About this Report
This is the eighth Sustainability Report of the LUKOIL Group (the “Report”), and presents the performance results for the period from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017.
The previous report was published in October 2017 (for the period from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2016). The Company was awarded for the quality of its non-financial reporting in 2017, winning the Moscow Exchange’s 20th Annual Report Competition in the category “Best Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report”. The LUKOIL Group consistently ranks in the top 10 in the Responsibility and Openness and Vector of Sustainability indexes prepared by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE), based on an analysis of the public reporting of the 100 largest companies in Russia.
We have been publishing sustainability reports since 2005 (that report includes performance results for 2003-2004). They are addressed to a wide range of stakeholders and seek to provide balanced information that is relevant to the interests of each group. As part of its corporate governance system, the Company pays significant attention to improving its sustainability efforts and to raising the quality of the information reported. We believe an important factor in meeting these objectives is the performance of an independent assurance of the information disclosed, as well as the public assurance of the Report. The audit opinion on the assignment to provide limited assurance in respect of the Report is published Appendix 3. The public conclusions on the Report, by the RUIE Non-Financial Reporting Council, are published Appendix 4.
We are seeing a new stage in the development of LUKOIL Group’s non-financial reporting in terms of the integration of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the UN (hereinafter, the SDGs) into the system for analyzing operations and submitting reporting data, and also a gradual expansion of the reporting scope.
In preparing this Report, we used the following non-financial reporting standards and guidelines:
- Business Reporting on SDGs
- The Sustainability Reporting Standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) (“core” option). Certain GRI Standard indicators and tables of the general and specific standard reporting indicators are provided in Appendix 2
- The United Nations Global Compact
- The Social Charter of Russian Business and the Basic Performance Indicators of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
| Priority area for the Company | The UN Sustainable Development Targets up to 2030 | GRI Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Integrating risk management and aspects of sustainability into the Company’s business model and strategy 2 Ethics and compliance with statutory requirements | | GRI 201 GRI 419 |
| 3 Climate strategy and climate risk management | 13 Climate action Target 13.1 | GRI 305 |
| 4 Key environmental impacts, the intelligent and efficient use of natural resources and maintenance of biodiversity 5 Industrial safety | | GRI 303 GRI 305 GRI 306 GRI 308 |
| 6 Energy consumption and energy efficiency | | GRI 302 |
| 7 Human capital management | | GRI 202 GRI 401 GRI 402 GRI 403 GRI 404 |
| 8 Impacts on the social and economic development of local communities, including human rights, the supply chain, and the safety and quality of production | | GRI 203 GRI 204 GRI 411 GRI 412 GRI 413 |
