Production Management Industries (PMI), a Superior Energy Services company, recently announced its multi-year alliance agreement with Innovative Cleaning Solutions GoM, LLC (ICS).

PMI will provide automated tank cleaning with the removal of liquid drilling muds from marine supply vessels and drilling rig systems in the Gulf Coast Region and all waters of the Gulf of Mexico. 

The newly designed automated cleaning process (patent pending) replaces the conventional cleaning of tanks which is a labor intensive and time consuming procedure.  The new process eliminates more than 75% of the entry time required of PMI employees, automates and simplifies the cleaning process and significantly reduces another waste stream (wash water) generated during conventional cleaning.

“Customers will realize substantial savings in waste disposal and product recovery as well as enhanced utilization of their marine supply vessels servicing their drilling programs,” said Danny Michael, PMI Vice President.  “Most importantly, this process will improve the quality of life for our employees by reducing their exposure to confined space hazards and automating most of the cleaning process.”

David Ball, ICS president states, “The incorporation of our new state-of-the-art technology – automated cleaning and environmentally responsible chemicals – coupled with PMI’s vast resources will squarely place the oilfield cleaning industry in the 21st century.”  

ICS is a privately owned company which engages in the design, manufacturing and implementation of specialized equipment and chemical systems to serve the cleaning needs unique to the oil and gas industry.  The ICS concept is designed to provide a safer working environment that affords cost savings to customers through a reduction in actual cleaning time coupled with a closed loop recycling system that minimizes waste generation.

PMI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Superior Energy Services, Inc.  PMI’s Environmental Services Group offers dockside boat and barge tank and portable container cleaning; rig systems cleaning; NORM licensed for conventional and in-service cleaning of offshore and onshore production systems; and hazardous and non-hazardous waste environmental assessment, sampling, cleanup and closure of facilities, pits, marsh and wetlands areas.