Developing your project while minimizing environmental impacts, keeping stakeholders informed, and ensuring regulatory compliance requires the expertise of the Vertex team. We work with your team to understand the needs of your project and develop solutions that address regulatory, environment, community, and production challenges.
From pre-development and field operations to processing at mill facilities, Vertex professionals work with your team throughout the lifecycle of your project and are even capable of working with and supporting your team on remote work sites.
Case Studies
Reclamation Certification Using Disturbance Recovery Models and Remote Sensing
Objective
Providing practical and economical solutions is one of Vertex’s commitments to our clients. Conventional reclamation assessment of oil sand exploration well/corehole programs requires field assessments of all associated well sites and access roads. These field assessments have a high cost and environmental impact and are often highly subjective. Vertex’s Research and Development, Operations and Remote Sensing teams worked collaboratively to develop a remote sensing approach combined with disturbance recovery models to overcome these limitations. The approach utilizes remote sensing data and ecological resiliency factors to rank the well sites and access roads, and only sites with reduced recovery/resiliency are field assessed. Between 2021 and 2022, Vertex used this approach for Imperial Oil and received a reclamation certificate for a 29-site oil sands exploration program.
