price of a WTI barrel is $72.50 or more for a single month. There is also a “large trigger” that could take effect as early as June 2015. According to Cutting, it would require more than four months of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices being less than $55.09 per barrel for this trigger to kick in. “So hopefully, this has an impact on incentivizing continued activity of the industry in our state,” Cutting said. Another way the oil industry is combating lower oil prices is by moving into areas in North Dakota where production is the highest. For the Bakken Shale, that means operating within the core of the formation, which means the fringe of the shale is falling off. However, the core of the Bakken shale is located in four counties and has a large area on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. “Some of the new challenges are going to be the additional permitting of wells on federal lands and Indian lands,” Cutting said. Getting oil out of the state is still problematic because despite moving 35 percent of product through pipeline, the state remains in dire need of additional pipeline. According to Cutting, the reason for the bottleneck is most North Dakota pipeline connects to the Gulf Coast, a region saturated with light sweet crude. That leaves the East and West coasts, but there is a lack of

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infrastructure heading east and west from the state. To address the issue, North Dakota has one refinery in operation and at least three under construction or on the drawing board, according to Cutting. “That is going to be somewhat of a game-changer even though these are small refineries, it still will have a huge impact on where that production goes in our state,” Cutting said. Natural gas flaring has been a problem in North Dakota for years, peaking at 36 percent in 2012, according to Cutting. With 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas produced daily, North Dakota simply doesn’t have the infrastructure to keep up with increased production.

55,000 direct jobs and a total of 81,000 direct and indirect jobs. The jobs represent 28.5 percent of total wages for the state. In 2013, the oil and gas industry created $43 billion for the North Dakota economy. Sure, the second-largest oil producing state in the union is losing some rigs – Cutting said the count had fall from a high of 216 in 2012 to 115 as of March 2015 – with sinking oil prices. However, Cutting remained positive about the oil and gas industry in North Dakota because of the cooperative relationship between industry and government. “I continue to say that the future is bright,” Cutting said.

On September 11, 2013, the North Dakota Petroleum Council set up a task force to figure out how to decrease flaring. The task force worked with regulators to set gas capture targets for the industry. Permits now require the submission of a gas capture plan that explains how gas will be connected to sales, or how a producer is using remote capture technology at the time the gas is produced. As a result, according to Cutting, the entire industry is exceeding the target of 77 percent gas capture for 2015 as of March. The 2016 goal is 85 percent gas capture. Cutting said when the task force started in 2013, $5 billion already had been spent on gas capture, gas gathering pipelines and gas processing. In the last 18 months or less, another $8 billion had been spent on gas capture infrastructure. The council anticipates another $5 billion to $6 billion will be needed to reach the 85 percent goal and finally reach the 90 to 95 percent goal for gas capture by 2020. The way the oil industry supports the North Dakota economy, it should come as no surprise that the state legislature works so well with business. Citing the “Petroleum Industry’s Economic Contribution to North Dakota in 2013” study released by North Dakota State, Cutting said the oil and gas industry generated

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Award for Excellence in Health & Safety

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Judges’ Comments: The company is dedicated to a higher level of service. They modify and improve their equipment based on market demand and new discoveries. They charge one flat fee for their services and provide 24/7 service.

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CDM appears to be trying to continually improve their safety performance. While they have a variety of existing programs; such as safety audits, job safety analyses, safety incentives, the company has also added cell control chips and PSM capabilities to further ratchet down on safety.

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Their vision of installing ‘no bleed high pressure control valves’ as standard equipment for Quad O compliance and working towards finalizing their ‘eWorks’ software help set them apart from other candidates.

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Industry Summit Editorial

Lawmaking Through Litigation The U.S. regulatory framework may save some animals from extinction and prevent environmental problems, but as oil prices plummet, it stifles production.

Today’s oil and gas industry understands that regulations exist and they are the price of doing business in the U.S. resource-rich regions. The common complaint, however, is the excess of redundant regulations that often have operators responding to the agencies at the local, state and federal levels. And while most regulations have good intentions when they’re initially launched – such as the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act – their subsequent execution often cause more harm than good. “The statues, when they’re passed by Congress, all have great purposes,” said Bob Comer, Partner with Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP. “I think we lose our way in the regulatory process and their implementation.” As oil prices dropped to as low as $43 this past year, unnecessary and costly regulations was the last thing the oil and gas industry needed as smaller operators struggled to stay afloat. At panel discussion, “The Unconstitutional Regulation of the Oil and Gas Industry – Lawmaking through Litigation,” panelists focused on the Endangered Species and Clean Air acts and how they impact the oil and gas industry through implementation, and what can be done to rectify the broken regulatory system. At the heart of the problem with regulations, according to Comer, is overreach of regulatory agencies. “We have an expanding regulatory environment, almost more regulation at any cost, and often too much for too little benefit,” Comer said. “That could be devastating to private or other governmental entities on the other side of an interpretation or misapplication of a law or a rule, and question whether it is ever appropriate as I believe it poses fundamental fairness questions.” According to Moderator MJ Clark’s research, the Clean Air Act has not hurt industry as much as one might thing. Clark, Executive Editor of the Wyoming Business Report, stated that since 1970, emissions of the six common air pollutants – ozone, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, lead – have decreased 72 percent while the gross domestic product has increased by 219 percent in the same time period. Chris Faulkner certain did not share the sentiment.

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Speaking from an operator’s point of view as Founder, President and CEO of Breitling Energy Corporation, Faulkner did not mince words when called the Clean Air Act is an “attack” on the energy industry led by President Barack Obama. “The Clean Air Act is an attack on oil and gas, it’s an attack on coal, it’s an attack on hydrocarbon-based fuel, and it is all based upon an overreaching government backed by a president who has an agenda that he wants to leave some sort of legacy of climate change no matter what the cost to our country is,” Faulkner said. “I think all these things begin to add up that this is the platform of environmentalists, and our president stands with them time and time again.” Like many operators, Breitling Energy Corporation has taken it upon itself to go above and beyond many of the Clean Air Act mandates as a symbol of corporate responsibility. Faulkner said his company has taken voluntary measures by using vapor recovery units, working with different shutdown schedules, and not allowing the venting of gas when conducting maintenance on wells. “Things of that nature really apply to community license to operate as one of the soft costs that you get when you go into these communities to take steps without being required to do so to help alleviate some of their concerns,” Faulkner said. As much as the Clean Air Act may serve as a detriment to business, as many oil and gas industry executives may believe, the panelists dubbed the Endangered Species Act a failure. According to Comer, the execution of the Endangered Species Act was faulty from the start after the listing of the snail darter as endangered stalled the completion of Tellico Dam in Tennessee. Today, environmentalists will launch “mega-lawsuits” that contain hundreds of species identified for listing, and before the government can conduct due diligence on each one, they are given timetables for listing. Comer also accused the Bureau of Land Management of unnecessarily locking up land where listed species may have a habitat so disturbances – from oil and gas

Moderator: MJ Clark, Executive Editor, Wyoming Business Report

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Speakers: Chris Faulkner, President and CEO, Breitling Energy Bob Comer, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright L. Poe Leggette, Partner, Baker Hostetler

Working around these sensitive species is not a cheap endeavor, either. With mineral rights in the Permian Basin going for as much as $5,000 an acre, according to Faulkner, or as much as $15,000 an acre in the Eagle Ford Shale, operators are hit in the pocketbook when they can’t develop certain areas of their plays. “It is a lot of money to go in there and take land and set it aside,” Faulkner said. “You don’t want to be the first guy that puts a rig up in a location and find out that you’ve gone in and disturbed one of these lesser prairie chicken habitats because it’s going to be big situation.” Aside from government overreach through the Endangered Species Act, L. Poe Leggette, Partner at BakerHostetler, said the act itself is fighting the mother of all uphill battles against Darwinism.

operations or otherwise – must not negatively affect between 3 to 5 percent of the species for every square mile they inhabit. “You’re really creating now a land-use tool, you’re locked out of any place considered to be sensitive or lax,” Comer said. “From what we can tell, the birds really do move around. They’re a mobile species. They don’t always go back to the same location and die off if there’s a disturbance.” The mega-settlement that launched the new wave of listing of species took place in 2011 when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service developed a multiyear listing work plan with plaintiff group WildEarth Guardians. This settlement forced the service to, over the period of six years, review and address the needs of more than 250 species. According to Faulkner, there have been over 1,000 species added to the list since 2011. “Once this mega-settlement occurred back in 2011, we’ve gotten aggressive with the amount of species we’re throwing on this list,” Faulkner said.

“Of all the species that have lived on the planet, only 2 percent of those species are alive today,” Leggette said. “Extinction of species, for better or worse, is a natural, essential part of the way the planet has evolved. I think it is impossible to defend [the Endangered Species Act] as a workable way to save species even assuming in the face of overwhelming evidence from 4.5 billion years that a lot of that is beyond our control.” Echoing a running theme throughout the industry summits, the panelists agreed that the best way to show the federal government that the oil and gas industry not only can adhere to rigid-yet-sensible standards while operating as good corporate citizens on their own volition is through more self-promotion. Faulkner said the industry has failed to push back enough against negative PR stemming from grassroots campaigns and films like the “Gasland” franchise. In order to change the conversation about oil and gas, the industry must look at itself first. “We have conversations with people who say, ‘Oil and gas companies still want to use the terms “trade secret, top secret and proprietary,”’” Faulkner said. “Those kinds of words scare people. The industry still has a long way to go, and I don’t think national TV spots really convince people.”

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Down, Not Out The U.S. oil industry may be stuck in a rut at the moment, but Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton knows the opportunity to grow is at hand.

Whenever an industry faces the bust part of its boom-andbust cycle, there is always someone with an entrepreneurial spirit who views the downturn as an opportunity rather than a hindrance. Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton is one of those spirits, and during his speech to kick off the awards gala, he ensured the oil and gas industry that their business will bounce back.

Even with oil prices hovering above $40 as of March 2015 with OPEC showing no signs of ending its market manipulation, the future looks bright for the U.S. oil industry. Sitton said over the last 10 years alone, global oil demand has risen from 85 million barrels a day to about 92 million. With U.S. output growing by more than 6 million barrels a day, the domestic industry is in a great position to fill the void, according to Sitton.

One way to make this a reality is to spread the word of the benefits of a robust domestic oil and gas industry, according to Sitton. He challenged the audience to make a focused effort to celebrate industry successes outside of the Oil & Gas Awards galas. “As people around this state and around the country ask basic questions about, ‘How do we know what is going on is good?’ We’re going to have to go beyond what we’re doing at our jobs and what we’re doing here tonight.”

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“Yes, oil prices are down, and it is a challenging environment,” Sitton says. “But I can tell you with absolute certainty the long-term fundamentals in energy are outstanding. Because I can see a time in just a couple of years where oil prices are going to come back, and where anybody who’s got substantial capital to invest is going to say the United States is where it’s at.”

“That is not just a legacy about earnings, and it’s not just about producing a lot of oil,” Sitton said. “My hope is that this time in history, when people look back and say, ‘How did we do as an industry?’ I hope they talk about this time as a revolutionary time in American history because of how we reshaped the global energy landscape.”

Considering Sitton’s belief that the Ghawar Field in Saudi Arabia has maxed out its production, the potential to increase oil production in the Middle Eastern nation will come from unconventional plays. That means it is no longer just innovative technologies that will make the United States competitive on the world market. Instead, it is the fact that in those types of developments, the United States and Texas is cost-competitive. “We have become the swing producer,” Sitton said. “If you look into the future, how will the rest of the world respond to increases in demand? The landscape has changed.” With three young children of his own, Sitton said he envisions a time when they can look back on this period in the oil and gas industry as a renaissance, not just an economic boon. History already has written plenty about the time the United States lost its role as the swing producer in the 1970s, but Sitton believes it will be the 2020s when the U.S. oil and gas industry is back on top of the world market.

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Bullhorn Recruitment Agency of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: An incredible number of resounding testimonials from significant players in the market make The Global Edge stand out in the case for Recruitment Firm of the year.

The Global Edge Consultants is a fullservice firm specializing in the recruitment of technical and project personnel for industries such as government, oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical, engineering, power, nuclear and manufacturing.

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We focus on providing our clients with highly qualified, screened candidates for both domestic and international positions in a timely manner. Straightforward, honest, confidential searches protect candidates and provide direct hire, consulting or contract personnel to our clients. Many years of experience and knowledge of people in each industry allows us to match candidates with suitable positions.

It is our goal to be the agency of choice for clients and candidates alike. The relationships we build are based on top quality recruitment and excellent service. We believe there is no short cut to doing the right thing. Our staff of highly experienced professionals makes The Global Edge Consultants one of the fastest-growing recruitment firms worldwide., nuclear and manufacturing.

The President’s past and future vision provided a fantastic insight into how the organization came to be such a success in a relatively short space of time.

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Manhattan Resources is an executive search firm specializing in the Energy, Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals industries. Our unique process and focus allows us to build high-performance teams for our clients. Manhattan excels at bringing the right people together.

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Spencer Ogden is the global energy recruiter of choice, servicing all energy sectors including oil and gas, renewables and power generation at any stage of the project lifecycle. With a presence in the world’s major energy hubs, a unique brand and specialist recruiters, Spencer Ogden delivers an unrivalled service to its customers.

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Award for Excellence in Well Completion

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Judges’ Comments: Of the multiple completion technologies presented by Halliburton, the Access Frac Stimulation Service serves to optimize proppant distribution and stands out to potentially maximize long-term production.

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included in the Drilling and Evaluation Division. PSLs are primarily responsible and accountable for strategy, technology development, process development, people development and capital allocation.life of the field.

Halliburton once again provide an impressive and comprehensive overall view of a variety of completion technologies. This information is supported by strong corporate giving across the US. There is a clear roadmap of information relating to the company’s Journey to Zero. Excellent submission.

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Fairmount Santrol is one of the world’s largest suppliers of proppants, which maximize fracture surface area in oil and gas wells. The company offers the broadest range of proppants—including high-quality Northern White sand and resin-coated sand that exceed American Petroleum Institute (API) specifications—in addition to proppant transport technology.

Packers Plus is the innovator of open hole, multi-stage completion systems and provides solutions for technically challenging applications in horizontal, vertical, multi-lateral, and high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) wells. The company has operations in Canada, the United States, and internationally to maintain an influential role in key markets.

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Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. With more than 80,000 employees, representing 140 nationalities in over 80 countries, the company serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir - from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing production through the life of the field.

Halliburton comprises 13 product service lines (PSLs). The PSLs operate in two divisions: Drilling and Evaluation, and Completion and Production. Our Consulting and Project Management PSL works across both divisions and is the spearhead of our integrated-services strategy. Its financial results are

Industry Summit Editorial

Regulation By Any Means Necessary The oil and gas industry encounters new rules through a variety of sources – many of which may not be legal.

The oil and gas industry has no problems with regulations of its operations. Decision-makers realize the days of conducting business with limited for health, safety and environmental concerns is a thing of the past. However, industry leadership’s biggest gripe about regulations is that there is too much it is often duplicitous between state, federal and municipal agencies, and new rules come originate from a variety of sources, often with little time to ramp up operations to meet them. The latest issue the oil and gas industry is facing regarding regulations is the prevalence of “sue-and-settle” litigation being brought against a variety of federal regulatory industries. One of the most prominent are cases levied against the EPA and the Bureau of Land Management forcing decisions on hundreds of species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. As prevent as this specific instance may be, it certainly isn’t the only one. The upgraded ozone standard – which is set to take affect October 1, 2015 – has a deadline that is a result of a sueand-settle lawsuit. If the standard is changed to 65 parts per billion, as it currently stands, it is predicted to become the most expensive regulation in U.S. history. “EPA has been moving toward what they call ‘next generation compliance assistance,’ but what it really is is a mechanism to get more federal control over your operations, and looking more at fence-line monitoring and getting out beyond the fence line,” Paul Gutermann, Partner with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, said during the panel discussion entitled “The Unconstitutional Regulation of the Oil and Gas Industry – Lawmaking through Litigation.” “This really is the tip of the iceberg, and it’s coming at us.” Aside from adding many new, complex rules to the regulatory framework, the EPA also is stepping up its enforcement of the rules already on the books, even if the states have primacy. Eddie Lewis, U.S. Head of Environmental Law for Norton Rose Fulbright, used the example of flyovers performed in Texas by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the EPA, both of which search for potential emission points.

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The difference in these investigations, according to Lewis, is staggering. Lewis said if TCEQ performs the investigation, a company typically receives a questionnaire to provide some information about the circumstances surrounding the asset in question, including estimates about emissions associated with the asset and what is being done about them. The EPA takes a much more aggressive stance, according to Lewis, but from a legal standpoint, Lewis said he isn’t sure that is part of the EPA’s jurisdiction. “At this point in time, you can question if they have the regulations in place to provide them much ability to do anything about that,” Lewis said. “But what they will do at an absolute minimum, you would be asked to go to Dallas, sit down and have a meeting, and in the phase for asking a lot of information about their operations.” Lewis advised that it is very important how oil and gas operators respond to such inquiries because of the precedent set when EPA pursued regulating the refining industry in this manner. Through these inquiries, Lewis said, the EPA developed a set of controls over the refining industry through consent decrees refiners were essentially forced to sign. These decrees basically created new regulations. “EPA found a few enforcement points and then would force companies into signing a consent decree that would allow regulation via consent decree of the refining industry,” Lewis said. “These days, as many requirements are in consent decrees, which are technically one off agreements with the EPA, and a lot of questions EPA is asking seemed directed in that direction. “It’s one thing to have your own internal practice that you use,” Lewis said. “Even having an inspection program so you do it on a regular basis is one thing. But it’s another thing to be a regulatory short of being regulations themselves.” As a result of these tactics, Lewis said operators in the oil and gas industry are ramping up their internal inspection and maintenance programs. For example, many companies are inspecting their sites using their own flare cameras, which helps operators determines points of emission that must be addressed. However, Lewis advised anyone who might do this to use the camera as a real-time tool only,

Moderator: R.T. Dukes, Senior Analyst, Wood Mackenzie Speakers: Chris Faulkner, President and CEO, Breitling Energy, Eddie Lewis, US Head of Environmental, Norton Rose Fulbright, Paul E. Gutermann, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

as anything recorded for this purpose could be used as evidence later on.

to operate your facilities and you have increased risks on construction side when you expand,” Callegari added.

Michael Callegari, Manager, Environmental Services Atlantic-Gulf Operating Area for The Williams Companies Incorporated, agreed with using a flare gas camera or any other method to monitor potential emission issues internally. What troubles him as a regulatory manager, however, is the fact the industry is being regulated through enforcement, which wouldn’t be necessary if there the regulatory framework in the United States was better organized.

One rule that has faced harsh criticism is President Obama’s EPA mandate to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. There’s a tension in the Clean Air Act, according to Gutermann, that created a potential trap for the EPA discovered by coal player Murray Energy.

The industry also takes issue with the drafters of the regulations, who often do not have a complete understanding of how regulations should work or which ones already are on the books, according to Callegari. Specifically, air regulations are developing at breakneck speed with climate change, hazardous air pollutants and ozone nonattainment as just a few of the issues being addressed. However, the rules are so complex, agencies aren’t up to speed on what their own regulations should be. “We’re at the point where we’re almost educating our own state because they’re putting requirements into our permit, and we’re saying we’re not applicable, but they’re saying, ‘oh, yes you are. The reg says that,’” Callegari said. “But the preamble says otherwise, and you need to go into the preamble. So these regulations are so complicated, the states are not as savvy.

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“If you had clear, concise regulation to say, ‘We need to develop a program, or this will be required,’ then go through the public comment process, I think that’s the way to go,” Callegari said. “What happens is, you have these enforcement actions taking place, and then instead of going to the regulation in your permit which allows you to operate this way, you are now struggling with the fact you have to keep track of all these enforcement actions as well as any litigation going on to make sure I’m up to speed. And that’s not really how it should operate.”

Murray Energy now has a case before the Court of Appeals for the District that, if successful, will potentially preclude the Obama administration from going any further with greenhouse gas emission regulations along the lines of the clean power plan that EPA has. The tension, according to Gutermann, is the act allows EPA to choose between national standards for hazardous air pollutants, or requiring the state by state plans their trying to do for greenhouse gases. When moderator R.T. Dukes, Senior Analyst for Wood Mackenzie, asked what the ramifications would be for a Murray Energy victory, Gutermann said it would knock out the greenhouse gas regulations for the entire energy sector and would set the EPA back in terms of trying to find another way to get at the greenhouse gasses other than legislation through Congress. While lawsuits may be the last – if not the most reliable – option for the oil and gas industry, Chris Faulkner, Founder, President and CEO of Breitling Energy Corporation, cautioned the audience about the costs associated with litigation. Legal fees can add up quickly, especially for smaller operators. “It’s really the wrong time to just have nascent regulations thrown at us,” Faulkner said. “The EPA throws out regulation, and the industry has to teach them that this is not proper, not right and doesn’t work.”

“If you don’t have the same interpretation at the federal state and local level, or the same policy, it is very difficult

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Award for Drilling Excellence

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Judges’ Comments: Great technology in the area of navigation and geosteering.

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Scientific Drilling International is a leading provider in the global wellbore placement market as well as the directional services market. We are the only company to offer a complete navigation solution for the energy services sector that includes High Accuracy gyro Survey, MWD, LWD, MagTraC MWD Ranging™, and Cased Hole Solutions.

We are committed to make it easy for our customers to do business, by providing exemplary service and innovative technology. We earn loyalty one job at a time. We match the right

crew to each assignment, and we hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards of quality. We are the Ultimate Partner in Wellbore Placement.

