GES provided permitting and engineering support for our client’s new startup sterilization process in Texas. The new startup used state of the art equipment for sterilizing medical packaging and devices with a process that emits ozone.GES completed the online permit requirements of The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The new source required modeling and demonstration of best available control technology (BACT) and included a cost benefit assessment.
Challenge
The client, a land-development company, required an FAA-certified small unmanned aerial system (sUAS or drone) pilot to fly a Matrice 210 drone to visually inspect numerous streams located on the Las Lomas Mitigation Bank from above. The drone would be used to gather data on areas that were inaccessible or too difficult to traverse by foot. Data captured by the drone would be used to create orthomosaic and topographic maps of the streams and their bank conditions, in addition to high-definition photos and videos.
Challenge
The client required a Phase I environmental site assessment (ESA) for an approximately 578-acre property located in San Patricio County, TX. The purpose of this investigation was to identify recognized environmental concerns (RECs), including petroleum products (per American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard E 1527-13), on the subject property or in the immediate area as part of the due diligence required by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).
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
A major energy pipeline developer embarked on the construction of a 65-mile segment of a crude-oil pipeline through points in the Delaware Basin. The project required oversight from a third-party environmental inspector to ensure construction activities maintained compliance with environmental regulations, permit requirements, mitigation agreements, and other commitments. Speed to market was a critical project success factor for this client.
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 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.