Tervita to Provide Water Treatment Services for Chesapeake Energy's Utica Production in Ohio

HOUSTON, TEXAS--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2012) - Tervita Corporation, a leading North American environmental and energy services company, has been awarded a contract to treat Chesapeake Energy's produced and tophole drilling water in its Utica shale production in Ohio, to help Chesapeake Energy efficiently continue its Aqua Renew™ program by recycling water in its operations.

"This is a great opportunity for us to partner with one of the major players in the Utica by recycling and reusing a resource as vital as water," said Phil Vogel, president, Tervita U.S. "Tervita's water treatment capabilities and technologies, paired with our integrated service offerings, are invaluable to our customers as they continue to put more effort into responsible and sustainable resource development."

Tervita will provide Chesapeake Energy with a water treatment facility, in Carroll County, Ohio with an option for mobile water treatment technology. Using its Hybrid Water Recycling Technology, Tervita can remove hydrocarbons and suspended solids from produced water, top-hole drilling water and well pad rain water. In addition to these services to Chesapeake Energy, Tervita can provide hardness removal, well site sludge and ponds treatment, if necessary.

Tervita can also deploy its proprietary Mobile Processing System to treat flowback and produced water by removing unwanted suspended solids, so water can be reused.

"Chesapeake Energy is pleased to select Tervita as our Utica water treatment vendor," said Tim Dugan, Chesapeake Energy district manager, Utica. "Tervita's treatment process will provide clean water and decrease our process costs which will increase our efficiency with reusing water."

Tervita Dioxi-Treat™ and Tervita Dioxi-Green™ (Cl0₂) will be available to Chesapeake as a cost-effective solution to a variety of challenges encountered with oilfield waters that require treatment prior to reuse.

In addition to water treatment technologies, Tervita offers a variety of environmental solutions in the Utica and Marcellus shale play, including engineered landfills, closed-loop systems, drilling fluids services and frac tank rentals.

About Tervita

Tervita is a leading North American environmental and energy services company. Our 4,000 dedicated employees partner with natural resource and industrial companies who share our values, and work with them to create a sustainable future. Safety is our highest priority: it influences our actions, guides our decisions and shapes our culture. We maintain a strategically located network of more than 95 state-of-the-art waste management facilities and a fleet of specialized equipment and assets to help customers address production and operational waste challenges. Our highly effective, convenient and environmentally sound solutions help minimize environmental impact and maximize returns.

About Chesapeake Energy

Chesapeake Energy Corporation is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the company's operations are focused on discovering and developing unconventional natural gas and oil fields onshore in the U.S. Chesapeake owns leading positions in the Eagle Ford, Utica, Granite Wash, Cleveland, Tonkawa, Mississippi Lime and Niobrara unconventional liquids plays and in the Marcellus, Haynesville/Bossier and Barnett unconventional natural gas shale plays. The company also owns substantial marketing and oilfield services businesses through its subsidiaries Chesapeake Energy Marketing, Inc. and Chesapeake Oilfield Services, L.L.C. Further information is available at www.chk.com where Chesapeake routinely posts announcements, updates, events, investor information, presentations and news releases.