Scientific Drilling’s entry focused on their directional drilling expertise, innovation and accomplishments. Several case histories demonstrated their technology including measurement while drilling (MWD) to conduct a fish bypass and recover a wellbore and their Titan22 motor, which drilled a vertical, curve and lateral section in one run in record time.

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Pinnergy is a diversified energy services company with a broad and comprehensive service offering to customers throughout Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. Pinnergy, one of the largest independent oilfield service companies, provides a full suite of fluids management and drilling services.

Trinidad Drilling provides modern, reliable, expertly designed oil and gas drilling equipment operated by well-trained personnel. Our drilling fleet is one of the most adaptable, technologically advanced and competitive in the industry.

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Environmental Responsibility In Texas, all stakeholders in the oil and gas industry are working together to come up with solutions to the potential freshwater oil shortage.

Rethinking conventional ways of using water for hydraulic fracturing operations is at the forefront of just about every oil and gas operator’s mind today. As water grows scarcer, especially in states with a booming population like Texas, new methods to conserve the precious resource are constantly in development, and the situation continues to improve. “I think the industry has really grown up,” Clay Maugans, Director of Water Technologies for Select Energy Services, said during a panel discussion entitled “Minimizing Environmental Impact through Innovative Water Management, Well Site Construction and Logistics. “I think we’ve matured to a much better way of handling [water] from just three years ago. Safety and environmental is something I think we can be proud of today.” Despite the panel’s title, the discussion focused on water for its duration. That isn’t too surprising considering Texas’ potentially looming water shortage, which has regulatory agencies and operators scrambling for solutions that keep the Lone Star State hydrated and without impact oil and gas production. “One of the things we do as part of our overall approach to the environment is to manage the risks that are associated with all these key challenges, and water has taken quite a bit of our attention,” said Edwin Mongan, Senior Manager, Environment and Regulatory for BHP Billiton Petroleum. “It really challenges us to find more effective and more productive ways of doing things, and to find more ways to save costs where we can.” The industry is working together on developing solutions through sponsorship of water-conservation initiatives at the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC). Richard Haut, Program Director, Energy Production, for HARC,

said the industry is relying on the three “Rs” – reduce, reuse and recycle. For reducing, Haut said some of HARC’s sponsors cover produced-water ponds and frack ponds to prevent evaporation from occurring. Sponsors look at reuse to determine how they can set up a water management company – Apache Corporation in the Permian Basin is has removed 80,000 trucks from the road through reuse management techniques, including pipelining water from different places. “We have a mobile analytical chemistry laboratory, and we’ve worked with some sponsors Apache and Pioneer out in the Permian, to understand what is that water source to begin with and see how they can be blended together,” Haut said. “How can you reduce that freshwater all the way down to zero? A lot of our sponsors in the Eagle For have done just that.” Along with recycling, companies aim to add a fourth “R” to the water management process – “restoration.” “What can you do in a cost-effective way to start with nonpotable water, use it throughout all oil and gas activities, and end up with something that is clean enough to release back into the environment?” Haut asked. “That is what we want to pursue in terms of our research needs.” When Mongan first arrived at BHP Billiton Petroleum, one of the first initiatives he launched was to develop a coordinated water management plan that would improve water management across the board. Mongan started with a steering team to get engagement from operations, which was necessary to catch the attention of the people actually using the water. BHP Billiton also brought in water experts

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Moderator: R.T. Dukes, Senior Analyst, Wood Mackenzie Speakers: Clay Maugans Ph.D., Director of Water Technology, Select Energy Services, Richard Haut Ph.D., Program Director, Energy Production, Houston Advanced Research Center, Edwin Mongan, Senior Manager, Environment and Regulatory, BHP Billiton Petroleum

to determine what was happening at the field in terms of amount of water, its source and through to disposal.

Maugans, because it is affordable, easy to use and reacts quickly.

“We had various metrics out there and we had meters, but we weren’t really capturing it in a systematic way,” Mongan said. “We were able to develop water balance across our operations, and that was a very key way to understand where the issues were.”

“I don’t see technologies like chlorine dioxide or other rapid oxidation technologies going away,” Maugans said.

For example, in the Eagle Ford shale, BHP Billiton was using about 120,000 barrels of water a day for fracking. However, what was going down the well was 80,000 barrels a day.

Mongan admitted BHP Billiton hasn’t developed a process to prevent evaporation, but now that the company is aware of the problem, it is working on a solution. This can help determine a variety of areas where water can be conserved. “It’s one thing to measure the water we’re using, but to capture all that in a database where we can really make sense of it and use it for strategic planning at all the key points in the water balance,” Mongan said. When it comes to the technological advances in water management, Maugans said instrumentation and telemetry plays a key role. Select Energy Services, for example, developed the standard on-pit monitoring with remote control boat mapping. The company now owns a fleet of 10 such boats. The other technological approach is through treatment and recycling. There are a variety of options currently available which lose and gain popularity over the years. For instance, Maugans said electrocoagulation was the popular option two years ago, but within the last 12 to 18 months, chlorine dioxide sterilization is more in demand. This process allows operators to pretreat frack water on the fly with a mobile platform for water sterilization that produces treated water free of bacteria, sulfides and particulates, according to Select Energy Services.

“The operating companies certainly want to control their destinies, but there’s also a lot specialty know-how, infrastructure and personnel that you need for this,” Maugans said. “The operators, especially in a climate like this, need to know if they want to build these programs internally or if they want to partner with somebody who is going to specialize on that.” Of course, what can help oil and gas operators improve their water management isn’t more regulation, but good regulation. Maugans offered praise for one Texas rule change from a couple years ago. The rule change took away the requirement of a permit as long as water is brought back to a high-quality standard so it can be reused for non human consumption irrigation type activities. “Basically, for things humans won’t be consuming, you can use that water for beneficial reuse for that type of activity,” Maugans said. “I think it’s a great change, and I hope a lot of other states adopt that same rule.” For water, however, Haut sees this type of collaboration between stakeholders happening more easily than for other hot-button environmental issues. It’s a positive step in the right direction for the oil and gas industry. “One of the great things I’ve seen with operating companies is how they’re engaging all stakeholders, including the public, in understanding the water issues,” Haut said. “They’re all educated, but how do you get them informed and involved in that discussion early and often? It’s a great thing that we’ve seen some in the industry taking the lead and stepping forward to engage those stakeholders.”

An advancement like chlorine dioxide sterilization should stay in the industry for quite some time, according to

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“First thing we realized is we have a lot of losses from the well where we’re extracting the water and the well where we’re using the water for production,” Mongan said. “Turns out most of that was evaporation.”

With the oil prices still well below $50 in March 2015, panel moderator R.T. Dukes, Senior Analyst for Wood Mackenzie, asked who addresses these needs for new technologies. Maugans said it has to be a team effort between operators and specialty water firms.

Industry Supplier of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Their offline and assembly testing provides huge cost savings - something that all companies are looking for in the current low oil price environment.

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With the market changing everyday it is easy to understand that success is 30 years in a volatile industry, but sustainability means more to Supreme than just being around; it encompasses continued, committed leadership, quality, safety, innovation, protection of the environment and the community. Sustainability at Supreme is also about moving forward as a thriving successful business. A challenge in today’s business market that we have met throughout our past, and our team will continue to meet. A one-stop shop industry supplier that provides a whole host of supply solutions that help minimize costs and serve their customers needs. Something that all companies are looking for in the current climate. Good job.

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Bluetick Inc. provides innovative practical solutions that deliver measurable value and return on investment. We employ the most talented engineers and software developers to architect, build and support dependable systems. Our flagship applications include the Remote Monitoring and Control (RMC) system and the Land Management System (LMS).

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Croft Production Systems is a turnkey natural gas production equipment company that engineers, manufactures and operates in-house; specializing in Natural Gas Dehydration, Fuel-Gas Conditioning, H2S & CO2 Removal, and NGL Recovery. CROFT places a strong emphasis on being eco-friendly and engineering units that do not require air permits.

Founded in 1972, Secorp Industries is the oldest H2S company in the United States serving the oil and gas industry with safety services and product for both land and offshore operations. Our long-term success is attributed to the unmatched comprehensive level of training that our employees receive.

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Simply put, effective water management can mean the difference in the success of your wellsite operations. At Select Energy Services, we pride ourselves in delivering the end-to-end water management solutions to keep every phase of your well running efficiently, safely and environmentally consciously. From sourcing to disposal to everything in between, our nationwide team of experienced employees and fleet of industry-leading equipment won’t stop working until your project is successful. That’s our promise. That’s what we do.

100% WATER FOCUSED.

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Oilfield Services Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: JC Fodale is a true example of entrepreneurism in the Eagle Ford, a credit to the region and to the industry. In just a few years, the company has diversified and delivered on a wide range of well related services. Their commitment to their clients, their staff and their community is commendable.

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The JC Fodale Energy Services Group of Companies is a WBE (Women Business Enterprise), which began operations in 2010 and has grown to be a dynamic leader in the Energy Services space. Our mission is to exceed our Customer’s expectation by providing unmatched levels of service delivery, professionalism, and an unwavering commitment to excellence, which we demonstrate every day through our products, services, people and safety focus.

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For more than 40 years, Knight Oil Tools has been providing “zero-failure” equipment and services to the oil and gas industry. With more than 50 locations worldwide, Knight Oil Tools has grown to include Rental Tool Services, Fishing Services, Well Services, Manufacturing, Inspection and Hardbanding services and QHSE Training.

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Currently with 10 locations in seven States, we engage in the Communities in which we do business by sponsoring charitable events and encouraging our Employees to participate along side our Executives and Management team. We yield exceptional results in the delivery of products and services including Wireline TCP, containment berms, frac tanks, gas busters, acid tanks, and trucking in addition to other existing and new upcoming services

to serve our Customer base. Our performance standards epitomize compliance with all relevant State and Federal Regulations and we do so using the highest ethical and proper business conduct driven from the top down. Our comprehensive policies and procedures envelop health and safety performance as evidenced by our current TRIR rating of 0.36. We live our business slogan everyday; “Service is our Business, Safety is our Culture!”

JC Fodale’s safety record, Wireline and Slickline Wire Service and associated tank division make the company a one stop store for any operator wishing to drill a well knowing that one of the most environmental astute and responsible companies wherever they work is able to handle any problems that may arise in well drilling and completion.

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Service is our Business. Safety is our Culture.

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Manufacturer of the Year Downhole Oil Tools

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Judges’ Comments: The composite dissolvable frac plug is a fantastic innovation for completions. Truly impressive features and capabilities. The case study says it all.

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At Magnum, our product designs never begin with a technological advancement. Or a rehashed idea we think might be “marketable.” We initiate product development the same way every time— through a drive to design each product with purpose.

It starts with an in-depth understanding of the applications our clients face in the field. Simply put, we engage them. Listen to their needs. Learn every play as well as they do, so we’re not only able to understand challenges—we’re also able to help anticipate them. And only then do we design products to match those specific applications.

well for over 25 years. Founded by Lynn Frazier, Magnum has always set out to develop products that are simply smarter than the rest. Period. From our team of experts to our innovative facilities to our organizational structure, it’s truly a part of everything we do. And it’s why customers around the world trust their completions to Magnum.

We know it’s a novel concept— but it’s one that has served us

Magnum design completion tools for specific needs and understand the challenges faced by their clients. They design their products to meet these needs. A well-known and highly respected company that offered detail on a broad range of their product suite and scored well for innovation. OTHER FINALISTS IN CATEGORY

Downhole Technology was formed in 2010 to develop the next generation frac plug that improves reliability and efficiency in the use of equipment, personnel and resources during frac operations.

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TEAM Oil Tools was built with one goal in mind: to design, manufacture and supply the oil and gas industry with superior downhole completion solutions that clients can trust.

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Now, the world’s leading independent manufacturer of zonal isolation tools is proud to introduce the world’s first dissolvable frac plug. This game-changing new technology provides high-performance isolation —then dissolves on its own, eliminating the need for coiled tubing. So you can save money, minimize risk and accelerate completion like never before.

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One Company, Multiple Solutions Brinderson is a full-service engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, and turnaround company that offers project solutions through a variety of project delivery options – each tailored to meet individual client’s speciﬁc needs. Our services include: • • • • •

Project Management Engineering / Design Procurement Construction Construction Management

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Project Controls / Estimating Maintenance Turnarounds Fabrication

We have ofﬁces in California, Washington, Texas, and New Mexico to serve your project needs.

www.brinderson.com 3330 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714.466.7100

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General Industry Service Award

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Judges’ Comments: Renzenberger are committed to the safety of their staff and their clients. A well executed submission detailing their efforts within the region has seen them score well.

Renzenberger’s +30 year safety culture and extensive fleet coverage model provides industry leading scheduled and on-demand crew transportation services to oil and gas, railroad, mining, manufacturing, and airline clients. Founded in 1983 and operating a fleet of more than 1,700 vehicles, the Company is a recognized leader in personnel transportation throughout North America. A continuous investment in safety, people, and technology provide a comprehensive, outsourced platform that creates advanced risk management, cost savings, and real performance results designed to exceed client expectations.

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In partnership with the Hallcon Corporation, Renzenberger offers collaborative workforce solutions to clients throughout North America. Integrated workforce solutions resulting from the Renzenberger / Hallcon alliance include crew accommodation and facility cleaning services, passenger rail coach, bus and station cleaning services, and third party station attendant services.

Notable Events: • Recorded record trip volumes: over 80 million miles safely driven in 2014. • Expansion into northwestern United States. • Continued diversification of fleet to include efficient minivan assets. • Panel participation at DriveCam / Lytx Annual Meeting; Renzenberger driver selected as Driver of the Year by DriveCam / Lytx for the second year in a row – 2013 & 2014.

Renzenberger is a crew transportation service. They described their state of the art preventative maintenance program and an excellent fatigue management program to address driving risks. They have on-board diagnostics for driving behavior and speeding, and proactive operating policies for cell phone usage including no cell phone usage or hands-free devices while driving.

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Since 1985, Gulf South Risk Services has been a third party administrator providing quality claims management and benefits administration services in the oil and gas industry. Combining our experience with the latest technology, we work with each client to provide a customertailored claims management solution to suit their individual needs.

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PowerPlan is an enterprise software company devoted to helping asset-centric businesses optimize their financial performance. PowerPlan’s MLP module allows for greater accuracy and availability of data for all stakeholders, improving the K-1 filing process as well as provides necessary financial visibility and reporting for general partners, auditors and unit holders.

Well Master Corporation (“Well Master”), based in Golden, CO and founded as a Colorado Company in 1984, designs and manufactures premium plunger lift systems for the oil & gas industry. Well Master focuses on optimizing oil & gas production by minimizing total cost of ownership and maximizing return on investment.

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New Technology Development of the Year – Software Application

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Judges’ Comments: A multifaceted analytics software provider that offers incredibly interesting and diverse analysis that, overall, could really change the industry in time.

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In 2004, Drillinginfo expanded tremendously with its acquisition historical well and scout information from PennEnergy and started Drillinginfo Energy Strategy Partners, a buy-side consulting group. Drillinginfo International went into operation in 2008 taking the company into the global arena. In 2009, Drillinginfo expanded their North American operations with the acquisition of HPDI (now DI Desktop), a nationwide production

data provider, making it one of the largest oil and gas databases in the world. Along with being in the INC 5000 Fastest Growing Companies for the past two years, Drillinginfo has also been a part of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in Central Texas four of the past six years. Drillinginfo, Inc. will continue to expand in order to help the world make smarter oil & gas decisions, faster.

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The Drillinginfo family started in 1999. What began as a simple online permit and completion mapping database became one of the INC 5000 fastest growing companies by 2008.

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They continue to expand their oil and gas database making it an everyday tool for our industry. Time saving access to large databases and ease of operation make DI standout from others.

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IFS meets the needs of the oil and gas industry by delivering a powerful, project-driven asset lifecycle management solution. IFS is #1 in EAM software to the oil & gas industry per ARC Advisory Group. IFS is a globally recognized leader in developing and delivering business software for enterprise asset management (EAM), enterprise service management (ESM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). IFS supports 2,200+ customers from offices in more than 60 countries. IFS, a public company (OMX STO: IFS) was founded in 1983.

VistaVu Solutions is a focused, rapidly-growing and progressive provider of game-changing business management solutions for the energy services industry, including FieldVu - the industry’s leading completely integrated field management application built on SAP.

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Voovio is a new productivity tool for operations and maintenance. Operators learn, review & practice any procedure on tablet devices, with unprecedented realism and interactivity, before executing the job – all the information they need, when they need it. Voovio eliminates the risk of errors and makes operations fast and reliable.

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A simple, cost effective patented solution for minimizing and containing airborne silica sand dust particles on frac sites.

VPondzâ&#x201E;˘, used for larger applications and water retention projects, are assembled with 2ft or 4ft walls. Commonly used as temporary above ground frac ponds.

VZ Environmental Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship

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Green Energy Oilfield Services has had a perfect safety record to date with zero significant

injuries or accidents and prides itself on a safety first philosophy. Over 14,000,000 miles have been driven in the company’s two and a half years of operation with zero USDOT at fault accidents.

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Green Energy Oilfield Services, LLC, is a private equity backed oilfield service company which began operation in mid-2012. The company has all new equipment, fueled exclusively by LNG and has yards and fueling stations in Fairfield and Marquez south of Dallas and most recently Gonzales, Three Rivers and Asherton in South Texas.

Company assets include a fleet of over 95 trucks, 85 vacuum trailers, 450 frac tanks, 24 mud tanks, 12 acid tanks, 6 mud pumps, 11 rig tanks and 8 gas busters. While the company started in Fairfield, Texas, a rapid geographical and customer diversification strategy had to be implemented to reach the company’s full potential.

Green Energy Oilfield Services leads the way to demonstrate to the country and the world that LNG and Natural Gas is a viable low emissions transportation fuel.

Green Energy Oilfield Services has an interesting concept for powering a fleet. The LNG truck model is something that could set a viable example for the rest of the industry.

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process Katch Kan™ is based on a commitment to sustainable development, by protecting and preserving the land and water where the upstream oil and gas industry solid black operates. The central achievements of Katch Kan™ are the Rig Safety System™ and Zero Spill System™. These innovative systems of technology work together to optimize the health and safety of those Dark Background involved with upstream projects, drastically minimize pollution and enables oil and gas production to occur in a proactive eco-efficient manner.

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Select Energy Services strives to change the oil and gas industry’s approach to water management. By providing strategic water management solutions from sourcing to disposal, Select delivers innovative, efficient, end-toend solutions to producers. With nearly 5,000 employees, Select is the premier provider of water solutions that help unlock the vital energy resources of our country.

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Workforce Housing Provider of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Thorough evaluation of their services and their commitment to the industry, their entry meets all key points in the criteria. Extensive detail in case studies sets HB apart.

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HB Rentals simplifies the management of your onsite workforce housing needs to ensure you have all the necessary essentials to live and work productively in remote locations. From accommodations to utility services to communications, onshore or offshore, our custom-tailored end-to-end solutions, specialized expertise and solid execution will help you prevent delays, avoid issues and maximize productivity. Superior Understanding and Expertise HB Rental teams are experts in knowing what you’ll need to get the job done right. Good commitment to the core values of the initiative and a breadth of options tailored for client requirements on and offshore. The Eagle Ford case study and detail on how HSE was showing a negative trend before certain measures where put in place to temper this and reverse its trajectory are honest and commendable. Excellent submission.

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Eagle Ford Shale Housing opened three years ago in Carrizo Springs, Texas to service demand for worker housing in a region experiencing one of the largest oil and gas booms in history. Priding itself on innovative and cost-effective housing solutions, EFS Housing quickly became a leader in both short and long-term oilfield worker accommodations.

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Lone Tree offers turn-key solutions for the temporary housing needs of the oil, gas, and mining industries. By providing state of the art facilities and exceptional service standards, we bring new meaning to the words: “Welcome Home”. We offer project management, modular housing, mobile housing, and hospitality service packages...anywhere.

OilfieldLodging.com is the premier workforce housing provider for the energy, oil and gas industries; providing a simple and costeffective solution for companies to supply lodging for their remote staff and contractors.

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Breitling Energy Future Industry Leader

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Judges’ Comments: Good development of career resumé and gaining great experience with leading companies. Seems to have found the right fit at Kinder Morgan and has shown impressive detail in the submission. I wish him every success.

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W. A. Ward Kinder Morgan Midstream Kinder Morgan is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America. We own an interest in or operate approximately 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. Our pipelines transport natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, carbon dioxide (CO2) and more. We also store or handle a variety of products and materials at our terminals such as gasoline, jet fuel, ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel. We are a market leader in each of our businesses – Natural Gas Pipelines, Products Pipelines, CO2,

Terminals and Kinder Morgan Canada. We have an unparalleled, large footprint of diversified and strategically located assets that are core to North American energy infrastructure and help deliver needed energy products to highdemand markets.

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Blackhawk Specialty Tools, LLC is a leading supplier of engineered cementing solutions providing premium automated top drive cement heads and related equipment, cementation products and top-quality service to the oil and gas industry. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Houston, Blackhawk operates in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, onshore U.S. and select international locations.

Croft Production Systems is a turnkey natural gas production equipment company that engineers, manufactures and operates inhouse; specializing in Natural Gas Dehydration, Fuel-Gas Conditioning, H2S & CO2 Removal, and NGL Recovery. CROFT places a strong emphasis on being eco-friendly and engineering units that do not require air permits.

