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On July 7, 2014, we had a three man crew performing survey activities on our Williams Bell project in Highland, TX, near Baytown. This crew had worked together for a decent amount of time and were pretty familiar with one another. The Party Chief, Kyle Dawson; and Instrument man, Hayden Schum-acher; were performing line locations a short distance from their Rodman, Scott Engle. Scott was only a few hundred feet from his crew, performing probing activities. Kyle Dawson, being an experienced Party Chief; had been keeping a close eye on all of his team members and was quick to notice his Rodman seeming rather fatigued; stopping work to head to the truck for what was assumed to be a simple break to rehydrate. Once Scott reached the truck, Kyle was quick to notice him sink to his knees. Kyle immediately made his way to Scott’s location. After a quick assessment of his team member, Kyle identified that he had become overheated and dehydrated. Without hesitation, Kyle and Hayden jumped into action to assist their fellow team member; by first getting him into the cab of the vehicle and getting some cool, not cold, air blowing on Scott. They then got cold rags and placed them on his neck, head and chest area. Gatorade & water were given to Scott to begin rehydration. Once Scott’s team had him in a stable condition they then reported this to their Supervisor, Steve Siler; who reported immediately to HSE Manager Murphy Underwood. Shortly after the occurrence of this incident Murphy arrived on location to find Scott doing very well, given the situation. Kyle was able to pro-vide important information, such as his blood pressure, and the amount of fluid he had taken in since the start of the incident.

This incident was of an extremely serious nature and without the proper care from the moment it took place, this team member could have ended up in the hospital for a long period of time, or even lost his life. Due to the actions of his fellow team members, Scott did not have to see a doctor nor did he lose any time away from work. Most importantly, Scott was able to return home the same day to his family with not much more than a very serious lesson learned

about the importance of hydration and knowing your body’s limits.

This is a perfect example regarding the principle; “To be your brother’s keeper”, while working in remote locations, where only you and your crew are present. Crews must keep a close eye out for one another. It is important to use the morning safety meetings to discuss what actions will be taken in the event of emergency situations.

LWS took the opportunity to say a special THANK YOU to Kyle Dawson and his crew for the perfect handling of this incident.

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SAFETY MOMENT

From left to right: Jesse Johnson, Murphy Underwood, Hayden Schumacher, Paul DeGraff, Kyle Dawson, Mark Miller, Steve Siler at El Toro’s Restaurant in Baytown

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We have Bill Jurica working under our JV Geostroyizyskania with SFERA in Russia. Currently have 10 Russian surveyors working for us and the future is looking very bright.

Still supporting work efforts in Canada and developing company ties with Definium in Australia.

We just added a new phase to a road rehabilitation / slope staking project that Jason Langen, Thomas Biggs, and Chance Brinker have been working on all summer. The Communications tower project was recently completed.

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The Longmont office is now helping the Shorewood, Lancaster and Minot offices.

Paul DeGraff was awarded the Fort McMurray chapter safety (special projects) award from the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE) for driving the creation and start of a Safety Management System for LWSC. Congratulations, Paul!

Adam Hall (after hours) near our AREVA JEB mine project in Saskatch-ewan with a Northern Pike.

Projects: Cahill Industrial on Surmont 2 well padsURS FLINT CPF project is still ongoingURS FLINT pipeline is wrapping up and should be done soon

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Lakewood Updates:DCP MidstreamWe have completed the construction and as-builts on DCP’s Lucerne II Expan-sion project and are just beginning the staking on a DCP pipeline in the Greeley, CO area. We have also submitted proposals for a two other pipelines, both in the Greeley, CO area as well.

ONEOKWe are in the middle of construction and as-builts on the Niobrara and Douglas laterals. These are laterals off of the Bakken pipeline near Lusk and Douglas, WY. Both lines are scheduled to be completed in early September and be in operation by October.

Plains All AmericanWe have completed the preliminary survey portion of the Buffalo Pipeline that runs from Northern Colorado to Cheyenne, WY. We anticipate construction and as-builts to begin the fall.

