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Ipieca, American Petroleum Institute (API) and International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP)
Sustainability Reporting Guidance for the Oil and Gas Industry
Category | Indicator | Core Reporting Elements | Disclosure Level | Disclosure Location |
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Governance and Business Ethics | GOV-1: Governance Approach | CI: Describe your governance architecture, including the role of the board, board committees, board diversity, executives, managers, the workforce and stakeholders | Full | Accountability & Compensation; 2023 Climate Report |
C2: Describe your code of conduct, values and principles and how they relate to sustainability | Full | Accountability & Compensation | ||
C3: Describe the way in which your board reviews sustainability issues, including risks and opportunities, supported by examples of their work in action | Full | Risk Management; 2023 Climate Report | ||
C4: Provide an overview of, or list, your corporate policies that address sustainability issues | Full | Accountability & Compensation | ||
C5: Set out how your board and executives monitor strategic performance and goals | Full | Letter from Our CEO; Accountability & Compensation; 2023 Climate Report | ||
GOV-2: Management Systems | C1: Describe the structure and scope of your management systems related to sustainability issues, including ethics and compliance (including the arrangements for non-operated joint ventures) | Partial | Accountability & Compensation; Supply Chain Management | |
C2: Discuss how your system helps you assess and address impacts, risks and opportunities and develop actions to mitigate negative and foster positive consequence | Full | Community Relations; Risk Management; 2023 Climate Report | ||
C3: Describe your company-wide standards that set performance requirements for assets, including internal standards or external international / national standards that you follow | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Supply Chain Management | ||
C4: Describe how your leadership team supports your system at all levels, including how they demonstrate their commitment and how you foster a strong, positive culture throughout the organization | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Our People | ||
GOV-3: Preventing Corruption | C1: Describe your governance and management approach, policies, codes of conduct and internal controls, related to prevention of bribery and corruption | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Supply Chain Management | |
C2: Describe your employee awareness and training programmes | Full | Accountability & Compensation | ||
C3: Discuss how your anti-corruption policies and due diligence procedures apply to your business partners, including suppliers and contractors | Full | Supply Chain Management | ||
C4: Outline your processes for reporting, review and follow-up of suspected non-compliances | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Supply Chain Management | ||
GOV-4: Transparency of Payments to Host Governments | C1: Provide a general overview of your policies and programmes on revenue transparency | Full | We only operate in the U.S., paying local, state and federal taxes. Our taxes paid are listed in Community Relations and Performance Metrics. | |
C2: Describe the scope of your legal and policy mandates for government revenue reporting with which you are obliged to comply | N/A | Not applicable – see above | ||
C3: Describe your participation in the EITI, where relevant, or any other voluntary reporting initiatives on revenue transparency | N/A | Not applicable – see above | ||
C4: Disclose, or reference sources of disclosure for, your payments to host governments, where reporting is subject to governmental legal or policy mandates, or EITI requirements | N/A | Not applicable – see above | ||
GOV-5: Public Advocacy and Lobbying | C1: Describe your governance approach and management processes on advocacy and lobbying | Full | Political & Trade Participation | |
C2: Describe your approach to reporting political contributions, where applicable for your company | Full | Political & Trade Participation | ||
Climate Change and Energy | CCE-1: Climate Governance and Strategy | C1: Describe your approach to governance and management of climate-related risks and opportunities, including board-level accountabilities and processes that allow related issues and impacts to be considered when making strategic business decisions | Full | 2023 Climate Report |
C2: Report the highest-level position in your company that is accountable for policy and strategy on addressing climate-related risks and opportunities | Full | 2023 Climate Report | ||
C3: Disclose your positions and any related policies that address climate-related risks and opportunities for society and ecosystems | Full | 2023 Climate Report | ||
C4: Discuss the relationship between future energy supply / demand balances and your climate policy and strategy, including how the transition risk to lower-carbon energy may influence your asset base, business performance and value | Full | 2023 Climate Report | ||
CCE-2: Climate Risk and Opportunities | C1: Describe your general approach to managing climate-related risks and opportunities, including discussion on: identification and evaluation of risks and opportunities incorporation of risks and opportunities are into business strategies and planning for existing operations and new projects risks and opportunities related to energy transition risk mitigation opportunities through nature based solutions; and physical climate-related risks, such as rising sea levels or flood risk | Partial | 2023 Climate Report | |
