Integrated Service Capabilities

Environmental Service Capabilities

The SWAT advantage is the ability to offer a full range of integrated environmental services and specialized supporting equipment within Western Canada.  These services include:

• Emergency Spill Response – Containment, recovery and waste management

• Spill Preparedness - design of spill contingency manuals both hard copy and electronic; includes evaluation of high risk areas with the area or facility assessments, control point evaluations,  procedures based on corporate emergency response plan, overview of equipment requirements and formalized training on the manual

• Spill Response Training –enironmental spill response training, technical sessions and workshops for internal and external clients

• Project Management – On-scene coordinator for complex environmental site rehabilitaion

• Regulatory Liaison – comprehensive understanding of the requirements outlined by the regulatory bodies

• Environmental Sampling, Remediation and Reclamation - related to the release

• Emergency Spill Response

SWAT is equipped to respond to a variety of spill situations including derailments, vehicle incidents, pipeline breaks, well blow outs and tank leaks.  As part of our response services SWAT offers an administrative service team to provide daily project status reporting, financial tracking, and reporting information for regulator and insurance requirements.

SWAT has responded to over 55 releases in western Canada over the past 4 years alone and personnel wide have been on over a combined 1200 releases.  These spills were primarily upstream oil and gas industry spills; however, they also included non-hazardous waste and products from other industries:

• Crude Oil / Condensate / Produced Water

• Gasoline /Diesel

• Gear Oil and Lubricants

• Methanol / Glycol

• Coal/Potash/Fertilizer/Grain

Relevant Project Experience

• Slave Lake – ESR site management, containment and recovery of crude oil from a pipeline break into a fresh water environment.  Approximately 1.5km of a creek system and beaver dams were impacted.  Provided subject matter expertise and managed site operations in conjunction with clients Incident Command and a logistics company.  Duration of response is still ongoing.

• Wabamun - ESR assessment, recovery and project management on one of Alberta’s largest oil spills.  Worked with multiple agencies for the containment portion of the release.  Managed all on water activities and provided professional guidance on recovery operations.  Duration of the response activities consisted of the summer of 2005 and the summer of 2006.

• Valleyview – ESR site management, containment and recovery of crude oil from a pipeline break into a fish bearing river.  Approximately 40km of river was impacted.  Managed over 150 personnel.  Containment and recovery operations were completed in 45 days.  Additional work to be completed in the summer of 2006.

• Radium – Performed all aspects of the spill containment and product recovery resulting from a train derailment, diesel and lubricating oil onto a major sport fishing river in British Columbia impacting over 60km of the waterway.  Worked with multiple agencies including BCMOE, local authorities and corporate representatives.  Duration of the response was 14 days.

• Sparwood - Performed all aspects of spill containment and product recovery resulting from a train derailment, diesel and lubricating oil within close proximity to a fish bearing river. Worked with multiple agencies including BCMOE, local authorities and corporate representatives.

• Wabasca - In working with multiple agencies including AEUB, AEP, Forestry and corporate representatives and an environmental company.  SWAT completed a burn of crude oil within muskeg, resulting from a release of well head.

• Brooks - SWAT managed a crude oil release from a well blow-out in Southern Alberta, which impacted agricultural lands and a landowner residence in winter.  Containment, recovery and liaison between the resident, EUB and the client.

• Lethbridge - Conducted the initial response, cleanup and remediation of a condensate release into sandy soils on and off lease.  A remediation plan was developed for the impacted soils. Soils were remediated within 6 months.

• Drumhellar – Conducted initial winter spill response, at a crude oil pipeline break into an intermittent drainage.  Worked with an environmental company to establish further recovery tactics.  In the summer completed final clean up and restoration.

Spill Preparedness

In support of our spill response capabilities, SWAT has developed a customized comprehensive spill contingency plan.  This plan is designed to supplement your corporate Emergency Response Plan (ERP) and fulfill the obligation of EUB guide 71 for spill preparedness.  SWAT will complete a risk assessment on a selected field and establish the High Risk Areas.  Once this is completed control point evaluations are completed to address any releases into a moving water body.  The Plan is then followed up with procedures, safety protocols for spill and all other related material needed to fully manage a release and equipment requirements.

SWAT has developed these Contingency Plans in both hard copy packages and electronic packages.

Relevant Project Experience

• Washington, USA – Department of Ecology.  Working with an international environmental company, SWAT developed strategy areas for the Puget Sound water ways.

• Long Lake – SWAT has developed a customized comprehensive Spill Contingency Plan in both hard copy data and electronic data for a large SAGD project in the Fort McMurray area.

• In conjunction with reputable environmental companies, SWAT has completed environmental spill response contingency plans for members of the upstream oil and gas industry in Manitoba, Alberta and Northwest Territories.  Contingency plans were also developed for a helicopter company that conducts well servicing within Northern Alberta and a transport company that transports upstream produced fluids.

Spill Response Training

SWAT has developed training programs for the oil and gas industry, forest industry, utility industry, the Petroleum Industry Training Services (PITS) and Western Canadian Spill Services (WCSS).  Course material is tailored to the clients Emergency Response Plan (ERP) whenever possible or directly to the clients needs applicable to their day to day operations.
Courses covered are as follows:

• Emergency Spill Response on Standing Water (Winter/Summer)

• Emergency Spill Response on Moving Water (Winter/Summer)

• Emergency Spill Response on Land (Winter/Summer)

• Emergency Spill Response for Tank Truck Rollovers (Winter/Summer)

• Boat Handling for the Canadian Coast Guard Pleasure Craft Operator Certification.

• Instructor for Enform and WCSS – Spill Responder, Boat Handling, Surface Water Containment and Recovery, Land Spill Response and Rehabilitation and On-scene Spill Commander (Case studies)

• SWAT’s key personnel have also had the opportunity to train students of Lake Land College in Vermilion, AB through the environmental sciences department.

As noted above SWAT has been involved with the Western Canadian Spill Services (WCSS) for the past 3 years and have completed over 80 training sessions both class room and hands-on.  SWAT has conducted or designed training for WCSS in Land Spill Response, Tank Truck rollover, Moving Water, Standing Water and Ice containment and recovery, Boat Handling and their Spill Commander course.

Project Management

SWAT is a progressive and proactive company with a strong combination of environmental expertise, hands-on experience and an earned reputation for innovative problem solving.    Since 1990 the key personnel have been directly involved with project management in product containment, product recovery, contaminated site assessments, developing of extensive sampling programs, site remediation and reclamation and training.

Relevant Project Experience

• Every Spill – Project Manager for large and small release situations.  Completed initial on-site assessment, containment and recovery.  Pending scope of work organized the required manpower and equipment to complete further site mitigation.

• Shekilie - Project management of another well blow-out in North Western Alberta.  Managed the removal of impacted soils, sampling and site closure.