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Industry Leader

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Chad Lenamon CDM Resource Management LLC In 1998, Chad joined CDM Resource Management as one of its first ten employees. He quickly advanced through CDM’s management—holding various positions including field technician, operations superintendent and senior vice president of operations. While in these roles, he proved invaluable to CDM’s growth and efficiency. He was responsible for improving both CDM’s compressor design and installation methods, and he also supervised CDM’s first inland and offshore installations. Additionally, he developed the company’s “best in class” maintenance and inventory systems, and he also worked to expand CDM’s operations footprint to new states and shale plays. In May 2011, he accepted his current position as President and COO. By the end of 2014, CDM’s operating horsepower had increased by 40 percent to 1.3 million.

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if it is just to say hi. He encourages all CDM employees to strive for excellence by continuously gaining knowledge and wisdom.

He credits his and the company’s success with the principles he learned from CDM’s founders, especially their focus on customers and employees:

In order to help CDM employees do so, he worked to open a state of the art, 16,000 square foot training facility in May 2014 for new and current CDM employees.

“Manage every one of your customers’ resources as though they were your own.” Based on this advice, he values people and customers above all, and he draws on his experience to solve customers’ problems and overcome challenges.

This facility offers group classroom and hands-on training sessions on numerous topics. CDM also offers one-on-one, individualized training and career development for any employee looking to formulate and attain measurable professional goals.

Operating an “open door” policy; any employee is welcome and encouraged to come in and speak with him, even

In summary, he works hard every day to ensure people want to work at CDM and customers want them on their jobsites.

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Award for Excellence in Health & Safety

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Judges’ Comments: Katch Kan has attempted to develop creative and cost effective solutions to persistent or high profile environmental and safety issues that have been increasingly weighing on the upstream industry. They have demonstrated responsiveness to industry needs with deft entrepreneurialism.

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These innovative systems work together to optimize the health and safety of those involved in upstream oil and gas projects, while minimizing pollution and maximizing operational results. Katch Kan™ systems enable oil and gas exploration to occur in a proactive and eco-efficient manner. By using our systems, Operators and Contractors can turn any drilling or work-over rig into a zero spill environment, and minimize the waste of expensive drilling fluids, resulting in a cleaner, a safer

and more productive working environment. Katch Kan builds these systems under ISO 9001 and 14001management systems and operates a full service field operation in Canada under COR guidelines. Katch Kan is a global leader in reducing environmental footprint and operational safety in the oil and gas drilling industry with 90% presence in the Canadian Market and this innovative technology has been adopted in over 60 countries worldwide.

The innovative approach that Katch Kan takes to improving safety is impressive. While incorporating all the usual and expected methods of health and safety into their operations, Katch Kan’s product line to contain spills and maintain rig safety tackles some of the less actively pursued hazards. By keeping things clean and reducing spills, slips and falls are minimized. With their reduce and recycle initiatives, they keep truck loads to a minimum, which improves driver safety, and road safety. Overall, this is an impressive program. OTHER FINALISTS IN CATEGORY

Pioneer Energy Services provides land contract drilling services and production services to independent and major oil and gas exploration and production companies. Production services include well servicing, wireline, and coiled tubing services. Pioneer operates in all major basins in the US and internationally in Colombia through its Drilling Services Segment.

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Katch Kan emerged in 1994 in response to the environmental challenges in the energy sector, its Rig Safety System(RSS™) and Zero Spill System (ZSS™) assist sustainable development by protecting and preserving the land, water and personnel in the oil and gas industry.

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Industry Summit Editorial

Potential for Greatness If the federal government wants the United States to become an energy superpower, it must help the oil and gas industry in myriad ways.

Karen Harbert, President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for 21st Century Energy, painted a bright picture for the oil and gas industry during her keynote address. This picture was filled what seems like endless market opportunities domestically and abroad for U.S. oil and gas producers that include exporting energy to developing nations and wriggling free from OPEC by securing the title of top energy producer in the world. “The world oil market that we have grown so familiar with and accustomed to that was dominated on the supply side by OPEC and the demand side by us is now completely turned upside down,” Harbert said. However, even with the potential to produce a $40 trillion revenue stream over the next 25 years, the federal government still stands in the way of progress. Harbert said she realizes not every elected official is as up to speed on the energy industry as they should be considering the decisions they must make regarding it, so she has developed a “crib sheet” of sorts. Each of oil and gas’ top issues are represented by a vowel. For the letter “a,” Harbert said the oil and gas industry needs “access” to the resource itself. Currently, operators can’t drill in the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean nor in places once open throughout Alaska. As the U.S. Department of the Interior takes comment on the leasing plans for the next five years, hotspots along the mid-Atlantic are up for debate, as well.

access to the federal government’s control of our land and our waters. Eighty-six percent of it is off limits today.”

While offshore accessibility is nonexistent, onshore resources on federal lands also remain to be tapped. It is a well-known fact that 100 percent of the increase in production of oil has been on state and private lands. Natural gas production also is down 28 percent on federal lands despite increasing 44 percent on state and private lands.

“E” is for “exports,” according to Harbert, which could be on the horizon for natural gas as early as the end of 2015. With that in mind, the federal government must prioritize streamlining the permitting process long before the export ban is completely lifted so the domestic industry can better compete in the global marketplace. For example, in May 2015, reported Chevron found approximately 134 meters of net gas pay in the Triassic Mungaroo Sands in 968 meters of water, which is part of the Carnarvon Basin of the Greater Gorgon area of Western Australia.

Harbert said this is due to the painstakingly difficult process required to drill on federal lands, which Harbert believes is counterintuitive to the U.S. drive to become an energy superpower.

“We’re not the only game in town,” Harbert said. “People are fighting for market share. So we have to get a process in place that actually allows us to be a bigger part of this and export to our allies and our friends.”

“Industry goes where resistance is the least,” Harbert said. “But that can’t be sustained forever. We’re going to need

The price advantage the United States has due to its abundance of natural gas is too good to pass up, according

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Speaker: Karen Harbert, President and CEO, US Chamber of Commerce Institute for Twenty First Century Energy

to Harbert. Yes, at approximately $3 per million British thermal units, the domestic natural gas price is much too low to risk producing. However, Harbert said compared to prices on the international market, American producers would still make considerable profits. According to the Kansas City Star, James Clad, Senior Adviser to the CNA Corp. consulting firm and a former Defense Department Assistant Secretary for Asia, said in a May 2015 speech Europe’s natural gas costs are three times more than the United States. Asia’s costs can run eight to 10 times U.S. domestic prices, as well.

As for oil exports, Harbert said the ban won’t be lifted until Congress collectively determines the U.S. should move past the energy crisis fears of the 1970s. “People in Congress that have to vote on this have grown up standing in line on odd or even days,” Harbert said. “We’re still going to be importing oil for the foreseeable future, so they can’t get their head around the fact that we are actually living in an era of abundance but we’re still going to be importing so that’s why we have to export? What’s the logic there? So we still have work to do on that.” Representing “i” is “infrastructure,” which Harbert admits the United States is significantly lacking, and she placed the blame of permitting processes from the federal government. For example, the Keystone XL Pipeline project is still awaiting approval going on its sixth year. Harbert called the political lightning rod “the poster child for what is wrong” with infrastructure in America. “Are we in the energy business? Do we want to be in the energy business?” Harbert asked. “We’ve got to do permitting reform. We’ve got to make it easier to build things because there are lots of good jobs, lots of supply chain opportunities to do that.” With 464 municipal bans on fracking throughout the United States, “o” stands for “opponents,” which Harbert said are more organized and sophisticated than ever.

“Our opponents are making inroads, and we have to acknowledge that,” Harbert said. “People are buying into the mythology.” The best way to combat this, Harbert said, is for the oil and gas industry to get more involved with the communities where they operate in person and via social media. “You’ve got to be out there, you’ve got to be telling the truth, you’ve got to be mythbusting and make it personal,” Harbert said. “You’ve got to get involved in social media. That is where a lot of this is spreading.”

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“There are opportunities even with shipping costs for this to be a very good business and a very good geopolitical strategy going forward,” Harbert said.

She cited the local primacy measures being debated in Colorado and the recent ban on fracking in Denton, Texas, as signs that the oil and gas industry needs to get its message out there.

Harbert said “u” represents the “unfair regulations,” specifically citing the ozone regulation that many have said has the potential to be the most expensive regulation in U.S. history. Taking effect in October 2015, a recent study by NERA Economic Consulting has found that the 65 parts per billion National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone could reduce U.S. GDP by about $140 billion annually on average between 2017 to 2040. The study also reported a potential average annual loss of jobs of 1.4 million. “Youth” took up the letter “y” spot for Harbert. She said the oil and gas industry needs to help end the “brain drain” the United States currently is experiencing as the nation falls behind in the raise to train future engineers. She said for every engineer that graduates in the United States, Europe graduates four and China nine. To stem this tide, industry must partner with K-12 school and invest in community colleges to repopulate the labor pool. “We’ve got to have that stream of employees and supporters that can actually pass a drug test, operate sophisticated materials and processes and equipment, and be part of this,” Harbert said. “This is a big Achilles’ heel for us as a country and for you as an industry.”

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Trucking Company of the Year – Presented by Kenworth

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Judges’ Comments: A highly customer service driven business as shown by the company’s growth and success. Founded in 1933 the company has now grown into a multi-billion dollar company.

It is clear that Ryder is committed to the safety of its employees, stakeholders and communities. The most striking thing about this application is the implementation of a sleep apnea study and treatment opportunities for at-risk drivers. This not only improves the well being of the employee, but also the safety of the passengers or other vehicles around a potentially fatigued driver.

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Ryder (NYSE:R) is a $6.6 billion, FORTUNE 500(r) global commercial fleet management and supply chain solutions company. Founded in 1933, Ryder supports oil & gas exploration and production with a full spectrum of transportation solutions. With both a national footprint of company owned equipment and drivers, and a complete lead logistics management solution which includes over 150 industry focused carrier partners, Ryder provides better ways for customers to transport equipment & supplies to and from job sites, improves load visibility, and optimizes transportation solutions that safely move oilfield and offshore shipments from the wellhead to the marketplace. This is all supported by a proven health and safety culture driven by experienced Oilfield Operations and HSE Professionals. For more information, visit www.ryder.com.

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Green Energy Oilfield Services, LLC, is a private equity backed oilfield service company which began operation in 2012. The company has all new equipment, fueled exclusively by LNG and has yards and fueling stations in Fairfield and Marquez south of Dallas and most recently Gonzales, Three Rivers and Asherton in South Texas.

Hearn Trucking LLC is a commercial trucking enterprise servicing the oil and gas field industry. Service offerings include hauling bulk sand, bulk cement, oil field equipment, well site sand coordination, and sand removal from well site. Hearn Trucking LLC continues to enjoy steady growth sustained through dedication to our customers.

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Sun Coast Resources, Inc., is the largest woman owned business in Texas. The company was founded by Kathy Lehne in 1985, and markets quality petroleum products & lubricants to thousands of commercial, retail, and government operations, and also offers a national emergency response fuel program, petroleum transportation, and numerous other related products and services throughout 40 states.

Tutle and Tutle Trucking, Inc. is the largest frac sand carrier in the Barnett Shale; however, our services extend throughout the continental US with ten locations. Tutle and Tutle strives to promote their strong family values within the company and extends those values to each of our customers with the dedication and service we provide every day.

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An investment in the Kenworth T880 pays off in greater fuel economy, driver satisfaction, productivity and resale value. At the heart of the T880 is a fully optimized and integrated drivetrain featuring the quality and proven reliability of the PACCAR MX-13 engine delivering up to 500 hp and 1,850 lb-ft of torque. Bulk tractor. Tanker. Dump truck. Mixer. Heavy hauler. Refuse truck. Logger. Line-haul tractor. In the long run you will be glad you own The Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best. Visit a Kenworth dealer today.

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The Oil & Gas Financial Journal Transaction of the Year - over $1bn

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Judges’ Comments: Great deal making, Breitburn. One of the largest oil-weighted MLP with access to a number of premier oilfields across the US. 3rd Annual

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Breitburn Energy Partners LP is a publicly traded independent oil and gas master limited partnership focused on the acquisition, development, and production of oil and gas properties throughout the United States. Breitburn’s crude oil and natural gas reserves are located in the following seven producing areas: the Permian Basin, Michigan/Indiana/Kentucky, Ark-La-Tex, the Mid-continent, the Rockies, Florida, and California.

Breitburn’s assets are characterized by stable, longlived production and proved reserve life indexes averaging greater than 15 years. As of December 31, 2014, our total estimated proved reserves were 315.3 MMBoe, of which approximately 55% was oil, 8% was NGLs and 37% was natural gas. Our production in 2014 was 14,114 MMBoe, of which approximately 56% was oil, 8% was NGLs and 36% was natural gas.

In 2014, Breitburn acquired QR Energy, LP for approximately $2.5 billion including debt assumed, the largest transaction in Breitburn’s history. In addition, Breitburn acquired strategic bolton acreage in the Permian Basin from Antares Energy Company for a preliminary purchase price of approximately $123 million.

Excellent efficiencies. Breitburn will be able to eliminate duplicate costs since its already involved in many of the same fields.

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Baytex Energy Corp. is a dividend-paying oil and gas corporation based in Calgary, Alberta. The company is engaged in the acquisition, development and production of crude oil and natural gas in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and in the Eagle Ford in the United States.

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Encana is a leading North American energy producer that is focused on growing its strong portfolio of diverse resource plays producing natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids. By partnering with employees, community organizations and other businesses, Encana contributes to the strength and sustainability of the communities where it operates.

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Simplify your risk management process. At Gulf South Risk Services, our dedicated team is committed to providing custom solutions designed to maximize your productivity and minimize costs. We offer unique solutions ranging from: - Cost saving return-to-work programs - Hands-on claims management - Benefits administration - Prevention management - Real-time data reporting - Online portal with 24/7 access

With our robust technological capabilities, we are constantly connected to you and your employees, enabling us to swiftly resolve claims and increase your productivity. Through our online portal and dedicated claims managers, we simplify the risk management process.

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Safety Gains Traction Oil and gas operators understand they must comply with health and safety regulations to remain profitable.

The southern Texas market has its fair share of concerns about the state of the oil and gas industry, and the health and safety of employees are two that rise to the top. Moderator Omar Garcia, President and CEO of South Texas Energy and Economic Roundtable, led a panel discussion on these issues and how they affect the energy game in his organization’s region. The latest EPA regulation to send the southern Texas oil and gas industry scrambling into compliance is Quad-0, which calls upon relying on proven technologies and best practices used today to reduce emissions of smog-forming volatile organic compounds (VOC). According to the EPA, the final rules are expected to yield a nearly 95 percent reduction in VOC emissions from more than 11,000 new hydraulically fractured gas well each year. According to Scriven Hoefs, National Sales Manager – Flare Services for Total Safety, the rule basically is a regulation on flaring, which remains a popular option for companies not interested in capturing flare gas for commercial use. While many companies believe they are in compliance with Quad0, Hoefs said this isn’t the case if the technology isn’t being used properly. For example, Hoefs said Total Safety has encountered a number of instances where the flame of a pilot system is continuously burning, therefore violating regulations. If these operators connect their propane of fuel gas to the pilot, that pilot is in compliance once again.

“That’s one of the common hiccups that we will find when we’re talking with operators,” Hoefs said. “They won’t hook propane to it, so they think they’re in compliance, but they’re not.” Based on the next milestone for Quad-0, which took effect April 15, 2015, Hoefs believed the regulation would lead to several things. First and foremost, Quad-0 was written to create safer flares. “It’s going to lead to companies wanting to do business with a qualified flare manufacturer, so they’re going to want to do their homework on who they’re doing business with, so price will be less of a factor,” Hoefs said. “It’s also going to lead to a lot of companies going toward vapor recovery units when feasible as well as an enclosed flare or a ground flare to eliminate the possibility of the smoke.” The regulation and the costs associated with compliance won’t completely eliminate flares, according to Hoefs. Flares serve as a safety device to relieve pressure and get everything under control so vapor recovery units can salvage what needs to be processed further. For risk management, Dean Brister, District Manager for TIC Southern, said his company starts every assessment of a new job with safety talking points. The company begins by categorizing various areas that can prove problematic in what TIC Southern calls the “Mining the Diamond Program.” Introduced to TIC Southern by Exxon, the mining the diamonds helps determine what type of accidents might end up in fatalities. TIC Southern categorizes those risks to focus on preventing at all costs. “In the past, we were more worried about reportable accidents and that, and sometimes you found yourself dwelling on a bee sting or something you weren’t really able to control,” Brister said. “Though luck wouldn’t have had it, you could have had a more serious accident.” TIC Southern doesn’t just focus on hypothetical situations and potential dangers when it comes to safety strategies. Brister also said the company takes near misses or recurring areas of concern seriously, bringing in field employees to determine what cause of these issues may be.

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Moderator: Omar Garcia, President & CEO, South Texas Energy & Economic Roundtable Speakers: Dean Brister, District Manager, TIC Southern, Scriven Hoefs, National Sales Manager – Flare Services, Total Safety

One area of concern that came to the forefront for TIC Southern a few years ago was the number of items being dropped from elevation. Brister said the company discussed potential solutions with its craftspeople working in the field, and responses ranged from lanyards for tools to making storage areas safer with fencing. Within three to four months, Brister said the number of dropped objects for TIC Southern was cut by about 90 percent.

Hoefs said he likes the direction the industry has taken by proactively discussing near misses openly with employees. “Companies are a lot more willing to bring them up and talk about them – what could we have done differently? How can we change that moving forward? – and that is really positive,” Hoefs said. “That is really positive and enlightening to see that people take it that seriously.” Hoefs said a staple of Total Safety’s topics is, “You see it, you own it.” This is meant to push a culture change that encourages work stoppages when coworkers are not behaving in a safe manner. “This really encourages guys to point something out whenever it is incorrect, and don’t be afraid to call out your buddy that you’re working next to and stop work and get things going,” Hoefs said. Many companies also are creating “safety walls,” which typically is wall in a common area adorned with photographs of family, loved ones and pets that remind employees of the reasons why they should work in a safe manner. “Just implementing that culture where you’re working safe in and outside of work is something that I’ve seen come along the last few years where people really take it

Safety outside of the job site is another key factor in keeping workers out of harm’s way. Countless oil and gas companies must train local first responders on their operations so EMTs can respond appropriately in the event of an emergency. Many other companies, however, work on sites that are too remote to rely on local first response teams to arrive in a timely manner. “We’ve noticed that the operators and all the companies working in the oilfield are taking it upon themselves to not rely on the local first responders because oftentimes you’re going to be 30-plus miles away from anybody that could come handle a medical emergency,” Hoefs said. “A lot of the operators are leaning on companies that can provide an on-site medical staff with paramedics and a full plan to take on an emergency until a first responder can show up.”

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“As we brought them in and talked to them about it, it really helped us realize we weren’t providing them everything they needed,” Brister said. “Those were the kinds of things we weren’t focused on and weren’t hearing about because of the reporting. So our biggest lesson learned is make sure you listen to your employees, and put a program in place where their voice is heard.”

seriously,” Hoefs said.

Total Safety also has noticed many companies that provide life flight services as a privatized industry catering to oil and gas firms. “This is a growing market, and people are taking the safety seriously to make sure that if something does happen, you’ve got the people there to handle it,” Hoefs said. Total Safety checks its clients’ sites to ensure the qualifications of the paramedics kept on-site as well as the quality of the first response facility. The company offers in-house, air-conditioned mobile units where on-site medical personnel can prepare a victim to be transported to a hospital. Of course, field personnel must be properly trained and certified, as well, and Hoefs said Total Safety’s clients have been in compliant. Along with OSHA, H2S certification and fit tests, many companies have added lockout/tagout, CPR/first aid and other basic training to their safety repertoire. “It is becoming pretty standard,” Hoefs said. “You really wouldn’t approach any operators in this day and age if all of your workforce isn’t well under way with all this training.”

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Consultancy of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Good to see the replication of properly implemented and successful safety academies across North America to prepare and train Total Safety customers in procedures relating to H2S and confined space practices.

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Total Safety is the world’s leading provider of service solutions to upstream, midstream, downstream, refinery, chemical, petrochemical, power generation, mining and industrial markets. We provide high-quality safety solutions in a measurable, cost-effective manner, without compromise. And we stand behind our promise to each customer to protect lives, property and the environment.

by field supervisors, and the personal and emotional involvement of the entire workforce.

Total Safety’s goal is to secure an accident-free environment through our demonstrated commitment by management, strong leadership and coaching

For more information about Total Safety and its unwavering commitment to safety, visit www. totalsafety.com.

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Maxoil Solutions, Inc. is a specialized process engineering, flow assurance, and production chemistry consultancy. The combination of mechanical, chemical, and operational skills allows Maxoil the unique ability to deliver solutions reflecting a holistic approach to root cause analysis, all while keeping the goal of minimal CAPEX and reduction of OPEX.

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UniversalPegasus International is a leading provider of engineering, project management, survey, inspection, and construction management solutions for both the onshore and offshore oil and gas industry. Built on a 50-year heritage of providing quality, safe and innovative client services, UPI delivers unmatched expertise and value to clients.

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New Technology Development of the Year – General/Products

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Judges’ Comments: LNGo system offers a good solution to monetize flare gas and wider spread use of natural gas to power the oilfield.

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Dresser-Rand’s LNGo™ distributed liquefied natural gas technology is a modularized, compact, redeployable, distributed natural gas liquefaction

plant capable of producing 6,000 – 8,000 gallons of LNG per day. The system is made up of four packaged skids: a power module, compressor module, process module, and a gasconditioning module that offer a decentralized, distributed approach to meeting the growing demand for LNG fueling. The system takes advantage of Dresser-Rand’s product offerings by combining a MOS™ reciprocating compressor, a Guascor® generator set, and Enginuity® control, monitoring and safety system resulting in a new liquefaction process that can be installed and operating within months.

