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Questions and Answers – Oil and Gas Industry The ‘questions and answers’ below are in reference to the current state of the Oil and Gas Industry with regards to the recovery, temporary storage, processing and disposal of Fracking Fluids across the US. These fluids; fresh water in the billions of gallons, are removed from streams, rivers and lakes, and injected into deep horizontal wells under high pressures for the fracturing of shale layers to recover the natural gas trapped therein. Approximately 20% to 40% of this returns to the surface; as flowback, filled with drilling fluids and natural contaminants where the majority of it is partially processed and re-injected; for disposal, into other deep wells. Currently only a very small percentage of the flowback water used is processed to the point where it can be shipped to a municipal water treatment facility where it can then be reprocessed, for public use. ECO Cleaning Systems®’ goal is to recover, recycle and reintroduce back into the environment all of the flowback fluids.

• I really didn’t get a good understanding of what the product is that your company produces. Can you give me more detail? What we manufacture; our HydroRecyClean® systems, are integrated, closed-loop, cleaning systems that: 1) Clean surfaces; horizontal or vertical. 2) Recover the fluids used in the cleaning process; and all of the associated contaminants. 3) Filter out all of the contaminants i.e. chemicals, dirts, heavy metals, hydrocarbons, etc. and convert these contaminants into non-leachable byproducts. 4) Reuses the filtered water again and again and again . . . Think of this system in terms of when someone comes in to clean your carpets, they bring in a vacuum hose, a pressure hose and a cleaning tool. This is exactly what we do to clean all surfaces. The difference is, we also filter the fluids to a point where we can reuse them.

• What problems are you looking to solve with this product? The issues at hand that our HydroRecyClean® systems solve are: 1) Water conservation; we save the site; and the environment, 38,400 gallons of water every month per pressure washer we have on site. 2) Water runoff; the fluids are recovered back to the system, not pumped into a retaining pond, holding tank or trucked off site for processing. 3) Recovered waste; all waste is turned into non-leachable byproducts that can in most cases, be disposed of in a general landfill. Therefore, there are no associated hazardous waste disposal fees. 4) Overhead costs to the site are greatly reduced as our system requires less water to be trucked in and no contaminated water to be trucked out.

• What benefit would they have to use your product? Presently, contract cleaners are using pieced together systems with off-the-shelf components i.e. 300 gallon plastic water tanks and gasoline and/or diesel driven pressure washers etc. . . but, no recovery and no filtration systems! The average pressure washer system pumps 4.0 gallons per minute. What this means to the site is that every 1-1/4 hours the tanks have to be refilled with water from a supply truck on site; AND every 1-1/4 hours they need to have a vacuum truck come by (if one is not dedicated to the cleaner), to remove the 300 gallons of contaminated fluid that has been generated. That equates to saving the site; and the environment, 1,920 gallons every 8 operating hours; 9,600 gallons every 40 hours; 38,400 gallons every month . . . per HydroRecyClean® system that is operating on the site!

• What is your competition doing? If another cleaner claims to have a closed-loop cleaning system, it will be comprised of multiple stand-alone systems consisting of: a pressure washer; many times undersized and cold water only, a recovery system; usually a wet-dry vacuum

or sump-pump and a filtration system; normally an oil separator attached to a pool filtration system, that they are trying to keep running simultaneously. This requires a person or persons to stand around to operate the equipment and another person or persons to do the actual cleaning. Our HydroRecyClean® systems are the only automated, integrated, closed-loop cleaning systems out there. In addition, we don’t just filter out the contaminants that would then still require HAZMat disposal fees, we turn the contaminants into non-leachable byproducts. That means, in most cases, we can dispose of them in a general landfill without any HAZMat fees.

• What do you mean by ‘automated’, ‘integrated’ and ‘closed-loop’? Automated, refers to the way we control our process. Our entire process; from starting the system, to the filtration cycle, to a system fault, to maintenance periods, is all controlled automatically. In other words we have removed the human error factor. Integrated, refers to our system as a whole. We have one power source driving the entire system, we have one single clean/recover/recycle process and we have one single platform that everything is built on. Closed-loop refers to the actual process: clean-recover-recycle right back to clean-recover-recycle. Presently, we are the only one to do this.

• What “value add” is there for the potential client? On top of the fact that we will save the site and the environment in upwards of 460,000 gallons of water per year per HydroRecyClean® system used, we will save the site: transport fees, disposal fees, additional equipment operating fees and personnel costs ALL associated with the same 460,000 gallons of water.

• What other driving factors are there for a client to consider? New legislation is being passed constantly by the Federal, State, and Local governing agencies regarding the Oil and Gas Industry’s Fracking processes. In the state of Ohio alone, reports such as, *“ODNR Releases Preliminary Report on Youngstown Area Seismic Activity” lead to *“COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio’s oil and gas regulators today announced new environmentally responsible standards” and *“According to the U.S. EPA, over 144,000 U.S. Class II Disposal Wells inject two (2) billion gallons of brine daily”. These types of articles, reports and legislation are not going to lessen or go away anytime soon. * Ohio's Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) website on 03/09/2012 states: http://ohiodnr.com/home_page/NewsReleases/tabid/18276/EntryId/2711/Ohios-New-Rules-for-Brine-Disposal-Among-Nations-Toughest.aspx

• What are the current issues with the industry? Most recently they have found that the disposal of the fracking fluids; through the process of disposing it in Injection Wells, has caused earthquakes in the NW Ohio area. According to an article released Friday; 6/15/2012, by the ‘Cleveland Plain Dealer by John Funk’ “Fracking fluid injection wells can cause quakes, study finds”. http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/06/fracking_fluid_injection_wells.html

• How does your system address this issue? The HydroRecyClean® system eliminates the need for disposing of fracking fluids. Because we remove the contaminants and turn them into non-leachable byproducts; meaning that in most cases they can be disposed of in a general landfill without HAZMat fees, there is no need to dispose of the remaining brine in an injection well. Through the development of our product line at ECO Cleaning Systems®, we will be able to tap the fracking flowback fluids at the source thus eliminating the need for berm type holding reservoirs and/or mobile containment tanks. This type of process is a necessity; and can be written protocol, for the future of the Oil and Gas Fracking Industry and our environment! Our HydroRecyClean® systems are a perfect fit for onsite processing of flowback fluids, visit us at www.ecocleaningsys.com.