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
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 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.
Client Challenge
A US-based producer of oil and natural gas required establishment of a multi-state groundwater quality database to support their drilling operations. The massive five-state program was designed to meet regulatory and liability protection requirements. The company was challenged to manage and properly glean from data collected, as there were commonly multiple sources of parcel data and overlapping of parcels identified for sampling during different stages of the drilling program.
Client Challenge
A former manufacturing facility was entered into the state’s brownfield program. With additional financial backing from the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund (CORF), a redevelopment company purchased the property and sought environmental cleanup and regulatory approvals to realize a revitalized commercial property. The 20.8-acre site includes building structures to be improved and reoccupied. However, chlorinated impacts in the area of former storage tanks near the building remained above permissible risk-based action levels.