LCI offers a wide range of geohazard assessment and mitigation services to clients in the oil and gas sector for projects onshore and offshore, both domestic and international. LCI professionals have the right experience to help facility designers, owners, and operators understand the pertinent geologic hazards and quantify risks to their facilities in order to make the best informed decisions. Our breadth of experience with collection, integration, and careful interpretation of high-resolution topographic/bathymetric, seismic reflection, and other geophysical datasets ensures our clients’ needs are met in a timely, cost-effective, and leading-edge manner.

LCI’s Capabilities for the Oil and Gas sector include:

  • Full service technical support for geologic and seismic hazards
  • Pipeline corridor selection and geotechnical characterization
  • Landslide mapping, investigation, and mitigation
  • Seismic and fault displacement source characterization
  • Development of fault displacement design parameters for pipeline fault crossings
  • Probabilistic and deterministic hazard assessments:
      • Vibratory ground motions (PSHA) for site-specific and regional projects
      • Liquefaction
      • Fault displacement
      • Tsunami
  • GIS-based data management and visualization

Oil and Gas Projects

  • Alaska Pipeline Project PSHA
  • Kitimat LNG
  • Shah Deniz PFDHA, Azerbaijan
  • Papua New Guinea LNG
  • Ruby Well Protector Platform, Trinidad
  • Proposed LNG Platfrom, St. Croix
  • Tengizchevroil PSHA, Kazakhstan
  • Corpus Christi LNG
  • BHP Billiton Offshore Trinidad and Tobago Source Characterization and PSHA

We take advantage of rapid advances in seafloor mapping and seismic imaging systems, computer processing power, increasing availability of high-resolution data (imagery, topography, bathymetry, and digital geologic data), and probabilistic approaches to problem solving to define engineering solutions.  Our GIS-based approach delivers key benefits:

  • Compilation of diverse high resolution spatial datasets to produce 3 dimensional geologic models that can support generation of maps, profiles, oblique views, and animations.
  • Early desktop characterization of regional geologic environment allows client to anticipate potential geohazard impacts and design smarter, more efficient data collection strategies.
  • Process inter-related large and complex datasets for visualization and analysis.
  • QA/QC control for explicit treatment of data interpretation and uncertainty.
  • Relational database and map environment for probabilistic analysis and risk assessment.