Oil, gas and fuel distribution assets share a recognisable risk profile: hydrocarbon storage and transfer, historical releases that predate current ownership, separator and drainage performance, hazardous waste, and process safety exposure where people or communities are close by. Much of the work in this sector is about quantifying liability accurately enough that it can be priced, managed or closed.
When we are engaged in this sector
- Divestment, acquisition or network transfer requiring environmental liability to be quantified
- Suspected or confirmed hydrocarbon release requiring delineation and remedial planning
- Decommissioning of tanks, depots or sites, including closure investigation
- Quantitative risk assessment for facilities handling hazardous substances near populated areas
- Hazardous waste arrangements across distributed networks of operating sites
What we deliver
- Environmental site assessment across single sites and distributed networks
- Soil and groundwater investigation, delineation and conceptual site modelling
- Remedial options appraisal, remediation supervision and closure validation
- Underground storage tank assessment and decommissioning support
- Quantitative risk assessment, consequence modelling and separation distance review
- Hazardous waste classification, storage, transport and disposal arrangements
How we approach this work
A network assessment is only useful if results are comparable between sites. Applying one protocol consistently is what allows an operator or a buyer to see where liability is actually concentrated, rather than treating every site in the estate as carrying equivalent risk.
The Egyptian context for this sector
Fuel retail and distribution assets in Egypt frequently date back decades, and ownership has changed hands more than once across parts of the market. That history matters: contamination beneath a forecourt does not distinguish between the operator that caused it and the one that now holds the site. Establishing what is present, and when it is likely to have arrived, is often the difference between a priced liability and an open-ended one.
Questions we are asked in this sector
How do you assess a large network without assessing every site to the same depth?
By applying one screening protocol consistently across the whole estate, then escalating only where history or observed conditions justify it. The consistent screening is what makes results comparable and allows liability to be aggregated; the escalation is what keeps cost proportionate. Assessing every site to full investigation depth is rarely justified and usually not deliverable within a transaction window.
Can historical contamination be separated from current operations?
Sometimes, and it is worth attempting where liability allocation depends on it. Depth profile, degradation state, the position of impact relative to superseded infrastructure, and site history records all contribute. It is an evidence-weighted judgement rather than a definitive measurement, and the report should present it as such rather than overstating certainty.
When is quantitative risk assessment required rather than a qualitative review?
When the question is whether risk at a specific location is tolerable, typically for facilities handling hazardous substances near housing or other sensitive receptors, or where a permit, insurer or lender requires it. A qualitative review can rank scenarios but cannot answer a tolerability question, and it will not satisfy a reviewer who needs to compare against a criterion.
Selected projects in this sector
- Environmental Assessment of 43 Shell Service Stations — Full environmental assessment of 43 service stations across Egypt as a prerequisite of the transaction from Shell to Total.
- Environmental Assessment of Service Stations for Exxon Mobil — Environmental assessment and remediation support for Exxon Mobil stations and depots across Egypt.
- ADES Waste Management Project — Management, transportation, and safe disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste generated from ADES facilities.
Relevant services
- Remediation & Site Closure
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA & ESIA)
- Risk & Climate
- Hazardous Waste Management