Hobbs Updates:The Hobbs, NM office has stayed busy with the following projects: • 5 DCP pipeline projects• Various projects for ConocoPhillips • Collaboration with New Braunfels office• Various projects for Centurion Pipeline LP • Completed Enterprise WEP III

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Even though there were harsh weather conditions, the Tulsa Pipeliners Indian Springs Golf outing went on. Thanks to Kay Clevenger for braving the harsh con-ditions!The Tulsa Pipliners Sporting Clay event was attended by a record number of par-ticipants. LW Survey donated a shotgun to be raffled off. LWS was able to provide volunteers for the event.The Tulsa Pipeliners Patriot Golf Tournament was rained out but this gave ample clubhouse time for us to meet and greet with potential clients and teaming partners.Thanks to the LWS leadership for investing in the develop-ment of our staff. We have been cross training local crew Robin Roberts and Jesus Murillo for mapping and survey tech rolls.

With the completion of the Oklahoma portion of Sterling III, many folks in the Tulsa office have successfully been inte-grated into aiding other offices with Interoffice work sharing. We are extremely excited at the opportunity to keep strong staff and support our sister offices at the same time.

With the death of our old plotter, we are the proud recipients of a new plotter, copier and upgraded internet. Three Tulsa employees have (or will have) new additions to their families:.Brad and Ami Chapman welcomed a baby boy on August 3Brad and Julie Ketchum welcomed a baby girl on August 5. Both babies were born at the same hospital, with the mothers right down the hall from one another!Joe and Megan Arsee are expecting a baby boy and the due date is Octo-ber 31. Congratulations to all of you!

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Kay Clevenger sitting with Micki Hess Curtis from PCES

From left to right:Trina Taylor, Teresa Arnold, Margie Hardison, Thomas Martinez, Jesus Murillo, Robin Roberts, TBD (To be determined), Mark Wil-liams, Joe Arsee, Kay Clevenger and Brian Chapman.

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Congratulations to Jack Turpin on his promotion to Vice President!Lancaster Region has added the Duluth office and Neale Scarlett, PLS was brought on as core employee. Congratulations!

Lancaster Project Updates:Rooney: We are approximately 50% complete with plats and 90% complete with field work, excepting MOC’s in our current workload with Rooney. There is poten-tial for two additional Segments to be added to the project in the coming months.

Kinder Morgan: We have two small pipe replacement projects for Kinder Morgan. They are replacing this part of the line with thicker pipe because of additional houses built nearby. One in northern New Jersey and the other in Northeastern Pennsylvania. We are doing the preliminary, construction and asbuilt for each one. Currently we have completed the preliminary phases. Construction is ex-pected to start the first week of September.

Duluth Project Updates:Our Enbridge Superior Terminal project is going full throttle and have received positive feedback from our client. We are transitioning from 4-way sweeps to con-struction staking and pipe is starting to be installed. We have found several plan discrepancies and resolved several issues regarding tie on points that have really boosted our credibility.

Shorewood Project Updates:Kinder Morgan Integrity Projects 2014: We’ve been providing as needed survey services to Kinder Morgan on a variety of projects they are working on. We have visited numerous sites in northeast Illinois and located tie in welds, provided benchmarks, set construction limits. Our crew chief Justin Lemay, who has been with us for 9 years, usually gets the call first from the inspectors. All of them have his number.

Tallgrass Energy: We have provided survey support for this ongoing project to expand the footprint of existing facilities. We will be going to the field next week for additional survey work at a site in Indiana.

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International

It has been a while since I sent out an International Operations update. As many of you know we have been working toward getting work in Russia with our Joint Venture partner SFERA. After a few false starts, it is my pleasure to announce that not only have we secured a firm contract but now have our first crews on the ground! I would like to take this moment to thank William Jurica for his tireless efforts in obtaining this work. Likewise, I also owe a special thanks to the owner of SFERA, Andrey Zalpin, as well as to Lesley Welch and William Harnisch of LWS for their belief in our team and support in getting this work. It is truly exciting to see the possibilities that will arise from this alliance. Operations in Canada continue to show promise. Our current work load has slowed down a bit, but with the addition of Shaun Ewen and Troy Dashkewytch we are anticipating a fair amount of growth in the near future. We have many op-portunities with Conoco Phillips, Shell, Exxon, and MEG Energy to name a few. In Australia we are working hand in hand with Peter Hickey and Neil Severns of Definium to more formerly tie our companies together. We will keep you updated on developments along this front in the future. It has been exciting to have some of our surveyors working on the ground in Australia with Definium, and we hope to have some of their surveyors working with us in the States and abroad as we move forward. - Gordon Brinker President International

From Left to Right: Ivan Smirnov, Vitaliy Chugunov, Aleksander Toroshchin, Ruslan Emelyanchenko, Dmitry Glushko, Igor Kalachev, Bill Jurica

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Congrats to Jordan Coats for passing the Microsoft Certified Professional Exam!! As IT Engineers, we have to keep up with a tremendous amount of change in our operating software. Jordan studied and passed a rigorous certification test and passed with flying colors. Well done Jordy!