C2: Outline your GHG emissions management strategy, including plans, commitments, investments and activities to mitigate GHG emissions within your operations | Full | Air Quality; 2023 Climate Report | ||
C3: Explain how you assess, prioritize and manage methane risks and impacts as part of your overall GHG emissions management strategy | Full | Air Quality; 2023 Climate Report | ||
C4: If you have quantitative GHG emission or energy-related targets, describe the: scope of your targets – total GHG, CO2, methane, other GHGs, energy use, and/or flaring; type of targets (absolute or intensity); targets already underway or planned; approach used to measure progress towards these targets; and baseline period and timescale, along with progress towards meeting your targets | Full | 2023 Climate Report | ||
CCE-3: Lower-Carbon Technology | C1: Describe how you introduce and apply technologies that reduce CO2 emissions, that relate to: operations (Scope 1); imported electricity and steam (Scope 2); and as applicable, consumer use of products (Scope 3) | Full | Air Quality; 2023 Climate Report | |
C2: As applicable, discuss your approach to supply of lower-carbon and/or alternative energy, including descriptions of relevant operational activities, plans or projects. If relevant, include: data on amount and type of energy supplied; and management of any associated social or environmental impact | Partial | 2023 Climate Report | ||
CCE-4: Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions | C1: Report your company-wide direct GHG emissions (Scope 1), using your preferred approach (operational, equity share or other) to include: direct CO2; direct CH4; and direct other greenhouse gases | Full | Performance Metrics; 2023 Climate Report | |
C2: Report your company-wide indirect GHG emissions related to imported energy (Scope 2), separate from direct emissions, using the same approach as for C1 | Full | Performance Metrics; 2023 Climate Report | ||
C3: Report your GHG emissions, disaggregated by business activity. For example, oil and gas production, refining. | Full | Performance Metrics; AXPC ESG Metrics; Specific to our business activity, we only have upstream operations. | ||
C4: Report your GHG emissions intensity, company-wide and, if appropriate, disaggregated by business activity | Full | 2023 Climate Report; Performance Metrics; AXPC ESG Metrics | ||
CCE-5: Methane Emissions | C1: Describe your approach to managing methane emissions, including: responsibilities for management of methane-related climate issues; risk assessment and mitigation plans; and direct or estimated measurement and monitoring methods | Full | Air Quality; Performance Metrics; 2023 Climate Report | |
C2: Discuss your performance in managing methane emissions (as reported in CCE-4) by source and activity in terms of total absolute emissions and emission intensities | None | |||
CCE-6: Energy Use | C1: Report your company’s total energy use | None | ||
C2: Discuss your initiatives and progress towards improving energy efficiency and consuming less energy. For example, many companies are producing energy on site and using combined heat and power (also known as cogeneration) plants to improve energy efficiency. | Full | Air Quality | ||
CCE-7: Flared Gas | C1: Report the total quantity of hydrocarbon gas flared from your operations | Full | Climate Metrics; Air Quality; Performance Metrics | |
C2: Indicate geographical locations of significant flaring | Full | Air Quality | ||
C3: State any commitments or targets you have set that relate to flaring, including collaboration with cross-industry initiatives | Full | Air Quality; 2023 Climate Report | ||
C4: Report contribution of flaring to your total GHG emissions in CO2e | None | |||
C5: Describe your current and future flare reduction activities, including long-term reduction improvements versus short-term operational fluctuations | Full | Air Quality; 2023 Climate Report | ||
Environment | ENV-1: Freshwater | C1: Report the total volume of freshwater you withdraw | Full | Water Management; We consume nearly all of the fresh water we withdraw, therefore we report consumed volumes only (see C2). |
C2: Report the total volume of freshwater you consume | Full | Water Management | ||
C3: Provide a list and/or a percentage of your projects and operations that are in water-stressed or water-scarce areas | Full | Water Management; Performance Metrics | ||
C4: Report the percentage of freshwater you withdraw or consume in waterstressed or water-scarce areas, detailing how you reached that percentage | Full | Performance Metrics | ||
C5: Report the total reduction in freshwater withdrawn or consumed due to your water reduction measures, including water you replace or recycle / reuse within your reporting boundaries | None | |||
ENV-2: Discharges to Water | C1: For upstream facilities, report the quantity of hydrocarbons (in metric tonnes) and/or annual average concentrations (in mg/l or ppm) in produced water and process wastewater that you discharge to surface water | Full | We don’t discharge any treated water to surface water or for land application. | |
C2: For refineries and other downstream facilities, report the quantity of hydrocarbons (in metric tonnes) and/or annual average concentrations (in mg/l or ppm) that you discharge to surface water | N/A | Not applicable | ||
ENV-3: Biodiversity Policy and Strategy | C1:Describe your biodiversity management approach, including policy, positions, goals, strategies, risk / impact assessments, mitigation plans and outcomes. This can include how you apply the mitigation hierarchy and international biodiversity standards in your operational planning, from early concept through to decommissioning | Full | Biodiversity & Land Stewardship | |
