| dc.description.abstract | Hydrocarbon activities in Ecuador have benefitted the State, the different enterprises,
and the population where this activity is placed. However, the spreading and
development of this industry also have generated socio-environmental problems, i.e.
pollution and environmental degradation, derived from environmental eventualities, in
some cases with health repercussions to the population living at the zone of influence
and ecological balance of ecosystems.
Inside the process of technical and administrative fortifying, the National Direction of
Environmental Protection, The Subsecretary of Environmental Protection of the Energy
and Mining Ministry, consider the complementing and implementing of the
environmental information, the basis for the analysis of achievement to the
Environmental Normative, as well as to validate and propose a plan to fortify the
environmental management of the State Enterprise and its subsidiaries, specifically or
Impact Studies, Management Plans and Environmental Auditories.
The execution methodological frame describes at the beginning the compiling of
environmental information, followed by Envir
onmental Liabilities, i.e. fields and oil
facilities operated by Petroproduction, the
information systematized and the execution
of a tracking strategic plan; the hydroc
arbon environmental information of Petroecuador
and its subsidiaries was revised since 1996 until March 2004, mainly: Terms of
Reference for EIA and AA, Impact Environmental Studies (Environmental Diagnostic),
Plans and Programs of Environmental Management, Environmental Auditories,
monitoring points, reports of inner Environmental Monitoring, communications and
reports are in Energy and Mines Ministry. Also, the information sent and asked was
checked (observations to the different studies, recommendations, complementary
information, conditions previous approval, etc.) by the Ministerial Dependence in its
program of Control and Environmental Tracking.
The identified environmental liabilities as a result of developed activities and different
facilities in fields an oil sites, and on basis to priority conceptual criteria showed flow
passives as very important because the inst
allations are still using equipments, and
other civil works that are causing damage to the environment. However, there are
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environmental damage caused by accumulated passives like filled pools which have
degraded oil and abandoned pools at open sky.
Matrixes
EEAs-Petroecuador_CAMPOS
,
EEAs_Petroecuador_FILIALES
,
CSA_
AAs_Petroecuador_FILIALES
,
CSA_Seguimiento_FILIALES
,
EEAs_Campos_
Marginales-ITT
, among others, register fulfillments and non-fulfillments to the actual
Environmental Normative, mainly to the Substitute Regulation of the Environmental
Regulation for Hydrocarbon Operations in Ecuador (DE 1215 on February 13, 2001), to
each of the installations, activities and/or realized projects.
Petroecuador and its subsidiaries have not accomplished totally many the established
requirements in the current Environmental Regulation, however, since the release the
accomplished level got better (a presentation of TDR, EIA, Public Presentations, Annual
Environmental Budgets, sites and reports of inner environmental driving, etc.), reflecting
a decrease in the number of non-accomplishments
until a 78,57%, in these last years,
thanks to a better coordination with the units in charge with the environmental protection
inside the subsidiaries, GPA-PE, to the control and following implemented by
SPA/DINAPA, as well as the implement
ed politics to the management, which is
implemented by the Statal Enterprise. | |
