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Abstract The Taninthayi Nature Reserve Project (TNRP) has been operating in southern Myanmar since 2005. TNRP involves payments from three companies to support the creation and on-going management of a protected area as compensation for potential impacts to biodiversity from the construction and operation of three gas pipelines. This public-private partnership is unique in Myanmar and could form the basis of a model which can be applied to other developments in the country. We reviewed relevent literature and interviewed staff and stakeholders involved with the development and implementation of the TNRP in order to understand the model, identify some key lessons. As a framework for comparison the model was reviewed against current leading practice, primarily the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standard 6 (PS6), and the Business and Biodiversity Offets Program (BBOP) Standard on Biodiversity Offsets. This review revealed that the project has broadly met its stated goals and objectives: The companies have met their financial commitments. Stakeholder criticism of pipeline biodiversity impacts has been limited. A protected area has been established and managed since 2005, with socio-economic development programmes delivered to surrounding communities. The capacity of government staff involved in the TNRP has been improved. The TNRP was not originally developed to be in alignment with modern standards and the TNRP is not an offset. The TNRP thus does not meet current mitigation or offsetting best-practice in many areas. Our review does, however, highlight key lessons learned for developments to limit their impact on biodiversity and manage the associated risks effectively: Impact assessments should thoroughly analyse direct and indirect impacts to biodiversity. The mitigation hierarchy should be followed during the construction and operation of infrastructure. Should offsets be required, it is necessary to quantify biodiversity losses from development impacts and gains from conservation activities in order to identify how much compensation is enough. Monitoring of actions on the ground is the only way to determine their success in mitigating residual impacts to biodiversity.
- Asia > Myanmar (1.00)
- Europe > United Kingdom > England (0.28)
Abstract Conserving biological diversity and enhancing the wellbeing of people is a significant challenge for all of society including both the private sector and conservation organizations. This paper describes efforts by the Kutubu Petroleum Development Project (KPDP), operated by Chevron Niugini, and World Wildlife Fund (WFF) to enhance conservation of the rich biological diversity of Papua New Guinea and to assist local indigenous communities with sustainable development. Supported by a grant from the KPDP, WWF is implementing an integrated conservation and development project (ICDP) with local communities in the 2.3 million hectare Kikori River catchment located in the Gulf and Southern Highlands Provinces. The region is characterized by biologically diverse tropical rain forests that provide the predominant livelihood for over 40,000 indigenous peoples. The Kikori ICDP is assisting local people to establish culturally appropriate conservation management areas and to develop eco-tourism, sustainable fisheries, and community based eco-forestry. Detailed biological surveys established the conservation significance of the region, and confirmed the health of the environment. The KPDP is a one billion US dollar capital cost operation which produces Papua New Guinea's first commercial oil reserves. Protecting people and the environment is an essential design and operational criteria for the KPDP. Comprehensive environment and community policies including strict design codes and operational standards, rain forest protection measures, and community business and public health programs are used to minimize the environmental impact and to increase local community benefits. This case study demonstrates the benefits to conservation and local communities of the collaborative efforts of the KPDP and WWF, and the national benefits of a new development paradigm where the economic and environment interests of a nation are considered together. Introduction to Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea is situated in the western Pacific Ocean between Australia and Asia, and is the world's largest tropical island nation. (Fig. 1). It is one of the most biologically diverse countries on earth where the web of life includes tree-dwelling kangaroos, butterflies with wingspans up to 10 inches (25 cm.), 33 species of the spectacular birds of paradise, and the world's largest parrots, doves, and lizards, as well as its tallest tropical trees. PNG contains one of the few remaining large tropical forests (36 million hectares) in which deforestation and habitat loss still remain at comparatively low levels. According to one projection, by the end of this century or shortly thereafter, only four large blocks of the world's tropical moist forest biome are likely to remain more or less intact: western Brazilian Amazonia, the Zaire basin, the Guyana shield of northern South America, and Papua New Guinea. Most of the country's 4 million people live to some degree on a subsistence basis and depend on the ecological sustainability of the use of the environment for both subsistence and some cash economies. More than 700 different languages are spoken, which is one third of all the languages spoken on earth. However, the standard of living for most people is low, with life expectancy, health standards, and literacy rates, all well below global averages. Ninety-seven percent of the land area of Papua New Guinea remains under customary tenure of the indigenous people. Communal indigenous landownership is recognized in the constitution. Clan or extended family groups are the decision makers for local land use, for the future of their forests and for their relationships with commercial developers. A desire to more vigorously develop cash economies to help meet aspirations is driving a growing interest in development in PNG. The country is endowed with rich forest, fisheries, and mineral resources. However, a number of the most readily available development options for local communities are destructive of the natural resources on which they depend.
- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Southern Highlands > Papuan Basin > PL 2 > Kutubu Field (0.99)
- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Southern Highlands > Papuan Basin > PDL 2 > Kutubu Field (0.99)
- Oceania > Australia > Victoria > Bass Strait > Gippsland Basin (0.93)
Abstract In 1994, the Kutubu Petroleum Development Project (established by a consortium of oil companies and operated by Chevron Niugini Limited) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) embarked on a unique partnership to conserve the globally-significant forest ecosystem of the Kikori River catchment in Papua New Guinea. The Kutubu Project is Papua New Guinea's first petroleum development project and is surrounded by the vast 2.3 million hectare Kikori River catchment. The partnership established between Chevron Niugini and WWF initiated the Kikori Integrated Conservation and Development Project (KICDP) to assist the people of the Kikori River catchment to conserve their natural resources, which are under threat primarily from large-scale logging. While few partnerships of this magnitude exist between international oil companies and conservation organizations, the KICDP has proven that such a partnership can be a successful way to promote and achieve environmental conservation. This partnership is predicated on Chevron Niugini's efforts to safeguard the environment through environmental controls and WWF's goal of conserving the earth's outstanding biological diversity. The KICDP completed its first three-year phase of operation in 1997 and initiated a second three-year phase in January of 1998 with funding from the Gobe and Kutubu Petroleum Development Projects. Both Chevron and WWF have recently completed internal reviews of the partnership. This paper describes the results from these reviews. The conclusion from six years of partnership experience between Chevron and WWF is that this partnershipโand potentially others like itโoffers considerable promise as an innovative strategy for environmental protection. Introduction Collaboration in the petroleum industry is not uncommon. Few oilfields are developed without some form of collaboration between companies driven by similar business objectives. The Kutubu and Gobe oilfields in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are no exception. These oilfields are developed by joint ventures of several companies including Chevron, Oil Search, Orogen Minerals, ExxonMobil, Petroleum Resources Kutubu (PRK), Petroleum Resources Gobe (PRG), Japan PNG Petroleum, Cue PNG Oil Company, Mountains West Exploration, Barracuda and Southern Highlands Petroleum. This common form of commercial collaboration however, has produced a very uncommon form of non-commercial collaboration, driven not just by business objectives, but by environmental objectives as well. At the onset of the Kutubu Petroleum Development Project (KPDP), the joint venture participants recognized the critical need to protect the sensitive biodiversity of the area surrounding the oilfields and export pipeline. An innovative and thorough Environmental Management and Monitoring Plan ensured that the impacts of the KPDP on biodiversity would be minimal. The threat of large-scale, unsustainable logging however, posed more environmental risks to the area and the communities it sustains. To mitigate these risks, the Kutubu Joint Venture (KJV) supported a unique collaboration between Chevron Niugini, as operator of the oilfields, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to facilitate conservation efforts in the area by working with the local communities. Commencing in 1994, this collaboration is known as the Kikori Integrated Conservation and Development Project (KICDP) and has been internationally recognized as a model for the petroleum industry. It still represents the most significant attempt at biodiversity protection ever undertaken by a joint effort of oil companies and an environmental organization in terms of cost, complexity and duration. What would cause a world renowned conservation organization such as WWF to collaborate with an oil company? What would cause a joint venture of oil companies to spend over seven million dollars (US) on conservation?
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- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Southern Highlands (0.48)
- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Southern Highlands > Papuan Basin > PL 3 > Gobe Field (0.94)
- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Southern Highlands > Papuan Basin > PL 2 > Kutubu Field (0.94)
- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Southern Highlands > Papuan Basin > PDL 6 > Petroleum Development Licence-6 (PDL 6) > Moran Field (0.94)
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Copyright 2012, SPE/APPEA International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production This paper was prepared for presentation at the SPE/APPEA International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production held in Perth, Australia, 11-13 September 2012. This paper was selected for presentation by an SPE/APPEA program committee following review of information contained in an abstract submitted by the author(s). Contents of the paper have not been reviewed by the Society of Petroleum Engineers or the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association Limited and are subject to correction by the author(s). The material does not necessarily reflect any position of the Society of Petroleum Engineers or the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association Limited, its officers, or members. Electronic reproduction, distribution, or storage of any part of this paper without the written consent of the Society of Petroleum Engineers or the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association Limited is prohibited. Permission to reproduce in print is restricted to an abstract of not more than 300 words; illustrations may not be copied. The abstract must contain conspicuous acknowledgment of SPE copyright. Yadana consortium, partnership of Unocal, PTTEP, the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) and Total Exploration & Production Myanmar (TEPM) as an operator, is operating the Yadana gas field located in the Gulf of Mottama. The extracted natural gas is exported to Thailand via a 63 kilometer onshore pipeline that passes through Kanbauk area in the region of Tanintharyi, south of Myanmar.
