Chevron Estero Bay Marine Terminal Abandonment, Morro Bay, CA.

AMS was selected by Chevron Pipeline Company, the California State Lands Commission and the California Coastal Commission to provide third-party environmental mitigation and permit compliance monitoring for the partial abandonment of the Chevron Estero Bay Marine Terminal effort. This three year project involved the removal of mooring anchors, buoys and chain from two oil tanker moorings, the locating, excavation and testing of pipeline contents from three abandoned oil terminal pipelines, and the removal of all onshore equipment, anode beds, power cables and other structures located along the beach and intertidal zones in a highly sensitive marine environment. An area-wide biological survey of sub-tidal habitats was required in the second year of the project to ensure pipeline abandonment activities would not impact sensitive hard bottom habitat. Protection of marine mammals (sea otters, California sea lions, harbor seals and migrating whales.

Global West Fiber Optic Cable Project

AMS provided environmental mitigation and permit compliance monitoring support for responsible federal and state agencies, including the California Coastal Commission and California State Lands Commission for the onshore to offshore horizontal directional boring portion of this seven cable fiber optic cable installation project. The Global West project involved offshore cable landing in San Diego, Manhattan Beach, Santa Barbara and Morro Bay, California. This project entailed daily compliance and permit monitoring and documentation of project activities by on-site observers at three or more of the sites. Daily reports of these activities were posted daily to a limited access website established for the project. A detailed final project report was prepared documenting overall project compliance with individual project requirements. AMS personnel also facilitated resolution of project execution deviations from pre-approved plans with state agency personnel and the project applicant.

Pacific Crossing and Pan American Crossing Fiber Optic Cable System

AMS provided onshore and offshore mitigation monitoring support for responsible state, federal and local agencies for this three cable fiber optic cable laying project in Grover Beach, California. AMS managed the environmental mitigation/permit compliance and archeological monitoring of the onshore directional boring and trenching phases of the project as well as the environmental mitigation/permit compliance and marine mammal monitoring for the offshore cable burial phase of the project. The offshore components of the project required supporting two separate cable laying vessels conducting simultaneous operations. Because of the size and complexity of this project, AMS managed the employees of four sub-contractors, as well as its own employees to meet all of the project and operational requirements.