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Clean Harbors provides a wide range of services, empowering environmental consultants and contractors to assess and plan remediation for soil and groundwater contamination areas.
Our diverse range of equipment and experienced personnel are suitable for both British Columbia’s Dormant Sites Reclamation Program and Alberta’s Site Rehabilitation Program, including Phase II and III environmental site assessments.
Our Orphan Well Experts understand many types of site reclamation and site remediation options, and can offer important insight into full-service orphan well services and resources.
Line and right of way clearing services are important tasks during orphan well abandonment and site rehabilitation projects. Our line clearing services use mulching and hand-cut line clearing techniques to safely perform line clearing techniques. Using GPS-guided equipment maximizes our efficiencies and allows us to pinpoint your desired corridor within 25 meters with no continuous line of the site produced.
Clean Harbors Line Locating Services provide the pre-planning, project management, locating, GPS surveying, and GIS mapping of your underground utility and buried facility lines in advance of your ground disturbance activities. Our locators are also supported by pipeline database providers whose database searches are produced digitally and transmitted with ease.
With Clean Harbors’ diverse fleet of drills, including heliportable, tracked, and wheeled, we can access almost any site under any conditions. We offer a wide range of drilling services including both solid stem and hollow stem auger drilling, SPT and Shelby tube sampling, monitoring well installations, repair, and decommissioning as well as grouting services.
Clean Harbors has the equipment, experience, and manpower to investigate contamination via drilling, test-pitting, installation of monitoring wells. In-Situ/Ex-Situ remediation options include chemical injections, excavation & treatment, loading, transporting, and disposing of contaminated soil. Hazardous & Non-Hazardous soil is classified, manifested, and directed to the best disposal site. All of your remediation needs with one point of contact.
A well that has not been used for production, injection, or disposal for a specified amount of time (six months for high-risk wells, or 12 months for medium- and low-risk wells). A producer may choose to suspend a well because it is not considered to be economically viable at the time, but it could be in the future.
Abandonment is the stage before reclamation, where a well that is no longer needed to support oil and gas development is permanently plugged, cut and capped according to Alberta Energy Regulator requirements.
The process of returning the abandoned site, as close as possible, to a state that’s equivalent to before it was disturbed. Companies are responsible for reclamation liability for 25 years, after which the liability reverts to the Crown. Abandoned sites that have gone through reclamation must go through a certification process before being officially deemed reclaimed.
A well, pipeline, or facility that does not have any legally responsible and/or financially able party to conduct abandonment and reclamation responsibilities. Orphan wells in Alberta are the responsibility of the industry-funded Orphan Well Association (OWA). Between 2002 and 2018, the OWA successfully decommissioned approximately 2,200 orphan wells and reclaimed over 800 sites. This work is accelerating. Source: Government of Alberta/Alberta Energy Regulator/Orphan Well Association
