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Chapter 2 - Construction Progress (PDF)

Pipeline construction started in Chad this quarter. Crews began installing pipe south from Komé towards the point where the route will cross the M'béré River and the border with Cameroon.

- Pipeline workers have now welded together and buried about two-thirds of the pipe, a total of 700 out of 1,070 kilometers.

- The last of the 87,000 lengths of pipe needed to construct the crude oil transportation pipeline have been delivered to storage yards along the route.

Crews on the oil well rigs more than doubled the number of drilled wells, reaching a total of 26 by the end of the third quarter.

- This rate of progress was possible because the oil well rig crews have dramatically improved the time required to move a rig from one well site to another. They reduced the time of an average rig move by 50%, and by the end of the quarter, rig moves were taking only two to three days.

- Oilfield construction workers started laying flow line and gathering system pipe that will collect crude oil from wells and move it to the central oilfield facility for treatment.

Steel erection and cement foundation pouring is now underway for virtually every storage tank, pipe support, and building component of the central oilfield facility and the crude oil gathering station at Miandoum.

Construction of the two key components of the offshore marine terminal moved well past the 60% complete point this quarter.

Chapter 3 - Reportable EMP Situations (PDF)

Contractor and Project field monitors recorded a total of 16 Project-reportable Environmental Management Plan non-compliance situations this quarter.

- This represents the Project's best compliance performance for a full-quarter since construction began in late 2000.

- However, pipeline construction in Chad was shut down for four days to provide time for the contractor to correct a Level II-type non-compliance situation involving the recruitment and hiring of unskilled workers.

- No critical (Level III) non-compliance situations have been recorded by the Project to date.

Chapter 4 - Safety (PDF)

The Project's overall workplace safety trends remained positive this quarter.

- Several Project contractors achieved significant safety milestones in the third quarter. For example, in Chad, workers for facilities construction contractor TCC had worked ten million hours without a lost time incident as of the close of the quarter.

- The traffic accident injury rate for the Project continues to be less than half the rate for North American highways. The Project rate is just under 55 per 100 million miles driven, compared to the North American rate of 116 injury accidents per 100 million miles driven.

Sadly, a mechanic who was repairing a worker transport bus was killed in an accident at a Project contractor workshop this quarter.

Chapter 5 - Consultation & Communication (PDF)

More than 13,500 Chadians and Cameroonians participated in public consultation sessions this quarter, attending approximately 500 meetings.

An action plan has been drawn up by the Project to improve some of the conditions in the Komé Atan settlement that has grown up over the years outside the Komé Base Camp.

Chapter 6 - Compensation (PDF)

As of the end of the quarter, the Project has paid over 6.2 billion FCFA ($9.6 million) in cash and in-kind compensation to individual land users, with over 573 million FCFA ($882 thousand) added to the total this quarter.

Substantial progress was made in implementing the Project's supplemental compensation programs during the third quarter.

- In Cameroon, the residents of 230 of the 240 eligible villages and 25 of the 26 eligible arrondissements had selected their improvement projects. The projects include schools, clinics, water wells, agricultural supplies and tools, and various types of community buildings.

- In Chad, the NGO contracted to manage the community compensation program completed the initial round of consultations, conducting at least one session with each of the 68 eligible villages. Five of the 68 villages have selected their micro-development projects.

Chapter 7 - EMP Monitoring & Management Program (PDF)

Oil spill response planning continued to advance this quarter in preparation for the oil production phase of the Project.

- Drafts of all six area-specific oil spill response plans were completed this quarter and submitted to the governments of Chad and Cameroon for review.

Public information and consultation meetings will be held in Chad and Cameroon in the fourth quarter to discuss the plans.

Pre-construction archaeological survey work in Cameroon was completed this quarter for the northern construction spread of the pipeline. Also, in preparation for the start of pipeline construction in Chad, the Chadian archaeological team journeyed to Cameroon to learn more about techniques for monitoring pipeline construction activities.

Chapter 8 - Local Employment (PDF)

The Project's direct workforce climbed above 12,000 people this quarter.

- Wages paid to Chadian and Cameroonian workers totaled nearly 6.6 billion FCFA (over $10 million) for the quarter.

Chapter 9 - Local Business Development (PDF)

The Project spent approximately 65.6 billion FCFA (over $100 million) purchasing goods and services from Chadian and Cameroonian suppliers this quarter, an increase of almost 9% over the previous quarter.

Chapter 10 - Training (PDF)

The number of worker training sessions conducted by the Project increased by about 16% from the previous quarter, reaching a total of 2,489 sessions. High skills training increased from the previous quarter, to over 1,450 training sessions.

Chapter 11 - Worker Health (PDF)

New malaria prevention procedures went into effect this quarter, in an effort to make sure that all non-immune workers take effective anti-malaria medication. The procedures include intensive education and counseling, backed up by random testing for compliance with the Project's requirement for taking the medication.

Chapter 12 - Community Health (PDF)

Community health initiatives for the quarter included support for a new clinic to serve the communities in the vicinity of Pump Station 2, as well as for Roll Back Malaria and STD/HIV/AIDS education campaigns.

Chapter 13 - Waste Management (PDF)

Chapter 14 - Environmental Foundation (PDF)

Chapter 15 - Transition to Oil Production Phase (PDF)

During this quarter, the Foundation for Development and Environment in Cameroon:

- Chose the World Wildlife Fund - Cameroon (WWF) as the Implementing Organization for the Foundation's environmental conservation work in the new Campo-Ma'an National Park.

- Held ceremonies at a Bagyeli/Bakola settlement to commemorate the formal beginning of the Indigenous Peoples Program.

In preparation for the transition from construction to production, engineers have developed startup plans for the crude oil pipeline. The first crude oil that will be produced will take approximately two months to journey from Komé, Chad, through the 1,070 kilometer long pipeline, to the coast of Cameroon where it will be loaded onto tankers and delivered to world markets.

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