The distributed LNG system should help propel the utilization of NG. With the dramatic increase in the availability of NG, there is a real need to increase utilization, especially in those areas that have limited pipeline capacity. This system is another advancement in the virtual pipeline segment. OTHER FINALISTS IN CATEGORY

Concentric Pipe and Tool Rentals, a Superior Energy Services company, is a leading provider of rental services for the critical completion phase of conventional and horizontal wells. Concentric offers support for completions, workover, coil tubing, snubbing and well servicing while upholding a commitment to improving quality of services and products.

GARP Services, LLC is the exclusive marketer and installer of the GARP® technology and is a subsidiary of Evolution Petroleum Corporation, a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. The GARP® technology increases production and reserves over conventional artificial lift technology in horizontal, deviated and certain vertical wells.

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From our product experts to the entire structure of our company—everything we do at Magnum is built around designing products with purpose.

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Dresser-Rand is among the largest suppliers of custom-engineered rotating equipment solutions for the worldwide energy infrastructure, including oil, gas, petrochemical, power generation, and process industries. Our high-speed rotating equipment is also supplied to the environmental market space within energy infrastructure.

These products—centrifugal and reciprocating gas compressors, gas and steam turbines, gas expanders, gas and diesel engines, and associated control panels—are used in oil and gas production, high-pressure field injection and oil recovery, gas liquefaction, gas transmission, refinery processes, natural gas processing, petrochemical production, general industry (including paper, steel, sugar, and distributed power), power generation, and military applications.

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Distributed LNG Provides Local, Low-Cost Diesel Fuel Alternative Dresser-Rand offers award-winning technology for capturing gas to be converted to LNG.

For as long as some of the most experienced oil and gas industry veterans can remember, diesel has long been king of the transportation and operation fuel used for most jobs. Today, natural gas is a viable, cleaner, more affordable alternative fuel, and the technology to take advantage of this resource expands every year. Charles G. Ely II, General Manager of Distributed LNG Solutions for Dresser-Rand described his company’s Oil & Gas Award-winning solution – LNGo – during his HSE spotlight, “Distributed LNG Provides Local, Low-Cost Diesel Fuel Alternative.” “This really adds a lot of value for a lot of companies in order to be able to not only capture the gas, to get that cheap LNG but to solve some environmental problems,” Ely said. “If I’m not flaring it and capturing it, then everybody is a winner in that particular situation.” The problem that needed solving in this instance was the lack of technology that existed that could take stranded, associated or flared gas at the well head and use it as an alternative to diesel fuel. Considering the price of natural gas can dip below $3 a dekatherm, according to Ely, and use it for operations on either side of the supply/demand dynamic. “Today, there’s really not a full infrastructure to capture all that,” Ely said. “Some of the wells have the ability to capture oil and the natural gas, and others don’t. So, the ones that don’t have that are basically flaring. “I can take that gas – which for most of the oil companies is sort of a waste product – but the natural gas is clearly of value, as well,” Ely said. One of the biggest issues, however, isn’t that natural gas doesn’t have value. It’s that it doesn’t have enough – in March, the price of natural gas had dipped below $3 a dekatherm. The true value comes in using this product as fuel. Considering the cost of stranded gas can range between $0 and $4, plus converting to LNG through a cooling process for another $8 to $12, the total cost of LNG between $8 and $16. Diesel, however, comes out to $22 per dekatherm, which still converts to significant savings.

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Despite its usefulness for internal operations, natural gas at these prices still isn’t economical for mass commercial use, according to Ely. With so many operators in proximity to natural gas pipelines at $4 is the obvious choice. Small-scale distributed LNG like this is best used at job sites in the most remote locations nowhere near major gas pipelines. “It really has to do with, where are those places that don’t have access to cheap natural gas?” Ely said. “Where are there not pipelines? Where are these industries that are remotely located that just don’t have access to this cheap gas, but they’re maybe not willing to pay $22 to ship LNG up there when they can buy diesel and other alternatives?” In these markets, the types of engines used typically run 1,000 to 2,000 horsepower and consume between 1,000 and 2,000 gallons of LNG per day. In some instances, while the site may be remote, there is a nearby source of natural gas that is not connected to any pipe. Even if it requires a truck to transport, relying on natural gas as an alternative fuel remains the much most cost-efficient option. “Ten miles of pipeline is very expensive,” Ely said. “Putting it in a truck and moving it 10 miles is pretty cheap.” In the oil and gas industry, drilling rigs represent the largest application for natural gas – 8 percent, according to Ely. Surface mining companies presently have a source of natural gas – coal-bed methane – but had no way to convert it to transportation fuel before LNGo. Ely also cited a project in Wyoming where a mining operator relied on over 700 trucks, each of which consumed 1,000 gallons of diesel every day. If the operator relied on LNG instead, it could save over a dollar a gallon. “If you’re using a thousand gallons a day and you can save a dollar a gallon, that’s a thousand bucks a day,” Ely said. “That’s big savings when you multiply it times your fleet.” One of the most important functions of the LNGo systems is the ability to reduce flaring. According to Ely, over 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas is flared every year. In the Bakken Shale alone, over 200,000 million cubic feet a day is being flared, which Ely said could be converted to 2 million gallons of LNG.

Speaker: Charles G. Ely II, PE, General Manager, Distributed LNG Solutions, DresserRand

There are costs to flaring beyond the loss of a useful resource. Landowners expect royalties on that gas even if it is not being sold. The state government expects taxes from the gas, as well. So not using this resource ends up costing operators in the long run, according to Ely. “The reality is, it is a valuable source that actually is just energy that we’ve wasted,” Ely said. “If I could capture this, where would I use it? How about the drilling rigs that are five miles away?”

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“If you’re using a thousand gallons a day and you can save a dollar a gallon, that’s a thousand bucks a day,” Ely said. “That’s big savings when you multiply it times your fleet.”

Ely said LNGo only requires four tractor-trailer containers of equipment, and the system is designed to be completely mobile and sized to fit on a single gas well. The system can convert 6,000 to 10,000 gallons per day, according to Ely. Once a specific flare is burned out, operators can pick up LNGo and move it to the next well. “Most of the LNG plants that we think about around the world are much, much bigger and could never do the type of scale we’re talking about,” Ely said.

The system also has application in the natural gas fields in the Marcellus Shale throughout the northeastern United States, according to Ely. Countless operators entered the region to drill wells before realizing the nearest pipeline was a couple miles away. LNGo gives these operators a system to capture the gas.

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Water Management Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Their products come at a critical time for the oil industry. Spills, no matter how minor, are heavily scrutinized and an efficient cleanup process is critical.

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MYCELX Technologies Corporation is a global oil-free water technology company solving the world’s toughest oily water problems in the industry. Internally developed proprietary water characterization techniques help our engineers design the smallest footprint and most costeffective solution, or deploy the appropriate mobile treatment emergency response unit. Solid scalable solution that is designed for ease of installation and to meet the exacting requirements of regulatory bodies. The data supports the fact that scientific processes supersede methods of filtration.

MYCELX is an ecologically friendly water treatment – protecting the environment and operations by keeping oil where it should be, inside the production environment. MYCELX systems are fail-safe and provide the ability to reuse water while removing oil down to 1 ppm, even when upstream components are failing. While conventional filtration systems use mechanical means or gravity, MYCELX goes beyond ordinary filtration with a completely different approach. The patented MYCELX polymer utilizes molecular cohesion; achieving

separation by permanently binding with hydrocarbons, offering complete removal of free and emulsified oils and associated hydrocarbons. This effect occurs without developing back pressure or blocking the flow, enabling a complete MYCELX system to remove oil and hydrocarbons down to critically low levels of oil in a very small footprint. Our systems are easily scalable for performance and capacity with high flow rates up to 120,000 barrels per day, regardless of oil droplet size or loading rates.

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Select Energy Services strives to change the oil and gas industry’s approach to water management. By providing solid blackstrategic water management solutions from sourcing to disposal, Select delivers innovative, efficient, end-to-end solutions to producers. With nearly 5,000 employees, Select is the premier provider of water solutions that help unlock ground the vital energy resources of our country.

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Themark Corporation® proudly combines an ideology that reduces costs and complies with all industry environmental and safety regulations for drilling through to refining needs. Our signature product, the HydroPod™ is capable of treating processed water approved by the EPA for redistribution into natural water shed systems in some states.

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Advanced Water Treatment Solutions

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Recycling and Oil Recovery Terminals

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Fail-Safe Overboard Discharge Process Water from Refineries and Petrochemical Facilities

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5k BPD Remote Well Pad Site for Frac Fluid Make-up

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17k BPD Terminal Discharge to Houston Ship Channel

United Kingdom • London, England

75k BPD Offshore Discharge into Gulf of Mexico

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In Case of Emergency… An effective crisis emergency plan can be the difference between maintaining a good reputation as a responsible corporate citizen or losing the social license to operate.

Crisis communications plans are an aspect on any oil and gas company’s business that must be meticulously developed and rehearsed with the hopes of never having to be used in real-life scenarios. Nevertheless, with the eyes of the world watching the U.S. energy industry due to the Shale Revolution and the inevitability of accidents in a dangerous industry, Chris Staffel, Vice President, Administration for PennTex Midstream Partners, urged her colleagues to show a united front on how to best address such incidents. Public opinion of the oil and gas industry is on the upswing, but not high enough in Staffel’s opinion. Citing a recent study addressing public trust in the oil and gas industry, Staffel said trust has increased from a low of 38.6 percent in 2006 to 48.5 percent. Any industry that has created 1.7 million jobs through the Shale Revolution and predicts 4 million jobs by 2020, according to Staffel, will definitely exist in a fishbowl, so a good reputation is paramount. “We have to create a foothold in the discussion now,” Staffel said during her speech entitled “Crisis Communication: A Case Study in Preparedness and Execution.” “We have to create a positive voice in the industry in order to provide credible information that refutes misinformation that’s out there.” Staffel admitted rigorous and comprehensive crisis communication plans have helped her navigate her

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various employers through a variety of incidents throughout her career. “Your crisis communication plan coupled with the comprehensive outreach plan will probably be the single most defining measure of as to how your company succeeds in the event of an emergency,” Staffel said. “It can make or break your involvement in an area, and it also can make or break the reputation of your company.” Staffel said the first step to take before even delving into a crisis communication plan is to identify key stakeholders, which typically includes local elected officials, emergency responders, landowners, community members, regulatory agents, investors, shareholders and customers. “It’s important to address anyone and everyone that would be impacted by the project and more importantly in the event of an emergency to be able to identify and prioritize the communications they’ll be needing from the company,” Staffel said. Step two involves making a practical assessment of available corporate resources. Staffel said this tells a company the people available to carry out this plan. For example, the HSE department is tasked with reaching out to regulatory agencies, and the commercial department will contact customers of any possible shutdowns.

Speaker: Chris Staffel, Vice President, Administration, PennTex Midstream Partners

“So by assessing all these corporate resources, you’re now able to start crafting together and assembling your corporate action team, or your crisis team,” Staffel said. “This should be including all these resources and also including specific senior management and supplemented by additional outsourced resources as needed.”

“Some of the most far-fetched scenarios that you could possibly dream up are not all that far-fetched,” Staffel said. “And even if they don’t happen, it’s better to prepare for the worst and be more prepared for a smaller incident.” From here, companies ought to create customized checklists and notification protocols to develop a clear process for communication flow throughout the plan. This should include traditional and social media to avoid the distribution of misinformation reporters often receive and redistribute during a crisis. Staffel also suggested performing a communication audit regularly to make sure the crisis communication plan is up to date and effective. This should involve interviewing employees ranging from executives to field laborers to determine what parts of the plan need upgrading. The audit interviews could be extended to community members like local politicians to discover better ways to interact with locals in the event of a crisis. Once a plan has been established, it is time to educate the team about it. Staffel said conducting tabletop exercises with employees, crisis teams and various departments helps individuals become versed in the plan.

“When your communications teams can’t get out there in a time of crisis, you have to have someone who’s ready and able to deal with the media,” Staffel said. “It truly is an art form. It’s a skill that must be rehearsed and trained for – preferably when nothing’s on fire.” All employees should know what to say and what not to say, as well, so Staffel said employee communications is critical, as well. This includes rehearsing corporate talking points instead of ordering employees to stay quiet.

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With these steps in place, it is time to set up the plan itself. One essential element is to identify key summaries of issues the company expects to face presently as well as in the future. Once these issues have been identified, the crisis team can create scenario developments. Organizations should start with the issues that are most concerning and immediate to the company. Also, they should prepare a list of low probability items that could have a highly negative affect if they occurred.

key executives, project manager and various teams of operation people in the field should be able to speak with the media.

“I think there are so many times when we just tell employees, ‘No, no, no, don’t say anything, the crisis communications team will handle it,’” Staffel said. “And I actually don’t think that’s the right method.” The way Staffel described the assembly of a crisis communication plan, no stone should be left unturned as an organization comes together for the initiative. She reminded the audience to have the plan accessible in paper form in the event of an IT breakdown; have all materials updated and polished; prepare website provisions to have a blackout page ready to publish instantly; and stay armed with user friendly “backgrounders” as digestible summaries for highly technical information. One of the most important aspects of any crisis communication plan will be how quickly an organization can respond with to the event to keep all stakeholders informed. With the world’s eyes on the U.S. oil and gas industry, there is little room for error in the event of a crisis. “Just as we don’t want to be meeting our stakeholders out during the time of a crisis, we cannot wait until there is a crisis to enter into the broader industry conversation,” Staffel said. “The world is watching. Let’s effectively turn the tide.”

Media training is another major aspect of an overall crisis communications plan. Staffel said everyone including

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Themark Corporation E&P Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: EOG demonstrated a willingness to give back to the communities where they work and live. 3rd Annual

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EOG Resources, Inc. is one of the largest independent crude oil and natural gas companies in the United States with proved reserves in the U.S., Canada, Trinidad, the United Kingdom, China and Argentina. The U.S.focused company is a technological leader in horizontal drilling to produce hydrocarbons from shale.

A top tier E&P company! EOG continually takes steps through training and continuous improvements in its practices to prevent safety and environmental incidents. Quality ownership positions in key producing areas, with a stellar environmental and operating record.

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BHP Billiton is a leading global resources company, with mining and oil and gas operations worldwide. Our Petroleum Business includes exploration, development, production and marketing activities in more than a dozen countries around the world, including the onshore U.S., the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Pakistan.

Our Company is a value-driven, growth oriented oil and gas exploration and production company.Our corporate strategy is to internally identify prospects, acquire lands encompassing those prospects and evaluate those prospects using subsurface geology and geophysical data and exploratory drilling. Using this strategy, we have developed an oil and natural gas portfolio of proved reserves, as well as development and exploratory drilling opportunities on high potential conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas prospects.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Manufacturer of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: 17 years of growth and success providing the oilfield with superior chemicals and solutions. 3rd Annual

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Chemplex provides a complete solution for their superior chemicals allowing for efficient and economic operations.

From its meager four person start-up staff, through dedication to customer satisfaction, innovative product solutions and lots of elbow grease, Chemplex has prospered as a driving force in the oil & gas industry. With over 150 employees and locations in Breckenridge, Kilgore, Midland, Snyder, and Pleasanton, TX, Cordell, OK, Killdeer, ND, and Albright, WV, the dedication of our team to provide technical expertise, superior products and impeccable service is the root of Chemplex’s sustainability and success.

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ABUTEC, an acronym for Advanced Burner Technologies, is a manufacturer of environmentally friendly combustion solutions. ABUTEC specializes in offering high-efficiency, low-emission burners and flares to the upstream and midstream oil & gas segments. ABUTEC manufactures burners, enclosed combustors/flares, vapor combustors, incinerators and thermal oxidizers, all aimed at reducing emissions and increasing efficiency.

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Clariant Oil Services is a world leader in the development, manufacture, application and supply of specialty chemicals and services to the oil and gas industry. Our custom chemical products and services are designed to deliver the highest value at every stage of the oil and gas lifecycle.

State Service Co., Inc. (“SSC”) specializes in the design and construction of offshore platforms, including jackets, piles and production deck sections for fixed production platforms, well protector structures, subsea drilling templates, and various production and utility modules tailored to the oil and gas exploration industry. With over 170 employees, SSC’s fabrication yard is located in Ingleside, Texas, and its engineering and sales office is in Katy, Texas (located right outside of Houston).

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Industry Summit Editorial

License to Drill Obtaining permits and mineral rights give oil and gas operators the legal right to drill, but to avoid confrontations with community activists, they need to social license to operate, as well.

Chris Faulkner, CEO, President and Founder of Breitling Energy Corporation, isn’t a lone wolf when it comes to preaching about the virtues of oil and gas operators earning their corporate license to operate. He is, however, one of the most vocal and visible proponents in the battle for the hearts and minds of the general public the industry is waging against environmentalists aiming to ban hydraulic fracturing wherever possible. And he maintains, as much as industry veterans may want to deny it, the Wild, Wild West era of the oil and gas business is over. Companies can no longer simply barge into a town and begin operations without first facing down resistance from the environmental opponents. “For the last 100 years, oil and gas companies would just sort of do what they wanted to do,” Faulkner said during his keynote address entitled, “Planning and Understanding the Success of a CSR Initiative.” “A lot of folks had the perception that we’re a cavalier industry, or that we come in and have sort of a cowboy attitude. And in a way, I think there are some aspects some folks in this industry still have and live by that mantra.”

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In his time at the helm of Breitling Energy Corporation, Faulkner said most landowners and community members simply want more transparency from oil and gas operators to counterbalance the information the industry’s opponents have spread through the media and Internet. “We’ve found being more transparent and being open with these folks allowed us to receive good will and gave us the community license to operate,” Faulkner said. Breitling Energy Corporation recently put this practice into when it entered Miami, Texas, for drilling operations. Faulkner said the company hosted town hall meetings for environmentalists, local communities, oil and gas business, landowners and anyone else who wanted to engage in a dialogue about what to expect with oil and gas operations in town. In these meetings, Breitling Energy disclosed the chemical makeup of its fracking fluids as well as procedures and precautions in the event a citizen comes into contact with these chemicals. The company also discussed its plans for water recycling, moving trucks in and out during evenings if possible, and erecting noise barriers.

Speaker: Chris Faulkner, President and CEO, Breitling Energy

“They all at the end of the day knew that their life was going to be disturbed for a bit,” Faulkner said. “But when we were upfront and honest with them, they I think bought into the story a little bit better than if we had just showed up in town, set up shop and started drilling. They had an opportunity to speak their mind.” Faulkner said the company has had success in this community, drilling several wells since engaging with the community in Miami with limited pushback from environmentalists.

“The consequence turned out to be that the entire industry now has been banned from Denton, Texas, to drill a well,” Faulkner said. “So the one bad seed, because he wouldn’t meet in the communities and wouldn’t discuss working around the neighbors or working around drill sites that weren’t in someone’s backyard literally, he caused irreparable harm if these lawsuits turn bad.” It’s not just the oil and gas industry that loses out in these situations. According to Faulkner, since Denton is embroiled in two lawsuits regarding its drilling ban, city officials have concerns that the town can go bankrupt due to legal fees if the lawsuits continue. With so much on the line for all stakeholders involved, Faulkner repeated his oft-used philosophy that the oil and gas industry needs to get in front of the messaging about its work and wrangle the discussion away from environmentalists. He admitted that such initiatives are not free – the cost associated with Faulkner’s efforts, including financing a documentary, writing a book and traveling to speak to these communities, exceeds $500,000 annually.

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Assuming no social license to operate is required in a given community can have detrimental consequences that can lead to fracking moratoriums or bans. In Denton, Texas, the entire idea of social license to operate was disregarded by an operator drilling natural gas wells, and the ensuing battle with citizens led to a fracking ban in the city. While Denton is of little importance to the oil and gas industry in terms of available resources, the fact another story about a fracking ban made headlines was the bigger concern, according to Faulkner.

“We’ve found being more transparent and being open with these folks allowed us to receive good will and gave us the community license to operate,” Faulkner said. “That is real money going into soft-costs returns because we believe in the social license to operate,” Faulkner said. “So these programs require us to have government affairs people on staff, PR staff, marketing staff – a number of things traditional oil and gas companies may not have. But at the end of the day, it’s important.” With a significant cost involved with earning the social license to operate, Faulkner also believes the effort should be targeted in the right direction. That means starting grassroots efforts in communities directly affected by oil and gas operations instead of reaching out to a national audience. This, Faulkner said, is how environmentalists are winning the messaging war, and oil and gas companies should follow the example. “People ask me, ‘What are you doing writing op-eds for a newspaper that’s in a community of 4,000 people?’” Faulkner said. “Those are the communities we drill within. I think the breakthrough moments occur when we have these small communities begin to say this messaging is starting to make sense because we back it up with fact.”

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Built on core values of safety, quality and integrity, Strike has grown rapidly to become the premier full-service provider of pipeline, facilities, fabrication, maintenance and integrity services for the oil and gas industry.

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JC Fodale Award for Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility

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Judges’ Comments: The ‘Campaign for Change’ modus operandi should be replicated by any organization wishing to give back to their local communities and charities. Outstanding contributions, volunteerism and support.

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Strike was a First Mover in providing turnkey energy services to all sectors of the oil, gas, utility and power industries with a complete emphasis on safety. Strike is committed to ensuring the safety and health of our employees, the general public,

environment and our customers through our industry leading Safety program.

