Snapshot Summary (PDF)

Chapter 2 - Production & Construction (PDF)

The project has invested nearly $2 billion (over 990 billion FCFA) in production support measures since January 2007.

For the first half of 2010, spending on production support totaled $325 million (more than 161 billion FCFA), including $275 million in capital investments and $50 million in day-to-day operations directly related to sustaining production.

Chapter 3 - Reportable EMP Situations (PDF)

The project achieved a new record for Environmental Management Plan (EMP) compliance in the first and second quarters of 2010.

The project dropped its monthly non-compliance rate to 1.00 as of the end of June, an improvement of about one-third compared to the rate in 2009 and the lowest rate since the early days of project construction a decade ago.

Chapter 4 - EMP Monitoring & Management Program (PDF)

The project put a special focus on a wide range of spill prevention and response measures during the first half of 2010 — drills, integrity of pipelines and tanks, as well as community education were all included.

Chapter 5 - Safety (PDF)

The project achieved an improvement in its safety performance in the first half of 2010, cutting the key indicator called the Recordable Incident Rate to one-third of last year's level. Project managers credit the improvement to a new safety initiative.

Chapter 6 - Consultation & Communication (PDF)

In the last 12 months, the project held nearly 800 public consultation sessions, attended by over 26,000 people.

Chapter 7 - Compensation (PDF)

Compensation paid to individual land users by the project in the last four quarters totaled over 920 million FCFA (more than $1.9 million) in cash and in-kind payments. Over 13.2 billion FCFA (nearly 22.3 million) in individual compensation has been disbursed since the project began.

Chapter 8: Land Use in the Oilfield Development Area (PDF)

A program to create new rice farm land for oilfield area farmers moved ahead to its first plantings in the first half of 2010, in time for the rainy season. The land initiative is one in a series of additional steps the project has been taking, now that all nine of the original work action areas of the 2007 Land Use Mitigation Action Plan are nearly completed.

Another step taken by the project beyond the original nine action areas has been an environmental and social assessment of the project’s current drilling program conducted by an independent consulting firm. The study conducted an analysis of the new rice lands program and recommended the project proceed with that effort to convert riverside lowland and swamp areas to rice fields.

Chapter 9 - Local Employment (PDF)

At mid-year 2010, for the project as a whole, the national workforce made up 90% of all project workers in Chad and Cameroon combined.

Wages paid to the project’s national workers for the last four quarters totaled 38.0 billion FCFA ($79.5 million).

Chapter 10 - Local Business Development (PDF)

The project’s purchases of goods and services from local suppliers totaled nearly 112 billion FCFA (over $235 million) for the last 12 months. Total spending since the project began has exceeded 1.26 trillion FCFA (approaching $2.3 billion).

• In Chad, spending over the last four quarters totaled 78.4 billion FCFA (almost $165 million), bringing project spending to date in Chad to an estimated total of over 799 billion FCFA (nearly $1.5 billion).
• In Cameroon, spending over the last four quarters totaled 33.4 billion FCFA (over $70 million), bringing project spending to date in Cameroon to an estimated total of more than 462 billion FCFA (about $793 million).

Chapter 11 - Health (PDF)

he project provides free health care for its workers at project facility clinics, a valued job benefit in Chad and Cameroon where health care can be difficult to obtain, especially in rural areas. Project health clinics provided over 20,000 health care consultations to workers in the past year. The bulk of this care involved illnesses or other health conditions unrelated to the workplace.

Chapter 12 - Community Investment (PDF)

As it moves into its second year, more women’s cooperatives have been added to the program to economically empower women in the oilfield area. In the fight against malaria, work has moved ahead on two major ExxonMobil Foundation grant programs in Chad and Cameroon.

• Now in its second of three years, the Initiative for Economic Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs has funded more than 30 micro-credit and training projects for women’s cooperatives in the oilfield area. The initiative has been funded by a $1.5 million donation from the ExxonMobil Foundation. The goal is to provide 100 women’s cooperatives with assistance that will raise their incomes by 80%.
• In Cameroon, the ExxonMobil grant of more than $1.5 million over the next three years will help by: identifying factors that contribute to the malaria problem; increasing by at least 50% the number of people who have malaria prevention; increasing by at least 10% the number of malaria cases correctly managed; teaching the people about the most effective methods of malaria prevention and control; and evaluating the results of the integrated interventions.
• In Chad, the ExxonMobil grant of more than $660,000 over the next two years will underwrite the existing program of the Chadian government to reach two at risk populations — children and their mothers.

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

Strong crude oil production and higher crude oil prices have worked together to build Chad’s total project revenue to over $5.5 billion. That revenue total far exceeds the amount once projected for the entire 20- to 25-year life of the project.

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