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- AA1000SES
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AccountAbility AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard
- ACET
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Assists African governments to achieve long-term economic growth and transformation www.acetforafrica.org
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- CCDP
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Community Consultation and Disclosure Programme
- Conship
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A wholly owned Ghanaian freight forwarding and logistics company www.conshiponline.com
- CNOOC
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China National Offshore Oil Company
- CR
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Corporate Responsibility
- CSO
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Civil Society Organisation
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- E&A
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Exploration and Appraisal
- EHS
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Environment, Health and Safety
- EHSMS
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EHS Management System
- EIA
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Environmental Impact Assessment
- EITI
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Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- EMS
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Environmental Management System
- ENSCO
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Provider of offshore contract drilling services to the oil and gas industry www.enscoplc.com
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Environmental Statement
- Eirik Raude (The)
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a fifth-generation semi-submersible drilling unit
- ESIA
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Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
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- Farm-down
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the sale of a percentage of a licence interest to another company
- FPSO
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Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel
- FTSE 100
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Equity index whose constituents are the 100 largest UK listed companies by market capitalisation
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- GHG
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Greenhouse gases
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Geographic Information System
- GOELF
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Ghana Offshore Emergency Leadership Forum
- GRI
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Global Reporting Initiative
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- H&S
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Health and Safety
- HiPo
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High Potential Incident
- HiPoFR
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HiPo Frequency Rate measured in HiPos per million hours worked
- HR
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Human Resources
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- IFR
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International Regulators Forum
- IMS
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Information Management System
- IPIECA
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International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association
- ISAE
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International Standards on Assurance Engagements
- ISO
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International Organization for Standardization
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- MSF
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Multi-stakeholder forum
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- OGP
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International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (The)
- ONE
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Grassroots advocacy and campaigning organisation fighting extreme poverty and preventable diseases www.one.org
- OHSAS
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Occupational Health & Safety Advisory Services
- OSRL
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Oil Spill Response Ltd
- OSPRAG
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Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group
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- RBM
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Regional Business Manager
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- Safety Case
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A document or suite of documents that identifies, assesses, and documents major hazards
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Social Enterprise
- SMC
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Senior Management Committee
- SRI
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Socially responsible investment
- sq km
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Square kilometres
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- toes
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Tullow Oil Environmental Standards
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Total Recordable Injuries
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TRI Frequency Rate measure in TRIs per million hours worked
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- VAFR
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Vehicle Accident Frequency Rate measured in vehicle accidents per million kms driven
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- Well engineering
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is responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of wells
- Well integrity
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relates to the safety and ongoing viability of a well during its entire lifecycle
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Driving strong EHS performance
EHS is paramount to the success of our business and a strong EHS performance is a core part of our business drivers.
Environment, Health and Safety
Highlights for the year
- EHS had a good year overall in 2010. While we had zero high potential environmental incidents, our safety performance in terms of injuries was less than satisfactory;
- EHS leadership training was extended to a wider group within Tullow and 22 courses were completed by 184 attendees, representing 520 days of training;
- The key improvement actions from the 2009 health and safety audit, which was undertaken as a result of a contractor fatality that year, were completed;
- A significant reduction in vehicle incidents was achieved, with our Vehicle Accident Frequency Rate (VAFR) down from 1.96 in 2009 to 0.59 in 2010. This achieved our stretch target of less than 1.5 vehicle accidents per million kilometres driven, improving our road safety standards; and
- Uganda achieved certification to the international standard for environmental management systems, ISO14001 in July 2010.
"The highlight of our EHS performance for 2010 was the safe and successful transition of the Jubilee field, offshore Ghana, from development to production in late-November. Gross plateau production of 120,000 bopd is expected to be reached this year."
Phil Wahwerit, EHS Manager, Ghana
We had a very active E&A programme in 2010 with 29 wells drilled, achieving an 83% success ratio. 8.3 million hours were worked across the Group, representing a 26% increase on the prior year. There were no fatalities and zero environmental High Potential Incidents (HiPos) and we made improvements in many of our processes. However, our injury performance resulted in a LTIFR of 0.85 which did not meet our expectations nor the targets set for the year.
Embedding EHS across the organisation
Paul McDade, our Chief Operating Officer, is the Executive Director with specific responsibility for EHS. This responsibility is cascaded through the organisation to ensure EHS is a key part of every employee’s role. EHS is paramount to the success of our business and a strong EHS performance is a core part of our business drivers.
We have reorganised our EHS leadership structure to refocus this group on setting EHS strategy and managing Tullow’s top EHS risks. Through our new Regional Business Unit organisation structure, each region will now have dedicated EHS regional leadership teams that will implement EHS strategy and the day-to-day management of EHS in their area. As a result, EHS will be more embedded in our business and more closely aligned with operational activities. We also have an experienced and growing team of Group EHS specialists that can provide independent support and guidance to the business.
"In the fourth quarter of 2010 we undertook a review of the structure of our EHS leadership team and are revising how we manage EHS and set our EHS strategy. Our goal is to create a roadmap for achieving top quartile industry EHS performance, driving a step change in standards across the Group."
Graham Brunton, Group EHS Manager
