2007 Corporate Sustainability Report - Halliburton

Environment Profile
Let Halliburton’s sustainability
Web page tell the story (www.
halliburton.com/sustainability).
Halliburton will be viewed as a good
corporation and respected member of
every community where we operate.
We will preserve the environment and
demonstrate that our presence provides
sustainable social and economic benefits.
We will facilitate and enable the
integration of sustainability thinking
into all business activities and the
continuous improvement of stakeholder
relationships, employees, governments,
partners, suppliers, nongovernmental
organizations and communities.
Halliburton’s Sustainable Future: We will
implement our sustainability strategy
using these three key elements –
sustainable technologies, sustainable
relationships and sustainable sourcing.
The company’s environmental policy
is to prevent environmental pollution
in all of its business activities and
operations. The management of the
company is responsible for diligently
carrying out this policy and for
ensuring compliance with all applicable
laws and industry standards.
Our environmental policy is dynamic
and responsive to emerging issues and
concerns. We continuously evaluate the
environmental aspects of our products
and services to ensure that they have the
least environmental impact; are safe in
their intended use; consume energy and
natural resources efficiently; and can be
recycled, reused or disposed of safely.
The company communicates this policy
to employees, clients, contractors,
suppliers, partners and customers,
and works with the communities in
which it operates to achieve the highest
environmental goals to the benefit of
both our neighbors and our company.
The policy is implemented by the
company under the oversight of the
board of directors’ Health, Safety and
Environment (HSE) committee and of
the chief HSE officer, who is designated
by the CEO. The chief HSE officer makes
recommendations to the board’s HSE
committee and reports to the board’s
HSE committee twice per year to review
the company’s compliance with policies
and procedures, HSE performance
and HSE audit program activities.
Analyst, Global Operations Accounting in Houston
it started with a contest at work and ended with one person saving 11,000 gallons of water a month and almost $1,000 per year.
that’s a lot of money and a lot of water.
last year, the Houston-area performance improvement initiative (pii) environmental team sponsored a water conservation competition during
the city’s hottest months (May through august) to encourage employees to think about ways to save on water usage.
in the 2007 pii White paper, water conservation was noted as a core component of environmental stewardship in the oil and gas industry.
to address this, pii is focusing on lowering resource consumption, and the water conservation contest was an effort to help push this initiative
in the Company's Houston facilities.
“Since Halliburton encourages us to conserve water at work, i figured i could bring conservation home. i discovered that a few little changes could
make a huge difference. i live in an older house, and the fixtures were older, too. i repaired the leaky, running toilets, replaced the shower heads
with low-flow models, installed a more efficient pump in my swimming pool, ran full loads of laundry and began hand-washing my dishes.”
these simple changes are saving this employee money on her monthly utility bills, and they’re helping her conserve 11,000 gallons of water a
year! that’s enough water to provide one person with a shower a day for more than 2.5 years. and, it’s enough to fill 176,000 drinking glasses.
“you can conserve water if you’re conscious of it. it doesn’t cost much (or anything) to change, and one little change can make a huge difference!”
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