GRI Cross-Reference Table

GRI Cross-Reference

1. Strategy and analysis		AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
1.1	Statement from the most senior decision-maker of the organization (e.g., CEO, chair, or equivalent senior position) about the relevance of sustainability to the organization and its strategy.
1.2	Description of key impacts, risks, and opportunities.		114 to 117
2. Organization profile		AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
2.1	Name of the organization.		92 to 93
2.2	Primary brands, products, and/or services.		92 to 93
2.3	Operational structure of the organization, including main divisions, operating companies, subsidiaries, and joint ventures.		92 to 93
2.4	Location of organization’s headquarters.		92 to 93
2.5	Number of countries where the organization operates, and names of countries with either major operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability issues covered in the report.		92 to 93
2.6	Nature of ownership and legal form.		92 to 93
2.7	Markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served, and types of customers/beneficiaries).		92 to 93
2.8	Scale of the reporting organization.		75 to 82
2.9	Significant changes during the reporting period regarding size, structure, or ownership.		77
2.10	Awards received in the reporting period.
3. Report parameters		AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
3.1	Reporting period (e.g., fiscal/calendar year) for information provided.
3.2	Date of most recent previous report (if any).
3.3	Reporting cycle (annual, biennial, etc.)
3.4	Contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents.
3.5	Process for defining report content, including: a) determining materiality, b) prioritizing topics within the report, and c) identifying stakeholders the organization expects to use the report.
3.6	Boundary of the report (e.g., countries, divisions, subsidiaries, leased facilities, joint ventures, and suppliers).
3.7	State any specific limitations on the scope or boundary of the report.
3.8	Basis for reporting on joint ventures, subsidiaries, leased facilities, outsourced operations, and other entities that can significantly affect comparability from period to period and/or between organizations.
3.9	Data measurement techniques and the bases of calculations, including assumptions and techniques underlying estimations applied to the compilation of the indicators and other information in the report.		93 to 103
3.10	Explanation of the effect of any re-statements of information provided in earlier reports, and the reasons for such re-statement (e.g., mergers/acquisitions, change of base years/periods, nature of business, and measurement methods).
3.11	Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the scope, boundary, or measurement methods applied in the report.
3.12	Table identifying the location of the Standard Disclosures in the report.
3.13	Policy and current practice with regard to seeking external assurance for the report.		83 to 84
4. Governance, commitments and engagement governance		AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
4.1	Governance structure of the organization, including committees under the highest governance body responsible for specific tasks, such as setting strategy or organizational oversight.
4.2	Indicate whether the Chair of the highest governance body is also an executive officer (and, if so, their function within the organization’s management and the reasons for this arrangement).
4.3	For organizations that have a unitary board structure, state the number of members of the highest governance body that are independent and/or non-executive members.
4.4	Mechanisms for shareholders and employees to provide recommendations or direction to the highest governance body.
4.5	Linkage between compensation for members of the highest governance body, senior managers, and executives (including departure arrangements), and the organization’s performance (including social and environmental performance).
4.6	Processes in place for the highest governance body to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided.
4.7	Process for determining the composition, qualifications and expertise of the members of the highest governance body and its committees, including any consideration of gender and other indicators of diversity.
4.8	Internally developed statements of mission or values, codes of conduct, and principles relevant to economic, environmental, and social performance and the status of their implementation.			1, 6 and 10
4.9	Procedures of the highest governance body for overseeing the organization’s identification and management of economic, environmental, and social performance, including relevant risks and opportunities, and adherence or compliance with internationally agreed standards, codes of conduct, and principles.
4.10	Processes for evaluating the highest governance body’s own performance, particularly with respect to economic, environmental, and social performance.
4.11	Explanation of whether and how the precautionary approach or principle is addressed by the organization.			7
4.12	Externally developed economic, environmental, and social charters, principles, or other initiatives to which the organization subscribes or endorses.
4.13	Memberships in associations (such as industry associations) and/or national/international advocacy organizations in which the organization: a) has positions in governance bodies, b) participates in projects or committees, c) provides substantive funding beyond routine membership dues or d) views membership as strategic.
4.14	List of stakeholder groups engaged by the organization.
4.15	Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage.
