First-Order Environmental Risk Assessment of Oil Export System

Our experts have conducted ERA and examined the relative risks and expected environmental costs associated with the transportation of oil.

Environmental Baseline Studies

Our specialists conducted environmental baseline study and risk assessment of several onshore facilities as part of oil production operations in the Caspian Sea. Tasks included a desk top study (site characterization, identify the groundwater monitoring criteria, identify monitoring wells placement), drilling of a large number of boreholes, soil sampling, water and air sampling, and installing permanent ground water monitoring wells. The environmental baseline project was valued at in excess of US $4M carried out on behalf of a consortium of oil exploration companies for the development of three offshore oil fields in the Caspian Sea, off the coast of Baku, Azerbaijan. The project involved offshore data collection cruises, environmental auditing and risk assessment of existing offshore and coastal facilities, oil spill trajectory modeling, a review of international environmental standards which apply to the offshore Exploration Production Industry in the North Sea, Caspian Sea and US, a shoreline oil spill sensitivity study and several onshore contaminated land assessments. We have also performed Phase 1 & 2 ESAs in the Greater Toronto area.