Environmental Management
We are committed to protecting the environment by minimizing and mitigating environmental impact throughout the life cycle of our operations. Doing so is one of our business objectives and reflects the vision, values and business priorities described in The Chevron Way.
Our Operational Excellence Management System (OEMS) is the framework for achieving world-class environmental performance. Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance has attested that the requirements of OEMS are in alignment with, and in some respects exceed, the requirements of ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001, the leading global standards for excellence in environmental management and health and safety management, respectively. See elsewhere in this report for further discussion of OEMS.
Implementing our Environmental Strategy
In 2006, we continued to implement our three strategic priorities for environmental performance as established in 2004: defining world-class standards, measuring and communicating performance, and demonstrating continual performance improvement.
California's semi-arid San Joaquin Valley is a major U.S. agricultural area and needs more water to supplement existing water supplies. Since 1996, Chevron has worked with the Cawelo Water District to export produced water from the Kern River oil field into a reservoir that irrigates more than 46,000 acres (18,600 hectares) of agricultural land. Steve Harris (left) is from the laboratory that tests the reservoir's water.