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Petrushevski Martin - Sustainability Reporting in the Oil and Gas Industry According to the GRI Guidelines
1. SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING
WHAT DO THE GLOBAL TOP TEN OIL AND GAS COMPANIES
REPORT ON?
Thesis supervisors: Torbjörn Brorson, Konstantinos Evangelinos
Martin Petrushevski, LU, CEU, Budapest - June 17 2014
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2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
• Problem definition
• Research question
• Methodology
• Results
• Conclusions and recommendations
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3. OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION
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Image source: BP 2012 (with amendments)
5. RESEARCH QUESTION
• To what extent do sustainability reports in the oil and gas industry
comply with the GRI Guidelines for sustainability reporting?
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6. METHODOLOGY AND RESEARCH
DESIGN
• Literature review
• Top ten oil and gas companies in 2013
• GRI Guidelines
• Evaluation framework development
• Results
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7. OIL AND GAS COMPANIES
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1. ExxonMobil
2. Shell
3. PetroChina
4. Chevron
5. Gazprom
6. BP
7. Petrobras
8. Total
9. Sinopec
10. Eni
8. GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE
(GRI G3.1 OGSS)
• Profile and Governance
• Strategy and Analysis
• Organizational Profile
• Report Parameters
• Governance, Commitments and
Engagement
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• Management Approach and
Performance Indicators
• Economic Indicators
• Environmental Indicators
• Social Performance Indicators
• Labor Practices and Decent Work
• Human Rights
• Society
• Product Responsibility
16. FINDINGS: SOCIAL PI
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Topics: 15 Topics: 12
Topics: 14 Topics: 10
17. OVERALL RESULTS
• The frontrunners
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• The better-than-average
reporters
• The mediocre reporters
• The trailers
18. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• Four categories identified
• The frontrunners
• The better-than-average-reporters
• The mediocre reporters
• The trailers
• Higher scores for first part of the guidelines
• Strategy and analysis (95%)
• Organizational profile (91.8%)
• Report parameters (85.7%)
• Governance (81%)
• External assurance
• Applicability of GRI Guidelines
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• Lower scores for TBL PIs
• Economic (66.9%)
• Environmental (42.4%)
• Social (37.6%)
- Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef
260,000 to 750,000 barrels
+1,700km remote shoreline contaminated in Alaska
** vertical depth of 10,683 m + fireball
** 11 crewmembers died + injured
** 4.9 million barrels (5 months)
** damage to public health, natural resources, wildlife and their habitats.
CSR, GRI in 2000, TBL reporting
- Scope -
Sustainability Reporting
History
Present
GRI + IR
Criticism
Assessment methodologies
UN Global Compact and ISO 26000 considered, but not utilised
noteworthy market value
highly valuable products and services
G3.1 with OGSS
Compliance level A(+)
External assurance (+)
- Core indicator
Statement:
- economically oriented, some environment
- future sustainability developments
- long-term feasibility
key impacts, risks, and opportunities indicator
maximum points on generic, easy-to-obtain information
Less information on:
Geographic breakdown
Scale of reporting organization
Awards received:
Dow Jones sustainability index
CSR related topics
leadership
Yes:
contact person
identified key materiality issues
failed:
materiality
topic prioritisation
stakeholder identification
data measurement techniques
significant changes
External assurance: Ernst & Young, Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, IPIECA
Yes: internal mechanisms
external charters: GRI and IPIECA, OGP, and API associations, UN GC and CDP.
Precautionary approach indicator (6 out of 10)
stakeholder groups: employees, shareholders, local communities and indigenous peoples, suppliers, and governments
yes:
direct and indirect economic value
financial risks and opportunities due to climate change
defined benefit plan
locally based suppliers
infrastructure investments
least information:
significant assistance governments
range of ratios wage
No: materials section
Energy: + direct - indirect energy consumption indicator.
Money renewable energy
Biodiversity, impacts on biodiversity
Emissions, more on GHG emissions
Compliance
Transport least
environmental expenditures and investments by type.
Labor: employment and workforce turnover breakdown; occupational health and safety; training; and diversity.
Human rights: non-discrimination; child labor; and indigenous rights.
Social: local communities; public policy; and compliance with laws and regulations.
PR: life cycle stages; product and service labelling; and biofuels.