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Data Overview: Kuwait Environmental Remediation Projects

The document provides an overview of available data on Kuwait's environmental remediation projects. It describes historic data from 1,300 sampling locations covering 114 km2 that identified wet oil lakes, dry oil lakes, and contaminated piles. Recent limited scope investigations in South East Kuwait included 205 new sample locations and hand-dug inspection pits that found variable layer thicknesses and TPH concentrations. Future data needs include more accurate spatial distribution, layer thicknesses, and volumetric estimations.

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Data Overview: Kuwait Environmental Remediation Projects

The document provides an overview of available data on Kuwait's environmental remediation projects. It describes historic data from 1,300 sampling locations covering 114 km2 that identified wet oil lakes, dry oil lakes, and contaminated piles. Recent limited scope investigations in South East Kuwait included 205 new sample locations and hand-dug inspection pits that found variable layer thicknesses and TPH concentrations. Future data needs include more accurate spatial distribution, layer thicknesses, and volumetric estimations.

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Data Overview

KERP
Kuwait Environmental Remediation Projects

“Restoring Kuwait Treasures”


Kuwait Environmental Remediation Projects
Available Data Overview

1. Historic Data 2. Recent Data 3. Future Data

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Available Data Overview

1. Historic (CIC) Data


PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

Random
distributed
sampling
Risk reduction

Supplementary

Main 3900
samples
CIC 1300
locations
over 114
for 26M m3
(2002) km2

Preliminary

6000
Industry Standard Approach additional
inspection
pits

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Kuwait Environmental Remediation Projects
Available Data Overview

Areas of interest

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Kuwait Environmental Remediation Projects
Available Data Overview

North Kuwait (Umm Al Aish and Raudhatain)

21 km

23 km
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Kuwait Environmental Remediation Projects
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20km
South Kuwait (Burgan)

38km

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What does the CIC data tell us?


Wet Oil Lakes,
Dry Oil Lakes, Sludges, crusts, oil
Features Layers contaminated sands
Contaminated Piles

Sand (max 95%), Particle


Depth
Fines (max 40%) Size

Ranging from Banded


<1% to ~70% TPH TPH

25% 8%

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Available Data Overview

 Typical wet oil lake feature  Example of Layering

 Transition area
between wet and dry
oil lake features

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Available Data Overview

Wet Oil Lake (WOL) Features – Summary


• No UXO assessment or clearance resulting in limited
data. CIC assessment predominantly from edges of
WOL

• Comprises either a sludge, oil or variable crust at


surface (bituminous/soft to hard), known as Layer 1, of
0.02m to 0.9m thickness

• Can contain discrete water / emulsion lenses within


• Layer 1: Typical
Layer 1
concentration is >10%.
(TPH concentration range: 18,100
• Underlying oil contaminated sand with general mg/kg (1.8%) to 679,000 mg/kg
decreasing concentrations of TPH, known as Layer 2 (67.9%).)

• Average depth of contamination estimated as 0.65m • Layer 2: Typical


(though the combined depth of Layer 1 and Layer 2 can concentration is <10%.
range from as little as 0.08m to 2.32m, the latter is not (TPH concentration range: 1,040
(1%) mg/kg to 349,000 mg/kg
common) (34.9%))

• Coverage: 7.18 km2 of the 114 km2


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Available Data Overview

 Typical Dry Oil Feature

 Typical Dry Oil


Cross- Section

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Dry Oil Lake Features - Summary

• Variable crust at surface (from soft


bituminous to cemented) known as Layer 1

• Underlying oil contaminated sand with


general decreasing concentrations of TPH,
known as Layer 2
• Layer 1: Typical concentration is
• Average depth: 0.27m (Burgan), 0.17m >5-20%
(North Kuwait) - (though the combined depth (TPH concentration range 447 mg/kg to
694,000 mg/kg (69.4%))
of Layer 1 and Layer 2 can range from as
little as 0.01m to 2.88m, the latter is not • Layer 2: Typical concentrations are
common) between 1% and 10% (TPH
concentration range 420 mg/kg to 413,000
• Estimated land coverage 98 km2 of the mg/kg (41.3%))

114km2

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Available Data Overview

 Oil Contaminated Piles

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Oil Contaminated Piles

• Highly variable composition


(heterogeneous) – clean through to
highly contaminated
• Height of piles range from 0.45m to 7.0m
• Estimated land coverage of 8.6 km2 of
the 114 km2

• TPH concentration range: 470


mg/kg to 258,000 mg/kg

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What does the CIC data not tell us?


Variation Inaccurate
Spatial distribution Feature Boundaries

Volumetric
Layer Thickness
Estimations

TPH Concentration Concentrations

Physicality Expectations

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Available Data Overview

Other CIC work

Limited Bench Scale Studies

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2. Current Data LIMITED SCOPE INVESTIGATION


Burgan - South East Kuwait

Data gap
analysis
Risk reduction

Supplementary

KERP
Main Feature Discrete
Radials (Nov sampling
2014)
Preliminary

205
Industry Standard Approach sample
locations

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Wet oil lake feature hand-dug


inspection pits (Nov 2014)

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Dry oil lake feature hand dug


inspection pits (Nov 2014)

Thin crust
(Layer 1)

Contaminated
Sand (Layer 2)

‘Clean’ Sand
(Layer 3)

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Dry oil lake feature hand dug inspection pits (Nov 2014)

Variable thickness
Consistent thickness of contamination
of contamination
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During site investigation During sample collection (Jan 2015)


(Nov 2014)

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 Key findings to date:


 TPH is dominated by >EC34
 PSD confirms fines content
 Resins and asphaltines are
present within higher TPH
concentrations
 A hard crust, known as
tarcrete, derived from aerial
deposition of crude oil from
wells, can be mistaken for dry
oil contamination.

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3. Future Data

Contaminant
Concentrations
Risk Assessments

Remediation Design
Main
Investigation:
Site Soil
Characterization Baseline Information

Extent &
Volumetric
Depth
2016 - 2017

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