Keeping the facility working well
A production platform can remain active for up to 40 years or longer. With hot, frothy, corrosive oil flowing through the equipment constantly, wear and tear is inevitable. To keep the platform safe and functioning as it should, we constantly monitor the state of the equipment as well as conditions inside the reservoir.
Oil and gas production projects can have implications for air, water and wildlife. We try to minimize our environmental impact from the earliest planning stages to the dismantling stage, and each day in between.
Taking precautions
Since the 1970s, no major oil or gas project has moved forward until independent experts have assessed the environmental impact. These thorough reviews look at potential problems and at the best ways to address them. The assessment carried out before we commenced our liquefied natural gas project in Indonesia is one example. It took nearly two years and ran to more than 1,000 pages.
In 2006 we adopted a set of environmental requirements for all new projects. The goal is to ensure potential issues like waste disposal, emissions reduction and discharges into water are thought through before a project gets underway and carefully monitored from then until the project’s end.