onocoPhillips took significant steps in 2007 to strengthen its safety and environmental performance.
The company’s total recordable rate (TRR) for employees and contractors improved by 10 percent over 2006; however, there were three contractor fatalities.
“The loss of lives on the job is unacceptable,” says Bob Ridge, vice president, Health, Safety and Environment (HSE). “We are working continuously to improve our safety processes, training and policies to ensure that every worker returns home safely at the end of the day.”
Throughout the year, the company reviewed its process safety management systems to identify improvement opportunities and initiated the HSE Excellence Process to help ensure that elements of the HSE Management System are effectively implemented throughout the company. The process builds on the principle that all incidents are preventable and that HSE considerations must be embedded into every task and business decision.
ConocoPhillips also strives to minimize the environmental, technological and economic impact of its operations. For example, the company monitors its freshwater consumption in order to develop strategies for reuse, identify and utilize nonconventional sources where supplies are scarce, and improve the quality of water produced or discharged. In Qatar, ConocoPhillips is sponsoring a water sustainability center that will become a corporate center of excellence for water-related technologies, providing services to the company’s businesses worldwide and to the Qatari people. The company also is progressing toward its goal of improving energy efficiency at its U.S. refineries by 10 percent by 2012.
In 2007, ConocoPhillips made several key environmental announcements. The company joined both the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership and the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a business-environmental leadership group dedicated to the quick enactment of strong national legislation to require significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, the company now incorporates the potential long-term cost of carbon into its capital spending plans.
“We believe that we can fulfill our primary mission of providing reliable supplies of energy while also demonstrating environmental responsibility and leadership,” Ridge says.
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