Flood Risk Management

Technology and resources to assist governments in building their capacity to manage flood risk

Flooding represents a substantial threat to communities. Improvements in flood forecasting and risk management can reduce potentially enormous economic, financial, and social losses.

Schlumberger Water Services (SWS) offers a comprehensive range of technical, social, and economic skills to assist governments in building their capacity to manage flood risk.

Project Examples:

Floodplain mapping guidelines and specifications for British Columbia
Location - Canada
Client - Fraser Basin Council
Description - SWS was retained to prepare guidelines, criteria, standards, and specifications for estimating flood construction levels in complex floodplains with dikes, on dike breach modeling, and for high-resolution topographic mapping. SWS also developed digital terrain models using both photogrammetry and light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technologies. 

Transboundary flood management
Location - Canada/USA
Client - International Joint Commission
Description - The frequent flooding of the lower Pembina River into Manitoba, Canada, and North Dakota, USA, is the cause of an international dispute between the two governments. The International Joint Commission retained SWS to carry out a detailed hydrodynamic flood modeling study of the river to determine the causes of the flooding.

Water resources planning for the QMM project 
Location - Madagascar
Client - QIT Madagascar Minerals
Description - SWS provided water resources planning expertise for the QIT Madagascar Minerals project for flood control, water supply, and environmental assessment. Hydrodynamic modeling of flood flows led to the preparation of a detailed flood inundation map of the Mandena River estuary. SWS developed a preliminary design and cost estimate for a salinity control structure comprising a dam across the estuary to provide freshwater conditions upstream in the estuary for water supply.