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Approach: Waste Management Planning
ChevronTexaco requires its businesses to continually improve processes to minimize pollution and waste. Our business units develop waste management plans that track the wastes they produce, follow a waste minimization hierarchy (reduce/recycle/treat/dispose), comply with all regulations and, when local regulations do not exist, apply appropriate waste management practices. ChevronTexaco's capital project management process also includes specific tools and activities that integrate pollution prevention and waste minimization concepts into the designs for its projects so that they generate fewer and less hazardous wastes. We do not track waste volumes or types corporatewide.
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ChevronTexaco has gained expertise in upgrading and building new waste facilities, particularly in places where waste management is complicated by lack of infrastructure. We also participate in a number of industry forums, including the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers and the Petroleum Environmental Research Forum, to develop and share improved waste management practices within the industry. Examples of recent or planned investments in waste management facilities include:
- Sumatra, Indonesia: ChevronTexaco recently began operating several major facilities to improve management of oily wastes, including a slurry injection facility and a bioremediation unit to treat oily soils and wastes. Since 2000, the company has spent more than US$50 million on the design, construction and operation of these facilities, and we plan to continue to upgrade waste facilities there in 2003 and 2004.
- Kazakhstan: the company's joint venture Tengizchevroil has initiated construction on a US$16 million integrated waste management facility. The facility will include a recycling area, a landfill and a waste treatment area.
- Venezuela: in 2002, we commissioned a US$1.8 million facility designed to handle a broad spectrum of wastes from the Boscan oil field.
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