Snapshot Summary (PDF)

Chapter 2 - Production & Construction (PDF)

The project’s average daily production in 2007 was 144 thousand barrels, shipped to market in 56 tanker shipments. The project has so far produced nearly 242 million barrels of crude oil.

Project oil facilities, located about 400 kilometers south of N’Djamena, were not affected by an episode of civil unrest in the capital of Chad.

- Oil production, drilling, construction and other business activities progressed as usual.

- Managers in N’Djamena implemented the project’s emergency response plan to protect the safety of employees and facilities.

- The project’s main offices in N’Djamena were re-opened a little more than week after being temporarily closed.

- The project set up support bases for displaced employees and their families who, like many city residents, fled to Cameroon to take refuge from the fighting.

- Some personnel were moved to alternate office locations at other project facilities so they could continue working.

During 2007, a series of major production enhancement initiatives helped the project maintain crude oil output levels.

- Drilling crews added 60 new production and water injection wells for the year, bringing the total inventory to 488 wells in six oilfields.

- Fifteen of the new wells were in the new Maikeri oilfield, which began adding to daily production levels at mid-year.

- Crews completed over 200 well enhancement procedures during the year, aimed at optimizing oil flow in the wells.

- The first phase of a high pressure water injection program was completed to help maintain pressure deep underground in the oilfield reservoirs.

Chapter 3 - Reportable EMP Situations (PDF)

Project environmental monitors recorded a total of 13 Environmental Management Plan noncompliance situations in the second half of 2007.

- All of the non-compliances were categorized as Level I situations, the most minor level of non-compliance.

- Five minor spills occurred during this reporting period, none of them on water, and all of them cleaned up with no environmental damage.

Chapter 4 - Safety (PDF)

The project improved its basic safety performance indicator - the recordable incident rate - to less than half the rate in 2006.

- The project’s recordable incident rate for 2007 was more than four times better than the benchmark safety record for U.S. petroleum companies.

- The annual vehicle accident count has been cut to one-third the construction level in 2002.

Chapter 5 - Consultation & Communication (PDF)

More than 27,000 people attended 900 project consultation sessions in 2007.

- One result of consultation outreach was the donation of three construction-era bridges to Cameroon so the bridges can be maintained and continue to serve nearby communities.

- A bridge and culvert road crossing, wiped out by flooding on the Loulé River, was rebuilt at the request of oilfield area communities in Chad.

Chapter 6 - Compensation (PDF)

Total individual land use compensation paid by the project in 2007 totaled over 653 million FCFA (over $1.3 million) in cash and in-kind payments. Nearly 11.4 billion FCFA (over $18.3 million) in individual compensation has been disbursed since the project began.

Chapter 7 - Update: Land Use in the Oilfield Development Area (PDF)

The team of specialists implementing the Oilfield Development Area Land Use Mitigation Action Plan achieved success on all of the work plan goals set out for completion in 2007.

Chapter 8: EMP Monitoring & Management Program (PDF)

A two year internal and external inspection of the export pipeline was completed utilizing sophisticated “smart pig” technology. Ten anomalies were excavated for visual inspection and two repairs made.

Air emissions were checked and found within standards for all of the turbine/generator system stacks operated by the project at the two Cameroon pump stations and the central oilfield facility in Chad.

As part of the dust control program in the oilfield area, more than 10 additional kilometers of road were treated with a form of paving called DBST.

Chapter 9 - Local Employment (PDF)

Chadians and Cameroonians combined held just over 88% of the project’s direct employment jobs at year-end 2007.

- A project training program qualified Chad’s first certified pipeline welders.

- Two national employees in Cameroon are in final training to hold high ranking positions as Maintenance Area Supervisors, each of them responsible for operations at a pump station and several hundred kilometers of associated pipeline.

- Wages paid to national workers for all of 2007 totaled 19.6 billion FCFA ($41.1 million).

Chapter 10 - Local Business Development (PDF)

Purchases of goods and services from local suppliers totaled over 129 billion FCFA ($269 million) for 2007.

- In Chad, 2007 spending totaled 102.6 billion FCFA (approximately $214.1 million), bringing project spending to date in Chad to an estimated total of at least 591 billion FCFA ($1.1 billion).

- In Cameroon, 2007 spending totaled 26.2 billion FCFA (approximately $54.7 million), bringing project spending to date in Cameroon to an estimated total of at least 387.4 billion FCFA ($635.1 million).

Chapter 11 - Health (PDF)

The project’s anti-malaria program achieved another record performance in 2007, reducing the number of key indicator cases by one-third from the previous year and gaining a sixth consecutive year of improvement.

As part of its community health outreach efforts, the project made two major donations of medicine and medical supplies in the latter part of 2007.

- One shipment of medicine went to the five oilfield area public clinics.

- Another shipment was contributed to a program that provides shelter, food and medical care for homeless children in Chad's capital city of N’Djamena.

Chapter 12 - Community Investment(PDF)

Project donations in support of education continued in 2007.

- COTCO donated nearly 100 computers to four technical schools along the pipeline corridor in Cameroon.

- A new donated school opened in Ndorokaga, Chad, the latest in a series of 130 school construction and improvement projects since the project began.

- Chad has a new Masters Degree program in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, funded in part by Consortium members Esso and Chevron as well as project contractor Schlumberger.

- A school founded by a project employee and his wife in Walia, one of the poorest sections of N’Djamena, Chad, has grown to over 700 students.

Chapter 13 - Update: Chad’s Oil Revenue (PDF)

Chad’s total revenue from the oil project has reached $2.5 billion.

- In the second half of 2007, project payments for various royalties, taxes, fees, permits and duties totaled $462 million.

- In 2007, the project’s payments to Chad totaled one-and-one-half times the amount paid in 2006.

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