Sustainability E-Report 2015 English - page 51

MinimizingEnvironmental Impacts
DolphinEnergy is committed tomanaging its
operations in an environmentally consciousmanner
thatminimizes the impacts on the natural environment.
Employees are essential participants in theprocess
of improving environmental performance. To improve
the understandingof the environmental context of the
operations, employee training is provided in the formof
a comprehensive inductionprogram.
Moreover, the company routinely enforces
environmental awareness through intranet bulletins, a
company newsletter, HSE alerts, poster campaigns and
regular employeepresentations. Theprograms include
wasteminimization, recycling, energy efficiency, flaring
and emissions, biodiversity andothers.
Overall, DolphinEnergy has spentmore thanUSD26
millionon environmental protection expenditure
and investment between 2007 and 2009. In 2010,
Dolphin spent USD 10.2millionon environmental
protection expenditures.
Environmental ProtectionExpenditure (USDMillions)
2007
2008
2009
2010
Prevention andManagement
5.62
6.51
6.40
6.51
Treatment andDisposal
0.81
1.77
5.16
3.65
TOTAL
6.43
8.28
11.56
10.17
OurManagementApproach 
As part of theQHSEManagement
System, environmental performance
standards are established covering
all the significant environmental
impactsof thecompany’soperations,
including emissionsmanagement,
energy reduction, biodiversity
protection, wastemanagement,
product and service enhancement,
by-product optimization,
watermanagement and
resource consumption.
InFebruary 2008, as part of the
ongoingdevelopment of AbuDhabi’s
PolicyAgenda, theEnvironment
AgencyAbuDhabi (EAD) launched
theAbuDhabi EmirateEnvironment
Health andSafetyManagement
System (EHSMS) initiative. The
EHSMSwent through a one year
revisionprocess resulting in issuance
of theAbuDhabi EHSMSRegulatory
Framework inApril 2009.
DolphinEnergy submitted its EHSMS
for review and approval inAugust
2009. DolphinEnergy’s EHSMS
received final approval from the
AbuDhabi EHSCenter inAugust
2010. The report stated that, “One
of themajor strengths of theDolphin
QHSEManagement System is the
fact that it has beendeveloped
and implementedover a number
of years andonly requiredminor
modifications to comply
with the requirements of theAbu
Dhabi EHSMS.”
As part of its ongoing commitment
to sustainability, DolphinEnergy
submits quarterly reports to the
EAD reportingonEHSperformance
andon key indicators of the
EHSMS. Similarly inQatar, quarterly
environmental monitoring reports
are submitted toMinistry of
Environment reportingon various
aspects and impacts related to air
emissions, wastewater, groundwater,
environmental incidents, waste
andothers.
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