What are the challenges?

The impacts of our activities may be due to emissions, discharges, land use, the use of limited natural resources, threats to biodiversity, cultural heritage, or human health and welfare. The impact on the environment is determined by the condition and capacity of the area affected, the type of activity, the technology applied and operational standards.

What are we doing?

We have established a set of environmental principles based on our HSE policy. Below is an extract from the principles:

• We aim to assess relevant environmental and social issues and minimise the negative impact on the environment.
• We seek to maintain biodiversity and key ecosystem functions and values, and, where possible, make a positive contribution to preserving biodiversity.
• We endeavour to practise sustainable water resource management by continually looking for ways to ensure responsible and efficient use of limited water resources, and to preserve quality through the design and operations of our facilities.

When we cross new frontiers, we endeavour to use a knowledge-based management approach in order to acquire sufficient knowledge to achieve sustainable and safe operations under extreme conditions, also enabling us to take a precautionary approach.

What have we achieved?

In this section, you will find examples of our efforts in environmental mitigation in 2009.