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DATE   ARTICLE   PUBLICATION
12/27/2011   UtilX Reaches 4 Million Foot Milestone on ComEd Reliability Program   Press Release
    Willbros Group, Inc. (NYSE: WG) announced today that UtilX, a unit of its Utility T&D segment, in conjunction with its partner, INTREN, completed four million feet of cable remediation on the Commonwealth Edison (NYSE: EXC) system.
         
12/12/2011   Two Billion Dollars Saved   Press Release
    To date, UtilX has saved its customers more than two billion dollars.
         
4/1/2010   Treatment Extends Underground's Life   NRECA's Connections
    Intermountain Rural Electric Associations saves cable replacement costs while adding an additional 20 years of service life to existing underground cables.
         
4/1/2009   CableCURE® is an Underwater Angel for this MO Cooperative   NRECA's Connections
    Problem cable buried under Truman Lake was creating a maintenance headache for Central Missouri Electric Cooperative. UtilX' CableCURE life-extension technology, like an angel under water, treated four 5,000-ft runs of cable in 6 days time.
         
10/15/2008   Sierra Electric Cooperative finds cure for aging underground cable     NRECA's Connections
    Cable rejuvenation benefits Sierra Electric Cooperative by eliminating failures and saving them money on replacement. 
     
4/17/2008   Umatilla Electric Cooperative identifies circuits with the highest probability of failure.     NRECA's Connections
    UtilX' non-destructive CableWISE® condition assessment technology helps Umatilla Electric Cooperative design a 5-year plan to prioritize their maintenance dollars and increase the reliability of their system.  
         
2/18/2008   Florida Power and Light Selects UtilX for Multi-Year Cable Rehabilitation Program   Press Release
    FP&L anticipates treating an estimated 300,000 feet of aged URD primary cable per year, over the next few years, using UtilX' life-extension technologies.
         
12/4/2007   Dr. Srinivas presented his paper on CableWISE Condition Assessment at the 7th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables.     JiCable June 2007
    CableWISE technology is an excellent predictive maintenance tool that has been used to assess the condition of electrical equipment in the energized state while operating in electrical utility and industrial plant environments. This paper describes the rationale for studying signals prior to and after partial discharge inception.
         
2/5/2007   Idaho Power Utilizes CableCURE Technology in Multi-Year Cable Rejuvenation Program   Press Release
    Idaho Power has already proactively treated well over 500,000 feet of cable and will continue to do so under a multi-year order with UtilX Corporation.  
         
1/30/2007   UtilX Expands into Cable Diagnostic Services   Press Release
    UtilX service includes Cable Condition Assessment
         
12/1/2006   CableCURE Technology in Europe     Ian Clark, TTI 
    The application of CableCURE technology on medium-voltage cables. 
         
11/8/2006   Submarine Cable Rescued     T&D World, July 1999 
    Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative in North Baltimore, Ohio restores service to water-damaged submarine cable using silicone injection technology, while saving millions of dollars in replacement costs. A patented flow-through splice was developed by UtilX Corporation for this application.  
         
8/23/2006   UtilX Presents Cable Injection Technology at IEEE Latin America 2006     Copyright IEEE 2006 
    Real-world results of cable injection technology have resulted in increased industry confidence in cable injection technology based on time-tested materials.  
         
8/23/2006   UtilX Presents Findings on Transmission Cable Study     Copyright IEEE 2006 
    Until now, most of the 70MM ft of injected cable has been in the distribution class of cables. The results of an opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of CableCURE life-extension technology on transmission cable are published in this paper, demonstrating treatment effectiveness on par with results on distribution class cables.  
         
7/18/2006   Clark Public Utilities Achieves High Returns     NWPPA's Bulletin magazine 
    A 10-year pilot program at Clark Public Utilities, using CableCURE injection technology in an ongoing maintenance program for their underground residential distribution cable, has exceeded expectations and encouraged continued use of the technology.  
         
6/14/2006   Case Study of Essent, a large Dutch utility and their success with CableCURE technology.     Presented at Distribution Europe 2006 
    Large Dutch Utility benefits from the use of CableCURE technology on their distribution system. Case Study of Essent presented at the 2006 Distribution Europe show in Barcelona, Spain.  
         
5/17/2006   A Billion Dollars Saved   Press Release
    To date, UtilX has saved its customers more than one billion dollars.  
         
5/2/2006   Tenaska Power Fund Acquires Puget Energy's InfrastruX Group   Press Release
    Tenaska Capital Management, LLC (Tenaska Capital), on behalf of the Tenaska Power Fund, L. P. (TPF), announced today that TPF has signed an agreement to acquire InfrastruX Group, Inc., a leading national provider of infrastructure construction services to utility industries, from Puget Energy, Inc.  
         
3/8/2006   Rural Coops Defer Replacement using CableCURE Technology     NRECA's Connections 
    Short case study of two Oklahoma Coops who have proactively addressed their aging underground cable problem using CableCURE Technology.  
         
5/23/2005   CableCURE process extends the life of transmission cable.     SNL Energy Newsletter 
    Post-testing on a section of transmission cable injected using CableCURE technology confirms life-extension benefits 
         
5/23/2005   SRP Enhances Reliability of Underground Distribution Cable     Transmission & Distribution World 
    Salt River Project (SRP) has been using cable injection technology to treat crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) cables since 1998, during which time more than 2.5 million ft (762 km) of underground residential distribution (URD) cable has been successfully treated.  Nearly 99% of the treated cable has remained in service and failure free.  
         
11/14/2004   Manitoba Hydro-Electric's 2003-04 Annual Report about the benefits of CableCURE Injection (see pg 27)     Manitoba Hydro-Electric 2003-04 Annual Report
    Excerpt from Manitoba Hydro-Electric's Annual Report on CableCURE injection  
         
10/9/2002   Army Discovers Inexpensive Alternative to Restore Damaged Power Cables     T&D World Readers Forum 
    The U.S. Army knew it had a serious service problem on its hands when frequent power outages at Hawaii's Aliamanu Military Reservation (AMR) often lasted 14 hours, thanks to 20-year-old deteriorating cables. So when the local newspaper reported residents were fed up with the inconvenience, the Army made a commitment to solve the problem immediately.  
         
7/1/2002   Insulating Cables Helps Ensure Electric Reliability     PNM News Release 
    Some underground electrical cable installed in the 1960s and 1970s-although considered state-of-the-art at the time-was not manufactured to today's standards, and is failing at a rate that increases every year. The result: electrical outages for customers. The cost-effective and guaranteed solution: CableCure, or injecting a fluid into the cable that fills the gaps and improves the insulation value.  
         
3/1/2001   Underground lines: Different problems, practical solutions     Electrical World, PDC 
    Underground distribution systems cost more than overhead systems to install and replace. From an operational standpoint, the two biggest challenges are knowing the actual load capability of an underground line and taking care of aged and aging underground cables.