Branan Environment specialists have significant experience in environmental impact assessment in the marginal and inland seas of the Russian Federation, especially in the conditions of the sensitive and fragile nature of the Arctic. Environmental protection sections of design documentation were developed, including calculations of damage to aquatic biological resources; public consultations were conducted; and positive conclusions of state environmental expert reviews were obtained for more than 30 projects implemented in such water areas as:

• Barents Sea, including the Pechora Sea and Pechora Bay (integrated engineering surveys, electrical prospecting, seismic surveys);
• Ob Bay and Taz Bay of the Kara Sea (electrical prospecting, seismic surveys);
• Laptev Sea (ice-based drilling on the shelf), East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea (research drilling, integrated engineering surveys, integrated geophysical surveys);
• Caspian Sea, Black Sea and Azov Sea (electrical prospecting, integrated engineering surveys);
• Sea of Okhotsk (integrated engineering surveys within the framework of the “Sakhalin II” project).

The main clients for such studies: subsidiaries of PJSC “NK Rosneft”, LLC “LUKOIL–Nizhnevolzhskneft”, LLC “Fugro Engineering”, LLC “SVAROG”, LLC “Siberian Geophysical Research and Production Company”, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

EIA materials were developed in accordance with the requirements of the effective regulatory legal acts and regulatory methodological documents of the Russian Federation and the provisions of international regulatory documents ratified by the Russian Federation.