Water Services for the Oil & Gas IndustryListening to your needs, understanding your challenges, delivering tailored solutions

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The ChallengeIt is clear that Oil & Gas companies face increasing public, media and regulatory scrutiny regarding how they source, treat, and manage water. Conventional and unconventional energy development, transportation, and refining are experiencing greater uncertainty and increased costs due to water management issues. These challenges are particularly intense for shale and oil sands developments because of their extensive water use and wastewater discharges, and for refineries processing new, heavier crude sources.

Compliance is also an increasing challenge, with emerging environmental regulations that will change how the industry views water use, waste creation, water and wastewater treatment, and residuals management. Based on recent trends, public and governmental concerns about water issues are also likely to amplify.

How Oil & Gas companies deal with these water management issues will have long term repercussions, not only at the project site, but in public, government, regulatory, and shareholder perceptions of the company. With increasing water scarcity and competition for high quality water—even in water-rich areas—companies who treat water and wastewater as a commodity do so at great risk.

Serving Oil & Gas Clients

As a top-ranked water consulting and design firm, CH2M HILL provides planning, design, permitting, construction, and operations services for all types of water management.

We have implemented energy-related water projects worldwide for both independent and major Oil & Gas companies. Our technology-neutral policy (no bias toward any specific solution) offers innovations that meet your needs while maximizing time and money savings.

Our Services

• Consulting

• Design and Construction

• Startup and Commissioning

• Operations

• Full Service Laboratory

At CH2M HILL, safety is a core value, not just a priority. For a project to be successful, it must be not only technically sound, but safe for workers, the environment, and the community. To that end, we have created and implemented “Target Zero,” a commitment to achieve zero injuries, illnesses, environmental impacts, motor vehicle accidents, errors, or omissions on every project we deliver.

CH2M HILL Can HelpFor the past 40 years, CH2M HILL has been providing a full suite of engineering, construction, procurement, and operations and maintenance services to our global Oil & Gas clients, including successfully managing all types of water and wastewater issues.

We have also been working with civic and industrial clients since the company’s founding over 70 years ago to develop tailor-made, state-of-the-art solutions to meet every type of water issue imaginable.

This one-of-a-kind combination of decades-long, hands-on Oil & Gas experience with world-class water expertise makes us distinctly qualified to assist you in meeting any water challenge across the entire energy project life cycle.

Increasing scrutiny, growing uncertainty, escalating cost — the Oil & Gas industry is facing

more challenges than ever related to water management.

Water Services for the Oil & Gas Industry

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Our water professionals can help address your challenges at any phase throughout the stage-gate decision-making process as well as long term operations in upstream, midstream, and downstream.

CH2M HILL water and wastewater management systems provide

• Robust, flexible operational capabilities to help you meet production needs

• A balance of initial capital and operating costs tailored to your business model and situation

• Compliance assurance that matches your corporate compliance approach

• Safe working environments for all staff from construction through operations

Our services include

• Siting, licensing, and permitting

• Traditional engineering consulting

– process and facility planning

– treatability and laboratory services

– technology selection

– regulatory support

• Design and construction

• Commissioning and startup

• Operations and maintenance (short- and long-term)

Opportunities Selection Development Execution Operations

Facility & Process Planning Design & Construction Services

Startup & Commissioning

O&M

Technology Selection

Treatability/ Lab Services

Regulatory Services

Integrated Water Management

Water cuts across the Oil & Gas industry —no matter what your needs, we have you covered.

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In 2010 Engineering News-Record ranked CH2M HILL in the top 10 for the following water categories:

#1 Environmental Firm in Wastewater Treatment

#2 Environmental Firm in Water Supply/ Treatment

#4 Design Firm in Sewer/Wastewater Treatment

#5 Design Firm in Water Treatment and Desalination

Consulting ServicesIntegrated Water Management

CH2M HILL’s systematic approach focuses on creating the most effective and efficient water and wastewater systems to enhance production and meet broad compliance, technical, and business goals. Our integrated water management system incorporates the following elements:

• Production-based water-minimization and pollution-prevention strategies

• Water reuse and recycling

• Wastewater treatment and discharge

• Facility optimization

Regulatory Support

Getting your project through the regulatory process can be a major factor in determining whether it gets started and finished on time. Local regulatory knowledge and relationships with the respective agencies is key to successful permitting—over the past few years we have completed over 3,000 environmental assessment and permit application documents in North America and globally.

