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Environmental data table

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

Key performance indicator = Key performance indicators.

N/C = Not calculated.

[A] Petroleum Industry Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Estimation, December 2003. (API, IPIECA, OGPI) indicate that uncertainty in greenhouse gas measurements can be significant depending on the methods used.

[B] Restated from 323 thousand tonnes due to calculation error in one of our Nigerian operations.

[C] 2006–7 data restated since the publication of our 2007 Annual Report and Form 20-F as a result of investigations into incidents in a difficult to access area that were completed in the interim.

[D] From 2007 we have aligned our definition of a spill with the industry standard. Only hydrocarbon spills are now included in the data.

[E] Restated for all years to exclude cooling water that travels only once through the plant.

[F] Restated from 1,582 due to inclusion of additional hazardous and non-hazardous soil into these categories by some downstream operations.

[G] Increase in 2007, mainly a result of non-hazardous waste. Two-thirds of the rise came from our upstream business in the USA due to the closure and clean-up of onshore well sites, where we bought a large brownfield operation. The rest came mainly from construction and demolition of retail sites, bought and sold by our downstream business.

[H] In 2007, we made our minable oil sands activities in Canada, a separate segment within our downstream business. It was previously part of Exploration & Production. We now report the energy intensity of oil sands separately.

[I] 2003–5 figures adjusted for the removal of oil sands activities from Exploration & Production.

[J] The Reputation Tracker survey is conducted on our behalf in 14 of our major markets, by the independent market research agency Ipsos MORI. In 2007, we reduced the number of markets where we use the Reputation Tracker with the general public, as the results from them are no longer representative we no longer report them externally. The response scale was changed for “external perception of environmental performance” in 2007. This prevents direct comparison of those results with previous years’. Comparisons can be drawn regarding the gap between Shell and its nearest competitor.

Key performance indicator

Greenhouse gas emissions
million tonnes CO2 equivalent[A]

103

99

101

103

106

112

112

105

98

92

 

Methane (CH4) thousand tonnes

522

456

398

315

241

234

243

211

154

150

 

Carbon dioxide (CO2) million tonnes

92

90

92

95

100

106

106

100

94

88

Key performance indicator

Flaring (Exploration & Production only) million tonnes

9.1

8.1

9.3

10.3

7.6

9.3

9.2

8.0

5.7

4.2

 

Sulphur dioxide (SO2) thousand tonnes

337

304

277

274

270

292

304

300[B]

296

263

 

Nitrogen oxides (NOX) thousand tonnes

252

218

202

213

213

219

197

184

180

171

 

CFCs/halons/trichloroethane tonnes

11

12

6.0

5.0

8.0

3.3

2.6

1.0

0.6

0.4

 

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) thousand tonnes

584

499

538

372

379

294

265

244

224

209

Key performance indicator

Spills thousand tonnes[C]

13.2

18.7

9.9

17.8

7.4

6.7

6.1

9.0

6.3

6.7[D]

 

Oil in effluents to surface environment thousand tonnes

5.2

3.3

2.8

2.9

2.5

2.4

2.3

2.5

2.1

1.9

 

Fresh water use[E] million cubic metres

N/C

N/C

681

683

679

667

657

638

560

574

 

Waste thousand tonnes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hazardous

240

272

400

445

504

554

455

451

594

722

 

Non-hazardous

521

468

490

452

524

510

470

668

1,199

1,971

 

Total waste

761

740

890

897

1,028

1,064

925

1,119

1,793[F]

2,693[G]

 

Energy intensity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key performance indicator

In our refineries:
Energy Intensity Index

N/C

N/C

N/C

N/C

86.5

85.9

85.0

83.9

84.0

85.0

Key performance indicator

In our chemicals plant:
Chemicals Energy Index

N/C

N/C

100

101.4

99.7

98.3

93.3

95.8

92.5

92.6

 

In our oil sands business
(gigajoule per tonne production)[H]

N/C

N/C

N/C

N/C

N/C

13.0

7.0

6.8

6.4

6.7

Key performance indicator

Exploration & Production
(gigajoule per tonne production)[I]

0.8

0.8

0.7

0.7

0.8

0.8

0.8

0.8

0.9

1.0

Key performance indicator

External perception of environmental performance[J]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special publics – % saying the best/one of the best

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shell

N/C

N/C

N/C

N/C

31

39

31

32

28

39

 

Nearest competitor

N/C

N/C

N/C

N/C

19

31

24

28

25

24