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CES Utility Solutions

Partnership Composite Capabilities Cooper Energy Solutions and SPARUS Holdings, Inc.

Bay Area: 165 Lennon Lane, Suite 100, Walnut Creek, CA, 94598 | Denver: P.O. Box 460383, Aurora, CO, 80046-‐0383 Phone: 949.338.8112 | Fax: 888.927.22489 | www.cooperes.com

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CES Utility Solutions is a minority-controlled business partnership focused on providing utilities, commercial, and governmental entities with superior utility asset management services. Combining the energy services leadership experience of its President and CEO, Mr. Eufard “Ford” L. Cooper, Jr., and the 60+ years of its partner SPARUS Holdings, Inc.(1), CES Utility Solutions offers more than 100 years of combined, comprehensive energy services and asset management experience. Visit us at www.cooperes.com. Services include: Technical Services* Technology Products* Pipeline Integrity Services* Project Management Solutions**

I. Technical Services* Gas leakage Surveys: When our technicians perform leak surveys, they’re armed with the latest technologies, tools and training. Their mission is to complete tasks as if their own families’ lives depended on them. We recruit locally - our Technicians’ families’ lives DO depend on them. Technicians: • Conduct business and residential area surveys • Survey transmission lines • Monitor gathering systems • Check for pressure increases • Perform surveys ahead of paving • Review winter/frost conditions • Perform general risk assessments • Conduct re-checks and re-evaluations • Perform miscellaneous safety inspections

Corrosion Surveys: Over time, various equipment and infrastructure will deteriorate and corrode. • Atmospheric corrosion • Annual corrosion • Isolated pipe segment corrosion

Valve Inspections: All valves are subject to close visual inspections Odorant Testing: Using the latest specialty equipment, our technicians conduct odorant testing, identifying the gas type and range within 0.04% to 1.2% Pipeline Markers: Marker decal replacement and new marker installations DIMP Compliance Initiatives: The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a final rule in December 2009 concerning distribution integrity management programs (DIMP) for natural gas companies. DIMP requires companies to take a “risk-based” approach to pipeline safety rather than a “prescriptive” approach. DIMP will have far reaching implications in the pipeline safety arena. Other Field Services • AMR/AMI installation and maintenance • AMR meter reading • Meter change out • Turn off and Turn on

• Meter set leak repairs • Meter painting • Wrap risers




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Power Services - Full power quality sweeps include: • Traffic signals • Light poles • Junction boxes • Fire hydrant

• Call boxes • Pay phones • Manhole covers • Water and gas system fixtures.

Sample Customers - Southern Cross Technical Services

• PG&E • Atlanta Gas Light • Dominion • Scana Energy • CenterPoint Energy • Ameren • NationalGrid • Questar Gas • Alagasco • WE Energies

• Integrys • Piedmont Natural Gas • Source Gas • TECO • DTE Energy • Kinder Morgan • BGE • Xcel Energy • Landis Gyr • Washington Gas

II. Technology Products*

EZ Tech is a tablet-based software product providing needed workforce management, compliance, data capture, and reporting services to utility and energy companies through pipeline safety, field services, compliance, and power quality. In the field, remote workers enter information in specific data fields on GPS-enabled devices via EZ Tech. Workflows are designed to specifically streamline entries. Data is automatically transferred to secure data centers, allowing for management oversight and monitoring.




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EZ Tech automatically tracks in real-time each movement of a remote worker and transmits specific information to our data center. The data reported then flows into a highly secure and scalable repository, enabling access via the web. Our system alerts quality control in the case of abnormal events, such as incongruent performance ratios or other anomalies. Aggregated reports can be accessed 24/7 either in standard templates or via customized reports. Users can receive unlimited access to reports showing time stamps, GPS-calibrated location data, and map overlays that trace the path of workers in the field. Since our products avoid redundant paper-based entries for reports, workers become far more productive and effective at recording on-site discoveries and analysis. In addition, fully electronic reporting eliminates discrepancies and inaccurate reporting(s) between departments by displaying a single, editable copy of a document. On the back end, managers are afforded unprecedented insights into worker performance while “on-the-minute” results allow for better project control and workflow management.

EZ Tech’s Four Major Elements

Data Tracking: EZ Tech automatically tracks each movement of a remote worker and transmits specific information to our data center.

Data Collection: All data reported from EZ Tech flows into a highly secure and scalable data

repository, enabling access on demand via the web. Data Analysis: EZ Tech alerts quality control in the case of abnormal events, such as incongruent

performance ratios or other anomalies. Reporting: Aggregated management reports can be accessed 24/7 either in standard templates or via

customized reports, and users receive unlimited access to generate reports showing: • Time stamps of when a worker was present at a particular location • Address-specific latitude and longitude information • Breadcrumb map overlays tracing the progress of the worker

Some significant features and benefits of EZ Tech include:

Tracking • Continuous, real time GPS location verification • Breadcrumb trails for audit purposes • Activity level verification (landmark activity over time)

Collection

• Capture of abnormal operating condition with GPS location and meter numbers • Capture map and plat number

Analysis

• Access to leak related data for use in real time management of field resources • Productivity metrics for performance, services per hour, time per ticket, etc. • Monitor compliance at the map level with custom warning indicators for survey and repair • Supervisor screens for validating and editing data

Reporting

• Elimination of field generated paper reports and tags • Data can be exported by the client any time for use with client systems • Data handoffs between departments and systems are quick and efficient




