The following is a summary of the Acorn International’s experience in leading Environmental and Social Baseline Assessment worldwide:

Acorn’s staff have designed, led and performed environmental and socioeconomic baseline assessments worldwide.  This experience includes applying international methods to establish accurate and reliable characterizations of offshore and onshore environments as a basis for evaluating, monitoring, and evaluating impacts of development programs. 

Recently we completed a baseline site assessment for an industrial site in Nigeria, working side by side with our Nigerian partner to apply world-class field and laboratory procedures along with local know-how to ensure the work reflected a realistic and reliable view of baseline conditions on the site.

Other examples of EBSs that our staff have led or participated in include: 

• Baseline Gap Assessment and Scoping for onshore Oil and Gas Facility Expansion, Kazakhstan
• Socioeconomic baseline survey of the Island of Culebra, Puerto Rico
• EBS for an LNG plant site and surroundings in Trinidad and Tobago
• EBS design for an offshore, transnational pipeline in West Africa
• EBS for a gas field development and processing facilities in Kazakhstan
• Environmental sampling program for terminals in Argentina
• EBS and socioeconomic survey for field reactivation in Venezuela
• EBS and socioeconomic survey for major gas plant development in Nigeria

Our staff has worked side by side with industry engineers and managers, financiers, regulators, and third party stakeholders/NGOs in performing these assessments.