dec-2017

116 117 “We diversified our service offerings at the end of 2015.We added a pipeline cleaning division and shifted our main focus to quality and customer satisfaction.We encourage all of our employees from the top down to really take a customer-facing approach; we will do whatever we can to ensure our customers are satisfied and that we are exceeding expectations.We attribute the success and growth that we’ve had by taking that approach and being strategic in the customer base that we’re trying to work with, even in a down market. From 2015 through 2016,we tripled in revenue and we are forecasting another 20 percent growth from 2016 to the end of this year. “So, our approach has been to do whatever we can to get market share, even in a down market, and understand that this great learning curve can really can set us up to launch, again, as the market JP SERVICES rebounds. In studying the industry, and knowing the cyclicality of oil and gas, in general,we understand that it is going to rebound.Now, is it ever going to get back to 100-plus dollars a barrel? No telling. But,we don’t need it to get there to see an uplift in the services and other aspects required from us, as a service provider. “We are constantly looking for opportunistic growth, but,more importantly, focusing on a stra- tegic plan that includes geographic expansion– positioning ourselves in different areas where we see the midstream sector, or the energy industry, in general, having a need.We currentlymostly work across the southern U.S.,with two office locations in Texas, and this year alone,we’ve completed projects in Mississippi,Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky,Missouri, and Kansas.Our footprint is fairly wide, but having strategic locations to be