4.16	Approaches to stakeholder engagement, including frequency of engagement by type and by stakeholder group.
4.17	Key topics and concerns that have been raised through stakeholder engagement, and how the organization has responded to those key topics and concerns, including through its reporting.

Economic performance indicators
management				93 to 101
Aspect: Economic performance			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	EC1	Direct economic value generated and distributed, including revenues, operating costs, employee compensation, donations, and other community investments, retained earnings, and payments to capital providers and governments.		90
Essential	EC2	Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the organization’s activities due to climate change.	Not material.
Essential	EC3	Coverage of the organization’s defined benefit plan obligations.	Not material.
Essential	EC4	Significant financial assistance received from government.
Aspect: Market presence			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Additional	EC5	Range of ratios of standard entry level wage compared to local minimum wage at significant locations of operation.	Not material.
Essential	EC6	Policy, practices, and proportion of spending on locally-based suppliers at significant locations of operation.	Not material.
Essential	EC7	Procedures for local hiring and proportion of senior management hired from the local community at locations of significant operation.	Not material.		7, 8 and 9
Aspect: Indirect economic impacts			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	EC8	Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services provided primarily for public benefit through commercial, in-kind, or pro bono engagement.		81 to 82
Additional	EC9	Understanding and describing significant indirect economic impacts, including the extent of impacts.		81 to 82
Environmental performance indicators
management
Aspect: Materials			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	EN1	Materials used by weight or volume.	Not material.
Essential	EN2	Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials.			8 and 9
Aspect: Energy			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	EN3	Direct energy consumption by primary energy source.
Essential	EN4	Indirect energy consumption by primary source.	Not material.
Additional	EN5	Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements.	Not material.		8 and 9
Additional	EN6	Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy based products and services, and reductions in energy requirements as a result of these initiatives.	Not material.		8 and 9
Additional	EN7	Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved.	Not material.		8 and 9
Aspect: Water			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	EN8	Total water withdrawal by source.	Not material.
Additional	EN9	Water sources significantly affected by withdrawal of water.	Not material.
Additional	EN10	Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused.	Not material.		8 and 9
Aspect: Biodiversity			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	EN11	Location and size of land owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas.
Essential	EN12	Description of significant impacts of activities, products, and services on biodiversity in protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas.
Additional	EN13	Habitats protected or restored.			8
Additional	EN14	Strategies, current actions, and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity.			8
Additional	EN15	Number of IUCN Red List species and national conservation list species with habitats in areas affected by operations, by level of extinction risk.
Aspect: Emissions, effluents and waste			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	EN16	Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight.
Essential	EN17	Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight.
Aspect: Emissions, effluents and waste			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Additional	EN18	Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved.	Not material.		8
Essential	EN19	Emissions of ozone-depleting substances by weight.	Not material.
Essential	EN20	NO_x, SO_x, and other significant air emissions by type and weight.	Not material.
Essential	EN21	Total water discharge by quality and destination.			8
Essential	EN22	Total weight of waste by type and disposal method.			8
Essential	EN23	Total number and volume of significant spills.	There were no spills in 2012 (because there were no operations during the year).
Additional	EN24	Weight of transported, imported, exported, or treated waste deemed hazardous under the terms of the Basel Convention Annex I, II, III, and VIII, and percentage of transported waste shipped internationally.	There was no transport of hazardous waste in 2012 (because there were no operations during the year).
Additional	EN25	Identity, size, protected status, and biodiversity value of water bodies and related habitats significantly affected by the reporting organization’s discharges of water and runoff.	Not material.
Aspect: Products and services			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	EN26	Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation.			8
Essential	EN27	Percentage of products sold and their packaging materials that are reclaimed by category.	Not material.		8
Aspect: Compliance			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	EN28	Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations.		109 to 110
Aspect: Transport			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Additional	EN29	Significant environmental impacts of transporting products and other goods and materials used for the organization’s operations, and transporting members of the workforce.
Aspect: Overall			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Additional	EN30	Total environmental protection expenditures and investments by type.			8
Labor practices and decent work performance indicators
management
Aspect: Employment			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	LA1	Total workforce by employment type, employment contract, and region, broken down by gender.