We understand the major factors that influence decisions in the Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) process, and can help you evaluate your options and carefully analyze the physical, biological, cultural, economic, social, and health impacts to design cost-effective and project-appropriate mitigation measures.

Our clients include ExxonMobil, Suncor, ConocoPhillips, Williams Energy, Shell, Chesapeake Energy, BP, Noble Energy, Chevron, British Gas, Valero Energy and PETRONAS.

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Consulting ServicesWater Reuse

Mounting strain is occurring on the world’s freshwater delivery system as ever increasing demand collides with a fixed supply. Increasing or even maintaining water supplies for industrial applications often means decreasing water usage through increased efficiency, internal water reuse, and reclamation of effluent streams from publicly owned wastewater treatment plants. To use these supplies, it is critical to meet process water quality requirements while not adversely affecting regulatory limits.

Water Services for Shale Development

Water management is crucial for shale Oil & Gas production, especially considering the volume requirements and special conditions for hydraulic fracturing. As water supplies become scarcer and more highly regulated, we need to identify appropriate sources, implement effective permitting strategies, and beneficially reuse produced/flowback water discharges. Those who do will be positioned to sustainably obtain the supplies they need to support field development—saving time and money while enhancing community relations.

The industry standard phase/stage gate approach to decision-making is employed throughout and processes are evaluated and designed based on the following criteria:

• Environmental systems must be flexible, expandable and evolve with production growth

• Environmental systems must be compatible with current and future compliance scenarios

• Capital project and implementation schedule must match client’s capital budgets and desired balance between capital and operating costs

Process and Facility Planning

Owner/engineer collaboration is the key to project success. Clients have the greatest impact on total project cost in the planning stage as they collaborate with the engineer to define the project. A well structured process and facility planning approach ensures that a constructed system meets your regulatory, technical, and commercial needs. The CH2M HILL approach drives the selection of capital assets that reliably meet compliance objectives, are flexible, and minimize the potential for premature obsolescence.

“ Clients have the greatest impact on

total project cost in the planning

stage…conversely, the cost of change

increases with each succeeding stage.

The CH2M HILL planning and design

process recognizes this reality and

engages the client early in an efficient

decision-making process. ”

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Consulting ServicesTechnology Selection

Every water and wastewater treatment solution we implement is uniquely configured to match client needs. We bring objectivity in technology selection for your projects so that you get the right system for your specific needs, as our recommendations are not biased by equipment or chemicals that we manufacture or sell. However, because we are one of the largest environmental consulting firms in the world, CH2M HILL can bring commercial leverage to the marketplace to deliver the right equipment and chemicals at the best prices.

Stormwater Management/Flood Control

Environmental Flows

Wastewater Treatment and Infrastructure

Water Treatmentand Infrastructure

Urban

Industrial

Groundwater Management

Conveyance

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Water Supplies and Management

Agricultural UseReuse

Desalination

“ We live on a planet covered by water, but more

than 97 percent is salty, and nearly 2 percent is

locked up in snow and ice. That leaves less than

one percent to grow our crops, cool our power

plants, and supply drinking and bathing water for

households. ”— National Geographic,

April 2010

Treatability Services

CH2M HILL provides Oil & Gas industry clients with treatability services ranging from short-term bench-scale testing in our Applied Sciences Laboratory to long-term onsite pilot tests, supported by our onsite Close Support Laboratory facilities and resources. Our treatability testing services have reduced the capital and operating costs of constructed systems by confirming process viability, reducing the level of uncertainty, and allowing the designer to evaluate alternative technologies that may reduce life cycle costs. For onsite testing projects, client staff are typically supplemented with our Applied Sciences Laboratory chemists, who can develop the laboratory Statement of Work and Quality Assurance Plan, provide analytical method development and testing oversight, conduct client staff training, and even provide interim or long-term laboratory operations.

Stormwater Management

Recent regulations address the need to manage the quantity as well as the quality of stormwater. Local requirements, established in response to these regulations, range from simple drainage requirements to progressive Best Management Practices (BMPs). Our comprehensive approach to manage stormwater runoff combines flood control with water quality control, groundwater recharge, and environmental restoration, and we bring the necessary experience and qualifications to execute virtually any stormwater project.

