Global Operations
URS offers complete lifecycle services to pipeline clients throughout the world, from the early planning, siting and permitting stages to project commissioning, operational support and regulatory compliance, as well as spill contingency planning and other post-start-up services. Our global staff provides integrated capabilities and seamless project execution.
URS is a world leader in providing social and environmental management services for multinational oil and gas pipeline projects, and is renowned for our local regulatory knowledge and effective negotiation skills. We are also one of the foremost experts in geotechnical engineering services for pipeline projects, ranging from geologic hazards evaluation for onshore and offshore projects to geotechnical investigations and engineering, and geotechnical services during construction.
We have undertaken thousands of projects for oil and gas pipeline clients, in very challenging environments, in the Americas, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Our expertise includes route selection and feasibility studies, licensing, permitting, cultural resources and biological surveys, conceptual engineering and detailed design, construction monitoring, risk and integrity management, and waste management and remediation.
URS also provides lifecycle asset solutions for the development of unconventional gas resources, including shale gas, tight gas and coalbed methane. We successfully deliver on the design and construction of gas production, gathering, compression and processing systems, regardless of the size. Our expertise across the broad range of services needed to support the development of unconventional gas resources has established us as a unique, single-source provider for clients worldwide.