Not to be out done, Kevin Strother has taken and passed several Citrix certification exams on his way to final certification. Citrix is our emerging technology that allows the IT team to build “cloud based” Windows desktops to the expanding LWS empire. We call this the “POB Cloud”. Kevin has been tasked with the gigantic project of rolling this out. No easy task! Keep it up Kevin!

Chauncey Howard continues to do outstanding work for us in his IT Engineer roll. We get a lot of help tickets each day and Chauncey works them to completion. Without his great help Jordan and Kevin would not have the time to achieve their big project objectives for me.

Bill Lugsch has taken on the programmer role for our ThunderCat data checker program. This is no small feat. He is working closely with Brad Boysen, our new Data Manager, to keep the existing ThunderCat program working, and to enhance it in the future.

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It has been a great quarter for the mapping department. We continue to remain busy and have begun some new exciting projects with elevated production schedules. Currently, we have a huge portion of our personnel dedicated to the new DCP work in New Mexico and West Texas. We currently have base maps and certified plats on five projects for DCP totaling over 300 miles. These jobs are split up over four offices, and the work sharing has been seamless; it should also be mentioned that the PPMS tool is being used on the majority of these DCP proj-ects. This tool has come a long way in a short time; it provides centralized stor-age, ROW permissions/acquisitions, and overall route review design. I have heard time and again from the ROW companies that use the PPMS tool for our projects, how beneficial it has become.Along with DCP keeping us occupied, ONEOK has us busy in North Dakota with over 50 miles of mapping work for three separate projects. Lastly, the P3 job in the Northeast has continued to thrive, and again, use folks from all over the country to satisfy the production demands of Rooney Engineering. In these last months, we have come a long way towards our goal of global inner office work sharing. Thank you for staying true to the plan.

I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome back Kate Prinslow. Kate comes back to us at a very important time as we are seeing an increased need for GIS personnel in our industry. Kate and Thomas will be responsible for main-taining the PPMS website and as well as being data stewards for specific jobs on the site.

Also like to announce some new staff to the mapping department:

Josh Gonzalez – Designer in the Lakewood office Gabby Wilson – Intern in the Lancaster office

Welcome to the folks listed above. To everyone in the mapping group, as always, thank you all for your hard work and dedication to each and every job we work on!

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Please join us in welcoming Mark Fischer to the Business Development team. Mark brings an extensive knowledge of the oil & gas industry, par-ticularly in the Northeast region. He will be based out of the Lancaster office.

The Business Development team will be meeting in Las Vegas in October to cover processes, services and strategies for the upcoming year.

Craig Maier and George Mock recently attended the Pipeline Safety Con-ference in New Orleans to market our company and emphasize our safe practices. We received a lot of great feedback and interest.

Proposals now go through our Marketing Assistant, Marissa Raymond. Please forward all RFPs to her as we are now tracking wins/losses to better serve our clients. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Craig Maier for further clarification.

Terry Stillabower recently lost his mother Lilly Stillabower. LW Survey sent a beautiful spray and Terry would like to thank the company for their thoughts and prayers during his time of great loss.

The BD team continues to chase leads throughout the US and Canada; our opportunity pipeline is full and the future looks bright!

