Baard Energy LLC, an energy project development company located in Vancouver, Washington has awarded AMEC Paragon of Houston, Texas a contract to provide owner’s engineers and project management services as well as Fischer-Tropsch and product workup design for an over $4 billion coal-to-liquid fuel (CTL) project located in Columbiana County, Ohio. The project will produce approximately 35,000 barrels per day of jet and diesel fuel, and other liquid products from coal and biomass feedstock.

AMEC Paragon, a premier engineering and project management organization will support Baard Energy’s Ohio River Clean Fuels (ORCF) project during the feasibility studies, front end engineering and design (FEED) services, and turnkey engineering procurement construction (EPC) phases.

ORCF in cooperation with the Columbiana County Port Authority will construct the CTL plant on approximately 656 acres of land adjacent to the Port Authority's Wellsville Intermodal Facility (Ohio River Mile Post 49). The site sits on Ohio State Route 7 approximately 40 miles north and south respectively, of Interstates 70 and 76/80. ORCF project FEED is expected to commence during the 2nd Quarter 2007.

For information regarding the ORCF project, please contact:

Ohio River Clean Fuels, L.L.C.
Steve Dopuch
Ohio Office: (440)257-0054

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Baard Energy, L.L.C.
Baard Energy is a privately held limited liability company in the business of developing energy projects in North America. Baard Energy has over twenty years experience in the alternative energy and fuels. Over the past 20 years, Baard and its affiliates have developed a variety of energy projects including large natural gas powered electric generating facilities and ethanol production plants used for transportation fuels. Since 1998, and in response to an increased demand for alternative fuel sources, Baard has been working on the engineering and design of coal to liquid (CTL) technologies and involved in the commercial application of Integrated Gasification Combined
Cycle (IGCC).

Information regarding Baard Energy, please contact:
Baard Energy, L.L.C.
John Baardson
Vancouver Office: (360) 546-2342 ext 304

AMEC Paragon
AMEC Paragon Inc. is a leading engineering and project management corporation based in Houston, TX. The company maintains client relationships based on partnership and uses skills and experience in alliance to ensure that knowledge is shared, challenges overcome and each project delivered with optimum efficiency. AMEC Paragon offers a total program management solution, working with our clients to maximize the value of their assets. From initial feasibility and master planning, to asset development and the long-term management of those facilities, AMEC Paragon offers innovative thinking, new technologies, and fresh approaches to ensure optimum life-long performance. AMEC Paragon provides services to clients in upstream, midstream and pipeline segments of oil and gas and energy industry. The company's focus areas in midstream include CTL, GTL, LNG regas terminals, gas gathering, compression and processing facilities, and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) plants. AMEC Paragon employs more than 600 people in its Houston offices.

For further information about AMEC Paragon and its midstream capabilities, please contact:
Lewis Augspurger, Vice President
Houston, Texas
Tel: +1 713 570 1128
lewis.augspurger@amec.com