Protecting value. Protecting place.
Uganda’s petroleum opportunity sits within the ecologically important Albertine Graben. UNOC’s environmental commitment is therefore built around identifying impacts, putting controls in place and continually improving safeguards.
Petroleum development in a sensitive landscape.
Uganda’s petroleum opportunity sits within the ecologically important Albertine Graben, with biodiversity, protected areas, forests, and water bodies including Lake Albert and the Nile River. Risks such as oil spills, fires, waste and contamination are managed through national and UNOC safeguards.
Environmental policy
UNOC describes an Environmental Policy supported by procedures and guidelines including waste management and oil-spill response.
Risk assessment
Risks are identified, assessed and controlled before tasks and projects are executed.
ESIA integration
At project level, risk assessment is embedded in the ESIA process and allows stakeholder contribution.
Audit & improve
External and internal environmental audits assess safeguard effectiveness and support continual improvement.
Safeguards across the project lifecycle.
UNOC moves from national regulation to its own policy, risk-assessment framework, project and task controls, decommissioning, audits and international benchmarking.
Identify. Control. Audit. Improve.
This sequence reflects the safeguards described in UNOC’s environmental approach.
Identify
Assess potential environmental impacts at project and task level.
Control
Apply policy, procedures, guidelines and practical mitigation measures.
Restore
Plan decommissioning so harmful material is not left behind and sites are restored.
Improve
Use internal and external audits and benchmark safeguards against international standards.