DEA publishes HSE Programme 2015

DEA published for the first time the company's own HSE programme. The broschure informs about the company wide activities in the areas of occupational safety, health and environmental protection.

The release of the programme documents the significance of occupational health and safety as well as the environmental protection within DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG:

HSE Programme 2015 (PDF | 6.38 MB)

DEA’s approach towards a performance benchmark of environmental indicators and the introduction of new procedures in accordance with the latest EU Offshore Safety Directive are just two of various HSE activities.

Environmental Indicators

DEA supplies its environmental data to the IOGP annual survey. The purpose of this survey is to benchmark industry emissions and energy consumption per unit of production. Members of IOGP (International Association of Oil & Gas Producers) submit data for their worldwide operations. Pursuant to this, DEA is one of the better performers. The table below shows DEA’s performance in relation to the survey average for five parameters.

Implementation EU Offshore Safety Directive

The European Union developed and published a new Offshore Safety Directive in 2013. This Directive establishes minimum requirements for preventing major accidents in offshore oil and gas operations as well as limiting the consequences of any accidents that do occur despite the required safety provisions. The Directive will be transposed into national law by mid-2015.

The intended outcomes of the Directive are to:

• Reduce as far as possible the occurrence of major accidents and limit their possible consequences, on the environment and coastal economies.
• Establish minimum conditions for safe offshore exploration and exploitation of oil and gas.
• Limit possible disruptions to Union indigenous energy production.
• Improve the response mechanisms in case of an accident.

The Directive requires existing installations to comply with the relevant national legislation until 2018. All new or planned operations must meet the requirements of the new Directive by July 2016. DEA acted proactively and set up a project to be able to implement the requirements of this Directive before the required timeframe.

As a result, all the actions in the preparation phase have been completed as planned and the implementation of the EU Offshore Directive‘s requirements, for example, a risk assessment for cases of damage is ongoing for the affected facilities.