In its sustainability report for 2017, Italian oil and gas giant Eni details its work undertaken in three key areas: climate change, operating model and cooperation with communities and third parties, with a view to improve access to energy. The report reveals a reduction in emissions from oil and gas operations and a reduction of casualties as well.
2017 Highlights
- Greenhouse gas emissions intensity in upstream operations has declined by 15% since 2014, in line with the target of 43% reduction by 2025 compared with 2014.
- Fugitive methane emissions from production where almost halved compared with the year earlier, falling by 66% compared with 2014.
- The Total Recordable Incident Rate (the rate of recordable incidents over the hours worked) continued to fall compared with the two years before, to 0.33.
- Eni invested 185 million euros in Research & Development, of which 72 million euros on decarbonization initiatives.
- 70.7 million euros were dedicated to community investment.
Oil spill management
The number of oil spills fell significantly in 2017, both in terms of operational spills and spills from sabotage. However, the volume of operational spills (3,228 barrels) has increased since 2016 due to the leak in a storage tank in the Val D’Agri Oil Centre occurred at the beginning of February.
At the end of 2017 more than 2,400 barrels of oil had been recovered on the site, almost the total volume spilled. Acts of sabotage only occurred in Nigeria, where the volume spilled has decreased by 51% since 2014 (peak year).
Safety
In 2017, the most important initiatives, concerned the following areas:
- Safety Indices: Adoption of the new Proactive Safety Index to increase awareness in the reporting and analysis of near misses and hazardous conditions.
- Safety culture: Promotion of the safety culture through the project “Inside Lesson Learned” and “Eni in Safety 2”, local Safety Days and Safety Road Shows.
- Process safety: Implementation of the Process Safety Management System, related audit protocol and of performance indicators.
- Emergencies management: Promotions of actions to improve emergency preparedness and response.
In 2017 there was a further reduction in the total recordable injury rate of the workforce (TRIR): 6.8% compared to 2016 both for employees (-17.2%) and contractors (-2%). However, there was one fatal accident on an offshore platform in Egypt: A contractor died from an electric shock due to accidental contact with live parts.
In 2017, two new safety performance indicators were adopted:
- Severity Incident Rate (SIR), which gives incidents with serious consequences a greater weight in the formula;
- Safety Culture Program (SCP), indicator of proactiveness which involves aspects concerning preventive management of safety (i.e. reporting of near misses and hazardous conditions, monitoring of mitigating actions, dissemination of lessons learned and safety golden rules and execution of complex emergency drills).
Explore more herebelow:
