TEMS In­ter­na­tion­al, a lead­ing provider of en­vi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment and com­pli­ance ser­vices to oil and gas ex­plo­ration and pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies, has been award­ed a ma­jor con­tract for work in off­shore Trinidad and To­ba­go, ex­pect­ed to last be­tween 12 and 18 months.

A re­lease is­sued to­day by the com­pa­ny says the project got un­der­way in ear­ly Sep­tem­ber 2020, and TEMS In­ter­na­tion­al “will be pro­vid­ing its con­tin­u­ous en­vi­ron­men­tal com­pli­ance and drilling per­for­mance man­age­ment ser­vices on­board two rigs in the wa­ters off T&T”. 

“TEMS In­ter­na­tion­al en­gi­neers will work along­side rig per­son­nel to en­sure drilling op­er­a­tions ad­here to—or sur­pass—lo­cal en­vi­ron­men­tal reg­u­la­tions, while al­so im­prov­ing the ef­fi­cien­cy of drilling op­er­a­tions,” the state­ment ex­plains.  “This can re­duce drilling flu­id us­age and waste, pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant cost sav­ings—some­times ma­jor six-fig­ure sums—and con­tribute to a de­crease in the car­bon foot­print of the drilling as­set.”

The con­tract re­port­ed­ly is with a ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al oil and gas E&P (ex­plo­ration and pro­duc­tion) com­pa­ny and is worth a high six-fig­ure sum.

Bill Walk­ing­shaw, TEMS In­ter­na­tion­al man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, in ac­knowl­edg­ing the work of both his off­shore and on­shore teams on the project de­spite the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, said they will help pro­tect the Caribbean ma­rine en­vi­ron­ment.

“The Caribbean re­gion is an area where the oceans and seas are an im­por­tant re­source for the is­land com­mu­ni­ties,” Walk­ing­shaw ob­served.  “The ser­vices we are de­liv­er­ing on this project will help to pro­tect the en­vi­ron­ment around the is­lands by im­prov­ing ef­fi­cien­cies, re­duc­ing waste and en­sur­ing com­pli­ance with lo­cal en­vi­ron­men­tal leg­is­la­tion.  In turn, this can con­tribute to a re­duc­tion in car­bon emis­sions, fur­ther help­ing the en­vi­ron­ment.”

He added:  “Im­prov­ing ef­fi­cien­cies al­so as­sists in re­duc­ing the cost of drilling and can de­liv­er sub­stan­tial fi­nan­cial sav­ings over the life of a well.  The scale of sav­ings varies from well to well, though we have saved clients in the re­gion of £600,000 per well, on a num­ber of projects.”

TEMS In­ter­na­tion­al was found­ed in 2017, and is head­quar­tered in Ab­erdeen, with of­fices in Hous­ton and Kuala Lumpur.  It is an in­de­pen­dent oil and gas ser­vice com­pa­ny fo­cused on man­ag­ing and im­prov­ing the per­for­mance and com­pli­ance of drilling sys­tems.  It works around the world sup­port­ing ex­plo­ration and pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies dur­ing drilling op­er­a­tions. 

More specif­i­cal­ly, the firm’s ser­vices cov­er en­vi­ron­men­tal rig and ves­sel au­dits, drilling flu­id sys­tems per­for­mance man­age­ment, en­vi­ron­men­tal com­pli­ance and drilling waste per­for­mance man­age­ment. 

TEMS In­ter­na­tion­al’s per­son­nel op­er­ate as an in­te­gral part of clients’ drilling teams in or­der to re­duce drilling costs, en­sure leg­isla­tive com­pli­ance and im­prove en­vi­ron­men­tal per­for­mance.