The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) held a stake­hold­er ses­sion with con­sul­tants who pro­vide ser­vices to up­stream oil and gas com­pa­nies as part of work on the Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) per­mit­ting process.

Chair­man Doolar Ram­lal and Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor (Ag.) Wayne Ra­jku­mar led the meet­ing with mem­bers of the CEC and Per­mit Mon­i­tor­ing and Com­pli­ance Units. The ses­sion fol­lowed a pri­or meet­ing with up­stream op­er­a­tors. The EMA pre­sent­ed is­sues, pri­or­i­ties and rec­om­men­da­tions from op­er­a­tors and in­vit­ed in­put from con­sul­tants on the CEC process.

Man­ag­er Per­mit­ting Vid­jaya Ramkha­lawan said con­sul­tants link project com­po­nents and reg­u­la­to­ry re­quire­ments. Dis­cus­sions ad­dressed com­mu­ni­ca­tion, con­sis­ten­cy and sub­mis­sions. Par­tic­i­pants re­viewed steps to sup­port a sin­gle per­mit­ting process.