Essential	LA2	Total number and rate of new employee hires and employee turnover by age group, gender, and region.			6
Additional	LA3	Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by major operations.	Not material.
Aspect: Labor/Management relations			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	LA4	Percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements.	Not material.		3
Essential	LA5	Minimum notice period(s) regarding operational changes, including whether it is specified in collective agreements.	Not material.		3
Aspect: Occupational health and safety			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Additional	LA6	Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management – worker health and safety committees – that help monitor and advise on occupational health and safety programs.
Essential	LA7	Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities by region and by gender.	There were no lost days due to work-related injuries, occupational diseases or accidents in the workplace. The absenteeism rate was 0.5%, representing two employees who missed work through INSS (Social Security). There were no fatalities during the year.
Essential	LA8	Education, training, counseling, prevention, and risk-control programs in place to assist workforce members, their families, or community members regarding serious diseases.	Not material.
Additional	LA9	Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions.
Aspect: Training and education			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	LA10	Average hours of training per year per employee by gender, and by employee category.	Not material.
Additional	LA11	Programs for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees and assist them in managing career endings.	Not material.		7, 8 and 9
Additional	LA12	Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews, by gender.	Not material.
Aspect: Diversity and equal opportunity			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	LA13	Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per category according to gender, age group, minority group membership, and other indicators of diversity.	Not material.
Aspect: Equal remuneration for men and women			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	LA14	Ratio of basic salary and remuneration of women to men by employee category, by significant locations of operation.	Not material.
Essential	LA15	Return to work and retention rates after parental leave, by gender.	Not material.
Human rights performance indicators
management
Aspect: Investment and procurement practices			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	HR1	Percentage and total number of significant investment agreements and contracts that include clauses incorporating human rights concerns, or that have undergone human rights screening.
Essential	HR2	Percentage of significant suppliers, contractors and other business partners that have undergone human rights screening, and actions taken.
Additional	HR3	Total hours of employee training on policies and procedures concerning aspects of human rights that are relevant to operations, including the percentage of employees trained.	Not material.
Aspect: Non-Discrimination			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	HR4	Total number of incidents of discrimination and corrective actions taken.	Not material.		6
Aspect: Freedom of association and collective bargaining			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	HR5	Operations and significant suppliers identified in which the right to exercise freedom of association and collective bargaining may be violated or at significant risk, and actions taken to support these rights.	Not material.		3
Aspect: Child labor			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	HR6	Operations and significant suppliers identified as having significant risk for incidents of child labor, and measures taken to contribute to the effective abolition of child labor.	Not material.		5
Aspect: Forced and compulsory labor			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	HR7	Operations and significant suppliers identified as having significant risk for incidents of forced or compulsory labor, and measures to contribute to the elimination of all forms of forced or compulsory labor.	Not material.		2 and 4
Aspect: Security practices			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Additional	HR8	Percentage of security personnel trained in the organization’s policies or procedures concerning aspects of human rights that are relevant to operations.	Not material.		1
Aspect: Indigenous rights			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Additional	HR9	Total number of incidents of violations involving rights of indigenous people and actions taken.
Aspect: Assessment			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	HR10	Percentage and total number of operations that have been subject to human rights reviews and/or impact assessments.	Not material.
Aspect: Remediation			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	HR11	Number of grievances related to human rights filled, addressed and resolved through formal grievance mechanisms.	Not material.
Society performance indicators
management				75 and 76
Aspect: Local community			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	SO1	Percentage of operations with implemented local community engagement, impact assessments, and development programs.		81 to 82
Essential	SO9	Operations with significant potential or actual negative impacts on local communities.		81 to 82
Essential	SO10	Prevention and mitigation measures implemented in operations with significant potential or actual negative impacts on local communities.		81 to 82
Aspect: Corruption			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	SO2	Percentage and total number of business units analyzed for risks related to corruption.	Not material.		10
Essential	SO3	Percentage of employees trained in organization’s anti-corruption policies and procedures.	Not material.		10
Essential	SO4	Actions taken in response to incidents of corruption.	Not material.
Aspect: Public policy			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	SO5	Public policy positions and participation in public policy development and lobbying.	Not material.
