Halliburton Industries Limited (Halliburton) is a multinational corporation that provides a range of products and services to the energy industry, specializing in oil and gas exploration, drilling, and production as well as engineering and construction services. Halliburton is proposing to construct and operate a LMTP at Berth 8 in the Port of Walvis Bay within the Namport property. The plant will provide drilling and completion fluids to the operators in Namibia's offshore oil and gas fields and will be comprised of four components, namely: A warehouse where inputs required in the process (fluid mixing, reconditioning and bulking operations) and resulting products will be stored. A liquid bulk area which will be used for the mixing of new drilling fluids (or drilling muds) and reconditioning used fluids (treatment of “waste”), where these fluids will be stored in horizontal tanks. The types of fluids to be stored include synthetic and water-based drilling fluids, brine completion fluids and base fluids. A dry bulk area where the bulking of products, such as barite, bentonite and calcium carbonate, will be undertaken. The products will be stored in large bags and then emptied into vertical bulk storage silos from where they will be transferred into supply vessel storage tanks through hoses. The product is then blown from supply vessel storage tanks to rig bulk tanks for mixing offshore. A laboratory unit where the fluids mixed at the LMTP and those received back from the drilling unit are quality controlled. The laboratory also provides engineering and support to operations offshore. The environmental clearance is for the following: 2. WASTE MANAGEMENT, TREATMENT, HANDLING AND DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES 2.3 The import, processing, use, and recycling, temporary storage, transit, or export of waste. 9. HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE TREATMENT, HANDLING AND STORAGE 9.1 The manufacturing, storage, handling, or processing of a hazardous substance defined in the Hazardous Substances Ordinance, 1974. 9.2 Any process or activity which requires a permit, licence, or other forms of authorisation, or the modification of or changes to existing facilities for any process or activity which requires an amendment of an existing permit, licence, or authorisation or which requires a new permit, licence or authorisation in terms of a law governing the generation or release of emissions, pollution, effluent or waste. 9.3 The bulk transportation of dangerous goods using pipelines, funiculars, or conveyors with a throughput capacity of 50 tons or 50 cubic meters or more per day. 9.4 The storage and handling of dangerous goods, including petrol, diesel, liquid petroleum gas, or paraffin, in containers with a combined capacity of more than 30 cubic meters at any one location.