Recently, Chesapeake honored employee teams that attained exemplary levels of performance in safety, environmental stewardship, community service and company culture. The annual CEO Safety and Sustainability Awards recognized nine finalists across three categories, gathering employees from across the company in Oklahoma City. During the event, each team presented their nominated projects — sharing their best practices in front of award judges which included members of Chesapeake’s executive team and key senior leaders with expertise in the represented categories.
“Chesapeake is answering the call for affordable, reliable, lower carbon energy — and this purpose requires talented and dedicated employees to deliver continuous improvement,” said Chesapeake CEO Nick Dell’Osso. “Our annual CEO Safety and Sustainability Awards recognizes not only our commitment to safety, the environment and our communities, but also those teams that executed industry leading ESG programs in 2021. I want to thank the nominees for their inspiring work and for encouraging employees across our organization to innovate and drive further improvement into our ESG efforts.”
Nominated projects included:
President’s Award for Safety
- Safety Leadership Engagement, Short Service Employees and Mentor Development (Marcellus Production team)*
- After Action Review for System Outages (Information Technology team)
- Workover Hazard Hunt Form on iScout (Eagle Ford – South Texas Workover team)
President’s Award for Sustainability
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction, Pneumatics (Eagle Ford – Brazos Valley Field Engineering/Production teams)*
- E-fleet and Beneficial Reuse of Produced Water (Marcellus Completions team)
- Fixed Monitoring, Soofie/Canary Installs for Responsibly Sourced Gas (RSG) Certification (Haynesville Production team)
President’s Award for Community and Culture
- Certifications for RSG (Haynesville Production team)*
- Community Outreach Program and Sound Mitigation (Marcellus Community Outreach team)
- Community and Culture Engagement (Eagle Ford – Brazos Valley Production team)
*Winner
Chesapeake’s ESG Council voted for the finalists prior to their presentations in front of leadership. Winning teams receive companywide recognition for their efforts.
In addition to recognizing top performance, the awards program served as a relationship-building event and an opportunity for employees to learn about other company initiatives related to safety and sustainability.