Waste mgt JV formed to service LNG project

oct-nov2010
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By PATRICK TALU
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A LOCAL environmental engineering company Eco Care Engineering Ltd (ECE) has signed a deal with Transpacific Industries Group Ltd (TIGL), one of Australia’s largest waste management companies, to pave the way for a waste disposal and management contract with the PNG LNG project.ECE managing director Dennis Marvin Kai and TIGL general manager-internal projects Geoff Sparks signed the agreement to signal that the joint venture is ready to take a slice of the multi-billion project.Kai, an environmental scientist with contractual jobs for Oil Search Ltd, told reporters he was grateful to the resource companies in PNG for giving him a wealth of experience that enabled him to bid for contracts from the gas project.Kai said he was asked by his client in the PNG LNG project to get into a joint venture with Transpacific to boost his resources.“Oil Search introduced me to Transpacific,” Kai said.He said he was confident Esso Highlands would award his joint venture company a waste disposal contract covering the upstream-to-midstream side of the project and plant sites including portion 152 in Central.“Other local companies want to go for other contracts and not a single one has considered the dirty job,” he said.He said Transpacific had all the resources and expertise to be able to work on the prospective project.Among previous resource projects that Kai was engaged with included the Porgera gold mine, Ok Tedi copper mine and the Oil Search-operated Kutubu oil fields.