Employees and contractors at our Brae platform add profitable production from the North Sea. Other core regions include the U.S., Canada and Equatorial Guinea.
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Marathon assets, such as those in the Bakken and Eagle Ford plays, are indicative of our steady growth and the exciting opportunities that are yet to come.
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Pablo Ondo Zetmayer, a gas plant operator in Equatorial Guinea, is a prime example of Marathon’s globally diverse workforce, which enjoys worldwide experiences and world-class opportunities.
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Back-to-school Safety Campaign
For the past five years, Marathon's Bakken Asset Team has mounted a back-to-school safety campaign to remind drivers to slow down for school buses. The heads up is especially important because traffic has increased along with industry activities in the Bakken Shale formation.
Marathon originally placed signage on school bus routes and attached large bumper stickers on trucks in the Killdeer school district. Each year, the program has expanded into new areas such as the Stanley school district 40 miles from Marathon operations.
The campaign builds on Marathon's efforts to raise awareness of driving safety area among employees at the start of the school year.
Protecting Migratory Birds
When ducks, robins and other migratory birds alight in our Bakken, North Dakota, acreage, Marathon operations can come to a standstill.
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) of 1918 establishes U.S. federal responsibilities for protecting nearly all species of birds, their eggs, feathers or nests. Marathon complies with the MBTA by taking extraordinary measures to ensure that migratory birds are protected from our operations.
We recognize that protecting birds is part of responsible operations. Therefore, our Bakken team raises awareness and educates employees and contractors about their role in preventing harm to birds.
Bakken employees take proactive measures to keep birds from entering pits containing produced fluids. These include flagging pits during drilling, placing nets over pits when the rig leaves location, minimizing produced fluids in pits and closing them within a few days of ending drilling operations.
Heightened awareness led the Bakken team to idle a workover rig for five days in 2009 while robin eggs hatched in a nest found on the location. Another workover rig was rerouted and activities delayed until hatchlings left a nest on a pumping unit. To avoid disturbing a sharp-tail grouse lek, employees postponed a rig move until biological field surveys were completed to ensure the activity would not disturb the lek.
The Bakken team also developed a kit to capture and transport birds under U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) directions. USFWS is the lead federal agency for managing and conserving migratory birds in the U.S.
In June 2010, the Bakken Health, Environmental and Safety (HES) Department received several reports of migratory birds nesting throughout our acreage. With USFWS guidance, Marathon personnel built an elevated platform and moved a robin's nest found on the stairs of a hydraulic fracturing tank. When a bird was found nesting on gravel, equipment transportation was stopped and rescheduled until the eggs hatched and the baby birds left the nest.
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Marathon’s commitment to the community is deeply rooted in our core values. Our employee-run Books for Bioko program collects supplies for schools in Equatorial Guinea.
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