Bluewater Constructors, Inc.

BLUEWATER

Member

The company has served the natural gas transmission, oil, petrochemical, and pipeline industry since 1975. We are a Texas corporation. BWC is a member of the Associated Builders & Contractors Association. We are a Merit Shop Contractor and member of the American Pipeline Contractors Association.

FACILITIES

Bluewater Constructors, Inc. is located on ten (10) acres in Northwest Houston. The facility consists of two office buildings, warehouses, and storage sheds.

MANAGEMENT

Bluewater's office management and field superintendents combine engineering/technical backgrounds with extensive construction experience; constructing natural gas compressor stations, pipelines, and industrial plant projects, throughout the United States.

OPERATING PHILOSOPHY

BWC's main objective is to provide quality workmanship at a fair market price. The construction of oil, petrochemical, and natural gas facilities built on time, and within budget, without compromising job site safety is our goal. We are interested in the the development of long term relationships and satisfied clients.

MARKETS

Bluewater has built projects from Florida to North Dakota, and from Wyoming to Pennsylvania. BWC has all required licenses and certificates of authority to conduct business in these states. Past projects have ranged from construction scopes of One-Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars to more complex projects of Ten Million Dollars.

SAFETY

BWC employs an in-house safety director and an outside consultant to address all safety related issues. Field superintendents and foremen are trained and certified, for safety aspects pertinent to each project. Site safety includes, but is not limited to: initial job site orientation, safety meetings, training classes, and near miss documentation.

EQUIPMENT

All transportation and construction equipment and tools are maintained in good working order; meeting or exceeding OSHA standards. Superintendents have unlimited access to all necessary equipment and tools required to safely construct each project.

BONDING

BWC's Bonding capacity is thirty-five million aggregate: fifteen million per single project. Our bonding company is Seaboard Surety.

SUBCONTRACTORS

The majority of each project is built with BWC's own superintendents, foreman, craftsmen, helper, apprentices, and laborers. We supplement our forces with local labor , whenever possible.

Subcontractors are used to compliment Bluewater crews and to provide expertise and equipment for specialized construction needs; this typically includes acidizing, electrical, and instrumentation skills.

BWC has a long term working relationships with key subcontractors and third party services.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

BWC assigns a project coordinator to work with the field superintendent and the client's project engineer.

A schedule is started during the estimating phase, and finalized, upon receipt of "approved for construction" drawings.

Considerable time and effort is given to the estimating process. We attempt to provide a complete and accurate projection of costs with a realistic schedule.

Bluewater Constructors believes in "no surprises". We make every effort possible to maintain an open line of communication between the job site and the client's office.

Our objective is to build the project right the first time, and if any problems exist-seek a resolution as quickly as possible.

PAST PROJECTS

Bluewater Constructors, Inc. has built projects under a variety of contractual arrangement including: lump sum pricing, turn-key contracts, engineering-procurement-construction, cost plus, and time/material rates.

BWC has constructed facilities under extreme winter conditions in the Western and Northern states.

CLIENTS

Arkia, ANR Pipeline, Brazos Port Water Authority, Bay Gas, Chemex, Chevron Pipeline Company, Coastal, Colonial Pipeline, Columbia Gulf, Colorado Interstate Gas Co., Dominion Gas Transmission, Duke Energy, East Tennessee Natural Gas, Enron (Northern Natural Gas, Florida Gas Transmission, Houston Pipeline), Equilon, Equitable Gas, Energy Transfer, Exxon, Faleon Gas, Ford, Bacon & Davis, IES Utilities, Lonestar Gas, Mobil, Marathon Oil, Natural Gas Clearing House, Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, Oklahoma Gas Pipeline, Oxychem, Phillips, Placid Oil, Seminole Pipeline, Southern Natural Gas, SysCorp, Tennessee Gas Pipeline, TEPPCO, Texas Gas Transmission, Transcontinental Gas Pipeline, Union Texas Petroleum, United Gas, United Texas Transmission Co., Valero, Vintage Petroleum, Washington Gas, Williams Field Services and others.

BWC clients are typically involved with interstate pipelines, gas processing, gas liquids, petrochemicals, Gas Storage, Petroleum products delivery systems, or heavy industrial manufacturing and raw material processing.