Chevron Corporate Responsibility Report 2010

In 2009, Australia’s Ausco Modular
was laying off workers. In 2010, it
hired 200 people to build offices, labs
and control rooms worth $51 million
(AU$59 million) for Gorgon. Already
some 80 vessels, employing hundreds
of workers, are supporting Gorgon’s
dredging and the delivery of supplies
and materials.
Other Australian companies have
benefited through hundreds of
jobs created in freight, construction,
general utilities, accommodation,
telecommunications and site preparation.
Howard Porter, a local company,
had 70 employees building 300 trailers
for Gorgon under a $17 million
(AU$20 million) contract that Porter
called the single biggest transport
manufacturing order ever in Western
Australia.
Gorgon also is a magnet for talent.
A recent Chevron employee meeting
in Perth included many people who
had been on the job less than a week,
but that’s business as usual as the
company fills a new 13-story office
tower with about 800 Gorgon workers.
Our collaborative approach played a
significant role in developing the native
title agreements with the Kuruma
Marthudunera people in June 2010
and the Yaburara Mardudhunera people
in November 2010 for the Gorgon
Project’s domestic gas pipeline.
Under the Chevron-operated Gorgon
Project Cultural Heritage Management
Plan, Australian Aboriginal people
are involved to help the project avoid
Climate Change
Gorgon’s CO 2 –injection project is one of
the many ways we are working to address
concerns about climate change.
Now in its 10th year of implementation,
our Action Plan on Climate
Change continues to guide our
efforts in greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions reduction, improved
energy efficiency, and research
and development in innovative,
low-carbon energy technologies.
• Since 1992, we have reduced the
total energy consumption required
to perform all our business operations
by 33 percent compared with
the energy we would have used to
complete the same functions.
• We advise customers on energy
efficiency improvements and
renewable power, reducing their
energy use by an average of
nearly 30 percent.
• In 2010, the Carbon Disclosure
Project’s Leadership Index recognized
Chevron as a leader among
energy companies for transparency
in monitoring and disclosure
of our GHG emissions and carbon
management practices.
• As a member of the Global Gas
Flaring Reduction Partnership, we
are working to minimize gas flaring
and venting. As of late 2009
in Kazakhstan, Tengizchevroil —
in which Chevron is a 50 percent
partner — eliminated routine
flaring. In Nigeria, Angola and
elsewhere, we continue projects
to recover gas that would have
been flared.
• We deployed a new enterprisewide
system for reporting GHG
emissions and energy efficiency,
implemented a strategy to manage
future carbon-market activity
growth, and conducted third-party
verification of our GHG emissions.
For additional information on how we are addressing this issue, please
visit Chevron.com/ClimateChange.
Right: Euros, or wallaroos (left), and
perenties thrive on Barrow Island.
Some native species now exist only
on Barrow.
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