FutureStates
Projects undertaken in Azerbaijan (land contamination – refinery) Bahrain (land reclamation & paint facilities) Finland (crane manufacture facilities) France (crane manufacture facilities) Hungary (establishing clean-up partnerships) Qatar (paint facilities) Russian Federation (emergency oil spill recovery and mitigation) Singapore (crane manufacturing facilities) the United Arab Emirates (paint facilities) the US (investigation and remediation of former paint works) UK (farm-originated pollution of surface watercourse by pesticide and decommissioning of fossil-fuelled power stations) Uruguay (port development).
| Location | Agency/Sector | Assignment | Project Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Helena | FCDO (DT Global) | Peer Review | Quality Review: Of a condition assessment and process hazard analysis of the ageing bulk fuel installation on the UK overseas territory of St Helena. The QR reviewed a condition survey and hazard analysis undertaken by a third party to ensure the Bulk Fuel Installation could continue to be safely operated until new fuel facilities were in service. |
| Kuwait | KOC (ECO) | Expert | Waste Management: Development of a Long Term Waste Management Strategy involving several stages: Review of Existing waste management documentation; Waste and economic forecasts; Establishing a strategic planning framework; Identification and evaluation of options; and Strategy formulation and implementation plan. |
| Nigeria | Oil & Gas (Environ) | Due Diligence | Identify potential liabilities in oil and gas concessions related to potential environmental or social issues that could have a material impact on the value of the assets assessed; the number and magnitude of oil spills and the remedial work and measures that has been carried out and measures taken to prevent oil spills in the future; current environmental non-compliance with local laws and regulations and actions being taken; facility requirements and cost estimates required to meet current and reasonably foreseeable; environmental regulations; past and current environmental liabilities and penalties including any on-site and off-site contaminated land liabilities; and site remediation, closure and monitoring; past and current gas flaring volumes and penalties and measures taken to reduce gas flaring in the future; past and current security issues and disruptions (bunkering) and measures in place to improve security and reduce oil losses; threatened or actual third party or regulatory action or claims; past and current relationships with the local communities. |
| Belize, Global | EC (MWH) | Climate Change | Key Expert advising the Global Climate Change Alliance which provides a platform for dialogue and exchange among the EU and target countries and provides support in five priority areas: Adaptation to climate change; Reducing emissions from deforestation; Enhancing participation in the Clean Development Mechanism ; Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction; and, Integrating climate change into poverty reduction efforts. Specified and organised identification and formulation missions to Benin, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Samoa, Laos and Bhutan and facilitated regional climate change conference for Caribbean. |
| Caribbean | DFID | Climate Change | Rapid Climate Change screening of the DFID Caribbean portfolio of programmes/projects and assessment of priorities for interventions. |
| Nigeria | Chemicals | HSE Audit | HSE audit of chemical manufacturing facility. |
| Kuwait | Oil & Gas | Implementation ~ ISO 14001 | Peer review of ISO 14001 implementation including assessment of environmental aspects, site visits (pipelines, tank farms, contractor sites) and risk methodology. |
| Russian Federation | World Bank, EBRD | Komi Emergency Oil Spill Recovery and Mitigation Project | In 1994 one of the world's largest oil spills occurred in the Usinsk region of the Komi Republic (Russian Federation) due to leaks from the regional pipeline. Most significant impact was on commercial and domestic fisheries in the local rivers. Other impacts included: loss of habitat for small mammals and water birds, also a significant downstream effect on river communities (eight villages with population of 7000) for potable water and grazing land. Reindeer herds and their migration routes had been affected. A social mitigation plan had been established. Specific role: identification of regional priority environmental socio-economic issues, design of environmental and socio-economic measures; identification of supporting research needs; and evaluation of low-cost bioremediation. |
| United States of America | Oil & Gas | Site Investigation and Remediation | Review undertaken of a report describing existing soil and groundwater contamination of a former paint works in US. Verification of potential remediation opportunities was undertaken and the State-required, clean-up criteria were clarified. Involved management of the purchaser's consultants and their remediation vendor/sub-contractors. |