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Strike is a leading North American provider of pipeline, facilities, fabrication, maintenance and integrity services to world renowned companies, delivering America’s energy safely. Strike’s integrated network of energy services ranges from upstream production, processing and gathering facilities to high pressure transmission and distribution lines.

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Strike’s vision is to be the premier energy services provider in North America, built on quality and safety.

Strike reports a robust safety program, which should give confidence to its clients. It appears to employ a fairly inventive behavior-based observation program and application to enhance total employee engagement in its safety programs, showing good progression of sound practices. It also has attempted to enhance its Spotter/ Operator effectiveness, addressing an upstream activity that has presented consistent challenges. STRIKE have scored well for their commitments to the core values of the Oil & Gas Awards initiative. Their CSR programs are superb.

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Breitling Energy Corporation is a growing U.S. energy company based in Dallas, engaged in exploration and development of high-probability, lower risk onshore oil and gas properties. The Company’s strategy relies on leveraging management’s expertise to grow through the drill-bit, while growing its base of non-operating working interests and royalty interests.

Ryder is a $6.6 billion, FORTUNE 500(r) fleet management and supply chain solutions company. Through its transportations solutions, Ryder helps oil and gas industry customers increase production and reduce their environmental footprint to safely move oilfield and offshore shipments from the wellhead to the marketplace.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Pinnergy is a diversified energy services company with a full suite of fluids management and drilling services.

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Guest of Honor Editorial

Reasons to Celebrate Louis D’Amico opened the awards gala with a reminder about why the oil and gas industry should be proud of itself.

Louis D’Amico understands the reason why an event like the Oil & Gas Awards is necessary these days. The U.S. energy business is experiencing a renaissance for the first time in decades due to unconventional plays, and it is time for someone to celebrate the industry’s accomplishments. “Innovation is exactly what has driven shale development and driven the U.S. to the top of global energy producers,” D’Amico, who serves as President and Executive Director of Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association, said to kick off the awards gala. D’Amico praised the industry for a variety of accomplishments over the course of the Shale Revolution. He lauded the technological advancements that have increased domestic oil production by 4.5 million barrels per day, which is more production than any nation except Saudi Arabia. He also gave praise to the natural gas industry for turning the United States from an importer to an exporter. D’Amico gave thanks for the oil and gas industry’s role in reducing the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions by over 20 percent, exceeding the Kyoto Protocol – a treaty the United States never even signed. Most importantly, D’Amico praised the industry for accomplishing with plenty of obstacles along the way. “Given the challenges of energy prices, constant attacks by the environmental community and the overreach of state, local and federal governments, [speaking positively] may be a little tougher mission for me,” D’Amico said. He acknowledged the tough times facing the oil and gas industry due to a variety of reasons. For one, OPEC – Saudi Arabia, specifically – has successfully driven oil prices down to impact the development of U.S. resources. For natural gas, oversupply and infrastructure shortages have brought commodity prices down, leading to profits declining and the elimination of jobs. D’Amico also called out newly sworn in Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, who D’Amico described as a big spender looking to levy more taxes against his already beleaguered industry.

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D’Amico said Wolf recently claimed the tax burden he called a severance tax is the lowest in the region. However, with natural gas floor price at $2.97 as of March 25, 2015, that the severance tax would be based on, it makes it the highest if not one of the highest in the United States, according D’Amico. Although the future appears bleak, D’Amico reminded those in attendance that the oil and gas industry always has had boom-and-bust cycles throughout its history. He entered the industry as an engineer in the 1970s when oil and gas was at low point. He saw a boom come through shortly thereafter, but, of course, it was followed by another bust. There are solutions to hasten the cycle back to the boom side of the cycle, according to D’Amico. He encouraged the industry to increase demand for oil and gas products. He also said the fight against the “misinformation and outright lies” from the environmental lobby need to be combated more aggressively by every individual in the oil and gas industry. Educating government entities on the impacts their regulations have on business will help, too. Finally, D’Amico said, the industry had to be innovative with its work to remain successful through downtimes like this. “We need to be cutting costs, increasing efficiencies, and focusing on keeping our industry in the spotlight of positive impacts while minimizing any negative impacts,” D’Amico said.

Trucking Company of the Year – Presented by Kenworth

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Judges’ Comments: Fantastic to see a company showing commitment to the reduction of emissions by implementing a CNG fleet that is also more economical to run and thus has dual benefit to the company and the community. 3rd Annual

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Beemac is a premier nationwide flatbed, steel hauling trucking and logistics company providing asset based trucking, logistics, barge and rail intermodal port, warehousing, and specialized/ heavy hauling services to customers throughout North America. No one outperforms Beemac because we believe “relationships move loads.”

Established in 1984, Beemac is headquartered in Ambridge, PA with 26 strategically located truck terminals, warehouses and river ports throughout North America. Beemac has steadily reinvested in our company owned infrastructure to truly provide safe, flawless, quality, value-added services to our customers. With 300 trucks hauling steel and a strong business emphasis on servicing the Marcellus and Utica shale regions, Beemac is proud to be the first flatbed carrier in the nation to “go green” by constructing

a public CNG filling station located in Ambridge, PA. Beemac has 20 brand new 2014 dedicated CNG tractors to haul pipe for customers servicing the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions. In time, as the infrastructure of CNG stations grows across the nation, we hope to convert our long haul tractors to run on CNG as well. While these cleaner burning engines will not only provide cleaner air for the communities, we are also very proud to greatly reduce our diesel fuel consumption, thus helping to reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

Significant achievements have been made for this company. Some major milestones reached and have shown a good commitment to the community philanthropically and environmentally.

Kibbe Oil and Gas Field Services is a family owned and operated rig moving and oilfield hauling business which has been in business for over 10 years now. We have two yards which are located in Harrison Valley, Pennsylvania (Northcentral) and Cambridge, Ohio (Southeastern). Our general working area consists of all of Pennsylvania and Ohio, along with parts of New York and also West Virginia.

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Mustang Oilfield Services is at the core of the Marcellus and Utica shale oil and gas industry, supporting companies that drill shale gas wells in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Mustang hauls water and a variety of equipment to well pads, forestalling those drilling companies from depleting onsite resources.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Industry Summit Editorial

Settling Down the Unconstitutional Agendas As sue-and-settle lawsuits continue to pop up in federal courts throughout the United States, the oil and gas industry must remain vigilant to fight them.

When it comes to battling environmentalists for fair and equal regulation, Kevin Sunday, Manager of Government Affairs at the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business & Industry, believes there is never enough pushback from the oil and gas industry to get its message out. As the number of sue-andsettle lawsuits are brought to courts throughout the United States by the powerful environmental lobby, that battle for public opinion must now be brought to the courtroom, as well.

have the staffing resources to keep track and stay on top of all the statutory deadlines for reviewing and upgrading all of their regulations.

Sunday served as moderator for a panel discussion entitled “The Unconstitutional Regulation of the Oil and Gas Industry – Lawmaking through Litigation,” where panelists focused on the variety of factors that have made sue-and-settle the preferred choice among rulemaking catalysts.

The lawsuits may continue to be filed, but the judiciary system has the power to uphold the law as it stands without issuing additional consent decrees, according to Danny Spitzer, Partner with Hodgson Russ LLP. He said the potential to fix the sue-and-settle lawsuit problem lies with the judiciary system, and he hopes they step u to put an end to the unnecessary rulemaking. He cited the process of judges in New York state refusing to sign off on SEC fines against companies who did not plead guilty.

While “unconstitutional” is a rather strong word to apply to the sue-and-settle tactics currently used by environmentalists to push the regulatory agenda through the federal court system, Mike Krancer, Partner at Blank Rome LLP, takes the rhetoric much further. He called the public comment process on court-filed decrees of consent a “sham,” and describes the entire process sue-and-settle process as a “Stalinistic” driving of the economy toward renewable energy. “You take these groups that want to get rid of fossil fuels, they want to drive the economy to all wind and all solar, which is clearly impossible at the moment,” Krancer said. “It’s not an exaggeration. And the judges are being made complicit in this. I don’t think there’s any ill will on these judges, and legislatures are guilty of this, too, because they punt to the judiciary.” Matthew Morrison, who spent five years with the EPA before joining Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP as a Partner, said part of the problem is the EPA’s dwindling budget. The agency’s budget has been cut between 20 and 25 percent over the last four to five years, which has hampered the agency’s capability to operate independently. “The sue-and-settle dynamics that I’ve seen have been really exacerbated in recent years as EPA’s budget has been cut,” Morrison said. “What that means as a practical matter is that EPA’s ability to drive its own agenda and drive its own priorities gets greatly diminished. The EPA simply doesn’t

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This has resulted in environmental and citizen groups – not the EPA – directing the focus of the agency on rules and regulations that fit their interests. Those rules take hold, and the states are held responsible as front-line implementers of the new regulations.

“Part of what has to be asked here is, what’s the role of the federal judiciary as it looks at these consent orders,” Spitzer said. “Is it just to have a meaningless comment period, or is it to hold a hearing. Or is it to say, ‘Who is affected by this? I want them to have an opportunity to intervene. I want to have a hearing.’ That’s the role the judiciary can take if it has the authority to take.” Congress also has the power to change how EPA goes about its policy changes and upgrades, according to Spitzer, and he said they should act now to curb these sue-andsettle lawsuits. “Congress can mandate that as part of these budget hearings that there should be no consent orders prior to a true public comment period and true public disclosure of proposed public consent orders,” Spitzer said. “They can change the process by which the EPA goes about policy-oriented consent orders as opposed to enforcement consent orders. So, there’s opportunities to deal with these groups and for current actors to change the way things are going on.” Krancer reminded the audience that the sue-and-settle plaintiffs are actually a roundup of the usual suspects behind environmental activism in the United States. Krancer

Moderator: Kevin Sunday, PA Chamber of Commerce Speakers: Mike Krancer, Partner, Blank Rome, Daniel Spitzer, Partner, Hodgson Russ, Matthew Morrison, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

cited U.S. Chamber of Commerce statistics that show between 2009 and 2012, the Sierra Club led the way with 34 of the 71 sue-and-settle suits launched. Wild Earth Guardians accounted for 20 of them, the National Resources Defense Council nine and Environmental Defense Fund five. Krancer added that the consent decrees are actually backroom agreements between the EPA and these groups that are agreed upon well before the public has a chance to comment on them. “All of these deals are secret deals made behind closed doors, and then they come out into light,” Krancer said. “The state is excluded and industry is excluded until it’s too late.” Krancer also said the groups are picking specific courts where judges will most likely rule in their favor. He said the District of Columbia Court has heard 31 of these suits, the Northern District of California has fielded 16 and the District of Columbia Circuit has heard five. “Once you put on that black robe, forget it,” Krancer said. “The horse is out of the barn.”

“EPA has now lost the driver seat, it is not able to move its agenda that it wants, and it’s now chasing whatever court-ordered agenda that has been foisted upon it,” Morrison said. “From what I saw at the agency, it wasn’t a happy dynamic.” Morrison also said the comment period that follows a sue-and-settle lawsuit it not a sham. He explained that the still rulemaking procedures are in place giving the general public the opportunity to be heard. During the Q&A portion of the discussion, Sean Logan of Sean Logan & Associates agreed with Morrison about the comment process, encouraging the industry to not be as cynical as Krancer is about the process. Instead, industry should be encouraging people to submit comments to regulatory agencies. “It’s a bit of a balance because it’s not always about what we do, but about how we do it,” Logan said. “I believe that this industry is one of the most maligned industries that there is. But part of that is the notion that every regulatory scheme is out to get us.”

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The Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act has been in the House of Representatives would require an agency against which a covered civil action is brought to publish the notice of intent to sue and the complaint in a readily accessible manner, including by making such notice and complaint available online not later than 15 days after receiving service. The act also would require an agency seeking to enter a covered consent decree or settlement agreement to publish such a decree or agreement in the Federal Register and online not later than 60 days before it is filed for the court. This provides for public comment and public hearings on such a decree or agreement.

As problematic as these sue-and-settle lawsuits are for the oil and gas industry specifically, Morrison took issue with the assumption that these consent decrees are the result of backroom deals and EPA is willing going to these cases. He reiterated that it is a matter of an understaffed agency failing to keep up with a bevy of deadlines for rulemaking, and determined lobbyists going to trial for “legal layups” to make their interests a priority.

“Congress is the one that has to make this undemocratic process back into a democratic process,” Krancer said. “Being a judge means interpreting the law, not making the law. But try to convince however many federal judges of that being the case, and I don’t think you’re going to get too many to agree with you.”

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Engineering Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: ARM provides the full suite of geophysical services for E&P Companies. They have demonstrated their commitment to the community by the sponsorship of the Coaches versus Cancer fund raising event as well as the Capital Region Health Walk.

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With offices in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland, ARM is growing due to our dedication to exceeding client expectations, every time, at a minimum cost without sacrificing quality.

ARM Group Inc. (ARM) is an earth resource engineering and consulting firm that was established in 1998 to provide progressive, practical and professional environmental and engineering solutions to both public and private sector clients. We are comprised of highly regarded professionals, most with advanced degrees, in the fields of geology; hydrogeology; civil, geotechnical, electrical, mechanical, and environmental engineering; geochemistry; aquatic biology and ecology; soil science; and geophysics, each with a portfolio of exceptional projects.

ARM has extensive engineering and consulting experience relative to shale play development, offering exceptional quality and innovative solutions on a range of well and tank pads, centralized impoundments, pits, intakes, pipelines, compressor stations, and meter sites. We have served Upstream, Midstream, and Downstream companies since the beginning of the Appalachian Shale play, with services including:

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Environmental Permitting Environmental / Compliance GIS Services Surface & Borehole Geophysics Waste Management Air Quality Renewable Energy Water Resources Surveying Construction Quality Assurance Erosion Control Inspections Geotechnical/Civil Engineering Electrical / Mechanical Automation Water Supply Natural Resources

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Engineering & Environmental Services

Cenergy, LLC is a full-service general contractor located in located in Milton, WV, providing engineering, manufacturing, and construction services to the natural gas industry.

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We help our clients in the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays make connections and informed decisions for their upstream, midstream, and downstream natural gas infrastructure. We deliver thorough planning, design, and environmental consulting services with rapid response for well pads, pipelines, compressor and metering, as well as transmission.

McTish, Kunkel & Associates is a 280 person Consulting Engineering and Environmental Services Firm with an experienced staff of Engineers, Environmental Scientists, Surveyors and Construction Managers. MKA has provided services to a wide range of clients for over 38 years from our offices in Allentown, Montoursville and Pittsburgh.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

Total Equipment wins Northeast 2014 Industry Supplier of the Year Award for the third year in a row! Our oil & gas division specializes in the sales & service of pumps, compressors, blowers and more to the drilling, completion, midstream, production and water needs of the Utica & Marcellus Shale Play. Total Equipment’s Capabilities 

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Total Equipment Company is a manufacturers representative to some of the top named industries equipment lines.

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So, whether you need a designed packaged system, expert repairs and upgrades using our inhouse machine shop, or our 24 hour field service technicians to visit your site we will have your equipment running quickly. To see a complete list of products & services including maintenance, parts, rentals and machining, please call us at 412-269-0999 or 304-755-3345 or visit us on the web at www.totalequipment.com.

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The Lifecycle of a Well Pad Industry veterans know how to avoid pitfalls when installing well pads in the Utica and Marcellus shale plays.

There is a variety of stumbling blocks oil and gas drillers can encounter when determining the best sites for their wells. With multiple layers of regulation to comply with that differ on a state and local basis, it can be difficult to navigate the process clearly. To best illustrate what is needed to operate with environmental sensitivity with oil and gas wells, Jim Willis, Editor of Marcellus Drilling News, led the panelists at the “Minimizing Environmental Impact through Innovative Water Management, Well Site Construction and Logistics” discussion through the typical steps required to plan a well. After working through the planning stage – which typically takes up to a year – Gregg Stewart, Permitting Manager for PennEnergy Resources LLC, said operators usually meet with landowners to discuss any local quirks companies ought to be aware of. “They know their ground better than anyone else,” Stewart said. “They know how to effectively use it. Usually the first thing I’ll ask is, ‘Hey, where is the best place to bring in a road here?’ They live there, so they know how fast people drive those roads, so you may want to move your entrance here or there.” After Stewart’s company vets a potential site, it typically contacts a company like Parker’s Civil Environmental Consultants Inc., where she is Principal. Third party consultants then download all available information – including typography and aerial mapping – the state of Pennsylvania has available and enters it into AutoCAD to begin laying out the well pad on the site to see how it fits. Civil Environmental Consultants then sends out a crew to look for any regulatory hindrances on-site, such as an Indiana bat roost tree or streams and wetlands. Working around species on the threatened or endangered lists is becoming a bigger part of the planning stage, according to Melissa L. Hamsher, Vice President of Health, Safety, Environmental and Regulatory for Eclipse Resources. The Indiana bat is on the endangered list, so Hamsher said her company must vet sites to ensure they are not located in a bat corridor. If they are, Eclipse Resources must seek permission to clear land in wintertime, when it is not a habitat for bats.

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“We have the Indiana bat that we must protect as we’re doing our work,” Hamsher said. “We’re also searching for open mines, and talking with U.S. Fish and Wildlife to see where bats are. And if we do not clear timber within a certain period of time throughout the year, we have to do a bat study.” Moderator Jim Willis, Editor of Marcellus Drilling News, said he finds the Endangered Species Act and its listing process particularly perplexing. For example, the monarch butterfly is now listed on the threatened and endangered list. “I used to catch them for grade school, but now I’d be breaking the law,” Willis said. Hamsher admitted her company has built sites it has had to move due to other species, including the bald eagle, but the bat is a challenge to oil and gas industry unlike any other it has encountered recently because of the number of trees that must come down for pipeline projects. However, an exemption exists for the forestry industry, according to Hamsher, although the oil and gas industry takes far fewer trees than forestry. “There is a bit of an inequality going between the two,” Willis said. Parker said the mitigation fees related to clearing sensitive land are sizable, as well. A recent pipeline project Parker worked on had to pay a mitigation fee between $40,000 and $60,000 to clear trees on top of the typical construction costs. Unfortunately for operators in Ohio, the state isn’t as prepared with its record-keeping as its neighbor to the east. As a result, Hamsher said Eclipse Resources has to hire investigators to make these determinations when operating in Ohio-based shale plays. “We don’t really have that luxury in Ohio because the records are very scant,” she said. “We hire professionals to go in and investigate for us. They don’t have a very large database, even when you’re talking about water wells, for instance. For the homes in the area, they have no records of that, as well, so we do our own investigation into the surrounding water wells. We then turn the samples into the state so they can start their own database, but it has been quite a challenge because the records are lacking.”

Moderator: Jim Willis, Editor, Marcellus Drilling News Speakers: Melissa Hamsher, VP, HSE, Eclipse Resources, Lauren Parker, P.E., Principal, Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., Gregg Stewart, Permitting Manager, PennEnergy Resources, LLC

When it comes time to plan the layout of the well, Hamsher said safety factors should be built right into the design of the well. The proximity to wetlands and habitats for threatened or endangered species should be considered, as well. “You definitely want to install best management practices to ensure that you don’t impact those areas,” Hamsher said. “It just takes a little bit more planning and possibly more money on better best management practice situations when you’re in sensitive areas. Buffer zones are outlined for us, but a lot of us move a little farther away for what is required so even in the worst-case scenario, we wouldn’t have any impact.” In Pennsylvania specifically, Parker said setback rules state wells cannot be within 50 feet from the top bank of a stream, or a permit is required. The well pad itself has a setback for limited disturbance of 500 feet from homes and buildings. “A lot of times you get to a site where you’re in a populated area, you start to get pretty restricted on where you can put the pad based on your setbacks from various houses or people’s water sources,” Parker said. “In Pennsylvania, you can get the landowner to sign off on a waiver to be closer, but typically we just try to comply with the regulations and have a little bit of wiggle room on that.” Pennsylvania also has a number of watershed rules operators must follow. Parker said although watersheds do not determine where a project will be sited, it is still important to know about the watershed it is in to comply with regulations based on its status.

Streams typically can be impaired for sediment, for example, which means there are additional measures that must be taken into account for construction of the well pad to make sure sediment is not leaving the site. Erosion is another environmental concern that forces well pad operators to use best management practices. According to Stewart, the industry has moved away from the traditional silt fence used for erosion control in the past and has adopted silt sock instead, which has improved erosion control immensely. “Prior to the use of silt sock, you would use silt fence, but they would sag, fall over and were a maintenance nightmare,” Stewart said. “Silt sock is solid BMP to use – you don’t have to trench it in, you don’t have to create disturbances just to put it in. If you’re in a rocky train, it enable you install that BMP effectively without having to have someone out there try to chip in a rock to get a BMP in.” For Hamsher, stormwater is the main concern for Eclipse Resources. Operators want to make sure stormwater is in sheet flow, not a concentrated flow, to avoid additional issues on-site. “There are check dams or rock outlets or energy dissipaters you can do to minimize the impact that stormwater is going to have,” Hamsher said. “You don’t want to have the concentration of stormwater. Not only are we blocking sediment from leaving the location, we’re handling the stormwater on the location so that a problem is never created.”

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For example, Parker said there are additional restrictions or best management practices required through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection designation of high-quality watershed, exceptional value, or impaired. “You have to do additional measures during construction to make sure water coming off the site is even cleaner than otherwise not in a high-quality watershed,” Parker said. “For impaired waters, the state has noted what streams are impaired and what their impairment could be.”

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Water Management Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Keystone Clearwater works with their clients to deliver environmentally sound solutions based on years of experience within the industry. It is clear, from the wide variety of initiatives and procedures that they have detailed, their solutions are born from a deep understanding of their operating partners specific requirements.

