Tullow Oil plc 2011/2012 Corporate Responsibility Report - The Group

More informationPageGlobal Perceptions Survey 18Uganda community engagement 36“We are increasingly working in remoteonshore areas with large indigenouscommunities. This has major implicationsfor how we manage the social impacts ofour activities and places clear strategicimportance on the policies, standardsand processes we are putting in placein this area.”OUR PERFORMANCE3MEASURINGRosalind KainyahVice President External Affairs & CSRTullow Uganda, with its new partners Total and CNOOC, helddedicated sessions for stakeholders in key districts of theAlbertine Basin. The aim was to provide accurate updates onthe oil and gas sector in the region, to introduce the partnersand to share plans on how new operatorship in Blocks 1, 2and 3A will work. The meetings also generated stakeholderfeedback on the oil and gas developments generally.Developing our approachIn 2011 we focused on building more robust internal processesand capacity for stakeholder engagement. The External Affairsfunction completed a full skills audit, including keycompetencies for effective stakeholder engagement, to driveresourcing and training across the global team. Professionaltraining can be hard to come by in many of our countries ofoperation and we are identifying appropriate courses andplacements to build capacity of External Affairs professionalsin line with the changing needs of the business. We haveestablished a set of Stakeholder Engagement Guidelines andtools for the Group to both govern and support stakeholderengagement and stakeholder issues management at all levels.Three regional external affairs managers have been recruitedto new roles designed to support each Regional Business Unitteam in London and individual Business Units in-country,ensuring that the right resources are in place for the successfulexecution of external stakeholder engagement programmes andsocial impact management strategies throughout our regions.Understanding our impacts and opportunitiesWe have commissioned socio-economic baseline studiesin Uganda and Kenya to identify both our key impacts andopportunities for development, as well as an independentreport aimed at providing an account of the past, current andlikely future impact of Tullow’s activities on Ghana’s economy,society and environment. We are also putting in place moreeffective methods for identifying, assessing and managingsocial and political risk – a potential long-term performancerisk for Tullow. This includes recruitment of a country riskanalyst who will input to work to improve Board reporting onevolving risks.INTRODUCTION TO OIL & GAS COURSESWe have continued to run Introduction to Oil andGas courses for external stakeholders in ourcountries of operation, taught by Robert GordonUniversity (RGU). The courses cover the basics ofoil and gas exploration and production, some ofthe key decisions and risks taken by oil companiesopening up new basins and challenges faced bynational governments in developing a sustainableoil industry. Attendees are also given a presentationby Tullow on our activities in their country followedby a full and frank Q&A session.This year we repeated the courses in Ghana andUganda and also ran a course in London for UKstakeholders including national government,international NGOs and overseas diplomats fromour African countries of operation. We also ran ourfirst French language course in French Guiana,delivered through the Institut français du pétrole. In2012 we have run one course in Kenya and will holda second course to be run by RGU, with a view to alocal provider being able to take on future teachingrequirements. We have also run an introductorycourse for government stakeholders in Ethiopia.Susan Busingye, EHS technical assistant, and Sidney Tindyebwa, SupplyChain planner, attending an Oil & Gas course in Kampala, Uganda.61www.tullowoil.com