Environment

As a global citizen, we are committed to the development and application of best environmental practices industry-wide.

GABON Gorillaconservation project

For 10 years gorillas have been living on the island of Evengue in the Fernan Vaz lagoon, close to Perenco’s North Gabon operations (Batanga, Mpolunie, Olende). As part of the "Gorilla project", the animals, frequent victims of poaching, were reintroduced to the wild. A local awareness campaign is a key part of the project to ensure the coexistence between the animals and the local population in the western plains of Gabon.

Perenco participated fully in the project in 2009 and contributed building materials for the extension of the area where the Gorillas live. A new 200m long trench was dug, increasing the space for the gorillas, whilst also allowing visitors better viewing conditions.

Our environmental goals are:

• To minimise our footprint

• To promote good environmental management in our neighbourhood

Perenco personnel are committed to achieving these goals:

• Managers are responsible and accountable for environmental matters

• All Perenco and contractor personnel remain responsible for their impact on the environment. They must intervene when they encounter environmentally unsound and non-compliant situations

To ensure compliance with our Environmental Policy we:

• Have in place an Environmental Management System in compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements and with E & P industry standards

• Ensure that our Environmental Management System is understood and applied at all levels within the company

• Ensure that all employees and contractor's personnel are competent to undertake their work in an environmentally sound manner • Emphasise environmental concern both on and off the work site

• Assess the consequences of all our activities on the environment and put in place appropriate control measures

• Maintain the physical integrity of our facilities to prevent accidental discharges of polluting substances

• Adopt the best available and economically viable technologies to minimize our impacts and improve our energy efficiency

• Set annual performance targets, with support plans

• Maintain current environmental emergency response plans

• Undertake regular emergency drills and exercises to test our capability to respond quickly and effectively to any environmental emergency

• Report and investigate all incidents, taking appropriate measures in order to prevent their recurrence

• Perform regular audits of all our activities, using the results to drive performance improvements.

GUATEMALA Reforestation program

The Perenco Guatemala Reforestation program consists of creating nurseries in communities that are located close to Perenco’s pipeline operations. Since 2001 Perenco Guatemala has sponsored the construction of four nurseries, each with the capacity to grow 55000 trees. Perenco has donated over 1200000 trees to communities, the equivalent of approximately 1000 hectares. For example in the Raxruhá area Perenco Guatemala implemented a reforestation program at the Transversal del Norte.

Perenco donations during 2009 were approximately 200 000 trees given to 50 communities. In addition to the benefits of reforestation, local communities are able to obtain a cash incentive for planting trees from the INAB (The National Forestry Institute).

PERU High Environmental Quality development campaign

The Amazonian rainforest is one of the world’s most fragile places. For the development of Block 67 in Peru, Perenco has taken the strictest possible measures to ensure no damage is done to the environment.

The following principles will be applied: 1. Local and international standards concerning environmental protection and occupational safety will be strictly followed. 2. All produced water will be re-injected from the beginning of the production phase. 3. Pipelines will be buried. The right of way to be used will be reforested once the pipeline is buried. 4. The offshore type multi-well platform concept will be used, in order to minimize the impact on the ground. 5. It is estimated that block 67 operation will only impact 0.5% of its area. 6. State of the art technologies will be applied during construction and operation of our facilities to ensure no enviromental damage: sensors and measurement devices, control and block valves, SCADA control system, permanent monitoring of operation parameters, optic fiber data transmission, among others. 7. At the completion of production operations, according to the abandonment plan and local regulations, facilities shall be dismantled and the previously occupied areas shall be reforested, as per the company's commitment with the State.

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