 Environmental
services for the oil and gas industry
Akvaplan-niva and our
daughter company Akvaplan-niva Barents (Murmansk, Russia) offer a wide range of environmental
management services, tools and research services to the
petroleum industry.
- Environmental and hydrographical
baseline and monitoring surveys
- Accredited environmental
monitoring and laboratory analyses
- Impact and risk assessments
- Environmental research related to activities in cold
climates
- Oil spill contingency planning,
vulnerability assessments and post
spill monitoring
- Development of environmental guidelines and monitoring
programmes
- Use of excess heat / cooling water
from petroleum activities
in aquaculture
Since 1989, Akvaplan-niva has
carried out more than 60 baseline and monitoring surveys of offshore oil
and gas
activities.
Environmental Impact and Risk assessments
are key areas of expertise in Akvaplan-niva.
The company has extensive
experience in (EIA) and Risk Analyses (ERA) in connection with offshore
drilling activities, shipping, construction of pipelines,
decommissioning, harbours and onshore terminals, and pre-entry surveys
supporting the evaluation of potential
engagement in novel areas.
Akvaplan-niva also provides services related to oil spill
prevention and cleanup, including sensitivity
assessment and mapping,
contingency planning, and environmental damage and recovery assessments.
Akvaplan-nivas research
activities are focussed on understanding the impacts of petroleum
activities on Arctic marine ecosystems. Our in-house research facilities
include analytical laboratories (effect parameters, lipids,
hydrocarbons, etc.), an arctic ecotoxocology laboratory. Our
temperature controlled facilities make us able to keep
arctic animals and carry out experimental work at low temperatures.
Project examples
- Environmental monitoring survey of the Tampen region (region IV) 1996,
1999, 2002, 2005
- Aligning of Russian, Norwegian and Russian rules and regulations on
EIA
- Environmental Risk Assessment, Ship to ship reloading of gas
condensate in Finnmark
- Environmental status of the Norwegian offshore based on 10 years of
regional sediment monitoring
- Snøhvit LNG; Baseline documentation report for EIA
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