Total E&P Indonesie (TEPI) has been operating for more than 40 years in Mahakam Contract Area located at Mahakam Delta, Kutai Kartanegara District, East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, despite the local environmental and social challenges. Mahakam Delta was initially covered with dense and diverse mangrove forests. The delta is ecologically and economically important for nursery & spawning ground of fish and shrimps and hence for supporting the livelihood of local communities from fishing activities. However in the last decades there has been a marked increase of local population activities and degradation of mangrove ecosystem due to the extensive use of natural resources resulting in the deforestation of mangrove. Despite the growing complexity of oil and gas operations along with more mature oil and gas fields, TEPI is consistently committed to protect the environment and to live in harmony with surrounding communities as its paramount priorities. Successful oil and gas E&P operations in such environmentally and socially sensitive area require careful and intensive approach to minimize impacts to surrounding environment as well as to surrounding communities. This involves comprehensive environment and social baseline assessment and impact assessment studies, best practice in environment management for effective impacts reduction and mitigations, effective environment monitoring, intensive coordination with local authorities and socialization to local communities to obtain legal and public approval, acceptance, and support for the operations from the very beginning phase of operations planning until after the completion of the operations. This paper highlights the key lessons learned from the case study of Total E&P Indonesie (TEPI) operations in the environmentally and socially sensitive area of Mahakam Delta.
Biodiversity policy has been established in the Total Group since 2007 which promotes minimization the impact of its activities on biodiversity, baseline surveys and environmental and social impact assessments for all new projects, giving special attention in zones where biological diversity is particularly rich and to provide information and raise awareness among its employees, clients, and the general public. Indonesia has ratified United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity which requires any activities to conduct Environment monitoring and assessment prior to start. With respect on this requirement and adapt to Total Group's value, Total E&P Indonesie (TEPI) has launched several biodiversity program dedicated to Delta Mahakam considering Delta Mahakam is one of biggest mangrove forest lies on the earth and act as habitat for vulnerable and distinctive species and nurseries and spawning ground for fishes and shrimps. Biodiversity program starts from the pre project phase until decommissioning phase through environment and social baseline studies in order to establish environment and social baseline condition. This information is critical and valuable to define sensitivity of the environment and identify biodiversity exist in the area. By knowing environment condition, mitigation efforts prepared and implemented during projects and activities. For sustainability of the program, involvement and partnership with stakeholder and local villagers in the biodiversity program has being introduced. Biodiversity program has also being supported by local authority in formation of government structural dedicated to Delta Mahakam management to synchronize all related sectors. Biodiversity monitoring is also being conducted in order to know status of biodiversity and measure the effectiveness of the program. The results were reported and registered in GIS which can be accessed through TEPI internet. In coordination with Total Group and partnership with local university, several studies were also being conducted in order to support the program. This paper is dedicated to share biodiversity program implemented by TEPI and East Kalimantan government in Delta Mahakam because we believe through biodiversity, we invest nature for future generation.
Total E&P Indonesia West Papua (TEPI WP) has been awarded the Southwest Bird's Head block covering 7,176 km2 of area straddling the Salawati and Berau/Bintuni basins and situated both in swamp and offshore at water depth up to 30 m off the coast of West Papua, Indonesia. A well exploration drilling was performed in 2013. The preferred well coordinate located in swamp delta area of Tanjung Suaboor is categorized as remote area and regulated as protected forest by Indonesian Government, covered with naturally dense and diverse mangrove forest, it is ecologically ideal for nursery and spawning ground of fishes and shrimps. The surrounding communities consist of Papua tribes with their unique culture and local tradition which mostly differ from other ethnics in Indonesia. The land right determination by cultural ceremony of Gelar Tikar Adat among local tribes to identify land owner of well location and then continue by compensation to the "chosen- owner" with other cultural ceremony of Ketuk Pintu are some of Papua unique culture that shall be considered. According to Indonesian Regulation, well exploration drilling activity shall have Environment Management and Monitoring Effort document in which environment and social baseline and impact assessment study are included. TEPI WP has performed the study since early 2012 in cooperation with Environment Research Center from Papua State University, involving intensive coordination with local authorities and socialization to communities to obtain legal and public approval, acceptance, and support for the operations. The document has been approved by Local Environment Authority and got Environment Permit from Head of Regency as a guarantee for drilling operation to be performed on schedule. This paper highlights the main lessons-learned from the experience completing Environment and Social Baseline and Impact Assessment study of TEPI WP for well exploration drilling in environmentally and socially sensitive remote area.
Safety Culture describes the enduring value and priority placed on worker and public safety by everyone in every group at every level of an organization. It is the result of individual and group values, attitudes and beliefs, competencies and patterns of behavior that determine the style and proficiency of the health and safety management in organization. In recent years, many organizations are showing interest in "Safety Culture" as a means to reduce the high potential incidents, as well as the inherent risks associated with. TOTAL E&P Indonesie (TEPI) conducted Safety Culture studies based on three main approaches, the Safety Climate Level (SCL), Safety Culture Maturity Level (SCML) and Culture Based Safety (CBS). SCL captures the safety perception within the employees. SCML measures the maturity of the organizational behaviors, which is developed to assist safety improvement processes. The CBS is the model to develop safety norms among workers community through 2 (two) variables: leadership, workers’ empowerment and involvement. This paper will only focus on the results from the SCML approach that was done in 2005, 2007, and 2010. Based on the studies that was conducted in the mentioned years, the result shows the improvement of Safety Culture values in TEPI and the consistency in accident reduction and control result. The latest study in 2010 shows that TEPI is in the level between 4 and 5, with average score 4.27 (in a scale of 5). The levels show that TEPI is already in the right track. Rooms for improvements were identified from these studies and action plans are always prepared and implemented in order to have continuous improvement in organization's Safety Culture and performance. This paper will also analyze the trend analysis between the SCML study results with the safety programs that TEPI has done along the years, safety performances of TEPI, and the Health Safety & Environment Management System (HSE-MS) Implementation.
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