Environmental oil and gas waste-management specialist TWMA has ambitious plans for its Norway business after investing more than £1million to upgrade its Mongstad onshore processing site to keep pace with demand.
The Aberdeen company launched its Norwegian operation in 2007 after acquiring SoilCare and opened its regional sales office in Stavanger a year later.
Since then, TWMA has seen a steady rise in orders and it is on target to achieve 50% year–on-year sales growth – from £5million in 2009 to £7.5million in 2010 – the highest recorded revenue from its expanding Norway operation, representing almost 25% of its worldwide total revenue.
TWMA has a 30-strong team in Norway. As its service offering widens to provide offshore waste-management services on the Norwegian continental shelf, staff numbers are expected to rise.
Managing director Ronnie Garrick said: “The Norwegian market has responded well to our onshore waste-processing services and we are now well positioned to handle complete offshore waste-management projects.
“Our Mongstad operational base, which is one of the largest onshore waste-processing sites in Norway, has seen a £1.3million investment in new equipment to double our annual processing capacity from 25,000 to more than 50,000 tonnes.
“We have more than trebled capacity in just three years and we have plans to increase this again before the year-end. Since entering the Norwegian market we have processed more than 100,000 tonnes of drill cuttings from drilling campaigns in Norway.
“Drilling operators are facing increasingly stringent environmental and health and safety legislation, therefore, processing waste in the most environmentally sound and safe manner, while doing that cost-effectively, has never been more important than it is today. Our high-performing equipment which is designed, manufactured, installed and operated by our experienced engineering team meets all of those challenges.
“We have recently introduced the TCC-RotoMill thermal waste-processing technology and cutting containment distribution system (CCDS) to the Norwegian market. Integrating the TWMA TCC-RotoMill with our CCDS custom-built system is the optimum drill cuttings configuration as this gives operators a complete environmentally sensitive system capable of containing and processing drill cuttings on-site at remote offshore locations, while concurrently the TCC-RotoMill recycles recovered oil back into the drilling fluid.
“We are, at the moment, the only company in the world able to offer this complete waste-management capability offshore.”
Aiming to develop further business opportunities in Norway, senior representatives from TWMA are among the Scottish delegates at ONS in Stavanger this week.
TWMA vice-president for Europe and west Africa Bill Walkingshaw said that ONS was an excellent platform to meet new clients and raise awareness of the firm’s technologies.
He added: “Our visit has proved exceptionally valuable, having generated a number of sales leads and met key industry decision makers. We are confident that the relationships we have built at ONS will help us to continue expanding our Norway operation.”
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