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YOU ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR TOOLSAs a Surveyor and Pipeliner you are only as good as the tools you have in your possession and your ability to operate them. Your personal performance and the ability to perform certain tasks are limited by the amount of technology and skills that you control.In the survey business, I have seen epic change taken place over the last 30 years in technology and thus our ability to measure great distances in a very short pe-riods of time, if not instantly. The development of GPS tools and survey software has created an entire generation of technicians who never knew or thought about the finer arts of fundamental surveying. The skills needed to run a conventional control traverse, pulling a survey chain using a tension handle or using a plumb bob to mark a line point in many ways are lost or have been never taught. These are just some of the talents that have for many reasons have been lost in the whirl of technology and the times. As a mentor of a young up and coming surveyor, I stress the fundamentals and the basic skills to be able to handle a wide verity sur-vey situations and thus creating a true survey and measurement professional.Surveyor’s and mappers used these basic fundamental practices and tools for hundreds of years to layout the foundations of the world and the frame work of the United States have in some ways been lost and forgotten. If you consider some of the marvels and feats accomplished by our predecessors with simple and fundamental survey tools, it boggles the mind. Some of these great accom-plishments include the great bridges of the country, the transcontinental railroad, the mapping of the coastline and the great rivers of this country. These are just a few of the amazing feats accomplished by the men and crews that numbered in the tens of thousands. These great men really knew the value of the tools they had and what it took to operate them to the upmost accuracy and precision. Somewhere between our ancestry brethren and us, we have lost the appreciation and passion for the tools and equipment we use every day to eke out a modest living. The fundamentals of the surveying and mapping has in many ways been lost in the transition to today’s measurement professionals. It’s up to all of us to promote this great legacy of surveying and continue to build great things for the future with new and old technology.Steps to being a better professional and valued asset:• Take personal ownership of the tools and technology you use. • Seek training, read and ask questions on how to improve your skills and talent.• Invest in your career with time, tools and equipment.• Have a quest for knowledge of all types.• Care for the equipment and tools as if they were your own.• Realize the value of the equipment in your possession and treat it accordingly.• Take pride in the work you do and realize the many benefits that comes from that.• Be a mentor to the young and set stellar examples to live and work by.

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now hiring

Canada:Professional Land SurveyorLSI

Texas:Survey techData TechRegistered Professional Land SurveyorProject ManagerDesigner

Lakewood:Survey TechDesigner

Longmont:Survey TechProject ManagerDesigner

Minot:Survey TechData TechProfessional Land SurveyorProject ManagerDesigner

Duluth:Project ManagerParty ChiefInstrument Operator

East Coast:Party Chief

LW Survey is hiring!

If you know anyone qualified for the following positions, please direct them to the website to apply. (www.lwsurvey.com/careeropportunities)

Resource Manager (any location)

The Resource Manager is a management level position answering directly to the Chief of Parties and VP’s. This person will oversee the coordination of field staffing for the Survey operations within LW Survey. This person will serve as the single point of contact for all issues relating to field staffing needs and field employee document management.

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CalgaryCalvin Parker - DesignerRobert Soza - DesignerRon Eichel - Professional Land SurveyorVak Mabutas - DesignerScott Morgan - Party ChiefTrevor Janke - Designer

HobbsBilly King - Survey SupervisorBradley McLean - Instrument OperatorDavid Cook - Party ChiefDavid Leggett - Instrument OperatorJacob Fisher - Party ChiefMichael Campbell - Instrument Operator

HoustonBenjamin Wambolt - Party ChiefBessie Wellerman - Data TechnicianBrandon Tucker - Instrument OperatorChad Plunkett - Instrument OperatorChris Aday - Survey SupervisorChristian Mayall - DesignerEric Sauseda - Rod PersonHayden Schumacher - Instrument OperatorJason Womack - Party ChiefJoe Blalock - Party ChiefJohnny Vega - Data TechnicianLaura Buchanan - Project AdministratorSteven Carmouche - Rod Person

LakewoodBryant Higdon - Rod PersonChris Caldwell - Party ChiefDavid Pickron - Rod PersonDenty Burnett - Party ChiefDustin Sims - Instrument OperatorJasper Greenleaf - Rod PersonJosh Gonzalez – DesignerJustin Haynie - Instrument OperatorKate Prinslow – GIS TechnicianRandall Hendrix - Instrument OperatorRobert Crossman - Instrument OperatorWayne Myers - Party Chief

LancasterBrian Green - DesignerGabby Wilson – Intern Michael Roff - Instrument OperatorMike Berniger – Senior Survey TechnicianNeale Scarlett - Professional Land Surveyor

MinotDean Slack - Instrument OperatorSean Linahan - Instrument OperatorTimothy Linahan - Party ChiefJulie Benson - Instrument Operator

New BraunfelsPatrick Kinne - Instrument OperatorMario Paz-Castillo - Instrument Operator

team

Recently added to the LWS team, please welcome:

Jack Turpin - Vice President, LancasterRich Calvert - Director of Mapping, LakewoodDarren Wolterstorff - Regional Manager, LakewoodJustin Monkton - Lead Designer, HoustonZach Maier - Lead Designer, Lakewood

Congratulations to the following on their promotions: