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ally didn’t know, or trust, that there was a local expert
in our field.”
The game-changing opportunity came about four
months after the start of the business, when Teeluck-
singh and Gopaul were commissioned by a local oil
company to design an artificial offshore reef. It was
completed within a few months, and, once the desired
clientele became aware of the quality and timeliness
of the work performed, more energy-centric tasks
soon followed.
About 80 percent of the company’s work now comes
from oil and gas clients.
The 30-person multi-disciplinary staff includes data
collection specialists, an HSE department and an
administrative staff all supporting a core group of
scientists with bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees
or doctoral degrees in their specific fields of study.
Teelucksingh said the company provides a “complete
one-stop shop” for environmental work in Trinidad
& Tobago, with all capabilities for pertinent air and
oceanographic modeling activities.
“We try to approach our projects from a scientific per-
spective,” he said.
“And I think people trust us in that sense, because we
were originally scientists and they see that we are ba-
sically solving problems through science. That is what
we try to do. We’re not business people, but problem-
solvers who use our scientific knowledge.”
Roughly 80 percent of the company’s activities are in
and around Trinidad, though some recent business
has taken it to Suriname to perform environmental as-
sessments for newly-constructed gas stations. Other
off-island work has been in Barbados, Montserrat,
Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia, much of it on coastal
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