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Keystone has emerged as an up and coming industry leader with the following professional standards and practices:

2014 was a record breaking year for Keystone Clearwater Solutions “Keystone”. Led by CEO, Ned Wehler, the operations and management teams at Keystone engage with Appalachian Basin Operators in environmentally safe water management solutions. This engagement has led to a three year growth pattern of an 800% increase in revenues as the corporation continues to thrive.

• Conservative, long term, results minded approach to water transportation solutions. • Environmentally Sound Business Practices for water management with company-wide Standard Operating Procedures and Behavior Based Safety Initiatives. • Engaged product selection utilizing engineered solutions for water storage.

• Community education and support of programs • Keystone Clearwater grew out of a background in civil and environmental engineering in the heart of Pennsylvania. As local members of the region, the team at Keystone cares deeply about the impact of gas industry solutions and consistently seeks to provide services with safe operations and minimal environmental effect.

Keystone Clearwater Solutions demonstrate innovative leadership in safe and reliable water management. They lead the way in the use of fused HDPE pipelines to move water and have developed company-wide standard operating procedures that promote safe, environmentally protective operations. Their introduction of above ground storage tank systems minimise operating expenses and surface impacts.

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TekSolv, headquartered in Newark, Delaware, has grown into award-winning providers of professional service solutions for industrial markets, focusing on safety and training services, systems integrations and oilfield automation services, engineering consulting, and environmental and occupation health services.

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Award for Excellence in Health & Safety - Operational

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Judges’ Comments: A newer company to Appalachia but an impressive list of accomplishments. 3rd Annual

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Bilfinger Westcon Inc. is an Industrial General Contractor with thirty four years of experience serving the oil and gas industry. In 1981 most of the companies work was located in the oil patch in Western North Dakota. Today the company is involved in oil plays throughout the United States. This latest oil and gas boom has taken the company’s revenue into a huge growth pattern.

One of the company’s goals is to provide excellent customer service in order to retain repeat clients. The company motto, “Pride thru Performance” reflects those values. The company delivers successful projects under many types of adverse conditions including cold weather, housing shortages and remote locations. Our experience and knowledge have saved our customers valued time and money.

Safety is critical to the success of our projects. Training our employees to recognize potential hazards is an ongoing process. A Behavior Based Safety has been implemented in order to achieve our goal of “zero incidents”. The company is headquartered in North Dakota along with offices in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Piqua, OH and Canton, Oh.

The company self performs civil, structural, mechanical and equipment setting along with management of key subcontractors.

This company has an amazing safety record. They are clearly dedicated to the integration of safety into every aspect of their business. Their employee retention and client return is laudable.

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Eclipse Resources Corporation is an independent exploration and production company engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Appalachian Basin. The Company intends to focus on developing its substantial inventory of horizontal drilling locations and will continue to opportunistically add to this acreage position where it can acquire acreage at attractive prices.

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MAC Safety is a full-service safety company committed to providing a wide array of cost effective safety solutions. The professionals at MAC Safety have over two decades of experience servicing sectors such as the oil and gas industry, chemical manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, power and coal fire plants, and nuclear power.

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Ranked in ENR’s Top 400 and named one of America’s safest companies, The Great Lakes Construction Co. is one of Ohio’s premier Heavy-Civil contractors. We self-perform earthmoving, piling, utilities, concrete, demolition, and environmental work. In the Oil & Gas market, we have performed work in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

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General Contractor Specializing in Industrial Projects

Services Include:

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• Project Management • Planning/Scheduling • Cost Reporting • Civil • Structural • Mechanical/Piping • Equipment Setting • Code work • Hot Taps

Bilfinger Westcon Inc. P.O. Box 1735 Bismarck, ND 58502 7401 Yukon Drive Bismarck, ND 58503 701-222-0076

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Consultancy of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Amazing number of large-scale civil engineering projects in the Utica and Marcellus Shale. 3rd Annual

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Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC) engineers, scientists and professionals are recognized for delivering innovative design solutions and integrated expertise in six practice areas: civil engineering, ecological sciences, environmental engineering and sciences, surveying, waste management and water resources.

With long-standing ties to the natural gas industry, CEC understands that time, cost, accuracy and regulatory insight are of the essence. A multidisciplinary Natural Gas Industry Consulting Group is derived from our practices to strategically focus on the industry’s business challenges and drivers. This diverse team is our conduit to the industry’s latest thinking and advancements, allowing CEC to provide clients with concise, timely information and regulatory updates to facilitate informed decision-making. We are a reliable resource to those seeking a trusted advisor in the expanding energy

industry. With years of experience in Exploration & Production, Midstream Services, and Compression and Treatment Facilities, CEC allows clients to put their primary focus on operations. CEC has a proven track record of providing sound, technical solutions that balance the requirements of compliance, risk management and business needs. Our continuing growth reflects client confidence in the work of our employees as guided by our core business principles: Senior Leadership, Integrated Services, and Personal Business Relationships.

CEC’s integrated service approach has allowed it to tackle projects for some of their clients that their competitors would have to collaborate with other firms in order to complete the task at hand. Good management and core values drive this company in the right direction. OTHER FINALISTS IN CATEGORY

For 25 years, Avatar has been a leading provider of organizational and human performance solutions. Whether your challenges relate to employee selection, orientation, behavior-based safety training & education, leadership development, or expert organizational consultation, Avatar can create custom curricula and materials to achieve improved operational excellence.

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Cinco Energy Management Group provides comprehensive land and asset management and consulting services for Oil & Gas properties in North America. Cinco represents domestic E&P companies, private equity firms, banks, and international clients and we provide clients with advice and access to relationships developed from over 25 years in the industry.

Total Safety is the world’s premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and products including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance, inspection, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical, communications, engineered systems design, flare services and materials management. We operate from 144 locations in 22 countries to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide (W3).

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

The Oil & Gas Awards would like to pay special thanks to

Jim Willis at the Marcellus Drilling News for all of the support he has provided and the excellent coverage the Summit & Awards enjoyed via his website Marcellus Drilling News.

For those of you who are not familiar with Jimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, you should take a look at his news portal

www.marcellusdrilling.com We are sure you will find his daily newsletter as informative as we do here at the Oil & Gas Awards.

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Clean Fleet: Environmental Benefits Of Electric Powered Well Stimulation New technology from U.S. Well Services can drive down fuel costs while increasing environmental sensitivity from fracking operations.

Reducing the impact of hydraulic fracturing operations is at the forefront of countless operators throughout the country. U.S. Well Services’ Oil & Gas Award-winning Clean Fleet technology can solve a myriad of problems typically generated by traditional diesel-fueled systems.

“New technology that’s greener and quieter is really great, but the 80 percent fuel savings means you don’t only have environmental green, you have a pocketbook green that really helps make the technology sustainable,” Oehring said.

In July 2014, US Well Services deployed the first electric, mobile well-stimulation system powered by natural gas. According to Jared Oehring, Director of Technology for U.S. Well Services, Clean Fleet runs on electric power generated by four natural gas-fueled turbine engines that have replaced 20 diesel engines, which provides a variety of environmental benefits.

Also, Clean Fleet is able to run off every type of gas imaginable that comes out of the ground, according to Oehring. Clean Fleet not only can operate on a wide range of feedstock, but it also can be fueled by wet and dry gases.

“One of the things that we really designed this for is emissions,” Oehring said. “Because we’re able to use a turbine instead of a diesel engine, we’re at 0.035 grams per kilowatt hour, which is over 99 percent of reduction compared to the conventional fleets. Because we’re able to use those turbines, we’re almost eliminating our emissions.” Since Clean Fleet runs off field gas, U.S. Well Services is able to save 80 percent on its fuel costs.

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“Generally if you compare the electric fleet and what the turbine can take versus a bi-fuel or dual-fuel unit, we have a significantly greater range of acceptable fuels,” Oehring said. “The injectors on our turbines can take both diesel as well as natural gas, so that gives us a really wide range of acceptable fuels.” Another benefit of running off of field gas, according to Oehring, is the elimination of trucks from the hydraulic fracturing process. Considering U.S. Well Services has done over 500 stages to date, Clean Fleet has eliminated 250 trucks from local roads.

Speaker: Jared Oehring, Director of Technology, US Well Services

After the Clean Feet system generates electricity up to 13.8 kilovolts – which allows the system to generate power remotely without having transmission losses – the power is brought down to 600 volts to be sent to the stimulation equipment. Because the system relies on electric, eliminating the need for an engine and transmission at the drill site, U.S. Well Services is able to get two of those pumps on a unit, and it is direct driven. “Without having to gear and all of that, we’re able to get a lot more horsepower – over 3,500 horsepower – on a single trailer,” Oehring said. For noise pollution, Oehring said Clean Fleet boasts almost a 70 percent reduction in sound pressure. “Normally, you don’t have to worry about cows coming in and grazing right next to your frack fleet,” Oehring joked. “The cows like to get a little bit too close. When we did the noise surveys, we were having issues because the crickets were too loud.” In terms of safety, the iron used on Clean Fleet is vibrating 80 percent less. The future looks bright for Clean Fleet if the results from the first generation of the technology are any indication. U.S. Well Services set up its Clean Fleet systems in the Marcellus Shale in West Virginia at sites operated by Antero Resources where, according to U.S. Well Services, the results validated and exceeded performance and environmental expectations.

With some industry hardware already earned and a loyal customer ready to bring on more product, U.S. Well Services is in the enviable position of electrifying the oil and gas industry in every sense of the phrase.

“It’s not very often you have the opportunity to electrify an industry, but if you look, there’s been lots of instances where electricity has started to take over on diesel engines,” Oehring said. “We think that we can give a lot of environmental benefits with the electric fleet, and we’re really excited to continue progressing with this.” The industry is starting to take notice of Clean Fleet’s potential as evidenced by U.S. Well Services victory in the New Technology Development – General/Products category for the Northeast region of the Oil & Gas Awards. “This technology has the potential to be a gamechanger,” wrote one Northeast region judge. The reduction in energy costs up to 80 percent is going to revolutionize the completion and production segment of the operation. The reduction of noise up to 69 percent is a dramatic bonus.” Another judge from the Northeast region agreed with the praise of noise reduction, but also lauded U.S. Well Services’ ability to decrease vibration, as well. “In a category where each of the companies nominated are so highly rated and have major strong points, my decision to vote for U.S. Well Service is based on their ability to reduce noise and vibration during the stimulation process and keep a super sanitary work site,” this judge commented. “These factors are most often the areas of complaint by those environmentalists and anti’fractivists’ that continually attack our industry.”

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“What we’re really excited about is since we’re seeing all this stuff on our first generation, we’re building a second generation for Antero Resources, and we’re already designing with them our third generation,” Oehring said. “As good as all of our results are to date, what you saw is the worst electric fleet that we’ll ever make.”

New technology that’s greener and quieter is really great, but the 80 percent fuel savings means you don’t only have environmental green, you have a pocketbook green that really helps make the technology sustainable.

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Developing the future of logistics and location-based applications for Oil & Gas and Heavy Industry.

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New Technology Development of the Year Software

Winner’s page

Judges’ Comments: Put into the market an integrated water treatment transfer and handing service that successfully deals with produced and flow back water. Has a complete solution for industry that is economic. Well done.

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Shalewater Solutions specializes in the following services: • Delivering integrated water treatment, storage, transfer, and hauling services to support drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and production operations.

Shalewater Solutions is an innovative and respected water management company who can help your company implement a customized water management strategy to support even the most aggressive hydraulic fracturing program.

• Providing consulting services for all aspects of water management related to oil & gas operations. This includes managing all residual fluids and wastes, coordinating fluid logistics management, as well as optimizing a freshwater acquisition strategy.

A smart solution for a critical element of the industry - water. Really highlights the innovation and technology developments that drive this industry forward.

• Designing, permitting, constructing, and managing mobile water treatment facilities to service multiple well pads and

operating areas in an efficient and environmentally responsible manner. • Identifying, designing, and implementing the appropriate treatment process for a flowback and produced water reuse program. • Providing ShaleApps™, a realtime water tracking & accounting software suite. This novel approach based on mobile technology helps automate the tracking of trucks and water types, enabling more costeffective decisions regarding fluid movement and leading to lower trucking costs as well as more accurate billing, accounting, and regulatory reporting.

NavPort delivers the newest, most up-to-date data analytics solution to the unconventional oil and gas industry and is dedicated to providing robust business intelligence to industry professionals. Developed by oil and gas data scientists in 2014, NavPort solves complex problems for companies operating, completing, serving and analyzing unconventional wells.

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Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Award for Excellence in Well Completion

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Judges’ Comments: They have strived to be a leading supplier in their industry.

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Packers Plus is the innovator of open hole, multi-stage completion systems and provides solutions for technically challenging applications in horizontal, vertical, multi-lateral, and high pressure/ high temperature (HPHT) wells. By remaining focused on high-value completion technologies, Packers Plus strives to be the leading supplier of technical solutions in its field and maintains an extensive patent portfolio.

Innovation remains critical to the company’s success and dictates how business is conducted every day. Packers Plus has developed a variety of completion technologies for specific applications to adapt to changing industry demand. These technologies have enabled operators to redesign operations and procedures to increase well productivity and reduce well costs. Integrated technology groups ensure continual product improvements, placing Packers Plus at the forefront of oil and gas completions technology

development. The company maintains full design and manufacturing capabilities, as well as a large Rapid Tool Development program directed at tool and system technologies to address customer needs. Packers Plus has operations in Canada, the United States, and internationally to maintain an influential role in key markets. The company has stayed true to its roots—an innovative company with a focused niche, enabling it to be one of the best in the industry.

Packers Plus is one of the foremost open hole innovators in the Northeast. Their open hole multi staged completion systems are responsible for accessing more stages and better perforation and bridge plugs as demonstrated by the great volumes of gas produced in the Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian Basin. Their environmental awareness and community giving set them apart from many other companies. OTHER FINALISTS IN CATEGORY

Calfrac Well Services is an innovative pressure pumping services provider focused on unconventional natural gas and light oil plays plus strategic international markets. With state-of-the-art equipment, in-house R&D, an expert team of employees and experienced management, Calfrac is strongly positioned for continued success. At Calfrac, our purpose is flawless execution.

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U.S. Well Services, LLC is a Houston, Texas based oilfield services provider of well stimulation services to the upstream oil and gas industry. We engage in highpressure hydraulic fracturing in unconventional oil and natural gas basins.

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Construction Company of the Year

Winner’s page

Judges’ Comments: An impressive submission that makes good use of testimonials from significant players in the market. Comprehensive breadth of service and good use of technology to manage specific safety concerns via a robust cloud based system.

Founded in 1907, BOND has become one of the Northeast’s most trusted construction firms. Our long-held belief in the principle of trust represents the core of a successful enterprise that has guided the company’s performance throughout its history. Led by fourth-generation CEO, Edward A. Bond, Jr., the company remains dedicated to providing comprehensive, high-quality construction management and general contracting services. BOND’s business model is driven by client focus and instilled with the corporation’s fundamental values: integrity, respect, and trust.

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In recent years, BOND has expanded their reach to better service the gas transmission markets. We have worked with our clients on some of their most complex projects, ranging from modifications at major pipeline interconnects to installing new laterals in heavily urban areas. Our ability to rapidly respond to our clients’ needs, from Pittsburg, PA to

Bailleyville, ME, is one of our biggest differentiators. We pride ourselves in providing the highest quality service to our clients. Our dedication and commitment to meeting all project challenges makes us a valuable partner for the entire industry as we strive to help develop this country’s infrastructure.

Bond has successfully been executing pipeline and facility construction projects in extremely chilling environmental and regulatory environments. Their safety and community service records are very good.

A total commitment to safety combined with an innovative team of knowledgeable construction professionals, has enabled Cianbro to build a durable reputation for planning, managing and successfully constructing many technically complex projects safely, on schedule and within budget. Teamwork, dedication and customer satisfaction are what differentiate Cianbro from its competitors.

Established in 1947, E.S. Wagner Company is a heavy civil and highway construction company, serving clients in public and private sectors. With offices in the Midwest and Southeast, E.S. Wagner has the assets and resources necessary to complete the most challenging and complex projects in a variety of geographical areas.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Evets Oil & Gas Construction Services is a fullservice mechanical contractor that is dedicated to constant improvement and sustainability. Our guide – “To serve others with integrity for the sake of our future generations” – has resulted in significant growth since Evets’s incorporation in 1968.

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Manufacturer of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: A very capable company that manufactures state of the art energy products for the oil & gas industry. They have great presence in the region and an even better reputation.

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Worthington Industries is the leading global manufacturer of pressure cylinders and related products for industrial, alternative fuel, energy and consumer products markets. Our broad product line, including custom solutions for oil and gas storage, processing and transportation, serves every major U.S. shale region. Worthington have a rich history within the oil and gas sector and their inclusion on the shortlist is well deserved. Excellent safety record. Good testimonial.

Our global support team provides unsurpassed customer service with market-leading technical, product, and market expertise. More than 50 years of experience manufacturing highly customized products for highly regulated markets extends to the growing U.S. oil and gas exploration and production industry. Four acquisitions across the past three years have established a strong manufacturing presence in the upstream oil and gas equipment market. The most recent addition of Midstream Equipment Fabrication (MEF) in Oklahoma complements Worthington’s existing operations in Ohio, Kansas and North Dakota

that manufacture steel and fiberglass storage tanks, oil and gas separation units and related wellhead controls and equipment. “With a customer portfolio that includes the nation’s premier E&P companies, Worthington’s products are known for their reliability, safety and performance in some of the nation’s most challenging operating environments,” said Dave Cline, director of energy products. “It is this reputation combined with a long heritage of customer service excellence that has earned the business of the region’s top energy producers.” Discover more at worthingtonoilandgas.com

Environmental Tank & Container has become one of the biggest names in fluid storage and oilfield equipment. Each piece of equipment that leaves our facility is designed by a robust team of engineers, manufactured by highly trained, certified craftsmen, and tested by a third party firm to ensure quality throughout the development process.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Established in 1997, Noise Solutions Inc. has grown to become the leading North American provider of engineered industrial noise suppression for the energy sector. Noise Solutions manufactures the most effective and robust equipment, including acoustic and thermal buildings and enclosures, cooler fan silencers, engine emissions control and exhaust silencers.

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Award for Excellence in Health & Safety Products

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TekSolv’s commitment to safety and innovation shapes everything we do. Known for the highest standards in customer service, reliability, innovation, and costcontainment in our industry, we are “One Company, Many Solutions”.

We provide a broad array of comprehensive professional service solutions for industrial markets and focus our efforts in the following areas; safety, rescue and training services, systems integration and oilfield automation services, engineering consulting, environmental monitoring, and occupational health services. A dynamic business model,

and a niche in the oil and gas, petrochemical, power plant, and utility industries affords TekSolv the unique opportunity of being an around-the-clock turnkey solution for our clients. No matter how multi-faceted the scope of your project, we offer customized integrated safety services and equipment you can count on.

Judges’ Comments: A system and solution that effectively identifies dangerous build up of explosive gases. This is a fantastic product that can be deployed quickly and cost effectively. Comprehensive Evaluation! This technological development is something that really should be celebrated

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EZLifLine is an Ohio-based business, dedicated to providing its customers with specialized safety equipment and training. All of our equipment is held to strict quality control standards, providing the reassurance and dependability needed for the oil and gas industry and beyond.

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Family-owned and operated, Superior Glove Works protects the hands of hundreds and thousands of oil and gas workers across the continent every day. After international expansion and more than 100 years in business, Superior Glove maintains its head office outside Toronto and manufactures a large portion of their gloves right in North America.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Engineered Air and Fluid Solutions

Engineered Solutions for the Oil and Gas Industry

is proud to offer premium quality, energy efficient equipment and engineered solutions for the oil and gas industry, including: TM

Compressed Air Systems

Engineered Solutions

Shop, Instrument, and Starting Air Systems to 7,000 PSI Compressed Air Treatment Pressure Vessels Diesel Portables Electric and Diesel Rentals

Skid and Containerized Packaging Air System Audits Custom Equipment ConďŹ guration CAD Layouts Controls

Cooling Systems

Pumps

Dry Fluid Coolers Chillers Heat Exchangers Pump Skids Treatment Chemicals

Air Operated Diaphragm High Pressure Pitot Tube Self Priming Centrifugal Magnetic Drive Chemical

Hose and Assemblies Hydraulic Water Chemical Crimpers Fittings

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Muncy, PA

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Industry Supplier of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Great supplier in the Northeast region, offering seminar education sessions and a tailored approach to the provision of compressed air systems.

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CASCO USA is an industry leader in the supply and servicing of superior quality equipment for general industry as well as the oil and gas industry from the wellhead through mid-stream, and to the end user. Since our founding, we have focused on an engineered approach to the application of our products, adding great value to our customers.

CASCO USA was founded with the mission of providing high quality, energy efficient industrial plant and instrument compressed air systems. Our involvement in these projects spans from initial demand analysis through engineering, specification, purchasing, and installation, then continuing with long term maintenance, repair, and optimization of these mission critical systems for our customers. We have leveraged these competencies over the years and partnered with world class manufacturers to include complimentary products and

services such as high pressure liquid pumps, air-operated diaphragm pumps, water chillers, fluid cooling systems, high pressure air compressors, nitrogen generation systems, and hydraulic and industrial hose and fittings. Our large, capable engineering staff helps to ensure that we meet and exceed customer expectations through proper product application and customized skid and container packaging. Meanwhile, our highly trained service department is available 24/7 to keep these systems up and running.

