Snapshot Summary (PDF)

Chapter 2 - Production & Construction (PDF)

Since 2007, the project has invested nearly $1.6 billion (about 770 billion FCFA) in production support measures responding to the challenging characteristics of the Doba Basin oil formation.

In 2009, production support spending totaled $573 million (more than 275 billion FCFA), including $465 million in capital investments and $108 million in day-to-day operations directly related to sustaining production.

Chapter 3 - Reportable EMP Situations (PDF)

The key performance indicator for the project's Environmental Management Plan held steady in 2009.  The non-compliance situation rate for the 12 month period was 1.33 per month, equal to the record achieved in 2008.

Chapter 4 - EMP Monitoring & Management Program (PDF)

The disciplines of pipeline integrity assurance, monitoring of environmental and socioeconomic performance and waste management all were major themes of the EMP work program in the second half of 2009.

• A two year pipeline corrosion protection inspection program continued at year end, with more than half of the work completed.  The inspection teams must walk ever meter of the 1,070 kilometer pipeline.
• For a second year, the project met the goal of preventing routing gas flaring.  For 2009, the average flare rate in the oilfield area was 660,000 cubic feet per day — a level considered the minimum level for safe operation and 33% better than the performance target.

Chapter 5 - Safety (PDF)

Workers on the project's oil rigs added another year to their industry leading safety recorded in 2009.  In the nine years since drilling began, none of the hundreds of workers on drilling rigs, completion rigs, mobile rigs and their support teams has had a lost time accident.

• Thus, the project's rig-related workers have operated safely with no major accidents for 31.7 million work hours, even though their work involves more risk than any other category of work in the oil industry.
• Rig-related workers achieved an overall accident rate of 0.71 recordable incidents per 200,000 work hours in 2009, taking into account even the smallest accidents.  That record ranks far better than the industry average rate of 1.23 (International Association of Drilling Contractors).

Chapter 6 - Consultation & Communication (PDF)

During 2009, the project held over 840 public consultation sessions, attended by nearly 30,000 people.

Chapter 7 - Compensation (PDF)

Compensation paid to individual land users by the project in 2009 totaled over 702 million FCFA (more than $1.4 million) in cash and in-kind payments.  Over 12.7 billion FCFA (more than $21.2 million) in individual compensation has been disbursed since the project began.

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

A three-year program of house-to-house surveys has now been completed, yielding a complete census of each land holder in the ten villages where the project has used the most land for development of the oilfields.

The survey effort, unprecedented for an oilfield development project, provides a fine-grained picture of the project's land use impact. The program has been so effective that five additional villages have been added to a new second phase of the program.

Chapter 9 - Local Employment (PDF)

At the end of 2009, roughly nine in ten of the project's direct employees, including those working for prime contractors, were Chadians and Cameroonians.  The efforts to promote national workers into higher level jobs also produced positive results through the Business Skills and Leadership Development program in Chad.

A combination of factors resulted in a significant increase in the total wage payments in Chad in the second half of 2009.  The primary factor was an increase in the number of workers because of the increased pace of drilling of oil wells.  A second factor was a new labor agreement for Esso employees.

Chapter 10 - Local Business Development (PDF)

The project’s purchases of goods and services from local suppliers totaled nearly 115 billion FCFA (about $240 million) for the last 12 months. Total spending since the project began exceeds 1.2 trillion FCFA (nearly $2.2 billion).

• In Chad, spending over the last four quarters totaled 81.7 billion FCFA (over $170 million), bringing project spending to date in Chad to an estimated total of almost 761 billion FCFA (more than $1.4 billion).
• In Cameroon, spending over the last four quarters totaled 33.6 billion FCFA (over $70.3 million), bringing project spending to date in Cameroon to an estimated total of nearly 446 billion FCFA (over $761 million).

Chapter 11 - Health (PDF)

With the end of the annual rainy season, a period of increased vulnerability to malaria, the project achieved the same overall low rate as the previous year, 0.28 cases for every 200,000 work hours by non-immune workers.  COTCO, in Cameroon, achieved another year with no recordable cases, its seventh in a row.

Chapter 12 - Community Investment (PDF)

Fighting malaria and empowering women were the two major themes for the project's program of community contributions in 2009.

• In Binguela, Cameroon, a gift of 3,000 anti-malaria nets, educational demonstrations and skits along with singing and dancing helped the project launch a comprehensive new malaria prevention program along the pipeline corridor.
• Twenty six women from three countries met in Cameroon for a month to receive management training, funded by scholarships from the ExxonMobil Foundation Educating Women and Girls Initiative. In addition to the month of group training, the course includes a year of one-on-one mentoring from assigned coaches.
• In its first year, the Initiative for Economic Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs has achieved its goal of funding micro-credit and training projects for twenty women's cooperatives in the Doba and Bebedjia areas.  With the $1.5 million donation from the ExxonMobil Foundation, the initiative's goal is to reach 100 women's cooperatives with assistance that will raise their incomes by 80%.

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

Continued volatility in world markets worked in Chad's favor during 2009 as crude oil market prices rose through the year, recovering from a significant dip in price at the end of 2008.  In 2009, the market price more than doubled from its low at the end of 2008.

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