Working in an Environmentally Responsible Manner.
Our environmental management will be world leading, with the potential to place Western Australia at the forefront of cutting-edge 21st century technology.
As part of our working process, we’ll be sharing our learnings with others in the petroleum industry in Australia and offshore.
Barrow Island – where Gorgon will be located – is an internationally significant nature reserve and the site of Australia's largest onshore operating oil field for the past 45 years.
As a world-class example of environmental management, it’s shown that conservation and development can successfully co-exist.
Recognising the importance of Barrow Island’s conservation values, we only selected it after thoroughly assessing the viability of alternative locations. And the actual location of our plant and infrastructure on Barrow Island has been deliberately selected to avoid areas of particular conservation significance.
Restricted use of Barrow Island is central to our commercial viability and exhaustive studies we’ve undertaken have shown there are no commercially viable development alternatives to this location.
We’ll be using just 1.3 percent of uncleared land on the island.
The environmental management strategies we’ve developed to avoid or mitigate the potential effects of the project will protect conservation and biodiversity values and enhance Chevron Australia's successful stewardship of Barrow Island.
Significantly, the environmental assessment for Gorgon has been one of the most comprehensive ever undertaken in Australia. It is the result of six years of preparation, including the research and contributions of numerous independent experts, and extensive community consultation.
But we welcome the scrutiny and opportunity to demonstrate that responsible resource development can co-exist with environmental conservation.
Currently, we’re working closely with both Western Australian and Commonwealth Governments to assess the environmental impacts of the proposed development.
As part of this process, a range of detailed environmental impact documentation has been developed and released for public comment. These documents are the culmination of many years of study, field work and assessment.
This documentation forms the basis of the Environmental Approvals process.