Climate & Environment

We signed up to the first industry-government NOx Agreement in 2008 and have recently renewed our continued commitment to the agreement for 2025-2027.

We fully support the intent of the NOx Agreement and Norway’s commitment to reducing the NOx -emissions through the Gothenburg Protocol.

We are a member of the Board of Directors for VOCIC – VOC Industry Cooperation, a forum for sharing investment in emission-reducing technologies and fulfilment of authority requirements related to emissions.

We are committed to life cycle conservation of biodiversity ecosystems and the services they provide at all our operational sites. We continuously evaluate our interaction with ecosystem services while striving to minimise negative impacts by reducing emissions and discharges. Through our Sustainability Policy we commit to conserve biodiversity and have adopted Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Guidelines that define the company’s guidelines for management of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES).

We monitor and conduct site surveys of the local marine environment according to national environmental guidelines and cooperate with the other operators to develop methods and execute environmental monitoring of the water column and the seabed.

We follow national waste regulations and industry standards for efficient waste management based on the waste management hierarchy of prevention, reuse, recycling, energy recovery and disposal to prevent or mitigate potential negative impacts.

Through our operations we sort and separate our waste streams into 31 different waste fractions before being transported to shore.

Our main waste contractors are in charge of waste handling onshore in line with legislative obligations.

We manage produced water discharges based on a holistic and risk-based approach, where the main objective is to minimise the environmental impact to as low as reasonably practicable. We support and participate in the industry efforts towards protecting the ocean environment and achieving zero discharge.

For greenfield developments our ambition is the 100 per cent reinjection of produced water shall be the base case, while it shall be at least 55 per cent for fields in operation. The Goliat and Ringhorne operations inject 100 per cent of produced water into dedicated water injection wells.