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Our environmental consulting company originally started in 2002 as Bagnasco Environmental Solutions and Remediation. Fast forward to 2013 and BESAR Environmental, LLC (BESAR) was created so the name would fit on an envelope…
Responsive: We think like the owner. As a small and very responsive environmental consulting company, BESAR’s staff of licensed professionals including subject matter experts, financial analyst, licensed geologist, hydro-geologists certified public accountant (CPA); and, various environmental scientists can quickly assist you and your clients to keep assets in the black.
Experience: Together with our teaming alliance partners of licensed engineers, contract drillers, GIS & AutoCAD professionals, laboratories and environmental contractors, BESAR can offer complete environmental services ranging from Litigation Support, Compliance Permitting, Risk Management strategies; Environmental Liability quantification; Site Investigations; Soil & Groundwater Remediation; Waste Disposal, and, complete Site “closures” for full release of future environmental liabilities.
BESAR specializes and has experience in divestitures, acquisitions and mergers of commercial real estate transactions, gas/fueling station sites with underground leaking petroleum storage tanks (LPSTs); industrial / manufacturing sites, large marine terminals tank facilities; upstream oil & gas facilities, pipeline & pump station facilities; and, electrical transmission & power generation assets.
About our Founder
• Houston Geological Society
• Pipeliner's Association of Houston
• Commercial Real Estate Network (CREN)
• National Groundwater Association
• TCEQ EnviroMentor™ Program
• Greater Houston Partnership
• North Houston Association
• Houston Galveston Area Council: Small Business Advisory Committee
• Texas Association of Environmental Professionals
As an oil exploration geologist, Mr. Bagnasco performed oil exploration work both domestically on-shore (Mud-logging Geologist) in East Texas and performed seismic work off-shore in Gulf of Mexico and international off-shore waters of North Sea area (Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Aberdeen), Mediterranean Sea, West Africa (Canary Islands, Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau, Nigeria) and South America (Trinidad and Brazil).
Michael received a B.S. in geology and computer science from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and completed coursework towards a master’s degree in hydrogeology at the University of Houston. He is registered with the State of Texas and Louisiana as a professional geoscientist in geology (P.G. License #5066 and #805) and is certified as a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) leaking petroleum storage tank (LPST) corrective action project manager (CAPM).
Principal / Senior Geologist
Michael.Bagnasco@BESARenvironmental.com
832.646.3164
Mr. Bagnasco’s expertise includes over 30 years of experience as a geologist working on environmental site assessment investigations, environmental due diligence / compliance issues, mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions / property development, regulatory site closures / permitting, supporting litigation and enforcement action cases for both environmental and health/safety issues and root-cause analysis cases.
He has worked on many types of projects, which include groundwater modeling, hydrogeological, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), hazardous and radioactive waste disposal, dry cleaners and leaking underground petroleum storage tanks, demolition and facility decommissions, freight and rail yards, pond closures, pipelines and compressor stations (upstream), oil and gas railroad commission sites, port facilities, marine terminals, scrap metal recycling and environmental liability management on projects ranging from commercial retail sites, residential apartments, department of defense sites, large industrial processing, packaging, and chemical production refinery facilities.
Mr. Bagnasco has directed due diligence investigations and/or remediation of properties which contain contaminated soil and groundwater at sites located both internationally and domestically on behalf of financial institutions, insurance companies, federal projects, private property owners, and industries throughout the United States, Mexico, Grand Bahamas, and South America.
Address
9134 Rippling Fields Drive Houston TX 77064