Company News

November 15, 2007: Robert W. Beeman joins Orion-SurgEx as Operations Manager, Environmental and Utility-Safety Services. Bob assumes overall responsibility for all Orion-SurgEx field operations personnel, equipment resources, and safety-protocol maintenance among the operations staff. Mr. Beeman is a 20-year veteran in the environmental and mechanical contracting industries, and brings a wealth of experience, creativity, and multi-disciplinary abilities to the organization.

January 15, 2008: David Searles named Resource Supervisor for Orion-SurgEx. Dave assumes overall responsibility for the company’s equipment resources, as well as directing site operations in any situation where the company engages in engineered site work and construction. Dave joins the company with 20 years experience in heavy equipment operations, engineered site development and infrastructure build-out. Dave is also a licensed subsurface waste disposal system specialist, and supervises the installation of all injection, leachate, and wastewater drainage systems for the company.

February, 2008: Orion-SurgEx signs a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with Konover-Atwood Mechanical Contractors, Inc. for Surgical Excavation^® services in connection with the company’s natural gas pipeline maintenance contracts in Southern New England and Eastern Pennsylvania. Orion-SurgEx will expose all valve stations and transfer junctions as well as lengths of buried gas piping that require maintenance, replacement, or repair.

March 17, 2008: Orion-SurgEx obtains provisional approval on a patent for a well-reconstruction process that is used to rebuild long-term sampling/monitoring and remedial pumping wells, which has significantly reduced contamination levels in sampling wells that have reached stasis due to fouled annular packing. Final evaluations for up to three individual patents are being made for the process, as well as for the special tooling developed by Orion-SurgEx.

March 21, 2008: Michele A. Oulette, SHRP joins the Orion-SurgEx team as Manager, Human Resources and Associate Services to spearhead the company’s recruiting initiatives, provide guidance and career planning services for Company associates, and to maintain, update, and review the company’s official Associate Handbook.