JET Environmental Services, Inc. is an international battery consulting and logistics company headquartered in the United States and serving over 70 oil/gas producing countries. We have been in business for over 25 years providing full lifecycle services for lithium batteries including storage, handling, use, and end-of-life management at the warehouse, laboratory, workshop, rigsite or vessel.
The use of lithium batteries is continuing to grow in the oil services and downhole industries. While lithium-ion batteries are beginning to be used, the industry currently relies extensively on lithium metal chemistries that use thionyl chloride or sulfuryl chloride for LWD, MWD, GWD, subsea, buoys, memory, and other applications. The increased use of these high temperature cells is being driven by increased use in high temperature wells.
If your organization uses lithium batteries, your employees, vessel operators, and your client’s employees may be exposed to the potential hazards of lithium batteries.
Tiered Lithium Battery Training
JET Environmental Services, Inc. offers three levels of training for an effective battery safety program: (1) Awareness; (2) Technician Safety, and (3) Battery Safety Officer (BSO). Training courses presented by JET have been an industry standard for battery handlers and users in oil services and downhole industries. Our staff will work with you to identify applicable training requirements for compliance and develop and implement a customized training program. Curriculum ranges from 30 minutes to three days and can either be provided in the workplace or online, whichever better suits your needs.
The BSO curriculum is two days of training including classroom, regulatory, and packaging modules. Onsite training is available in various languages. Online training is available in English and Spanish with live interpretation in many languages including French, Portuguese, and Russian.
Lithium Battery Management and Permits
A written corporate standard specifically targeting lithium batteries of all chemistries forms the baseline for any program. JET can develop guidelines and manuals for full life-cycle management of lithium metal batteries including storage, handling, use, and end-of-life management at the warehouse, laboratory, workshop, rig-site, or vessel.
Lithium Cloud® Management Platform
Local Permit and Liaison
Used or unused lithium batteries intended for recycling or disposal are often controlled by the OECD transboundary regulations and the Basel Convention. Shipments of lithium metal batteries are subject to transboundary movement requirements under OECD and the Basel Convention. JET is uniquely qualified to provide in-country permit expedition services for waste lithium batteries. A typical scope for in-country expediting would include JET personnel visiting the country, or sending one of its in-country representatives if available, and visiting the agencies responsible for issuing permits or authorizations. It may include visiting the base or consolidation location for the facility if needed.
Field Work and Packaging
JET provides on-site field and packaging services including emergency response and testing standby support. These services are quoted on an as-needed basis according to our standard schedule of rates.
A typical packaging scope includes sending a key field services manager or in-country representative to the remote base to coordinate the retrieval, packaging, labeling, and preparation of the accumulated batteries for shipment. Generally, this scope also includes coordinating the logistics with a logistics partner for shipment offsite. The scope may include base-to-ship coordination. In scenarios where the host country of a remote base does not have access to a local company or personnel who are qualified to handle waste lithium batteries, JET can also provide field services personnel that would actually complete the physical retrieval and packaging.
Post-Incident Cleanup and Emergency Response
JET is uniquely qualified to provide emergency response and post-incident response services for lithium batteries. JET is capable of sending project and technical field managers to virtually any country to supervise the cleanup of lithium battery related fires or other incidents.
Auditing
Sensible and practical auditing requirements are a key aspect of lithium battery management. JET can complete a detailed audit of the base, rig-site, or vessel for compliance with storage, use, handling, and testing guidelines. JET additionally offers services to audit third party facilities including transportation vendors, warehouses, and waste & recycling facilities that may handle or process lithium batteries.
Recycling and Disposal
JET works with our clients to identify suitable recycling methods for end-of-life lithium metal batteries. JET has strong working relationships with processors in the United States, Canada, Germany, and other countries offering proprietary technologies for recycling and recovering lithium metal batteries and other chemistry of batteries. JET additionally offers auditing services to evaluate alternate facilities for suitability to process batteries in accordance with corporate standards.
