AppendixC: Report Parameters
This isDolphinEnergy’s third sustainability report, reportingonperformance in the year 2011. It alsoprovides comparative information for 2010, 2009, and2008
wherepossible.
Process for defining report content
This report focuses onDolphinEnergy’s priority areas, whichwere identified through aprocess incorporatingGRI’s principles and the IPIECA/API reporting
guidelines for defining report content, including:
DolphinEnergy believes the report covers all major issues that reflect DolphinEnergy’s significant economic, environmental and social
impacts, or the issues that would substantively influence the assessments anddecisionsmadeby its stakeholders.
DolphinEnergy has identified and considered all key stakeholders, and has outlined how the company engages them, identifies their
priorities, and responds.
DolphinEnergy has consideredglobal trends in sustainability for the oil andgas sector, andhas also taken into account the regional
and local contexts of its operations.
DolphinEnergy has attempted tomake this report as completeaspossible. The report pertains toDolphinEnergy’s 2011performance,
coveringall itsoperations in theUnitedArabEmirates andQatar unless statedotherwise. Therearenoexcludedoperations.
DolphinEnergywill report on its sustainability progress annually.
Materiality
Stakeholder inclusiveness
Sustainability context
Completeness and
boundaries of this report
Reporting cycle
The report seeks todemonstrate transparency, presenting achievementswhile alsohighlighting the areaswhereDolphinEnergy
believes there is anopportunity to improve.
Accuracy and reliability: Every effort has beenmade to ensure that theperformancedata is as accurate as possible, and to thebest
of the company’s knowledge is of a very high level of accuracy.Whereprevious years’ reporteddatawere found tobe erroneous,
DolphinEnergy has restated themwith an explanation in the given sectionof the report.
This report targets awide range of stakeholderswith varying levels of awareness of sustainability. DolphinEnergy has strived tomake
the report easily understandable for all anticipated readers.
This report has not been externally assured.
Ensuringquality in sustainability reporting
DolphinEnergy recognizes that ensuring thequality and credibility of the informationpresented in this report is of the utmost importance, and thus has used the
GRI “principles for definingquality”.
Balance
Comparability
Clarity
Assurance
CautionaryStatement
DolphinEnergy’s 2011SustainabilityReport contains certain forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact are, ormay be
deemed tobe forward-looking statements. By their nature forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks anduncertainties that couldmaterially
affect expected results of operations, cash flows andbusiness prospects, because they relate to events anddependon circumstances that will ormay occur in the
future. Readers shouldnot place undue reliance on forward-looking statementswhich speak only as of thedate of this report.
