Directors' Report: Business review

Corporate Responsibility

Corporate responsibility is part of how we organise and run our business. At Tullow, we believe it is fundamental to implementing our strategy and accomplishing our strategic objective.

2009 Highlights

Zero

significant environmental incidents

Successful EIA

in Ghana which achieved the first part of a two stage Government approval process

ISO 14001

re-certification of the Environmental Management System at the Group level

14 GNPC secondees

and four technicians welcomed to Tullow for training and development

2.0% staff turnover *

during the year with the total workforce increasing by 24% to 880 people

83% response rate

to our first global employee and contractor survey

0.76 LTIFR *

which achieved our baseline target but did not deliver top quartile industry performance

US$ 2.0 million

on voluntary social enterprise investment in over 100 projects in 11 countries

* Group KPI

Glossary

EHS
Environment, Health and Safety
EIA
Environmental Impact Assessment
GNPC
Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
KPI
Key Performance Indicator
LTIFR
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate measured in LTIs per million hours worked