Almost certainly a mistranslation from French, where 'exploité' would be something like 'operated'. That whole paragraphe reads like French.
:) It's paragraph in english, or section.
I'm guilty of it as well. Despite English being my primary language for the last 10 years, whenever I read my previous comments I catch glaring mistakes.
English is my primary language as well but turns out living in a French-speaking country will do this to you.