Environmental Management System Integration on Natural Gas Operations Practices: Experience in the Kangean Block Area, Indonesia

Abstract

ARCO and PERTAMINA, the Indonesian State Oil and Gas Company, produced gas from reserves in the Kangean Block, about 100 miles north of the island of Bali. The block areas covers approximately 4508 sq.km. of ocean and land, including 10 islands, and consists of 14 production wells, 30 exploratory wells, 2 gas processing trains, a harbour, an air strip and other support facilities. An estimated 225 miles of subsea and 45 miles of onshore pipelines deliver produced gas to customers. Potential environmental impacts of development and operations include affects on marine life, terrestrial function ecosystems and the atmosphere. The potential impact also exist on the socio and human environment. We used social cultural needs and government regulations issues is a main tool to minimize or prevent the impact and to avoid possible reversals and disturbance to the gas development and operation itself. These tools then effectively raise many ideas on how to protect, preserve, and develop or enhance environmental quality, to integrate the company policy and commitment, and to arrive at the decision making with involving all concerned individuals, groups, or organizations in Environmental Management System (EMS) planning, implementing, and monitoring steps. These processes produced a "Top - Down Strategy" to develop and operate the Kangean block area. In addition, the strategy also tends to produce a severe imbalance between gas development on the hand, and EMS implementation on the other. To overcome the problem, we used six structural components in the EMS for Kangean block: planning/policy, project assessment, implementation, technical rigor, consultation, and institutional integrity.

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“…Although a significant part of the previous exploration has zeroed in on the effect of enormous organizations on the climate, it has been proposed that the assessed aggregate effect of little and moderate ventures on the climate is generous [4] and exceeds the consolidated ecological effect of huge organizations. Consequently, it could be contended that more critical consideration should be compensated to this area in environmental management research [5].…”

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“…As of this year scholars focused a great deal of effort discussing the proper strategies to implement and the appropriate models to adopt in order to assure a successful and efficient integration between the Quality MS (QMS -ISO 9001) and the Environmental MS (EMS -ISO 14001) (Copping, 1995). Throughout the following years (1997)(1998)(1999)(2000) several implementation processes were reported generically (Jackson, 1997;Wilkinson and Dale, 1999;Douglas and Glen, 2000) or in specific and different contexts, such as, in the cement industry (Adams and Niehoff, 1997), natural gas industry (Hamzah et al, 1998), railway industry (Chan et al, 1998), steel industry (Weismayr and Pammer, 1999) and pulp and paper industry (Petrini et al, 2000). The following stream of bibliography (2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005) proposed some integration models in line with concepts closely related with the phenomenon itself, such as, total quality management (Wilkinson and Dale, 2001), corporate sustainability (Asif et al, 2003) and sustainable businesses (Lund, 2004), risk based approach (Labodová, 2004) and safety culture (Walter, 2005).…”