C2: Provide examples or case studies of operating areas where you have put biodiversity management activities and adaptive management in place | Full | Biodiversity & Land Stewardship | ||
C3: Set out your processes for identifying and managing activities in sensitive operating areas, such as Biodiversity Actions Plans. Include the criteria you use to determine sensitivity and any applicable metrics. | Full | Biodiversity & Land Stewardship | ||
ENV-4: Protected and Priority Areas for Biodiversity Conservation | C1: Provide a list and/or a percentage of your projects and operations that are in or near protected areas and priority sites for biodiversity conservation | Full | Biodiversity & Land Stewardship | |
C2: Describe your commitments, including avoidance and mitigation measures, that relate to projects and operations in or near protected areas and priority sites for biodiversity conservation | Full | Biodiversity & Land Stewardship | ||
ENV-5: Emissions to Air | C1: Report your total emissions, by category: volatile organic compounds (VOCs); sulphur oxides (SOx); nitrogen oxides (NOx) | Full | Air Quality | |
C2: Discuss how you monitor and manage the impact of your operations on local air quality, including any technologies you use, such as those that remove or treat combustion emissions in operations or fuel products | Full | Air Quality | ||
ENV-6: Spills to the Environment | C1: Describe your strategies and risk-based approach to prevent accidental releases of hydrocarbons / other materials to the environment | Full | Spill Prevention | |
C2: Report the number and volume of hydrocarbon spills greater than 1 bbl reaching the environment | Full | Spill Prevention | ||
C3: Provide case studies or examples of significant spills, as determined by the company, which may include descriptions of the following: your response measures to address immediate and long-term effects; any secondary effects on local communities and stakeholders; your stakeholder engagement; incident investigation findings, if available, including root-causes; and actions you are taking to prevent recurrence and share lessons | None | |||
C4: Describe your emergency preparedness and response programmes, plans, organizational structures and affiliations for an effective response to spills and other emergencies. Your description may include the development and checking of contingency plans, including aspects such as training, skills development, and emergency response exercises. | Full | Risk Management; Spill Prevention | ||
ENV-7: Materials Management | C1: Describe your approach to materials management. This may include your operational strategies to optimize design, minimize the amount of materials you use, and promote efficient use while ensuring sustainable recovery and regeneration for further beneficial use. | Full | Biodiversity & Land Stewardship; Waste Management | |
C2: Describe your efforts to minimize the generation and disposal of waste, to increase reuse and recycling and to continuously improve your materials management practices | Full | Waste Management; Water Management | ||
C3: Report the quantities of waste that you: generate; dispose; and recycle, reuse or recover You may report hazardous and non-hazardous waste separately, or total waste, stating that this includes both hazardous and non-hazardous material. | Partial | Waste Management | ||
ENV-8: Decommissioning | C1: Describe your approach to planning and executing decommissioning activities for offshore and onshore assets | Full | Biodiversity & Land Stewardship | |
C2: Provide information on management of materials recovered from decommissioning activities including any applicable data on the percentage of materials reuse and recycling, achieved or planned, for significant decommissioning projects (i.e. for major facilities such as offshore production rigs, refineries or major pipelines / terminals) | Partial | Biodiversity & Land Stewardship | ||
Safety, Health and Security | SHS-1: Safety, Health and Security Engagement | C1: Describe your approach to managing workforce participation in safety, health and security | Full | Workforce Safety; Health & Well-Being |
C2: Outline your overall approach to safety, health and security training for the employees and contractors that make up your workforce. Include information on whether training initiatives are extended to other parties, such as non-operated joint ventures, business partners, suppliers, security forces, public emergency response groups, consumers and local communities | Full | Workforce Safety | ||
C3: Discuss the coverage of your safety, health and security engagement programmes and the extent to which you include contractors | Full | Workforce Safety | ||
SHS-2: Workforce Health | C1: Describe your processes and programmes for identifying and addressing significant workforce health issues at the local, regional and global level, together with any results and plans | Full | Health & Well-Being | |
C2: Describe aspects of your management systems that are specific to health and any improvements you have planned or made | Full | Workforce Safety; Health & Well-Being | ||
C3: Describe your proactive wellness initiatives that encourage the adoption of healthier lifestyles, including nutrition, fitness and awareness of health risk factors | Full | Health & Well-Being | ||
SHS-3: Occupational Injury and Illness Incident | C1: Report your work-related injuries separately for employees and contractors, including: total recordable injury frequency; lost time injury frequency; number of fatalities (excluding illness fatalities); fatal accident rate (excluding illness fatalities); and fatal incident rate | Full | Workforce Safety; Performance Metrics | |
