Gran Bajo Oriental
Client
Tecpetrol S.A.Location
Santa Cruz, ArgentinaHighlights
- Field surveys
- Soil, surface water, and groundwater sampling
- Geographic information systems
- Satellite image geoprocessing
Project Overview
The project consisted of surveying environmental conditions of the 2,550 km2 Gran Bajo Oriental area before the start of the client's operations. It included a determination of probable environmental liabilities related to the hydrocarbon industry.
Project Role
Knight Piésold carried out a baseline study conducted by specialists with proven experience in field surveys and the hydrocarbons industry.
The study included:
- Surveying flora and fauna, farm water wells, lagoons, and oil facilities
- Interviewing residents, rural workers, and farm owners
- Sampling soil, surface water, and groundwater for physicochemical analysis
- Obtaining normalized differential snow indexes (NDSI), normalized differential water (NDWI), and normalized differential vegetation indexes (NDVI)
- Multi-temporal analysis of satellite images and by combinations of bands