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Results: Customers report that EZ Tech increases overall productivity by at least 20%. In addition, customers indicate that they are able to make management decisions with greater precision and speed as a result of the EZ Tech system. Accurate data recording and entry is critical for optimal management. Leveraging EZ Tech in the field ensures that data is recorded and entered only once, eliminating needless duplication and avoiding potential mistakes that all too often plague simple paper forms. In addition, EZ Tech provides an electronic dataset that can act as a proof source for regulatory compliance. Applications: While EZ Tech can be used in a number of different industries, it is most often used in the following arenas:

Pipeline Safety and Monitoring: With safety foremost in the minds of natural gas companies and Public Utility Commissions, many are requiring proof of performance of pipeline safety and corrosion surveys, valve inspections and odorant testing. Field Services: With the deployment of new technologies like AMR and the remediation of older existing meters, gas and electric utilities are in a constant search for new tools to enhance their remote field services. Compliance and Reporting: Across the board, companies are in continuous quality improvement mode, requiring accurate monitoring of remote workforces, rapid data analysis and validation of field audits. Power Quality: Electric utilities deploy technicians to survey voltage potential on electrical distribution system components and remediate those needing repair.

Other Products: • Leak Detection Equipment • Marking and Locating Equipment • Specialty Equipment and Tooling • Pipeline Safety Equipment

III. Pipeline Integrity Services*

Expertise includes NACE certifications in cathodic protection, coatings, corrosion, and non-destructive examinations. Former military personnel make up over a quarter of our staff. Services: • Project Consultation • Field Planning • Technical Supervision

• Periodic Inspection • Data Processing and Analysis

Consultation • Field Supervision and Inspection • Indirect Inspection

• Tool Selection • Data Processing and Analysis

Field Services • External Corrosion Direct Assessment

(ECDA) • Locating, Depth of Cover and Current

Attenuation Survey • Alternating Current Voltage Gradient Surveys • Close Interval Surveys

• Direct Current Voltage Gradient Surveys • Soil Resistivity Surveys • Short Locating Surveys • Stray Current Mapping Surveys • GPS Surveys • Bell Hole Examinations




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Training • Seminars dedicated to every aspect of our services • Classroom and hands-on training with technical instruments • Held at Southern Cross Pipeline Integrity Services Training Facility in the Dallas/Fort Worth area include

a two-day session

IV. Project Management Solutions**

Owner’s Representation: Owner’s Representatives oversee the Architect / Engineer and Construction Manager organizations engaged by an Owner to engineer, design, procure, construct and start-up a facility. Owner’s Representation Services assure our clients that their interests are being met including financial, schedule and quality. The Team of Professionals: • Project managers • Project engineers • Construction managers • Construction representatives • Project controls personnel (estimators, cost engineers and planners/schedulers) • Procurement/contract administration personnel as well as other professionals required to complement a

team for a specific project. The Services Provided to Owners: • Review estimates, plans, schedules and forecasts provided by the AE/CM as to reasonableness. • Develop and maintain the overall project schedule integrating the activities of all participants. • Develop the overall project estimate of cost. • Prepare periodic project cost reports, performance measurement reports and schedule reports. • Review scope changes and their impact on a project’s cost and schedule. Recommend courses of action. • Oversee all work to assure it is performed in accordance with terms and conditions of contracts, drawings

and specifications.

Managed Services: • Project Management • Estimating • Cost Engineering

• Planning & Scheduling • Work Control.

Management/Project Control Elements: • Scope definition • Organization participation and buy-in • Approved baselines for cost and schedule • Established performance measurement • Timely and meaningful reporting • Commercial program integration: Primavera, SAP, MS Project, Ariba, Timberline, etc. or other client

specified systems. Management Control Services: • Process Assessment and

Development services • Business Planning & Budgeting • Estimating • Cost Control

• Performance Measurement • Work Control • Planning & Scheduling • Business Data Management




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Professional Services: • Project and Construction Management • Accounting • Budgeting/Forecasting • Estimating • Cost Engineering • Planning & Scheduling • Long Range Planning/Business Planning

• System Development and Maintenance • Planning • Litigation/Prudence Support • Cost & schedule analysis • Cost quantification • Schedule impacts • Data management

Engineering Services: • Petrochemical • Chemical • Pharmaceutical • Manufacturing

• Telecommunications • Power (nuclear and fossil), pulp and paper and

environmental

Estimating Services: These services range from the complete responsibility of furnishing Estimating Services through a Managed Task to providing Process Assessments, Process Development, Claims Analysis Independent Reviews, and Estimators to augment a customer’s estimating staff.

V. Management:

CES Utility Solutions is 51% owned by Cooper Energy Solutions – a company wholly owned by Eufard “Ford” L. Cooper, Jr. and his wife Delrine D. Cooper. Cooper Energy Solutions is the majority owner and managing member of CES Utility Solutions and is led by Eufard “Ford” Cooper, Jr. Mr. Cooper is a native of New Jersey and earned his Baccalaureate and Masters Degrees from The Pennsylvania State University having matriculated there via a full Football Scholarship. A scholar athlete, Mr. Cooper earned an academic fellowship to pursue his Masters in Business Administration - Finance. Ford’s professional background includes various leadership positions with companies like Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., Enron Energy Services, Johnson Controls, Inc., Environmental Credit Corp., and Insituform Technologies.

Ford Cooper

President and CEO CES Utility Solutions

1: SPARUS Holdings, Inc. Please see – www.sparusholdings.com *: Supported and/or provided by SPARUS Holdings, Inc. via its Southern Cross subsidiary **: Supported and/or provided by SPARUS Holdings, Inc. via its Spear Group subsidiary

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