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High tech mapping firm, NGIS, has joined ChevronTexaco in developing monitoring systems to help protect the environment around sensitive areas on the island.
"What we've done is taken data such as aerial photography, vegetation maps, animal breeding areas and existing infrastructure to identify optimum drilling locations and create buffering zones around important habitat," said NGIS director Paul Farrell.
Barrow Island, located around 56 km off the Pilbara coast, is considered to be a fragile environment and is home to several species that no longer occur on the mainland due to introduced species such as cats and rats.
ChevronTexaco has already won the 2002 UK Institute of Petroleum Environmental Award for its Barrow Island environmental management and protection efforts and the 2002 World Oil- The Next Generation Health, Safety, Environment/Sustainable Development Award for Barrow Island oil field.
"Our goal in working with ChevronTexaco is to help minimise the impact of exploration, drilling, seismic operations, production pipeline laying and infrastructure on the environment," Farrell said.