C2: Describe any significant incidents that occurred during your reporting year, detailing the impact and actions taken in response | Full | Environmental & Safety Management System | ||
C3: Describe any initiatives to improve your safety performance | Full | Workforce Safety | ||
C4: Describe safety incident trends and the most common causes of work-related incidents together with any initiatives you have introduced to address these causes | Partial | Workforce Safety | ||
SHS-4: Transport Safety | C1: Describe your risk management approach to transport safety, including policies and practices required within your management systems | Full | Workforce Safety | |
C2: Report the number of work-related workforce (employee or contractor) fatalities caused by transport incidents | Full | Workforce Safety | ||
C3: Describe your efforts to engage with external parties, including local communities and authorities, to improve transport safety, including education and training and implementation of new technology | Partial | Community Relations | ||
SHS-5: Product Stewardship | C1: For petroleum consumer products, such as fuels, petrochemicals and hydrocarbon-derived polymers and lubricants, discuss your approach to product assessments, for new and existing products and how you address any findings | N/A | Not applicable | |
C2: Describe how you communicate product HSE hazards and risk controls to your customers and the general public, including information on transportation and handling of products | N/A | Not applicable | ||
C3: Describe your approach to health, safety and environmental management of products | N/A | Not applicable | ||
SHS-6: Process Safety | C1: Number of Tier 1 process safety events reported separately for each major business activity, such as refining or upstream | None | ||
C2: Provide qualitative descriptions of any significant process safety events that occurred during the reporting year, including your response and lessons learned to prevent recurrence | None | |||
C3: Explain how you review your assessment and management of process safety risks | None | |||
SHS-7: Security Risk Management | C1: Describe your approach to security management for existing operations, projects planned or underway and new locations for business activities, including assessment of threats, vulnerabilities and risks | Full | Risk Management; Security & Cybersecurity | |
C2: Outline awareness and training processes that address security risks and threat response procedures for your workforce and how you make members of the community aware of relevant security risks | Full | Risk Management; Security & Cybersecurity | ||
C3: Outline your management approach to promoting resilience to cybersecurity threats or attacks | Full | Security & Cybersecurity | ||
Social | SOC-1: Human Rights Due Diligence | C1: Describe the components of your company’s human rights due diligence approach and how it is applied to company processes to assess, address, monitor and communicate actual or potential human rights impacts | Full | Human Rights |
C2: Describe processes and practices to provide access to remedy mechanisms at the local level, supported by specific examples as appropriate | None | |||
C3: Describe how human rights considerations are factored into early phase decision making, including project siting and planning for new projects, with joint venture partners, and likewise for decommissioning or sale of operations | None | |||
C4: Outline the scope, content and tracking of human rights training programmes. You could include figures for people trained in a given year, the proportion trained against the population that may need training, and how you measure the effectiveness of training. | None | |||
C5: Report qualitative measures for tracking the effectiveness of implementation and the outcomes of policies and procedures. For example, human rights considerations when evaluating investments. | None | |||
SOC-2: Suppliers and Human Rights | C1: Describe your approach and processes for promoting respect for human rights by your suppliers | Full | Human Rights | |
C2: Describe how you screen and assess suppliers for social, environmental and human rights-related risks | Full | Supply Chain Management | ||
SOC-3: Security and Human Rights | C1: Describe your relevant policies, programmes and processes relating to security and human rights | Full | Human Rights | |
C2: Describe how your security and human rights policies, programmes and processes are implemented at the country, regional or facility-specific level | Full | Our Human Rights Policy, Information Security Policy and Codes of Conduct apply to all of our operations across the U.S., including each of our field office locations. | ||
C3: Describe communication efforts to implement your commitments on security and human rights with host governments and authorities, contractors and subcontractors, in your supply chain and civil society | N/A | We operate in the U.S. only and more than 99% of our suppliers are U.S. based. | ||
SOC-4: Site-Based Labour Practices and Worker Accommodation | C1: Describe your approach to the recruitment and employment of your site-based workforce, including how you communicate your expectations to your suppliers of contract labour | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Workforce Safety; Supply Chain Management | |
C2: Describe your approach to monitoring and addressing on-site working conditions, including the quality of worker accommodation | Full | Supply Chain Management | ||