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- Oceania > Australia > Western Australia > Perth (0.24)
- Asia > Myanmar > Andaman Sea (0.24)
- Instructional Material (0.93)
- Public Relations > Community Relations (0.68)
- Asia > Myanmar > Andaman Sea > Moattama Basin > Block M6 > Yadana Field (0.99)
- Asia > Myanmar > Andaman Sea > Moattama Basin > Block M5 > Yadana Field (0.99)
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- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Sustainability/Social Responsibility > Social responsibility and development (1.00)
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Chad Export Project: Environmental Protection Measures
Moynihan, Kelly J. (ExxonMobil Development Company) | Caldwell, Ed R. (ExxonMobil Development Company) | Sellier, Ulrich L. (Esso Exploration and Production Chad Inc.) | Kaul, Clayton F. (ExxonMobil Development Company) | Daetwyler, Neil A. (Environ Australia Pty Ltd.) | Hayward, Gary L. (NewFields International, LLC) | Batterhame, Grant (Flour Daniel)
Abstract The Chad Export Project has developed and implemented an array of measures to mitigate a wide variety of environmental impacts, issues, and challenges. Extensive integrated analyses, supported by on-the-ground surveys and public consultation, were undertaken during the Project's multi-year planning and design period so as to avoid issues/impacts to the extent practical. Selection of a route for the 1070 kilometer onshore export pipeline and locations for the Project's various permanent facilities required a complex balancing of an assortment of technical, environmental, social, and economic considerations. The width of the pipeline construction right-of-way was restricted to limit environmental and socioeconomic impacts, and an extensive program was implemented to reclaim the easement. An induced access management plan was prepared to protect the flora and fauna in three identified ecologically sensitive areas traversed by the pipeline in Cameroon. In addition, the Project established a strict anti-bushmeat policy to prevent workers from hunting, poaching, purchasing, or consuming game while working. Special programs were developed to safeguard rare/threatened/endangered (RTE) species (e.g., primates, marine turtles) known to inhabit certain Project-pertinent locales. A multi-component water monitoring program has been implemented by the Project to protect groundwater and surface water resources relied upon by local inhabitants, and several high quality waste management facilities have been put in place, including waste storage structures, engineered hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste landfills, and a hazardous waste-capable incinerator. Background Information A description of the Chad Export Project (the Project) highlighting its setting, components, participants, environmental regulatory regime, and management of revenues appears in a separate paper. A synopsis of the integrated analyses, on-the-ground surveys and studies, and public consultation program associated with the Project's multi-year environmental documentation synthesis effort has also been included in this (separate)paper. Environmental and Socioeconomic Issues/Impacts Management Approach The Project adopted the following strategy with regard to the management of environmental and socioeconomic issues/impacts:Identify (key) issues/impacts early. Avoid issues/impacts where/when practical. Appropriately mitigate unavoidable issues/impacts. The integration of environmental and socioeconomic considerations into the Project's design and execution plan was essential in securing buy-in and alignment at all levels in the Project team regarding the significance and importance of SHE/EMP topics. Issues/Impacts Identification Environmental and socioeconomic issues/impacts identification began at the outset of the planning period (1993) and continues to this day. Central to this process is the Project's comprehensive public information and consultation program. Multiple reconnaissance missions and on-the-ground studies were undertaken during the planning and construction periods in order to identify and ground-truth issues/impacts. The active participation of design, construction, and operations engineers in many of these surveys and studies was extremely beneficial since:Certain facility siting/design modifications and construction procedures were identified that allowed some issues/impacts to be avoided. Effective issues/impacts mitigation strategies were able to be more readily develope
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- North America > United States > Texas (0.46)
- Water & Waste Management > Solid Waste Management (1.00)
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