Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: environmental assessment, site remediation, petroleum industry, waste sump
| Principal Investigator: | Jenkins, Robert (1) |
| Licence Number: | 13703 |
| Organization: | DIAND |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2004
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| Issued: | Aug 05, 2005 |
| Project Team: | Steve Koke |
Objective(s): This study is being led by the Environmental Studies Research Funds Technical Advisory Group with members representing government, industry, and Inuvialuit. This research will help address growing concerns over the use of sumps as a disposal option for drilling waste in the ISR and is a first step in evaluating the environmental conditions at historic sump sites. The specific objectives of this research include; 1) conducting an inventory of all known specified drilling sump locations within the ISR (including location, last known operator, spud and sump closure date, identification of orphan locations, well description); 2) develop a protocol based on site assessment and risk ranking process; and 3) conduct site assessments using the protocol at a limited number of orphan sump sites, as well as company specific sites.
