Major contract wins signify rapid growth in Egypt for TWMA

Aberdeen-based global waste management firm TWMA has successfully secured major contract wins with both BP and Shell worth approximately £10 million. These long-term contracts signify the rapid expansion of TWMA in the fast growing Egyptian market. TWMA is the only company capable of providing a fully integrated drilling waste management service in the country and expects to open another office in Cairo to facilitate further expansion.
 
The contracts cover the supply of equipment and services for both Shell and BP’s offshore Mediterranean drilling operations. In the early part of 2006 TWMA established an operations base and treatment facility in Egypt’s Ameriya Free Zone, close to the port of Abu Qir. The thermal desorption treatment facility, for the processing of hydrocarbon contaminated drill cuttings, is unique to the country and operates under full licence.
 
Alister Kirkness, director of TWMA, said: “These recent contract wins have already enabled TWMA to expand operations in Egypt, with further significant growth planned. Our presence in the country gives our clients peace of mind that all hydrocarbon contaminated materials are being treated in accordance with the highest environmental standards – particularly important in the sensitive Nile Delta region.”
 
TWMA’s Egyptian operations now have over 40 employees; 85% being Egyptian nationals who have undertaken extensive training in the company’s technology for both onshore and offshore operations.
 
With headquarters in Aberdeen, a treatment facility at Peterhead and international bases in West Africa and North Africa, TWMA is a world leader in the handling and treatment of hydrocarbon contaminated drill cuttings and other drilling waste materials. TWMA is also the only SME in the world to process these cuttings offshore using thermal technology, which separates them into their constituent parts of water, oil and solids, all of which can then be recycled. The company’s unique technologies are field proven and are the most cost effective and environmentally sound way to dispose of drill cuttings.