Energy Maintenance Services

Energy Maintenance Services (EMS USA, Inc.) offers integrated solutions for all Pipeline Maintenance, Construction, Measurement and Automation, and Integrity Services. Our Clients have trusted us to partner with them to ensure the success of their operations. And we do it all with a stellar industry safety record. We provide a full range of construction, integrity, and operations and maintenance (O&M) services to more than 500 clients in North America. Energy Maintenance Services is changing the way pipeline operations and maintenance services are managed throughout the US. And we remain committed to finding innovative ways to provide integrated solutions for the safe delivery of energy.

Our PURPOSE

Connecting people with the world's energy

Our MISSION

We build, operate and maintain pipelines with a passion for safety and a commitment to building enduring relationships.

Our VISION

A world with no pipeline failures.

Our CORE VALUES

• Safety
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity

Pipeline Services

EMS provides highly qualified personnel and equipment to pipeline owners & operators, delivering services to support their Integrity Management Plans (IMP). These plans are filed with the Department of Transportation (DOT) and represent how the pipeline owner/operator will assure the integrity of the asset. Part of the IMP is to assess threats to the pipeline and take proactive steps to prevent a failure and spill. Results from inspection runs by 'smartpigs', which are run through the pipeline to identify metal loss from corrosion, or deformation from strikes upon the line (excavation by 3rd parties), require repair to regain the integrity of the pipeline. EMS personnel are dispatched to sites where there are integrity threats along the pipeline to complete these repairs. All EMS personnel are certified in accordance with DOT regulations (Operator Qualification 'OQ') to perform the tasks they are assigned. Repairs range in scope from complete line replacement to sleeves or patches to repair a section of pipe. EMS delivers pipeline maintenance services to the gathering, transmission and distribution markets. EMS also works inside refineries, petrochemical and power plants providing these same repair and maintenance services.

EMS also provides new installation services to customers installing new pipelines and associated surface facilities such as compression, pumping and metering. EMS is the largest installer of pipeline compression in the US, having installed over 650,000 HP over the past 4 years. Tied closely to the Measurement & Automation group, EMS installs hundreds of miles of gathering systems each year. Most of these pipelines are between 4' and 12' in diameter and range from 1 to 10 miles

Measurement & Automation & Construction

Similar to a gas pump at a service station, oil & gas volumes must be measured from the time they leave the wellhead until they arrive at the consumption point, to assure proper accounting as well as safety. These volumes and other pertinent data such as pressure, temperature and flow-rate are measured and either recorded at the site, or transmitted via cellular or satellite link to a pipeline operations control center. Additionally, the fluids must be managed to assure quality of the fluid stream. This management may entail, compression, pumping, dehydration, heating, separation (gas from liquid), pressure regulation, odorizing, etcetera. EMS can design, fabricate, install, operate and maintain these production and transmission measurement systems, including the data communication equipment.

Coupled with the field installation and maintenance of these systems, EMS has the only independent Pipeline Operations Control Center in the US. Data from the sensors installed at a wellhead or along a pipeline (valves, volume controls, etc.) are transmitted to the EMS Control Center in Houston where skilled operators continually monitor and manage the system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This same control center performs One Call support services which is a critical requirement for pipeline owners/operators to remain compliant with DOT regulations