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Design and Construction ServicesCH2M HILL understands the importance of adapting the design process and deliverables to each project’s needs, taking into account both the construction approach and the regulatory agencies that may affect construction. We create our design packages to match your procurement processes so that the resulting facility will operate as intended immediately upon startup.

The firm maintains a large construction management and inspection staff and has four direct-hire construction companies (union and non-union) in the U.S. and Canada. Our teams use a scalable approach for construction, implementing either by self-performing or subcontracting, whichever provides the greatest client value. Our construction staff members participate in design development, and our design staff members participate in the construction phase. This minimizes field changes and accelerates schedule, translating to improved quality and reduced cost.

CH2M HILL provides a range of construction services, from owner’s engineering representative to at-risk design-builder, and has ready access to highly qualified staff around the world. An engineer-procure-construct (EPC) approach delivers significant client benefits including single point responsibility, schedule and cost savings, improved risk management, and early knowledge of firm costs. We operate more than 200 water and wastewater

systems worldwide with more than 1,500 staff, and annual revenues of $268 million.

Commissioning and Startup Our goal is to create value for clients through effective commissioning and startup of the water and wastewater utility systems we design including startup and operations planning, maintenance planning (including maintenance manuals), and training. Some clients require facility commissioning to establish that the constructed facility is capable of achieving specific performance objectives. We can provide a variety of services that are customized to each specific application.

Operations and MaintenanceCH2M HILL provides a full range of operations and maintenance (O&M) services for water systems, pipelines, compressor stations, production facilities, and utilities. We currently work for major Oil & Gas companies in some of the world’s largest fields. After assessing your unique needs, we can offer solutions to keep your operations running smoothly and economically—we can work with you to develop long-term solutions or to just fill gaps in the existing work structure. Our approach to these services ranges from seconded labor to design-build-operate. Benefits to clients include reduced O&M costs (typically, annual savings in excess of 15 percent through labor, energy, and chemical efficiencies), improved environmental compliance, enhanced productivity, and a focus on safety.

Worldwide Project Experience, Local Project DeliveryCH2M HILL is a full-service engineering and construction company focused on our clients’ full life-cycle needs. We conceptualize, design, build, operate and maintain facilities across the energy spectrum, and we do everything from program management on some of the world’s largest projects to small consulting assignments. CH2M HILL has permitted, designed, and/or installed nearly 1,000 process and utilities projects in refineries, more than 50,000 miles of pipelines, more than 600,000 horsepower of gas compression and liquid pressurization systems, and thousands of related projects around the world.

Although this brochure focuses on water-related services, CH2M HILL has the ability to cover all aspects of of the Oil & Gas industry allowing us to tailor solutions for your entire project or program. We have more than 23,000 employees worldwide generating US$6.3 billion in 2010 revenue, with one-third of our business in the energy sector. The firm has long been recognized as a most-admired company and leading employer, including being named five times by FORTUNE magazine as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. CH2M HILL operates out of nearly 200 offices worldwide.

We have conducted ourselves and our business from the very beginning on four core values—take care of clients, deliver great work, do right by employees, and stay true to our integrity and honesty.

Please visit us at any of the following locations.

Website: www.ch2mhill.com Access Water Blog: www.ch2mhillblogs.com/water Twitter: twitter.com/ch2mhill Facebook: facebook.com/ch2mhill

ContactPerry Lankford, Houston, Texas, USA Tel: + 281.721.8477 Perry.Lankford@ch2m.com

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Protecting our most precious resource

“ The oil & gas industry faces unique water management challenges not seen in other industries, with a

significant range of requirements between upstream exploration and production and downstream refining and

petrochemicals. CH2M HILL offers you unbiased technical solutions that focus on defining and designing the

right project for your needs. Strategic water management planning and technology application—as well as

design, construction, and operations—must be customized for your industry and facility. Our goal is to bring

extraordinary value to you in project delivery, process /design tools, and technical know-how to support your most

strategic, challenging, and complex water projects, anywhere in the world. ”

Si Givens, P.E.Vice President

Director, Energy and Industrial Water & Process