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- AA1000SES
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AccountAbility AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard
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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
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A wholly owned Ghanaian freight forwarding and logistics company www.conshiponline.com
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China National Offshore Oil Company
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Corporate Responsibility
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Civil Society Organisation
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- E&A
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Exploration and Appraisal
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Environment, Health and Safety
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EHS Management System
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Environmental Impact Assessment
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Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
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Environmental Management System
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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
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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
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Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel
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Equity index whose constituents are the 100 largest UK listed companies by market capitalisation
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Ghana Offshore Emergency Leadership Forum
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Global Reporting Initiative
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High Potential Incident
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HiPo Frequency Rate measured in HiPos per million hours worked
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Human Resources
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International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association
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Multi-stakeholder forum
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International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (The)
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Grassroots advocacy and campaigning organisation fighting extreme poverty and preventable diseases www.one.org
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Occupational Health & Safety Advisory Services
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Oil Spill Response Ltd
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Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group
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Regional Business Manager
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Socially responsible investment
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Tullow Oil Environmental Standards
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Total Recordable Injuries
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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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Climate change
Developing a position on climate change
We are however working towards a greater understanding of our contribution to climate change at both local and global level as our growing environmental footprint is driving higher levels of emissions. We currently track Tullow's atmospheric emissions from production, drilling and well test activities. Atmospheric emissions comprise Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Methane (CH4). We have had Group-level assurance of our emissions data for four years.
We are currently working to minimise our operational impact on the environment through energy efficiency initiatives, monitoring and evaluation activities, emissions management programmes, effective planning of operational life cycles through ESIAs and compliance with national and international requirements. As a matter of course we incorporate emissions control in the design phase of all major projects and developments. Our IMS incorporates and underpins our environmental commitment to minimise pollution and emissions. IS014001 certification requires Tullow to commit to avoiding releases as well as demonstrate continual improvement in environmental performance.
Gas flaring in Ghana
The final EIS for Jubilee Phase 1 documented flaring activity for First Oil production and stabilising FPSO plant and processes as part of commissioning. Final stages of commissioning include completing the overall gas injection compression facilities. These are required to enable the produced/associated gas to be re-injected into the reservoir as the only available gas disposal route at this time.
The compression system is a complex engineering set-up and the current status is that we expect to achieve full gas injection in the near future. On achieving this, we will enter a period of securing system performance and stability. Given this status it will be necessary to flare additional associated gas in excess of the originally proposed volume estimates in the Final EIS. We are in regular communication with the Ghanaian Environmental Protection Agency on this subject.
The long-term plan is that there will be no continuous flaring of hydrocarbon gases during normal operations. There will only be a pilot light so that the flare will be available in the event of an emergency shutdown.
All flaring activities whether onshore or offshore are an integral part of ESIAs submitted to national regulators. Our subsequent environmental management plans detail the arrangements for each operation outlining the mitigation, monitoring and management of all our environmental risks. Where we have a licence interest but are not the operator, we seek to engage with our partners to minimise flaring and other environmental risks in the course of normal operations.
Estimated GHG emissions from the Jubilee Phase 1 development are documented in Table 5.9 in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which is available online at www.tullowoil.com/ghana/finaleisjubilee