Leading equipment supplier with audited bespoke solutions. Extremely comprehensive submission, with strong supporting documentation.

Heavy-and medium-duty truck and trailer dealer. OH, PA and WV locations. International Truck and MAC Trailer franchises. All makes of used equipment. Rental and leasing options for private fleets. Maintenance and breakdown service by certified diesel technicians. Large parts inventory. Body Shop performs collision repair, detailing and paint work.

Northeastern Ohio’s leading dealer of the finest quality all season vehicles, backed with excellent service.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Total Equipment Company is a regional sales and service provider for pumps, compressors, blowers, and mixers. TEC was founded by its current president Mike Weir in 1982. Since then we have grown to become the region’s leading provider of associated equipment and services in all major markets including, Energy, Metals, Chemical Processing, Mining, Oil & Gas, and Water & Waste Water Treatment.

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Breitling Energy Future Industry Leader

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Judges’ Comments: One of the strongest and comprehensive cases for the Future Industry Leader Award I’ve seen to date. Very, very impressive. Lauren has an incredibly bright future ahead of her.

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Lauren R. Parker, P.E. Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC) CEC is recognized for delivering innovative design solutions and integrated expertise in six practice areas: civil engineering, ecological sciences, environmental engineering and sciences, surveying, waste management and water resources. A multi-disciplinary Natural Gas Industry Consulting Group is derived from these practices to strategically focus on the industry’s business challenges and drivers, making CEC a reliable resource to oil and gas companies seeking a trusted advisor.

The four founders of CEC aimed to create a company where people would want to spend their entire careers. One of the firm’s Core Values is to provide opportunities for professional growth. Employees are encouraged to continuously engage in advanced education courses and seminars to enhance their professional capabilities, and to participate in professional and industry organizations that will broaden

their expertise and ability to serve their clients. Lauren Parker advocates for the industry through her current position at CEC, her professional memberships and other connections. Her leadership roles in numerous associations and organizations and within CEC’s Natural Gas Industry Consulting group are emblematic of her commitment to this industry.

Quite simply the standout candidate in the category. Her efforts for the industry, for her company and the community are astonishing. OTHER FINALISTS IN CATEGORY

Tejas Gosai

Jared Oehring

Shale Media Group is the premier news, information, and education resource dedicated to the shale oil and gas industry, by messaging across video, internet, publication, events, and radio. Working alongside the shale oil and gas industry as advocates, Shale Media Group disseminates information to over 10 million viewers monthly.

U.S. Well Services, LLC is a Houston, Texas based oilfield services provider of well stimulation services to the upstream oil and gas industry. We engage in high-pressure hydraulic fracturing in unconventional oil and natural gas basins.

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Why Should Everyone Care about Infrastructure Delays? With so many parts of the United States demanding natural gas, the northeast region is in desperate need of additional pipeline infrastructure.

The case of the missing energy infrastructure that plagues the northeastern United States remains a mystery for some reason. A large portion of the region has ample natural gas to supply the rest of the area, yet energy prices vary greatly just a short distance away from the natural gas fields in Pennsylvania. “We have growing production in this nation that translates to lower energy costs,” said Candyce Fly Lee, Engineering & Construction Director of Projects for Williams Companies Incorporated, during her keynote address entitle, “Why Should Everyone Care about Infrastructure Delays.” “But when you drove six hours from here just to Boston, they’re paying six times what the rest of the nation is paying for natural gas to heat their homes and generate electricity. “The answer is quite simple – the northeast lacks the pipeline infrastructure to transport this clean and affordable local resource north,” Lee added. According to Lee, the region’s current transportation capacity falls 1 billion to 2 billion cubic feet short of the volume it needs. Although the obvious solution would be to simply build more pipelines, Lee admitted there are a variety of stumbling blocks in the way of that.

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“Though obvious, infrastructure challenges are complex,” Lee said. “We’re inundated with a lot of challenges with our permitting, and our transmission lines are filling up.” In April 2015, the Connecticut and the rest of New England came to this realization now that the region could face the possibility of blackouts in the future if it fails to upgrade its energy infrastructure, especially natural gas transmission lines, according the New Haven Register. Not only is the need for additional pipeline infrastructure prevalent in the northeastern United States, but Lee said pipelines are the safest way to transport natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL). She also said the incident rate for transporting natural gas via rail is 37 times higher than pipelines, and the rate increases even more when compared to trucks. Even when industry develops workable solutions to the infrastructure problem, challenges arise as stumbling blocks to progress. The Bluegrass Pipeline had been designed to move over 400,000 barrels from the northeast to the Gulf Coast. The joint-venture project between Williams Company and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners would have removed 60,000

Speaker: Candyce Fly Lee, Engineering & Construction Director of Projects, Williams

trucks per day from the road, according to Lee. The pipeline also would have replaced 17,000 railcars typically used for natural gas transport.

project would transport about 1.7 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day to markets in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States.

However, the companies placed the project on hold in April 2014 after facing legal opposition from concerned Kentucky citizens. According to the Lexington HeraldLeader, the pipeline that would have traversed 13 Kentucky counties was placed on hiatus after resistance from concerned residents and a Franklin Circuit Court ruling that said the companies could not use eminent domain to private property for construction.

The Transco system also announced in March 2015 that it filed another FERC application for its Dalton Expansion Project, which would support providing Marcellus Shale gas to the southeast for electricity generation and local natural gas distribution.

This type of resistance against a project like the Bluegrass Pipeline is a symptom of a larger problem for the oil and gas industry regarding public perception. Lee responded to a question from an audience asking if Williams Companies and its peers in the midstream sector plan to launch a promotional campaign to tout the advantages of pipeline over other forms of energy transport.

Also in March, FERC approved Transco’s application to expand its mainland pipeline system and construct an 11-mile pipeline lateral connecting Transco to an electric power generating facility in Cecil County, Maryland. The Rock Springs expansion project, according to Williams, is designed to transport 192,000 dekatherms of natural gas to Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s planned Wildcat Point Generation Facility. The facility is expected to generate approximately 1,000 megawatts, which equates to enough power for 390,000 homes in the region.

“Williams is out there, and it’s probably an area where I think we all as an industry could work on doing a little bit better – promoting the facts,” Lee said. “I don’t think as an industry we’re the best at it. I think we could really get better at that.”

“Williams is very excited, and I feel like we’re very well positioned to meet this demand,” Lee said. “We have the right people in the right places with the right strategy to get it done. So we’re very excited about being here, and hopefully you guys are, too. It’s going to be a wild ride.”

She also described a section of the Williams website (co.williams.com) where visitors can send notice to their legislators that they support the construction infrastructure projects.

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Even after the dissolution of a major project like the Bluegrass Pipeline, Lee said the northeast is a great place to operate considering all of the opportunities available in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays. Williams Companies is taking full advantage by pursuing additional pipeline projects to connect the region with markets ready for an influx of natural gas.

“The answer is quite simple – the northeast lacks the pipeline infrastructure to transport this clean and affordable local resource north.”

For example, in March 2015, Williams announced its 10,500-mile Transco pipeline system had filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking authorization for its Atlantic Sunrise expansion project. According to Williams, this

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Oilfield Services Company of the Year

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Since 1947, McCutcheon Enterprises, Inc. has provided complete waste management solutions to a diversified range of industries & clients. From emergency response to tank cleanings, waste transportation, waste & water treatment, disposal, safety training, equipment sales/rental, and hydraulic sales/ service MEI will be there when you need us.

Judges’ Comments: McCutcheon’s exemplary job at the Cryo Plant in Renfrew, PA, speaks for itself. Their HAZMAT response team transportation, hydro cleaning and waste disposal are handled with a high degree of professionalism, filling a specialized niche in our industry.

At McCutcheon Enterprises, Inc. (MEI), our people make the difference. Our employees’ performance and dedication to living by our core values are what has landed us here today. “Being named a finalist for three consecutive years is a testament to the work our employees do every day,” said Calvin McCutcheon, MEI President. In 2014, MEI rolled out its vision and core values. MEI’s vision: “MEI will lead the environmental industry by employing the best, most highly trained team of professionals, coupled with cutting-edge equipment, dedicated to delivering outstanding service-24/7. We are improving the quality of life for our employees, protecting

the communities we serve, strengthening our business for the future, and continuing to raise the bar for our competitors.” MEI’s Core Values: Safety, Never a “Waste” of Time. Raise the Bar for Continued Success. One Team, One Dream. Provide Outstanding Service; Exceed Expectations. Be the Business. 2014 was the year of opportunity at MEI. One client needed us during a crucial shutdown. Another needed us when there was an explosion at its well pad. Both times, MEI was there with our diversified services and equipment. After all, we’re there when you need us-24/7.

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The JC Fodale Energy Services Group of Companies is a WBE (Women Business Enterprise) which began operations in 2010 and has grown to be a dynamic leader in the Energy Services space. Our Executives, Management and Service Line Talent live our business slogan everyday; “Service is our Business, Safety is our Culture!”

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Industry Leader

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James E. Kriebel - Kriebel Companies Jim Kriebel was born and raised in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. He learned the value of hard work in high school working for his father, Ed, one of the owners of C&K Coal Company. Jim learned to operate heavy equipment as an employee of the Coal Company. the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association, where he serves as Treasurer. Jim is also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Independent Petroleum Association of America.

Jim and the Kriebel family have been involved in natural gas drilling and development in western Pennsylvania for 43 years. Today, Jim is president and chief executive officer of the Kriebel Companies and he, along with his brothers Gary and Greg and his son, Shane, have drilled, completed and operate over 1700 wells in western Pennsylvania.

Over the years, Jim has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for National City Bank of Pennsylvania, Integra Bank and First Seneca Bank. He is also a past member of the Clarion University Foundation Board and has served on the Clarion County Economic Development Council and the Business Development Committee. Jim has also served as chairman of the Business Department for the

Jim is an active participant in the natural gas industry. He serves on

Jim is a leader in his local community. He serves on the Finance Committee for Clarion’s Church of God, is a member of the board of directors of the Clarion Community Foundation, and is also a member of the Clarion Hospital Authority.

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Clarion area Church of God. Jim has adopted a policy of encouraging his staff to be involved with industry and community boards and associations. His staff serves on various gas industry committees and boards, bank boards, and church committees. A staff member was recently appointed as a member of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Conventional Oil and Gas Advisory Committee. In 2007, the Kriebel Companies received the Business Education Partnership Award from the Clarion Area Chamber of Business and Industry.

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Jim attended and graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. After graduation, he returned to Clarion. Jim and his father, Ed, started a gas company and acquired the Bruin Drilling Company from Carl (“Mousy”) Walker together with his leases, wells and equipment. Mousy Walker taught Jim the gas business from the derrick floor of his spudder. They worked together for 3 years drilling, completing and tending wells. From this beginning, Jim built the family business.

Jim and his wife, Penny, reside in Shippenville, Pennsylvania. They have two children and seven grandchildren.

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Keeping Teammates Safe The oil and gas industry has taken huge strides to protect employees from dangerous situations in the field, but it requires a team effort.

The Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP) has a simple yet powerful slogan it imparts those who participate in its health and safety training initiatives – tomorrow is your reward for working safe today.

The most effective way to accomplish this, according to Dixon, is through training. Employees need to embrace the responsibility of keeping job sites safe, of course, but there are methods to ingraining that into the workforce.

“I truly believe that employees have to embrace some of the responsibility,” Charlie Dixon, Safety and Workforce Director for OOGEEP, said during the Health & Safety panel discussion.

Dixon said OOGEEP relies on SafeLandUSA. This volunteer organization comprised of major and independent operating companies, industry associations and educators with the purpose of developing a standardized orientation that sets minimum requirements for the U.S. onshore exploration and processing industry.

Unfortunately, when this edict is disregarded, the consequences often can be tragic. Moderator Jim Willis, Editor of the Marcellus Drilling News, opened the discussion by describing a tank explosion that took place in January 2014. According to a report in The Times-Tribune, a water truck driver climbed a tank that held production fluid that sat next to a set of producing Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. wells to check its level of fluid. The drive used a cell phone to look inside the 21,000-gallon tank to check the level of fluid. The phone ignited flammable vapors in the tank, which caused an explosion. About 2,835 gallons of produced water spilled out of the tank, according to the Times-Tribune, onto the well pad and some escaping containment to reach nearby soil. The driver of the truck suffered burns but was able to return to work shortly after the accident. Cabot was fined $120,000 for the incident, as well. According to Frank Harrison, President of Areion Energy, once a facility is in operation, an operator must take responsibility for everyone who comes onto the site, including any trespassers and other people who should not be on site. Operators also must be well aware of all hazards present on the site, especially with the types of facilities that can change frequently. However, contractors need to be held accountable, as well. “Yes, the buck stops with the operator, but the operator needs to delve into that root cause, and that root cause needs to be examined, developed and conveyed to all parties that could be in, on, near or around that facility. That includes holding that contractor accountable to a degree that is required.”

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SafeLand is quickly becoming one of the oil and gas industry’s most relied upon certifications for competency. Dixon said OOGEEP has seen a huge influx of job sites with controlled access that require approved personnel to show their SafeLand card or certification before working on a project. Certification information is entered into an international database, so it is easily verifiable, Dixon said. Another way to hammer the safety message to employees is to appeal to their sense of empathy, according to Harrison. Areion Energy’s biggest challenge has been the cultural adjustment, so one way the company has relied upon bringing in people who have been injured on the job to share their stories with his workforce. “I have found that to be relatively effective because of how it brings it home,” Harrison said. “They talked about how it has affected their family. A lot of them have lost their families or spouses, their treasure, their home – it has affected all aspects of their life because they have a permanent injury. They will convey that and talk about it could mean in the flash of an instant in how your life can change, and that seems to bring them around.” Chad McCutcheon has seen the safety culture change dramatically at his family owned business McCutcheon Enterprises. Through its behavior-based observation forms, McCutcheon Enterprise employees are encouraged to log observations of a colleague performing a good safety behavior, or make a note of an unsafe behavior. With an aging workforce and the labor pool featuring a shortage of job candidates with experience in the oil

Moderator: Jim Willis, Editor, Marcellus Drilling News Speakers: Mark Peterson, President and CEO, Bilfinger Westcon, Charlie Dixon, Safety and Workforce Director, Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program, Frank G Harrison PE, PMP, President, Areion Energy LLC

and gas field, companies have been force to increase their reliance on short-service employees (SSE), which are employees with less than or up to six months of experience in the field. These employees typically have safety certification required to work in the field, but there is only so much preparation classroom training can provide. That’s why of the practices McCutcheon Enterprises employs for its work is to assemble crews using only 20 to 25 percent SSEs. The company assigns mentors to be on the crew with these employees to walk them through every day the hazards they can expect while answering any questions the SSEs might have. Between mentoring and on-site safety directors quizzing employees on hazardous situations, McCutcheon Enterprises has made great strides in having all employees prepared for safety. McCutcheon said a client’s safety manager interviewed one of his company’s SSEs on-site about a confined space situation he was about to enter. The manager was so impressed with the employee’s response, he emailed the client’s president from the site to say he had never encountered employees as knowledgeable about safety conditions, according to McCutcheon. Willis mentioned the movement in some circles of the oil and gas industry that want safety certification required for oilfield workers in general. It is important to train these individuals as much as possible, according to Harrison, but he believes the finality of blanket certification might alleviate the sense of continuous improvement in the safety arena.

Aside from training its own employees, oil and gas operators often take on the responsibility of training first responders in the communities where they operate to ensure they know how to properly handle an accident at their job sites. Dixon said operators in Ohio have taken great pride in being able to train first responders. “I think they have that responsibility and they have that obligation because they want to be sure their employees are safe,” Dixon said. “They have to have the understanding that it may not be a well-control issue. We’ve taken those efforts to do that, and I firmly believe that we’re one of the few that have taken those efforts to do that.” McCutcheon Enterprises took its role in first response a step further by becoming its region’s hazardous materials (hazmat) response team. McCutcheon said his company Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency Act 165-certified hazmat team for eight counties in northwestern Pennsylvania. Every one of McCutcheon Enterprises’ employees receives direct training from the company, and McCutcheon Enterprises participates in the emergency planning committees, as well. “We sometimes bring in the county employees and some of the firefighters and the other first responders and we train them so they know, ‘Hey, until we get there, this is the way you can help us implement some of the containment and the emergency response procedures to protect the environment and protect the situation from becoming worse,’” McCutcheon said.

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“We want our employees to be experts without thinking that they’re experts,” Harrison said. “It’s a continuing process that goes on and on, and you’ve got to convey that idea that this learning about the situation about being mindful and about helping your mates develop their culture as well as yours has got to be an ongoing process. It doesn’t stop with a piece of paper.”

“The people that do have the piece of paper will help enforce that once they’re on-site, and they will help educate those folks day after day after day,” Harrison said.

That doesn’t mean no oilfield employees need certification, Harrison confirmed. He said there is a place for certified employees in the field, but they should be the ones charged with enforcing the tenets of the safety culture to other employees.

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Bilfinger Westcon Midstream Company of the Year

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Judges’ Comments: Significant Marcellus player that shows a commitment to staff and their safety through the S.P.I.R.I.T program. Good social giving for 2014. 3rd Annual

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The Columbia Midstream Group was founded specifically to meet the needs of producers in the Appalachian Basin and is able to leverage its strong relationships and vast experience working within the industry to develop the necessary infrastructure to support the phenomenal growth of the industry as a result of the Marcellus and Utica shale play development. The completion of the Hickory Bend and Big Pine gathering system in just 14 months is a very impressive accomplishment. NiSource (now Columbia Midstream Group) have scored well on this basis.

Columbia Midstream’s Hickory Bend Gathering System and Processing Plant in northeastern Ohio were recently placed into service. The project, operating under the name of Pennant, is a joint venture with partner Hilcorp Energy Company’s midstream affiliate Harvest Pipeline. The scope of the Hickory Bend project includes approximately 55 miles of wet gas gathering pipeline facilities in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, as well as a cryogenic natural gas processing plant currently in operation in Springfield Township in Mahoning County, Ohio. The Majorsville gathering system is a 35-mile wet gas gathering system located in southwestern Pennsylvania and in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, and

serves various producers. And the Big Pine gathering system is a 57-mile gathering line extending through the heart of the Marcellus shale region of western Pennsylvania. An expansion of the Big Pine System is also planned. Columbia Midstream has announced plans to construct the East Washington gathering pipeline system to gather and transport natural gas production in North and South Strabane Townships to be delivered to Columbia Gas Transmission line 1570 to serve area production. Columbia Midstream contributes positively to local and looks forward to furthering the safe and responsible development of Pennsylvania’s shale resources.

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Crestwood Midstream (NYSE: CMLP) is a master limited partnership headquartered in Houston, Texas, that owns and operates midstream businesses in multiple unconventional shale resource plays across the United States. Crestwood’s diversified asset base and integrated services provide flow assurance across the value chain for producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs and crude oil.

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Momentum Oil & Gas LLC was formed in January 2011 and is an investment portfolio company of Kayne Anderson Energy Funds with an initial equity commitment from Kayne Anderson Energy Fund V and management of $50 million.

AFTER 100 YEARS in the Appalachian Basin, Columbia Midstream is developing infrastructure and partnerships in the emerging shale plays that will last for another century...

and beyond.

With three successful midstream gathering systems in service and the Hickory Bend processing plant in operation, Columbia Midstream Group continues to look to the future in expanding its midstream footprint in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cut corners. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bend the rules. We never put deadlines above safety or the environment. Northeast

We do things the right way the first time. We develop partnerships and projects that are built to last.

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Shaping Minds for Safety Changing a safety culture involves equal parts psychology and engineering.

There has been an ongoing evolution in the nurturing of corporate health, safety and environmental culture throughout the oil and gas industry that has led to improved conditions for at job sites and the communities that surround them. A major part of that evolution involves holding a company’s entire workforce accountable for safety instead of leaving it entirely up to an internal safety department. “It is going from being no one’s responsibility up to the point where it is everyone’s responsibility as a matter of how we do business,” said Mark Hansen, Vice President of Health, Safety and Environmental for FTS International. “It’s gone from safety is safety’s responsibility all the way up to its everyone’s responsibility. What we’ve been able to do is take that culture and change it and flow it through the organization.” Hansen brings a different background to his role through his education. He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology before pursing an engineering degree after “deciding I wanted to eat after graduation.” Through a mix of engineering and psychology, Hansen said he and FTS International have been able to nurture the safety culture through the workforce by having a better understanding of what makes people tick. “As you can imagine, safety and culture change really require understanding people and being able to work them,” Hansen said. “I’ve told everybody changing a culture is like diffusing a bomb – it has to be done very, very carefully.” The first step any radical culture change must take is buy-in from the highest levels of executive leadership. Hansen said FTS International CEO Greg A. Lanham is heavily involved in the safety culture of the company. “I have numerous conversations with him,” Hansen said. “Our CEO drives the culture. We have regular meetings with our CEO for all incidents, whether they are serious or otherwise, so we talk about what’s happening and what’s going on. I’m very fortunate that our CEO also is an Engineer, so he understands that engineeringcomponent.”

