Use cases · Regulatory submissions
Answer the question. With the page that proves it.
Certificate applications, monitoring reports and responses to information requests all come down to the same thing: clear facts the reviewer can check. Statvis builds the tables, figures, trends and report text from one cited record, and keeps them current as new data arrives.
Every gap in a submission comes back as a question.
Most follow-up requests ask for something the team had somewhere: a missing table, an older result, the source of a statement. Each one costs weeks.
- Copy-paste errors. Results retyped from lab certificates into tables, then into text, with a chance of error at every step.
- Omissions from an incomplete history. The 1990s spill or the earlier delineation that never made it into the latest report.
- Statements without sources. A reviewer who can't see where a claim came from asks, and the clock stops.
- Reports that go stale. A new monitoring round arrives mid-draft and every table, figure and paragraph that depends on it has to be found and redone.
Everything a submission needs, from one traceable record.
A complete, cited history
Every event in the site file found, dated and cited, so nothing that happened is left out of the report.
Site history →Traceable data
Lab results from current and historical reports, each value traced to its page and cell.
Lab data →Exceedance tables
Results screened by depth and media and exported to Excel with guideline rows and exceedances highlighted.
Guideline screening →Standard figures
Sample location plans and other standard figures generated from live site data, with their settings saved.
Reports and figures →Groundwater trends
Mann-Kendall trends for every well and analyte, for the question every reviewer asks: is it getting better or worse?
Groundwater trends →Site Facts updates
When a new file arrives, only the sentences that depend on it are rewritten, cited and marked for review.
Site Facts →See it on the submission itself.
Exceedance tables, ready for the report.
Export screened results to Excel with guideline rows and exceedances highlighted, laid out the way a report table should look. The numbers come from the same data as the figures and the text, so they agree.
Standard figures in one click.
Generate the standard figure set for a site from the data already in Statvis. Every setting is saved with the figure, so it regenerates the same way when the data changes.
A trend for every well.
Run Mann-Kendall trend tests across every well and analyte at once, then isolate any well to see its direction, significance and half-life. Non-detects are marked, not dropped.
New data arrives. The report keeps up.
When a new monitoring report or lab certificate is added, Site Facts updates the affected facts and rewrites only the sentences that depend on them, each change cited and marked for a person to approve.
What Alberta submissions ask for.
Requirements differ by jurisdiction and by program. Two Alberta examples show how much of a submission is evidence about the site's history and condition.
Alberta · remediation
Remediation certificates
Alberta offers a limited remediation certificate for an area and a site-based certificate for the whole site. Applicants must demonstrate remediation success. The Alberta Energy Regulator reviews certificates for upstream oil and gas sites, where the application form is attached to the OneStop Record of Site Condition.
A Tier 2 compliance letter, by contrast, does not provide the protective regulatory closure of a certificate.
Source: Government of Alberta, Contaminated site remediation, Part four: Regulatory closure.
Alberta · reclamation
Reclamation certificates
The AER's Specified Enactment Direction 002 sets out the information requirements for reclamation certificate applications for well sites and associated facilities, including pipelines. Its July 2025 edition was reorganized to follow the application sequence in OneStop.
The AER reviews applications against standards and criteria set by the Government of Alberta.
Source: AER Bulletin 2025-23, July 22, 2025.
Statvis supports the evidence behind a submission. It doesn't replace the regulator's review, a qualified professional's sign-off or legal advice, and it can't guarantee an outcome. The summaries above are general information, not regulatory or legal advice; check the current requirements with the regulator.
Case study · Sour gas plant closure · a midstream operator
Evidence the regulator could check. A plan approved in under 12 weeks.
A sour gas plant closure was headed for years of extra sampling. Salinity fingerprinting across the site's historical record showed natural background, and every value stayed linked to the report and page it came from.
74%
less excavation: 4,500 m³ instead of 17,000 m³
$2.6M
estimated savings against the original scope
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