Biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth and includes ecosystems, species and genes, and the ecological processes that support them.
Globally, Chevron recognises the importance of biodiversity conservation and supports it through our values, performance, and communication and engagement.
In Australia, we have a long history of operating the Barrow Island oil field.
Not only is Barrow Island an oil field, it also is an important nature reserve, home to many native animals and flora.
Critical to our success has been protecting the conservation values of the island while developing the oil field.
Barrow Island also is the location of our Gorgon LNG and domestic gas development – a project that has been subject to the highest level of government scrutiny.
Building on our experience, three key activities that greatly assist in the protection of biodiversity are workforce education and enrollment, rehabilitation and the prevention of non-indigenous species getting to the island – quarantine.
Supporting these activities are a suite of monitoring programs addressing flora and fauna, including subterranean fauna and marine turtles.
The biodiversity protection lessons learned at Barrow Island are applied to our other operations and our LNG projects. Indeed many of them have been utilised by Chevron elsewhere in the world.