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Beyond the executive level, every facet of an organization must be involved with the safety culture and its ongoing evolution. Hansen said safety is probably one of the few multidisciplinary functions within FTS International because it touches on everything from litigation to human resources to training. Training is of particular importance to a company’s safety culture because this is where the indoctrination

Speaker: Mark Hansen, VP, Health Safety & Environmental, FTS International

of a philosophy starts. At FTS International, Hansen said new employees are put through a 21-day program before they can enter a location. The company also holds new team member orientation. “Before they even touch equipment on location, they’ve been through loads of training,” Hansen said. “So the key is to train them and expect them to do it correctly to begin with.” One safety mantra FTS International uses is turning the company’s initials into a mnemonic device for employees. “F” stands for “focus;” “think” encourages employees to take three seconds to think about their actions; “sustain” is meant to have employees continue doing everything that brought FTS International to this point; and “influence” takes a behavioral approach to culture, as well. Hansen said in 2014, FTS International set a goal for 10,000 observations, which the company reached in August 2014. However, a mindset readjustment is needed to make sure anyone stopped before performing a potentially hazardous behavior is not offended at being singled out. Oil and gas organizations can provide as much training as possible, but employees are still human. That is why Hansen said incident reporting is the cornerstone of any safety culture because without it, a company is simply managing OSHA recordable incidents only. Through its processes, FTS International had a OSHA recordable to non-recordable incident rate of 16 to one.

Another change FTS International implemented is the “red zone,” which involves mapping out areas that are restricted during pumping cycles, and the company manages the areas rigorously to keep employees out of harm’s way. “This we felt really set an industry standard, but the most important thing here is it showed our employees that we care to protect you by keeping you out of that red zone,” Hansen said. On-site safety can be easy, Hansen said, compared to fleet safety because companies like FTS International can control the potential hazards on a site. However, fleet operators need to take into consideration all other drivers on roads as well as the conditions of existing thoroughfares. To address this issue, Hansen said FTS International installed drive cams in many of its heavy and light trucks. Since the installation, FTS International has seen a 59 percent decrease in frequency and 54 percent decrease in severity of auto incidents. “It’s kind of like putting a safety professional in every vehicle,” Hansen said.

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“Many, many things happened, but we managed those things, and we used those events that occurred to eliminate those potential hazards before they became a recordable,” Hansen said. “It’s changing the culture to report, it’s changing the culture to stop work – all of those things come into play when it comes to incident reporting.”

Hansen’s said management also has put in place a number of initiatives to better protect its employees. For example, FTS International has gone through several iterations of its work gloves to make sure they provide protection for the company various functions like wireline, manufacturing, fracking and maintenance. Management also sends out safety bulletins and hosts tailgate meetings, safety meetings and pre-stage meetings on regular basis.

To further encourage employees to embrace the safety culture, FTS International has instituted an incentive plan for its senior management. These positions receive a payout on their annual bonus tied to the safety performance.

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New Technology Development of the Year – General/Products

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We believe our hydraulic fracturing fleets are among the most reliable and highest performing fleets in the industry with the capability to meet the most demanding pressure and flow rate requirements in the field. CLEAN FLEET, our proprietary, patented new fleet design, is the world’s first fully electric, fully mobile well stimulation system, powered by natural gas. We current have one CLEAN FLEET working and another under construction for Antero Resources.

Our management team has extensive industry experience providing completion services to exploration and production companies. We focus on the most active shale and unconventional oil and natural gas plays in the United States where we believe we will have a competitive advantage due to the high performance and durability of our equipment and our ability to support high asset utilization rates that result in more efficient operations.

Judges’ Comments: In a category where each of the companies nominated are so highly rated and have major strong points, my decision to vote for U.S. Well Service is based on their ability to reduce noise and vibration during the stimulation process and keep a super sanitary work site. These factors are most often the areas of complaint by those environmentalist and anti-fractivist that continually attack our industry. By reducing some of these items, U.S. Well Services has taken some of the venom out of their attacks. OTHER FINALISTS IN CATEGORY

ARCADIS is the world’s leading natural and built asset design & consultancy firm. From upstream to retail and operating to legacy, ARCADIS has been a key supplier of cost-effective solutions to oil and gas clients for over six decades. Our experts provide tailored business strategies that make good business sense.

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Halliburton provides products and services to the energy industry. It serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir - from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion, and optimizing production through the life of the field.

Keystone Clearwater Solutions (“Keystone”) serves natural gas industry operators and midstream companies by providing total water management solutions. These services include the operation of surface water intakes to the operation and maintenance of water pipeline systems, pipeline construction projects, water transfer and frac-transfer services, and water storage solutions.

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OUR NEWLY PATENTED TECHNOLOGY SUCCESSFULLY REDUCES NOISE BY 70% AT HYDRAULIC FRACTURING SITES.

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At U.S. Well Services, we’re excited to unveil the game-changing results of Clean Fleet®, our patented technology proven to cut noise by 70%, reduce emissions by 99%, and dramatically save on fuel costs. The hydraulic fracturing technology, recently implemented by Antero Resources, has demonstrated dramatic environmental gains as well as significant cost savings for oil and gas exploration companies. To find out more, please visit uswellservices.com.

Eclipse Resources Award for Drilling Excellence

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Judges’ Comments: Their technology continues to set the market in drilling excellence. Baker demonstrated a willingness to give back to the industry they serve.

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Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) provides technology and services that enable oil and gas companies to deliver safe, affordable energy to the world. The company has been in business for more than a century and employs approximately 61,000 people in more than 80 countries. Baker Hughes’ frack water expertise provides the necessary foundation for its ability to develop and deploy innovative water and wastewater management systems that can be tailored to each operator’s needs and that minimize operating costs, waste generation, and environmental impacts.

At the core of the Baker Hughes DNA is innovation in the design and construction of, and production from, oil and gas wells. Today, that technology leadership creates value by developing new ways to help customers improve well construction efficiency, integrating technology and services to develop new solutions that accelerate and optimize hydrocarbon production, and researching new ways to increase ultimate recovery. Beyond the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, Baker

Hughes serves the midstream and downstream markets with technologies and chemistries that ensure safe, reliable transmission and processing of hydrocarbons. Working interdependently with our customers and others, Baker Hughes combines inventive technology with superior service and dynamic business models to create solutions that deliver differential value. For more information about Baker Hughes, visit www. bakerhughes.com.

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Located in Corpus Christi, Texas, ORION is a full service drilling company with the tools necessary to help you hit TD.

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Lower your cost per foot.

The reliable performance of the AutoTrak™ Curve rotary steerable system lets you drill deeper, hit the reservoir earlier, and increase wellbore exposure in the sweet spot. In one run, you get smooth curves (up to 15°/100 ft), straight tangents, and better hole quality for more effective fracturing operations and higher production rates.

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Add a Kymera™ hybrid drill bit with the rock-crushing strength and stability of roller cone bits, and the cutting superiority and continuous shearing action of diamond bits, and you can lower the cost per metre of your well up to 30%. Call us or visit BakerHughes.com/AutoTrak-Curve and learn how exact wellbore placement and faster drilling can significantly improve your bottom line on your next unconventional play. +1 713-268-6218 © 2015 Baker Hughes Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 42841 04/2015

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VZ Environmental Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship

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Range Resources Corporation is among the leading independent natural gas companies in the United States. Range pioneered the Marcellus in 2004, which is now the largest producing natural gas play in the United States. Range has approximately 1 million net acres across Pennsylvania Range most of which has stacked pay potential for the Marcellus, Utica and Upper Devonian shale formations. Range’s common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “RRC.”

Range Resources always seems to be the leader in the Marcellus play. They consistently set the standard for others to follow. Their water management plans are impressive. Their commitment to vapor recovery and reduction of GHG sets a high bar for others to follow. Their FLIR inspections are interesting. Range is very proactive in promoting the industry to the public in a positive and beneficial way.

Range is the pioneer in the Marcellus, and also a pioneer as a steward of the environment and in the safety arena. Their total commitment to safety as well as community and the environment is most impressive. They clearly take a long view of shale gas industry development. They are a terrific industry representative working with Universities gathering fact based scientific data, and working with local, state and federal agencies to find the appropriate balance of regulation.

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New Pig Energy was created to provide the best and safest secondary containment for drilling and fracturing operations. The NPE Team brings years of in-field experience and sets the standard for answering the shale industry’s safety and regulatory needs. New Pig Energy – Secondary Containment from the Leak & Spill Experts™.

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Themark Corporation E&P Company of the Year

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Eclipse Resources Corporation is an independent exploration and production company engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Appalachian Basin. As of September 30, 2014, the Company and its operating partners had commenced drilling 147 gross wells within the Utica Shale and 3 within the Marcellus Shale Project Area. The Company intends to focus on developing its substantial inventory of horizontal drilling locations and will continue to opportunistically add to this acreage position where it can acquire acreage at attractive prices.

Eclipse has a clear corporate dedication to the health and safety area. They have an extensive array of training programs that extend to every one of their site locations. They have taken a leadership role in the use of the air shower to minimize the potential for silica dust contamination.

Among the many facets of Eclipse corporate social responsibilities is their much-needed education of the citizens in the areas in which they are active. Their community and media rig tours and Cuttings donations to the Ohio Core Repository are of great importance.

Demonstrated a commitment to EH&S and the natural relationship that should drive with the surrounding communities and public safety professionals. The mobile spill response units located on each site are an impressive initiative.

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The company’s June 2014 initial public offering was one of the largest oil and gas public offerings of the year with the Company listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “ECR”. Eclipse Resources footprint, including over 128,000 net acres in the “Core of the Core” Utica shale and highly liquids rich Marcellus shale coupled with a strong production growth profile make it one of the premier players in the Appalachian Basin. With a strategic late-year $434 million equity transaction and an undrawn $125 million revolver, Eclipse Resources positioned itself to weather the current challenging market environment. Perhaps more importantly, the seasoned management team leads by example with a commitment to safety and environmental stewardship.

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JC Fodale Award for Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility

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Judges’ Comments: Dominion through the Dominion Foundation Awards exceeds more than $19 million throughout 13 states more than speaks for itself and I believe is not matched by any other corporation in the area. Their causes are wide varied and are distributed throughout the broad spectrum of human needs.

Dominion is one of the nation’s largest producers and transporters of energy, with a portfolio of approximately 24,600 megawatts of generation, 10,900 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline and 6,455 miles of electric transmission lines.

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Dominion operates one of the nation’s largest natural gas storage systems with 949 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves utility and retail energy customers in 12 states. Our company is built on a proud legacy of public service, innovation and community involvement.

In addition to our core energy production, transportation and storage businesses, we invest in communities where we live and work and by practicing responsible environmental stewardship wherever we operate.

Dominion’s long-standing program of corporate giving, employee involvement and community engagement is an iconic example of a comprehensive, well-funded and thoughtful service that an energy company can provide to the communities and constituencies throughout its area of operations.

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Fortis Energy Services, headquartered in Michigan, offers oil and gas well services throughout the Rocky Mountain and Northeast regions. Fortis’ core value ”Safety First” is demonstrated through their Fortisafe Certified program reducing nonproductive field time, while protecting both customer’s investment and our employees. Fortis recently launched Fortis4Vets hiring initiative.

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Ranked in ENR’s Top 400 and named one of America’s safest companies, The Great Lakes Construction Co. is one of Ohio’s premier HeavyCivil contractors. We self-perform earthmoving, piling, utilities, concrete, demolition, and environmental work. In the Oil & Gas market, we have performed work in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

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Law Firm of the Year

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Steptoe & Johnson PLLC has been serving the energy industry since the firm’s founding in 1913. Since then, we’ve learned a thing or two about the energy business and what it takes to meet your goals. No matter how much we grow, our first priority is building relationships.

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Steptoe & Johnson PLLC has a total of 350 attorneys with 200 attorneys and paraprofessionals dedicated to energy. We have 15 offices in Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia, all within reach of the nation’s largest shale plays.

real estate, litigation, midstream, environmental and regulatory, and many other areas of law. Plus, the firm offers mineral title services to all major producing states and houses one of the largest mineral title operations in the United States.

The majority of our attorneys have experience in transactions,

This company are a well known and a very well respected energy practice. Over the years they have amassed multiple long-standing relationships with leading producers. One of the leaders in energy matters around the globe.

Very impressive entry, good case examples and particularly strong showing in thought leadership.

The Davis Law Group Formally The Law Offices of Cara C. Davis specializes in a variety of services for Oil & Gas industry clients. Our experience and training ensure that whatever your need, we can handle it. Original Title Opinions, Supplemental Title Opinions, Preparation of Curative tile Documents, and Oil & Gas Litigation.

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The Oil & Gas Practice Group at Hodgson Russ serves companies, investors, and lenders engaged in all aspects of exploration, development, production, transportation, refining, marketing, distribution, and field services. Firm-wide, our 200-plus attorneys facilitate the U.S. legal aspects of transactions around the world, practicing in every major area of law.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Industry Summit Editorial

Taking Responsibility Executing a solid corporate social responsibility program brings numerous benefits to oil and gas industry operators.

As Publisher of the Pennsylvania and Marcellus Business Central newspapers, David Wells has published a variety of corporate social responsibility (CSR) success stories that relied upon a number of different skills and levels of expertise. However, no matter the project, the people behind the success of CSR must pour everything they have into them. “You need passion for what you do, and you need to be passionate about these programs,” Wells said. Wells led the panel discussion entitled “Planning and Understanding the Success of a CSR Initiative” that featured industry veterans who play major roles in their companies’ CSR programs. At The Williams Company, Helen Humphries, Senior Communications Specialist for Williams, said the CSR program focuses on providing resources to the community that isn’t simply giving away money. “We try to do it in a way that engages the community and, importantly, engages our employees with the community,” Humphries said. “What we want to do is to be able to enable the connections they can make within the community and strengthen the relationships through them with Williams.”

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Humphries said she believes one of the primary purposes of a good CSR program is to strengthen the ties and connection and build bridges to the community. She listed three attributes that are vital to a CSR program. First off, the CSR program must be relevant and aligned to the company’s business. In order for there to be relevance, the program must be well-defined. For example, if a company wants to work with a school to improve a STEM program, it should determine how it goes about accomplishing that goal. Secondly, it must have significant support within the company, especially from its leadership. Internal programs of any kind often do not survive with support of leadership, Humphries said, and CSR initiatives are no different. Using the example of developing a STEM program once again, Humphries suggested employees will feel more confident in participating in such activities if they know their bosses accept that they may need to leave work at certain times to be at a school. Setting acceptable participation levels for employees – defining the minimum and maximum hours a month can be devoted to these causes, for example – is one way to show support, Humphries said.

Moderator: David Wells, Publisher, Pennsylvania Business Central Speakers: Rhonda Reda, Executive Director, Ohio Oil & Gas Energy Education Program, Helen Humphreys, Senior Communication Specialist, Williams, Pamela Faggert, Chief Environmental Office & VP of Compliance, Dominion

Also, Humphries said a long-term approach is required to find out if a partnership is a good fit for all parties involved. Company leaders should take note of this, Humphries said, so initiatives aren’t shuttered just because they encounter some stumbling blocks along the way.

projects that need their help through volunteer counsels spread throughout the company. Also, the Dominion Foundation also provides funding for various projects, which has community-based investment boards that guide the funding toward good local decisions.

Lastly, a CSR program must have a good, strong partnership with the community. Companies, however, should not enter these partnerships with plans to redefine how nonprofits operate on a daily basis. That means CSR programs should identify strong partners that do not need this level of commitment from a company.

“It also is to a project’s benefit if a company already has a good relationship with an organization looking for a volunteer’s assistance,” Faggert said. “The cost of delivery, personnel hours and financial contributions making our Energize Our Communities program work is absolutely worth every dollar we spend.”

Humphries said CSR programs should make sure expectations are clear for all parties involved in a partnership. Some potential partners will expect a company to staff an entire project on their behalf, which most businesses do not have the resources to do. Others, according to Humphries, simply want companies to cut a check.

Since 2000, Faggert said more than 7,900 Dominion Transmission employees have volunteered for more than 215 community projects. This doesn’t include the tens of thousands of hours required to plan each project, Faggert said.

“That’s great, and you may want to do that, but understand that’s not a true partnership,” Humphries said. “That’s you funding a program, and that’s not going to help to build a strong connection with that organization and a strong connection within the community.” Dominion Transmission has created Energizing Our Communities, an employee volunteer program that gets Dominion’s workforce into volunteer programs in the neighborhoods and communities where the company operates. Pamela Faggert, CEO and Vice President of Compliance for Dominion Transmission, said companies who live and work in these communities are free to choose the

Energize Our Communities turned 30 years old in 2014, a year that saw Dominion Transmission employees organize 18 projects in seven states. According to Faggert, these projects included replacing osprey platforms along Long Island Sound; painting bridges and installing benches in a park in Cleveland; beautifying the grounds of a zoo in Pittsburgh; making household repairs for the disabled in Richmond, Virginia; and mentoring children throughout many school systems. Dominion Transmission also donated over $700,000 to these projects, much of which was used to purchase equipment needed for each project. Also, each project gets $2,500 to help with costs, according to Faggert.

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Humphries said she believes one of the primary purposes of a good CSR program is to strengthen the ties and connection and build bridges to the community.

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To encourage volunteerism, Dominion Transmission’s leavetime policy gives employees one day of paid-time off each year to pursue whatever volunteer activity they choose in addition to participating in company-sponsored projects. Faggert said Dominion also has recognized volunteers within its workforce with two annual recognition banquets – one in Ohio and the other in Virginia – since 1986. Along with building up goodwill in the communities where it operates, Dominion Transmission often receives positive media coverage through its volunteer projects, Faggert said. The company’s corporate media relations department works closely with the Energizing Our Communities group to ensure the appropriate media coverage is present to make sure Dominion’s efforts are noticed. “I am very proud of these programs, and very proud of all of my coworkers at Dominion,” Faggert said. “I think you’ll agree with me that a good CSR program is good for business.” Rhonda Reda, Executive Director of the Ohio Oil & Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP) realized something had to change regarding the public opinion of the oil and gas industry when her young daughter – a college graduate now – was in first grade and beginning to get a sense of what it was her mother did for a living. Someone spoke to the class one day about the oil and gas industry, and Reda’s daughter came to the conclusion she poured oil on ducks all day with the goal of doing everything possible to destroy the environment. “We had phenomenal leadership in the state of Ohio that said, ‘We really need to do something instead of talking,’” Reda said. Since then, OOGEEP uses funds provided by the industry to revolution the state of energy education in Ohio. Reda sees this as more vital than ever after a World Economic Forum study ranked the United States 52nd worldwide in the quality of mathematics and science education. “That is a statistic that should bother everyone,” Reda said. OOGEEP has since collaborated with the education community to develop a science curriculum that meets national science standards and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curriculum that meets many of the new Common Core standards. During the workshops, according to Reda, teachers will learn not only hands-on activities they can take back into the classroom along with materials and supplies, but also they also are taken to the field for on-site observation. According to Reda, OOGEEP has had schools and teachers from all 80 Ohio counties participate in these free workshops.

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Science fair season is a busy time for OOGEEP, Reda said, because it is where the oil and gas industry can recruit the best science students in Ohio and the rest of the country. For example, OOGEEP’s first science fair winner, who was in the ninth grade at the time of her victory, eventually worked for OOGEEP. OOGEEP also launched its Rocking Ohio program two years ago with Disney. Disney has since backed out since it shut down its radio programming division, but OOGEEP has kept the initiative running to engage kindergartners and first graders in energy education. Workforce development is another major area of focus for OOGEEP, especially considering the shortage of qualified labor in Ohio. Reda said OOGEEP has partnered with more than 70 colleges, universities and tech schools to offer training on the top five oil and gas job roles in need of labor – diesel mechanics, machinists, CDL drivers, welders and well tenders. “The importance of these partnerships – whether they are teachers, or they are colleges or universities – these partners also become our advocates out there in the industry,” Reda said. For fire training, OOGEEP has a permanent training facility with live burns that can simulate conditions at a natural gas or crude oil emergency. Reda said OOGEEP has trained more than 1,200 departments from throughout Ohio as well as fire departments as far away as North Dakota and Texas.

General Industry Service Award

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Judges’ Comments: IPC is a Northeast based company who has built up its line of services to meet the needs of the local industry. It has the proper training programs to ensure safety and environmental compliance. IPC demonstrated a proactive approach to support the community where they live and work.

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IPC Energy Services, LLC (IPC) is a family-owned and operated business located in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Started in 2011, IPC offers exploration and production companies super vacuum cleaning services, hot water pressure washing, tank hauling services, frac tank rentals, solidification material, and hydro-excavation services. IPC’s goal is to service its customers’ in the most efficient and cost effective manner possible.

IPC boasts a fleet of GapVax Super Vacuum trucks, 3,500 to 5,000 PSI hot water pressure washing units and trailers, winch trucks, water trucks, frac tanks, and support vehicles all serviced and repaired in an on-site repair facility to provide customers with fast and reliable service. IPC strives to provide the safest possible workplace for its employees, its contactors, and the communities in which it operates. All employees are confined space entry/rescue certified and

participate in pre-employment, as well as, continued training curriculums to insure their safety and the safety of those they work alongside. In addition to their safety centered mind-set, IPC recognizes the need to protect the environment. IPC employs an entirely local staff and is committed to continuously improving best work practices to better protect the environment and the communities where they live and work.

Strong industry partner to their clients. IPC look for solutions that will benefit all involved. Innovative applications of technology and sound working relationships with regulators and other government agencies seem to be strong points as well.

Lauttamus Communications, a communications and security company, located in the Marcellus and Utica Shale Plays, specializes in two-way radio communications systems, inbound and outbound call center services, integrated security systems, towers, wireless networks, SCADA, and mass notification. Lauttamus owns FCC Spectrum in 14 states and does business in 38 states.

Further information on these winning organizations, interviews and photos can be viewed at www.oilandgasawards.com

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Founded in 1970, Unimin Corporation has grown from a small, local sand mining company to become a leading producer of non-metallic industrial minerals in the worldwide Sibelco Group. Our products are the fundamental building blocks of nearly every manufacturing and industrial process.

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