Additional	SO6	Total value of financial and in-kind contributions to political parties, politicians, and related institutions by country.	Not material.
Aspect: Anti-Competitive behavior			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Adicional	SO7	Total number of legal actions for anti-competitive behavior, anti-trust, and monopoly practices and their outcomes.	Not material.
Aspect: Compliance			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	SO8	Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with laws and regulations.	Not material.
Product responsibility performance indicators
management			Not material.
Aspect: Customer health and safety			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	PR1	Life cycle stages in which health and safety impacts of products and services are assessed for improvement, and percentage of significant products and services categories subject to such procedures.	Not material.
Additional	PR2	Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning health and safety impacts of products and services during their life cycle, by type of outcomes.	Not material.
Aspect: Product and service labeling			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	PR3	Type of product and service information required by procedures, and percentage of significant products and services subject to such information requirements.	Not material.
Additional	PR4	Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning product and service information and labeling, by type of outcomes.	Not material.
Additional	PR5	Practices related to customer satisfaction, including results of surveys measuring customer satisfaction.	Not material.
Aspect: Marketing communications			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	PR6	Programs for adherence to laws, standards, and voluntary codes related to marketing communications, including advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.	Not material.
Additional	PR7	Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning marketing communications, including advertising, promotion, and sponsorship by type of outcomes.	Not material.
Aspect: Customer privacy			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Additional	PR8	Total number of substantiated complaints regarding breaches of customer privacy and losses of customer data.	Not material.
Aspect: Compliance			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Essential	PR9	Monetary value of significant fines for non-compliance with laws and regulations concerning the provision and use of products and services.	Not material.
performance indicators - Oil and gas sector supplement
Aspect: Reserves			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Setorial	OG1	Volume and type of estimated proved reserves and production.
Aspect: Energy			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Sectoral	OG2	Total amount invested in renewable energy.	There were no investments in renewable energy or research on biofuels in 2012.
Sectoral	OG3	Total amount of renewable energy generated by source.
Aspect: Ecosystem-related services, including biodiversity			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Sectoral	OG4	Number and percentage of significant operating sites in which biodiversity risk has been assessed and monitored.		81 to 82
Aspect: Emissions, efluents and waste			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Sectoral	OG5	Volume and disposal of formation or produced water.	There were no operations in 2012. QGEP does not produce or reuse water.
Sectoral	OG6	Volume of flared and vented hydrocarbon.	There were no hydrocarbons flared or vented in 2012, as there were no operations during the year.
Sectoral	OG7	Amount of drilling waste (drill mud and cuttings) and strategies for treatment and disposal.	There was no drilling waste (drill mud and cuttings) produced in 2012, as there were no operations during the year.
Aspect: Products and services			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Sectoral	OG8	Benzene, lead and sulfur content in fuels.	Not applicable, as the company is only an upstream operator.
Aspect: Indigenous Rights			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Sectoral	OG9	Operations where indigenous communities are present or affected by activities and where specific engagement strategies are in place.		81 to 82
Aspect: Society			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Sectoral	OG10	Number and description of significant disputes with local communities and indigenous peoples.	QGEP has no disputes associated with its operations. All its Blocks are offshore and are in the exploration stage.
Sectoral	OG11	Number of sites that have been decommissioned and sites that are in the process of being decommissioned.	No sites were decommissioned in 2012.
Aspect: Involuntary resettlement			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Sectoral	OG12	Operations where involuntary resettlement took place, the number of households resettled in each and how their livelihoods were affected in the process.	The company is only active in offshore Blocks where it is the operator, and there is still no need to have an onshore production facility. Accordingly, there had been no resettlement of any family at the end of 2012.
Aspect: Integrity of assets and process safety			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Sectoral	OG13	Number of process safety events, by business activity.	At the end of 2012 there had been no hydrocarbons produced and no commercial activity in the Blocks where QGEP is the operator.
Aspect: Fossil fuel substitutes			AR's pages/Comments	FSs' page	Global Compact
Sectoral	OG14	Volume of biofuels produced and purchased meeting sustainability criteria.	At the end of 2012 there had been no hydrocarbons produced and no commercial activity in the Blocks where QGEP is the operator. Accordingly, there had been no production or purchase of biofuels at the end of 2012.