Our employees, together with our contractors, host communities, suppliers and other business partners, play a key role in our business across our entire value chain. Our priorities include creating an inclusive culture and local workforce, promoting health, safety and wellness, respecting human rights and contributing to socio-economic development in our host countries.
We have a core responsibility to minimise health and safety risk across our operations and invest in employees’ wellness. Our strong positive safety performance continued in 2025 and we reinforced safety training and procedures to further embed a culture of safety across our operations.
Our 2025 Environment, Health and Safety Contractors Forum with the theme ‘Right Person, Right Place, Right Mindset: Maximising Human Performance for EHS Excellence’ was attended by nearly 100 representatives of over 40 contractor companies, who shared experiences and insights during the event.
Asset integrity and process safety underpin the safe, reliable and efficient operation of our facilities, protecting the wellbeing of our workforce and minimising the potential impact on the environment.
In 2025, we continued with our planned maintenance and integrity activities in support of asset integrity and process safety. We ended the year with one Tier 2 LOPC incident, a gas release, which did not ignite or cause any harm to people.
Our people are critical to our business success and, as an employer, we have a responsibility to offer rewarding careers. We invest in supporting, educating and empowering our colleagues and promote a positive and inclusive working culture.
In 2025, in addition to an annual schedule of mandatory training on matters such as health and safety, ethical conduct, information security, and targeted technical skills training, we continued to provide at least 20 hours of professional development training per employee per year.
Inclusion and diversity are defining components of the way we work as a culturally and geographically diverse team. At Tullow, diversity includes gender and race as well as several other attributes including physical ability, sexual orientation, and religious and political beliefs.
We identify and manage our material human rights impacts, risks and opportunities in accordance with international human rights instruments and responsible business conduct standards such as the United Nations Guiding Principles.
In 2025, we continued to raise awareness of human rights issues including providing training for leaders and contract holders across the Company, as well as other employees and more than 100 suppliers. More than 90 suppliers have undertaken a human rights self-assessment, and we are working with 27 suppliers to address issues identified, with a focus on high-risk suppliers.
We strive to build and maintain meaningful community relationships based on trust and respect and to accelerate progress through partnerships. This means maintaining a proactive and responsive dialogue to build understanding and collaborating to address actual and potential impacts.
In 2025, we engaged with 30 fishing communities in Ghana, representing nearly 3,000 fish processors and owners of fishing-related small businesses. We also contributed $200,000 to an ongoing beach and sanitation project that promotes clean beaches and enhances community livelihoods.
As a major oil and gas operator in our host countries, we rely on our host governments, communities, suppliers and local resources to conduct our business successfully.
As part of our ‘Accelerate Progress through Partnership’ strategy, the Tullow Agriventures Programme continued to grow in 2025 with 1,000 jobs created and 420 businesses developed.
We also continued our support of education in Ghana. Since 2020, we have invested $10 million, which has provided dormitories and classroom blocks at 15 schools in 11 districts, providing facilities for more than 5,000 students, making education in Ghana more accessible.