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.

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.

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.

In 2021, we revised the plan for emergencies at the headquarters, put in place a “1+21” emergency plan system, and compiled the new version of the emergency material catalog; we also completed the building of the national base for the emergency rescue of hazardous chemicals, carried out emergency drills, and continued to enhance our emergency response capabilities.

In 2022, we completed the revision of the Company’s “1+21” plan for emergencies; we also completed the building of three well control emergency response centers, carried out emergency drills, and continued to enhance our emergency response capabilities.

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.

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.

CNPC places a high premium on the HSE management of overseas projects and the building of overseas emergency rescue and anti-terror systems. We have strengthened our risk assessment of production safety, and established and improved an early warning mechanism. In 2021, we registered no deaths from security fatalities in our overseas projects. In 2022, we registered no deaths from social security incidents in our overseas projects.