PIC Awarded Scheduled Outage at Asheville Steam Electric Generating Plant

ATLANTA (March 3, 2007) - The PIC Companies’ Field Services Division is pleased to announce it has been awarded a contract to complete a scheduled boiler outage at the Ashville Steam Electric Generating Plant in Skyland, North Carolina. The five week outage on a 200-MW fossil fired unit will include rear waterwall replacement, installing 13 seal boxes for OB doors, flame detectors, and sootblowers. The outage will also include the installation of new buckstay steel and miscellaneous boiler maintenance activities.

The PIC Companies, headquartered in Marietta (Atlanta), Georgia and established in 1988, is a leader in providing global service solutions to the energy industry. Offering full third party O&M and outage services, turnkey commissioning, startup, and complete staffing solutions for all aspects of project development and execution.

From concept to execution, from petrochemical & refining to power generation, PIC provides value added services with a focus on quality, safety and optimum results. With over 4,500 projects executed worldwide in over 75 countries, PIC offers global service solutions to your domestic and international projects. PIC serves its customers from its corporate office in Atlanta, Georgia as well as Houston, Texas; Zurich, Switzerland; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lima, Peru; and Mexico City, Mexico.