As the operator of a thriving industrial construction company based in Devon, Alta., Jim Philpott knows how important it is to maintain an edge over the competition.

It's all about giving your customers maximum value in exchange for the money they spend. And that's the way Thermal Energy Services insists on doing business.

"It's all about productivity," says Philpott, one of Thermal's two managing partners. "It's about setting reasonable targets for both budgets and schedules and it's about meeting or even beating those targets."

A long list of satisfied clients in the Western Canadian oilpatch will testify that Thermal Energy lives up to the highest performance standards, pleasing clients representing such diverse fields as oil and gas, power and utilities, pulp and paper, chemical and petro-chemical, mining and smelting.

A full-service industrial construction and maintenance team that specializes in supplying pressure equipment, piping, steam-generation equipment and piping modules for oilsands-related projects, Thermal Energy Services serves its customers a full-meal deal, bringing the latest in equipment and the finest in project-management technology to every task. Thermal Energy prides itself on its performance-based open-shop team concept structure as well as a large and disciplined team of skilled workers and quality-control technicians.

Looking back over the company's history, Philpott reserves for special mention the work Thermal has done on Opti-Nexen's Long Lake project, which utilizes the latest in gasification and Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) technology.

Thermal has been asked to supply and install an entire gamut of equipment and infrastructure for this client, from SAGD well pads to main flow lines, specialty silos and oxygen systems. Of course, modular construction and placement has also been an important feature of the assignment. Thermal Energy maintains superior industry accreditation through high-quality work and an exceptional safety record.

Visit www.thermalenergy.ca or call 780.490.7192.