CNOOC Limited strictly abides by the Production Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Oil and Gas Pipelines, the Regulations on the Safety Production of Offshore Oil, the Rules for the Administration of Offshore Oil Safety, the Safety Rules for Offshore Fixed Platforms and other relevant laws, regulations and industry standards. On the basis of good domestic and international practices and the safety management system standards issued by relevant international organizations, we have established and improved the Company's characteristic HSE management system. The system is deeply integrated with the Company's basic QHSE internal control policy and set clear principles and parameters for safety management.
CNOOC Limited implements hierarchical management at its headquarters, subsidiaries and business units. In 2023, the Company reviewed and reconstructed its HSE management system into a simpler and more efficient three-level internal control system. All subsidiary companies and business units are also required to continuously optimize QHSE management systems and to undertake superior audits and special audits.
CNOOC Limited attaches great importance to safety inspection. We conduct full-coverage inspection over all secondary units to promote production safety. We enhanced the early warning system for risks and improved intelligent management and control. Meanwhile, we continue to improve the two-fold prevention mechanism of classified risk control and hazard treatment to prevent major risks and strive to solve problems before their emergence. We also implement specific management and control measures, regularly issue risk notices and seek to improve our analysis and assessment ability. We strictly follow accident and incident reporting policies, and have amended the Accident and Incident Management Measures and the Accident and Incident Management Rules, emphasizing proactive, immediate and accurate reporting of accident information.
CNOOC Limited earnestly implements the responsibility of safe production. We have amended policy documents such as the Emergency Management Measures, and the Management Rules for Developing Site Emergency Response Plans, improving the Company's emergency work arrangement and on-site emergency response plans and systems. We have optimized the functions of the emergency management information system, so that it can provide quicker feedback on offshore production safety and emergency information, achieve data interconnection, and improve site monitoring and early warning performance.
We highly value production safety training. During the year, we organized various kinds of production safety training and competition activities:
To ensure the safe and compliant operation of equipment and facilities, CNOOC Limited has built the equipment and facilities integrity management system. The Company enhanced the feasibility study and integrity review in the initial design stage of development projects to better identify hazards and assess risks of key facilities.
During the year, we conducted assessment on the main structure of aging platforms for safety purpose. All 61 platforms assessed met the requirements for continued use.
The integrity rate of the Company's equipment and facilities is maintained at a high level and we are able to control the risks in our equipment and facilities.
CNOOC Limited continuously optimizes its well control management system, specifies assessment indicators and has developed a systematic, standardized, simplified and feasible standards and regulations system. In 2023, we made efforts to improve the well control awareness and skills of all employees at different levels and advanced the step to build well control emergency response ability with real actions.
· Firmly establishing well control awareness and promoting well control culture.We organized the signing of well control safety responsibility letters, and arranged comprehensive well control emergency drills, site well control upskilling activities and well control safety lectures to cultivate well control safety culture;
· Fully designating responsibilities and specifying lists of rights and responsibilities.We signed the well control safety responsibility letter with relevant units, and developed the well control responsibility list for the drilling and completion project team to manage the whole responsibility chain;
· Improving capabilities of grassroots personnel and enhancing frontline performance.We conducted well control empowerment training, special rectification of liquid spill handling, and various kinds of well control skill contests to level up the well control skills of frontline personnel;
· Reinforcing patrol monitoring and strengthening site weak spots.We carried out regular well control patrols to identify and address hazards in time. We also developed the well control information management system comprising eight modules, including well control inspections and equipment, and created "platform QR codes" for each platform using digital means to timely identify issues and report them to relevant platforms for rectification, so that hazards could be managed in a closed loop and the effectiveness of rectification could be enhanced;
· Speeding up the establishment of emergency response networks and consolidating the development basis.We promoted the construction of the Hainan Deepwater Well Control Emergency Response Base, and the Hainan Offshore Oil and Gas Emergency Rescue Team has been approved by the state.
Facing complicated and volatile circumstances of international public safety, the Company implements various overseas public safety systems and improves systems and mechanisms for overseas safety protection, aiming to fully cover areas such as safety risk assessment, emergency drills, safety training and emergency resources for overseas units and protect the life and safety of overseas employees with our best efforts.
The Company regularly conducts risk assessment for overseas public safety risks, and prepared and issued the CNOOC Limited Report of Oversea Safety Risk. We dive deep into various safety risks in different countries, develop detailed safety risk assessment systems, and enhance graded and classified management and control of risks. During the year, we implemented the pre-decision safety review mechanism for new projects to lower the operation risk of overseas projects. We also improved the safety awareness of overseas employees by increasing the frequency of emergency drills and safety training for overseas units. In 2023, there was no major public safety accident in overseas units.
CNOOC Limited strictly abides by the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases and relevant laws and regulations in the countries and regions in which it operates overseas, and has formulated the healthy company building guidance and evaluation rules to provide systemic guarantee for the occupational health of domestic and overseas employees.
We have implemented systematic management for occupational health. Specifically, we have developed comprehensive health protection plans, promoted safety management for offshore catering, strengthened the prevention and control of sudden disease for offshore operators, deepened the use of occupational health management information system, and implemented graded control of occupational hazards. All these have helped us to monitor our employees' health and achieve the periodic test of occupational-disease-inductive factors for all employees. In 2023, the Company initiated the construction of six regional health service centers in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Zhanjiang and Haikou, and 90 construction projects passed the "Three Simultaneity" review and acceptance for occupational health. Besides, periodic test of occupational-disease-inductive factors was carried out in 322 workplaces, with a 100% inspection rate and a 100% occupational health check rate.
We care about the health of overseas employees and have issued the CNOOC Limited International Exit and Entry Health Guidance covering common overseas health tips to help them obtain effective medical services in time.
The Company attaches great importance to employees' mental health and has established a mental health management mechanism for employees at home and abroad. We regularly organize psychological well-being talks and evaluate employees' mental health, and have set up designated rooms to provide professional psychological counseling and a 7*24 psychological consultation network platform. In 2023, to identify and intervene in the mental health problems of offshore employees, and to fully ensure the physical and mental health of employees, the Company continued providing psychological counseling services on offshore and onshore platforms and inviting professional psychological experts to give on-site mental health lectures and mental health collective activities.
