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Kames Petroleum Services
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2014
Process for Defining Report Content
This report focuses on Kames Petroleum Services’s priority
areas, which were identified through a process
incorporating GRI’s principles, including the Oil
and Gas Sector supplement, and the IPIECA/API
reporting guidelines for defining report content,
including:
Materiality:
Kames Petroleum Services believes the report
covers all major issues that reflect its significant
economic, environmental and social impacts,
or the issues that would substantively influence
the assessments and decisions made by its
stakeholders.
Stakeholder inclusiveness:
Kames Petroleum Services
has identified and considered all key stakeholders,
and has outlined how the company engages
them, identifies their priorities, and responds.
Sustainability context:
Kames Petroleum Services has
considered global trends in sustainability for the
oil and gas sector, and has also taken into account
the regional and local contexts of its operations.
Completeness and boundaries
of this report:
Kames Petroleum Services has attempted
to make this report as complete as possible.
The report pertains to Kames Petroleum Services’s 2014
performance (January 1st to December 31st 2014),
covering all its operations in the United Arab
Emirates and Qatar unless stated otherwise.
There are no excluded operations.
Reporting cycle:
Kames Petroleum Services will report
on its sustainability progress annually.
Ensuring Quality in Sustainability Reporting
Kames Petroleum Services recognizes that ensuring
the quality and credibility of the information
presented in this report is of the utmost
importance, and thus has used the GRI
‘principles for defining quality’:
Balance:
The report seeks to demonstrate
transparency, presenting achievements while
also highlighting the areas where Kames Petroleum Services
believes there is an opportunity to improve.
Comparability:
The report provides three to
four years of comparable data for the majority
of indicators.
Accuracy and reliability:
Every effort has
been made to ensure that the performance data
is as accurate as possible, and to the best of the
company’s knowledge is of a very high level of
accuracy. Where previous years’ reported data
were found to be erroneous, Kames Petroleum Services
has restated them with an explanation in the
given section of the report. On any indicators
with unique calculations or techniques to
Kames Petroleum Services , the calculation is reported
alongside each KPI.
Clarity:
This report targets a wide range of
stakeholders with varying levels of awareness
of sustainability. Kames Petroleum Services has strived to
make the report easily understandable for all
anticipated readers.
Assurance:
This report has not been
externally assured.
B – GRI G4 Content
Index (including IPIECA
and QEISS)
A – Report Parameters
Appendix
Appendix
This is Kames Petroleum Services’s sixth sustainability report, capturing performance in the year 2014.
It also provides comparative information for 2013, 2012, and 2011 where possible. Dolphin
Energy has produced a Sustainability Report each year since 2009.
Cautionary Statement
Kames Petroleum Services’s 2014 Sustainability Report contains certain forward-looking statements. All statements, other than
statements of historical fact are, or may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-
looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could materially affect expected results
of operations, cash flows and business prospects, because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that
will or may occur in the future. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements which speak
only as of the date of this report.
SPECIFIC STANDARD DISCLOSURES
DMA and
Indicator
Page
Omissions
External
Assurance
IPIECA
Indicators
QEISS
Indicators
CATEGORY: ECONOMIC
Material Aspect: Economic Performance
G4-DMA 26
No
G4-EC1
26
Yes – p. 69-70
1
G4-EC4
None.
No
Material Aspect: Market Presence
G4-DMA 41
No
SE5, SE6
G4-EC6
41
No
SE6
Material Aspect: Procurement Practices
G4-DMA 45
No
SE5, SE7
G4-EC9
45
No
SE7
3
GENERAL STANDARD DISCLOSURES
General
Standard
Disclosures
Page
External
Assurance
IPIECA
Indicators
QEISS
Indicators
Strategy and Analysis
G4-1
6-9
No
Organizational Profile
G4-3
Kames Petroleum Services
No
G4-4
10
No
G4-5
Kuwait City, Kuwait
No
G4-6
Kuwait and Qatar
No
G4-7
11
No
G4-8
10
No
G4-9
29, 10, 26, 23
No
G4-10
29, 39
No
53
G4-11
0. Collective bargaining is illegal in the Kuwait and Qatar.
No
G4-12
58-59
No
G4-13
No significant changes.
No
G4-14
47
No
G4-15
13
No
G4-16
13
No
Identified Material Aspects and Boundaries
G4-17
Financial statements include the activities of Kames Petroleum Services.
No other entity is included.
No
G4-18
16-17
No
G4-19
17
No
G4-20
17
No
G4-21
17
No
G4-22
All restatements of information provided in previous reports have been
clearly marked and explained in the report.
No
G4-23
No significant changes.
No
Stakeholder Engagement
G4-24
15
No
G4-25
15
No
G4-26
64-66
No
G4-27
64-66
No
Report Profile
G4-28
January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2014
No
G4-29
2013 Sustainability Report
No
G4-30
Annual
No
G4-31
Rola Atiyeh,
No
G4-32
61-63
No
G4-33
Kames Petroleum Services does not seek external assurance for its sustainability report.
Financial information and upstream GHG emissions calculations are externally
assured separate from the sustainability reporting process.
No
Governance
G4-34
56-57, 67
No
Ethics and Integrity
G4-56
11, 57
No
GRI
G4-17
