HB Rentals, an en­er­gy ser­vices com­pa­ny spe­cial­is­ing in on­site ac­com­mo­da­tion ser­vices, has com­plet­ed in­stal­la­tion of an end-to-end pack­age for BHP Bil­li­ton, con­sist­ing of off­shore ac­com­mo­da­tion mod­ules and op­er­at­ing es­sen­tials for wa­ter, sewage, pow­er and light­ing in the An­gos­tu­ra Field, off­shore T&T.

The in­stal­la­tion is on the fixed plat­form Kairi 2 and sup­ports a work­force of 72 per­son­nel. HB in­stalled fiber­glass stack­able mod­ules, con­sist­ing of a to­tal of eight sleep­er and gen­er­al pur­pose build­ings. The tem­po­rary liv­ing-quar­ter com­plex re­quired lo­cal en­gi­neer­ing de­sign sup­port to en­sure the com­plex did not vi­o­late the struc­tur­al in­tegri­ty of the plat­form and to cus­tom de­sign plat­forms and stairs for ease of ac­cess.

HB's Trinidad-based project man­age­ment team planned for the vol­u­met­ric siz­ing and in­stal­la­tion of the op­er­at­ing es­sen­tials nec­es­sary for dai­ly on­site liv­ing and work­ing, in­clud­ing fresh wa­ter sup­ply, sewage man­age­ment, pow­er gen­er­a­tion sup­ply and light­ing, as a com­pre­hen­sive end-to-end pack­age.

"HB Trinidad was able to pro­vide all the es­sen­tials for this tem­po­rary liv­ing-quar­ter in­stal­la­tion," said Jude Primeaux, busi­ness unit di­rec­tor of Latin/South Amer­i­ca Op­er­a­tions. "Be­cause BHP came to us for an end-to-end so­lu­tion, we were able to stream­line the in­stal­la­tion process to fit a tight 14-day de­liv­ery win­dow. Our prod­uct avail­abil­i­ty in Trinidad was a strong fac­tor in de­liv­er­ing on this tem­po­rary project and help­ing BHP stay on sched­ule."

"Our abil­i­ty to quick­ly re­spond with avail­able prod­uct, en­gi­neer­ing and project man­age­ment sup­port, and a com­pre­hen­sive pack­age were de­cid­ing fac­tors in our be­ing award­ed this project," said Ja­son Cox, busi­ness de­vel­op­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tive, T&T. "Our goal with BHP was to help them stay on sched­ule to min­i­mize the risk of un­planned down­time and as­so­ci­at­ed pro­duc­tiv­i­ty loss."

HB Rentals has been ac­tive in the T&T mar­ket for 15 years and has sup­port­ed up to 500 per­son­nel on board (POB) at var­i­ous times. Its ac­com­mo­da­tion fleet based in Clax­on Bay, Trinidad, pro­vides beds, gal­leys, din­ers, laun­dries, of­fices, recre­ation rooms and off­shore ser­vice mod­ules,