The Company consistently upholds the philosophy of protecting the environment by conserving resources and striving for green development, and regards environmental protection as the basis of sustainable development. We abide by relevant laws and regulations in China and beyond and strictly follow carbon emission reduction policies. Moreover, we also implement a Green Development Action Plan to continuously strengthen the whole process management of environmental protection and develop clean energy, thereby fulfilling corporate environmental responsibilities in multiple ways.

We hold fast to paying equal attention to environmental protection and resource development and early intervention. In the pre-research stage of the project, we optimized the sites and processes, thus reasonably avoiding environmental sensitive areas thereafter. Also, we set up internal controls including pre-assessment of environmental impact, the implementation plan of EIA (Environment Impact Assessment) Report, EIA Approval, and the EIA Change Report; in the course of construction and operation, we took active measures to avoid environmentally sensitive periods, reduce pollutant emissions, strengthen the prevention and control of oil spills, and set up ecological compensation funds to minimize the damage to the marine ecological environment and fishery resources, in an attempt to explore offshore oil and gas while not damaging environment.

The Company consistently upholds the philosophy of protecting the environment by conserving resources and striving for green development, and regards environmental protection as the basis of sustainable development. We abide by relevant laws and regulations in China and beyond and strictly follow carbon emission reduction policies. Moreover, we also implement a Green Development Action Plan to continuously strengthen the whole process management of environmental protection and develop clean energy, thereby fulfilling corporate environmental responsibilities in multiple ways.In 2022, based on the policies on environmental protection in China, CNOOC Limited made a comprehensive revision to its ecological environment management system, focusing on the internal control systems that include environment management of offshore oil and gas field construction projects, ecological protection, pollution prevention, environmental incident reporting, and capacity-building of environmental personnel.

CNOOC Limited's whole-process management for environmental protection flow chart

Three-Simultaneity: environmental protection facilities must be designed, constructed and put into use simultaneously with the main project - Environmental Protection Law of the People's Republic of China.