MONTREAL, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ - EARTH is pleased to announce it has
sold a TORR(TM) system and a supply contract for RPA(R) cartridges to Wood
Group, a large Engineering, Procurement & Construction firm, that provides a
range of offshore services to Amerada Hess, a major Oil & Gas producer and
operator. The TORR(TM) system will be installed on the Amerada Hess operated
Triton Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading vessel located in the
North Sea, for the polishing treatment of produced water, as part of its
overall environmental management & regulatory compliance strategy.
    Reducing the oil content in Produced Water to very low levels in repeated
tests carried out onsite in the North Sea confirms the potential for EARTH's
technology to address the Oil & Gas industry's challenges. Industry metrics
estimate that 3 barrels of formation water is produced for every barrel of oil
on a global basis. This number rises substantially for maturing production
areas such as the North Sea. Also, the pending regulatory changes coming in
during 2006 as part of OSPAR, the convention for the reduction of oil released
into open water in the North Sea, position EARTH's technology as a potential
leading solution to the problem.
    "The TORR(TM) system is the latest available technology to assist
producers in complying with the new discharge regulations in the North Sea.
EARTH has performed several tests on offshore platforms in the North Sea
producing significant results. After focusing efforts on the Oil & Gas
industry as a primary market for our products, EARTH welcomes this contract as
validation of commercial viability and of EARTH as a potential partner
throughout the Oil & Gas Industry," said Mr. Ferland, President & CEO of EARTH
(Canada) Corporation.
    With a direct sale to Amerada Hess's Triton FPSO facility in the North
Sea, EARTH also advances on a near term goal of extending distribution
capability. To date EARTH has focused on development of the market for its
products, resulting in commercial partnerships with several of the worlds
largest oil services firms.
    "We are pleased that EARTH is able to provide a timely solution for our
Triton operations that will potentially meet our requirements. The technology
has been tailored to fit the minimal footprint available on the FPSO. We will
be monitoring the performance of the technology very carefully," said Mr.
Richard Jameson, Senior Project Engineering Advisor for Amerada Hess.

    About EARTH (CANADA) Corporation
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    EARTH (Canada) Corporation is an oil services organization and a world
leader in the development of leading edge technologies for hydrocarbon
remediation. Through the use of EARTH's proprietary RPA(R) and TORR(TM)
technologies, EARTH is dedicated to the extraction of hydrocarbons from
upstream Oil & Gas produced water.

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