North American Construction Group Selects Wenco for Operations at CNRL

April 2010 – Vancouver B.C. North American Construction Group (NACG) has selected Wenco for operations at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd’s Horizon mine site to remove overburden.

Wenco will be installing its latest release of software, rugged mobile data terminals on the entire fleet consisting of 34 trucks and 4 shovels. The system designed for NACG includes a contractor integration module to manage the tracking and movement of NACG mining equipment to and from the CNRL fleet on a periodic basis, designed to allow movement of selected equipment under control.

The CNRL contractor integration module is specifically developed to meet the needs of contractors with the management and tracking of contractor equipment to and from the owner/operator fleet on a periodic basis. The module will allow NACG and CNRL to jointly move the Fleet Management System control of selected NACG equipment from the NACG System to the CNRL System and back again. While the mining equipment is under CNRL control all data for that specific equipment will be stored by the CNRL Fleet Management System.

This module is available for all Contractors working alongside an Owner/Operator who are both running Wenco Fleet Management Systems.

The complete system selected by NACG includes Fleet Control, MineVision and Wenco’s Line-up Utility: A software component that facilitates the allocation of operators to mining equipment at the start of the shift.

About NACG and CNRL
NACG has been contracted to remove approximately 400 million bank cubic metres (BCM) of overburden, including 300 million BCM of tailing dyke construction.

Canadian Natural Resources Limited’s Horizon Project is located 70 kilometres north of Fort McMurray in the Alberta oil sands. Phase 1 start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of 2008, which will see production of 110,000 barrels of synthetic crude oil (SCO) per day. Future phases will see production of 232,000 barrels of SCO per day, followed in due course by an expansion to 500,000 barrels of SCO per day.

About Wenco
Wenco provides GPS-based fleet management systems for open pit mines worldwide. The system provides sophisticated automatic dispatching to maximize production while delivering specified ore qualities, plus high precision GPS applications for the positioning and guidance of excavators, dozers and drills. The products and services include real-time control and reporting software, MS SQL Server© database, Windows-based computer terminals for mobile equipment, a broadband radio communications infrastructure, as well as installation, training and commissioning services. Founded in 1986, Wenco can be found at www.wencomine.com.

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