Client Challenge
A long-time client and major petroleum marketer is pursuing a real estate transaction that would result in the sale of more than 1,200 active retail service station properties across the United States. As a requirement of the sales agreement, the client needed to conduct a Phase I environmental site assessment (ESA) for each site within an 11-week period. The properties ranged in size and geography, including service stations along major toll roads and interstates, rural roads, and busy, urban locations.
Client Challenge
Four petroleum terminals jointly own and operate a massive stormwater retention basin. The stormwater system has a seven-million-gallon design storage capacity, mechanical spillway capacity for a 25-year storm, and emergency spillway capacity for a 100-year storm. The basin ultimately discharges into an unnamed tributary and operates under a five-year Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit. Routine discharge monitoring reports are submitted to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
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
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.
Client Challenge
Over time, it can be challenging to maintain accurate and current records of every single company asset. When the 2014 West Virginia Storage Tank Act was promulgated, new requirements were placed for aboveground storage tank (AST) registration, spill prevention plans, and certified inspections, with a tight compliance timeframe. This spurred a power company to rapidly evaluate and document over 500 ASTs located at natural gas wellhead gathering facilities, compressor stations, and fractionation plants across the statewide natural gas pipeline system.
Client Challenge
A US-based energy company invests in the development of unconventional onshore oil and natural gas assets. Its commitment to responsible and safe operations requires collection of voluminous data related to drinking and domestic water quality at potential and approved natural gas drilling sites. Data are collected prior to any drilling activities to establish a baseline of water quality prior to well construction and operation.
Client Challenge
A global integrated energy company has invested in the development of natural gas resources in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The company’s commitment to safe and responsible development stresses that operations at well pads, impoundments, tank pads, and pipeline facilities are completed with respect for the communities and protection of the environment.