Snapshot Summary (PDF)

Chapter 2 - Production & Construction (PDF)

As 2010 ended, the project had drilled a total of nearly 725 production and water reinjection wells, more than double the number originally planned. The Consortium’s investment in these additional wells, coupled with other measures to support the daily rate of oil production, has enabled the project to so far deliver 376 million barrels of oil to market in its first seven years of production.

For 2010, spending on production support totaled $630 million (more than 305 billion FCFA), including $530 million in capital investments and $100 million in day-to-day operations directly related to sustaining production.

Chapter 3 - Reportable EMP Situations (PDF)

The project achieved a new record level of performance in complying with the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) in 2010.

• Seven non-compliances were recorded for the year, the lowest annual number since project construction got underway ten years ago.
• There were no Level II or III non-compliances and the ones that were recorded were all at the lowest classification, Level I.
• The project’s compliance performance index improved to less than one per month for 2010.

Chapter 4 - EMP Monitoring & Management Program (PDF)

During the second half of 2010 focused on areas that ranged from archeology to air quality and waste management.

• The project has moved the planned location of a new oil well pad in order to conserve a centuries old iron smelting furnace discovered in the Komé oilfield.
• At year end, the project had 900 tonnes of hazardous waste in storage and awaiting processing. Some hazardous waste must be stored while awaiting the availability of batch disposal following guidelines set out in the EMP.

Chapter 5 - Safety (PDF)

The project closed 2010 with a significant improvement in safety performance compared to the previous year, regaining the safety level it achieved in 2008, as measured by the the key indicator called the Recordable Incident Rate. The project’s Recordable Incident Rate has for years been well below the average rate of the petroleum industry as a whole and the industry rate is three times the project’s accident rate in 2010.

Chapter 6 - Consultation & Communication (PDF)

During 2010, the project conducted over 700 public consultation sessions, reaching nearly 22,000 people.

Chapter 7 - Compensation (PDF)

Compensation paid to individual land users by the project in the last four quarters totaled almost 983 million FCFA (well over $1.9 million) in cash and in-kind payments. Almost 13.7 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)

After more than four years of intensive effort, the Land Use Mitigation Action Plan (LUMAP) program has met all the goals first established when it was created as a problem solving initiative.

The project has now started integrating the components of the special LUMAP initiative into its day-to-day land acquisition and resettlement activities.

Chapter 9 - Local Employment (PDF)

The project’s contributions to its host country economies in 2010 included wages paid to Chadians and Cameroonians of 70.6 billion FCFA ($141.9 million). More than 6,500 nationals had jobs with EEPCI, COTCO and their contractors at year end, about 85% of the total workforce. Nearly half of the Chadians and Cameroonians working for the project hold skilled or supervisory jobs.

Chapter 10 - Local Business Development (PDF)

The project’s purchases of goods and services from local suppliers totaled over 114 billion FCFA (over $231 million) for the last 12 months. Total spending since the project began has exceeded 1.32 trillion FCFA (approaching $2.4 billion).

• In Chad, spending over the last four quarters totaled 85.0 billion FCFA (over $171 million), bringing project spending to date in Chad to an estimated total of almost 847 billion FCFA (over $1.7 billion).
• In Cameroon, spending over the last four quarters totaled 29.6 billion FCFA (almost $60 million), bringing project spending to date in Cameroon to an estimated total of more than 476 billion FCFA (about $821 million).

Chapter 11 - Health (PDF)

Extensive workplace malaria prevention programs helped maintain the project’s consistently low rate of infection in 2010. The annual rate of 0.30 cases in non-immune personnel for every 200,000 work hours was approximately the rate achieved by the project for the last four years.

Chapter 12 - Community Investment (PDF)

With the support of multiple donations from ExxonMobil Foundation, programs to fight malaria in Chad and Cameroon, and an initiative to empower women’s economic cooperatives in the oil field area, moved forward in 2010.

Chapter 13 - Host Country Revenue (PDF)

The project’s investments to sustain crude oil production levels, coupled with historically strong prices for Doba Basin Oil have combined to produce for Chad a total of more than $6.3 billion in revenue since the project began.

Cameroon obtains its project revenue primarily through transit fees from the export pipeline system that picks up Chad’s oil from the Mbére river where the Chadian portion of the pipeline ends. Since the project began, Cameroon's oil revenue has been approximately $284 million.

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