The petroleum & petrochemical industry is a high-risk industry, facing HSE challenges in every aspect of production and operation. Safety is one of the basic requirements to ensure the rapid development of our business and the health of our staff. We put safety at the top of our agenda and integrate it in our operations and the entire industry chain. We actively promote the building of a long-acting safety system and comprehensively enhance our work safety management. We also launch the "Safety and Environmental Protection Year" campaign on a yearly basis, focusing on human-centered safety principles.
Management System and Performance Assessment
Based on the requirements specified in national laws and regulations, and according to our operational safety requirements, we have developed management systems including Safety Prohibition, Management of Operational Safety Accidents and Management of Rewards for Reporting Risks. We have also strengthened the supervision and management of safety and environmental protection performance at major fields and sectors, including well control, maintenance of oil refining units, pipeline engineering and offshore operations.
To emphasize safety management responsibility, we compiled and implemented a series of new regulations, including Management Procedures of Operational Safety and Environment Accountability, Risk Control Measures for Operational Safety, Guidance on HSE Responsibilities at CNPC Headquarters, and Implementation Rules for HSE Performance Reviews, etc.
We released rules and regulations on safety management, such as the Administrative Measures for All-staff Work Safety Scoring in Enterprises and the Measures for Administration of Work Safety Contract Points, strengthen the fulfillment of work safety responsibilities by all employees, continue to promote work safety interviews and debriefings as well as performance assessments, and strengthen the safety performance appraisal of units and all employees. We have increasingly improved our safety management system with distinctive levels, hierarchical responsibilities, and coverage of all employees.
Safety Risk Management
CNPC investigates potential risks to safety, and strengthens the control of risks at their source.
We implement a dual-prevention mechanism covering risk prevention and control and hazard identification and treatment for production safety, and improve the sound classified risk prevention and control system, in order to eliminate safety risks and potential hazards to prevent accidents.We carry out HSE activities for "risk identification and hidden danger investigation", providing "one enterprise, one policy" risk warnings for key enterprises, conducting risk identification, and putting control measures in place. We hold all levels of CNPC companies accountable for work safety, continuously carry out safety production supervision and inspection in key regions and enterprises. All problems reported have been rectified with closed-loop rectification.
Emergency Response
CNPC pays particular attention to forecasting, early warning and rapid response in our emergency response system, which is characterized by a unified leadership, and strengthened with cross-functional responsibility and coordination.
To boost our capacity in handling various kinds of emergency, a response force supported by five bases specialized in firefighting, hazardous chemicals, long-distance oil/gas pipelines, well control, and offshore emergency rescue has been better organized. The CNPC well control emergency response center has been designated by the State Council as the Guanghan Base for oil/gas field rescue nationwide. To strengthen coordination and cooperation in oil spill response, we have established an integrated emergency response mechanism together with Sinopec and CNOOC for resource sharing and joint response in spill emergency and fire prevention, and the development and promotion of spill response technology. We also signed agreements with the maritime authorities of Hebei, Liaoning and Tianjin to implement an offshore emergency rescue coordination mechanism.
We have revised the plan for emergencies at the headquarters, established a "1+21" emergency plan system, and compiled the new version of the emergency material catalog; we have also completed the building of the national base for the emergency rescue of hazardous chemicals. Emergency drills for unexpected incidents in road transportation of hazardous chemicals and for control and rescue of fire wells due to the leakage of production wells of artificial island gas storage facilities were organized and carried out. Our capacity for emergency response and preparedness continues to improve.
In 2024, CNPC participated in the emergency rescue drills for oil and gas pipeline accidents between China and the five Central Asian countries, as well as the fire rescue emergency drills for central SOEs, and received praise from the Ministry of Emergency Management, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and the five Central Asian countries. .
Hazardous Chemicals Management
We implement unified management over the production, operation, packaging, storage, transportation, use and disposal of hazardous chemicals.
In response to the explosion accident in Tianjin at the hazardous goods warehouse of Ruihai Logistics Company on August 12, 2015, we actively participated in the emergency rescue and cleanup of hazardous chemicals, and drew lessons from the accident. We conducted a work safety inspection and targeted rectification of the management of hazardous chemicals and inflammables and explosives, in order to rectify and screen out problems and hidden risks in a timely manner. We exercise full-process management of hazardous chemicals covering production, storage and transportation.
In 2022, we carried out centralized management of hazardous chemicals, safety risk, put "four systems" into service for 77 large oil and gas storage facilities, conducted closed-loop rectification of 3,658 problems or hazards, and put the large oil and gas storage base security risk intelligent control platform into service.
Offshore Oil Safety
We carry out special rectifications of offshore oil safety risks, with efforts focusing on building a long-acting mechanism of “1222” offshore oil safety supervision. We keep strengthening the compliance management of new offshore construction, renovation and expansion projects, strictly control the safety risks of offshore oil operations, and constantly enhance the supervision and capacity building of offshore safety intermediaries. We carry out special supervision and inspections of offshore safety in an all-round way, maintaining a stable work safety in offshore oil operations.
In 2024, we paid close attention to the identification and warning of major offshore oil safety risks, deepened the special rectification of safety risks in offshore oil, strengthened the process control of high-risk operations on-site in offshore oil, continuously enhanced our capacity for emergency response, and effectively guaranteed the stable operation of offshore oil and gas production.
Supply Chain Safety
Contractors are our partners in our production and operation activities. We attach great importance to their safety, incorporate suppliers and contractors into our safety management system, and conduct whole-process management of their entry, selection, training, application, evaluation and assessment, in order to prevent and reduce accidents caused by suppliers and contractors.
We strengthen the selection of high-quality strategic contractors, strictly implement measures of "zero tolerance for unqualified contractors", and carry out training for key positions of contractors and refuse to hire those who failed the examination.
Road Traffic Safety
We strengthen traffic safety system construction and continue to promote the formulation of the vehicle management system, which integrates monitoring, control, and scheduling functions. The system has been implemented at subsidiaries including Liaohe Oilfield Company and CNPC Transportation Company, which enables us to implement dynamic real-time vehicle safety management and control, and thus effectively prevented major traffic accidents.
Overseas Security
Personnel safety has always been an overriding priority in our overseas operations. We steadily promote social security management systems, continuously enhance emergency response capabilities, and strive to eliminate security-related fatal incidents.