C3: Describe your approach to engaging with contractor management and the workforce so that their recruitment, employment, working and living conditions are aligned with your company’s expectations and with relevant national or international laws, standards or guidelines | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Supply Chain Management | ||
SOC-5: Workforce Diversity and Inclusion | C1: Describe your policies, programmes and procedures to promote workforce diversity and inclusion, and non-discrimination | Full | Accountability & Compensation; DEI | |
C2: Provide workforce composition data for gender and/or other diversity categories | Full | Our People; DEI; Performance Metrics | ||
C3: Discuss workforce composition, particularly with reference to your management positions | Full | Our People; Performance Metrics | ||
SOC-6: Workforce Engagement | C1: Provide examples of how you engage with your workforce, including examples of approach, frequency, coverage, communication of results and action plans | Full | Our People | |
C2: Set out your approach to handling worker concerns and issues | Full | Our People | ||
SOC-7: Workforce Training and Development | C1: Describe the key elements of your approach to training and development | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Workforce Safety; Our People | |
C2: Illustrate how you implement training and development programmes, e.g. hours of training, training investment, number of staff trained | Full | Our People; Workforce Safety; Performance Metrics | ||
SOC-8: Workforce Non-Retaliation and Grievance Mechanisms | C1: Describe your policies, approach and/or mechanisms that aim to secure non-retaliation, non-discrimination and confidentiality when addressing grievances. This might extend to access to third-party independent grievance mechanisms. | Full | Accountability & Compensation | |
SOC-9: Local Community Impacts and Engagement | C1: Discuss your approach to engagement with relevant stakeholders, including communities, civil society (including human rights defenders), other companies and/or governments | Full | Community Relations | |
C2: Describe your policies, programmes or procedures for: assessing and addressing local community impacts, including archaeological, historic and cultural sites, and how these considerations are embedded into early phase planning and site / route selection; engaging with affected stakeholders and responding to their grievances and concerns; monitoring the effectiveness of the steps you take to prevent, mitigate and resolve adverse impacts; and public disclosure of information on your activities and management of impacts | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Biodiversity & Land Stewardship; Community Relations | ||
C3: Provide case studies that illustrate the effectiveness and results of your engagement with stakeholders and/or how you have managed any impact on local communities, their environmental and cultural resources | Full | Community Relations | ||
SOC-10: Indigenous Peoples | C1: Describe your policies, programmes, procedures and practices used to: identify and address your impacts on Indigenous Peoples; train your staff on engagement and consultation with Indigenous Peoples; engage with Indigenous Peoples to seek a formal agreement or FPIC where needed and to address their grievances, concerns and expectations; collaborate on opportunities that create mutual benefits; and increase indigenous participation through employment and business opportunities | Partial | Human Rights | |
SOC-11: Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement | C1: Describe your policies, programmes and procedures for involuntary resettlement, including engagement processes and practices with affected communities, including any international standards you have used | Full | Our current and planned activities don’t involve any involuntary settlement of people or of their economic activities. Should the potential arise for relocation, Chesapeake will conduct meaningful consultation with affected peoples and their communities to promote fair and just resolutions | |
C2: Describe your policies, programmes and procedures for land acquisition, including relationship with compulsory purchase / eminent domain when in the public interest | Full | Community Relations; Human Rights | ||
SOC-12: Community Grievance Mechanisms | C1: Describe your community and stakeholder grievance mechanisms | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Community Relations | |
C2: Describe your policies, approach and/or mechanisms for receiving, responding to and resolving external grievances, covering your efforts to manage confidentiality and avoid retaliation | Full | Accountability & Compensation; Community Relations | ||
SOC-13: Social Investment | C1: Describe your social investment strategies, programmes and procedures | Full | Community Relations | |
C2: Report your company’s total social investment expenditure | Full | Performance Metrics; Community Relations | ||
SOC-14: Local Procurement and Supplier Development | C1: Describe your strategies, programmes and procedures that are designed to improve the ability of local suppliers and contractors to support operations and projects, such as actions that help local suppliers meet company and international standards | Full | Supply Chain Management | |
SOC-15: Local Hiring Practices | C1: Describe your strategies, programmes and procedures aimed at providing employment opportunities to residents or nationals of host countries | Full | We only operate in the U.S. and list our employment numbers in Our People and Performance Metrics, as well as our supplier figures within Supply Chain Management. |