Oil production does not go withoutenvironmental riskand localsocial impact: leakages of crude oil, gas flaring, toxic waste. More and more Oil companies are aware of their responsibilities and develop programs to deal with social and environmental issues.
ISTD (In Situ Thermal Desorption) = no excavation needed. It often occurs that real estate companies are confronted with contaminated soil in a property, creating a legal and financial problem for transfer of ownership.
It is a frequently asked question in the environmental sector, as the level of contamination in most cases is substantial and the cost of sustainable and reliable remediation solutions is often quite high. These high costs are mainly caused by high transportation costs to move the soil to a remediation facility (there are examples of transport over thousands of kilometres, just to get it into a landfill (!)…), and the costs of mobilisation of equipment and human...