Client Challenge
An effective response to a pipeline release requires extensive pre-planning, clear lines of communication, and a team that is well-trained and ready to act with the right set of tools. When a local farmer struck a high-pressure underground petroleum pipeline while laying a tile drainage system, the midstream pipeline owner initiated its response team, including GES as prime environmental consultant.
Client Challenge
Over the past several years, many major oil companies have vigorously pursued strategies to reduce the overall cost of ownership and increase cost certainty related to their downstream petroleum environmental portfolios. These strategies – each tailored to match the company’s business objectives and needs – frequently utilize some variant of a performance-based contracting (PBC) approach.
Client Challenge
A petroleum marketer made the business decision to close an existing retail operation and relocate its convenience store and gas station operations, including the site’s underground storage tanks (USTs). Management of environmental liabilities dictated closure of an existing petroleum release case as soon as possible. State regulators had disapproved a proposed remedial action plan developed by the client’s previous consultant. An innovative, least-cost yet effective approach was required to meet the company’s business objectives.
Client Challenge
A regional petroleum marketer was seeking responsible growth and expansion of its retail store operation. When the opportunity arose to purchase an adjoining property, the marketer sought to expand its operations through the demolition of its outdated infrastructure and redevelopment of a larger, more modern facility.
Client Challenge
A former refinery site had been dormant for decades when the owner, a global oil company, sought to prepare the property for sale. The property had widespread elevated concentrations of lead in surface soil resulting from historic oil-treatment processes. The potential presence of the Texas horned lizard, a threatened species, posed a significant risk to escalated remediation costs.
Client Challenge
While refinery operations have been idled at this 1,700-acre petroleum processing facility, a facility-wide environmental remediation/compliance program has continued under the US EPA Region 2 RCRA program. The facility requires a wide range of environmental activities to maintain compliance and to protect the refinery infrastructure for future revitalization.
Client Challenge
This active refining facility, located on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, is comprised of thousands of acres and integrated facilities used to produce, store, and transport gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, aviation fuel, lubricating oils, and waxes. The environmental impacts from decades of operation are addressed with an understanding of compliance needs as well as an insight into how to best minimize costs and avoid disruption of round-the-clock operations.
Client Challenge
A national power company is progressing in its long-term strategy for the decommissioning, remediation, and restoration of a former coal-fired power plant that served thousands of customers in the Washington, DC metro area. Petroleum impacts were noted to soil and groundwater following the closure of two 25,000-gallon underground heating-oil storage tanks centrally located within the power plant complex.
Client Challenge
A multinational gas and electric company with significant presence in the Northeast is responsible for the environmental management of former manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites inherited through business transactions. A portfolio of 21 MGP sites across upstate New York is managed under a long-term remediation program for greater cost effectiveness and quality assurance. Long-term operation, maintenance, and monitoring (OM&M) of engineering and institutional controls is required for regulatory compliance.
Client Challenge
The construction of new natural gas pipelines is an important component of this energy company’s strategy to improve service for its customers across the southeastern US. A planned interstate natural gas pipeline would stretch 550 linear miles and intersect thousands of land parcels. Support properties along the route would be used to stage and store pipe sections, equipment, vehicles, and construction materials.