Environment
Environment
As a global citizen, we are committed to the development and application of best environmental practices industry-wide.
Our goals are:
- To minimise our footprint
- To promote good environmental management in our neighbourhood
Perenco personnel must be 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.
B 67 DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES
As a responsible business, Perenco recognizes the need to conduct its activities around the world with minimal impact on the environment and to meet or exceed the high standards required by today's oil and gas companies wherever they operate.
In Peru oil and gas activities are today strictly regulated by the US Hydrocarbon Law.