Definitions
For the purpose of this report the following definitions apply:
- ‘Acid gas’
- Gas mixture which contains significant amounts of acidic gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2)
- ‘AIBA’
- Asset Integrity Baseline Assessment
- ‘ARA’
- Annual Report and Accounts
- ‘BG Group’
- BG Group plc and/or any of its subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures or associated undertakings
- ‘Biodiversity’
- The variety of organisms found within a specified geographic region
- ‘boed’
- Barrels of oil equivalent per day
- ‘Carbon dioxide equivalent’
‘CO2e’ - Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide aggregated in proportion to greenhouse warming potential – methane’s greenhouse warming potential is 21 times that of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide’s is 310 times that of carbon dioxide
- ‘CCGT’
- Combined Cycle Gas Turbine
- ‘Climate change’
- A significant change from one climatic condition to another
- ‘CNG’
- Compressed Natural Gas
- ‘Co-generation’
- Co-generation is the simultaneous production of heat and power
- ‘Company’
- BG Group plc
- ‘Core management team’
- Roles such as positions on the Group Executive Committee, Regional and country management teams and managers of corporate functions
- ‘CR’
- Corporate Responsibility
- ‘EITI’
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- ‘EMS’
- Environmental Management System
- ‘E&P’
- Exploration and Production
- ‘Equity share emissions’
- Emissions aggregated on an ownership basis from both operated and non-operated assets
- ‘EU’
- European Union
- ‘Flaring’
- Disposing of waste gas by burning
- ‘Footprint’
- Physical amount of land occupied by operations
- ‘Fugitive emissions’
- Continuous low rate losses from system elements
- ‘General waste’
- Solid and liquid non-toxic or non-hazardous waste
- ‘Greenhouse gas’
‘GHG’ - Gas that contributes to the formation of an insulating blanket around the earth by trapping heat from infra-red radiation
- ‘Group’
- BG Group plc and/or any of its subsidiary undertakings, joint ventures or associated undertakings
- ‘GW’
- Gigawatt
- ‘Hazardous waste’
- Solid and liquid toxic or hazardous waste
- ‘HSE’
- Health, Safety and Environment, including security in relation to management systems
- ‘HSSE’
- Health, Safety, Security and Environment
- ‘IFC’
- International Finance Corporation
- ‘ILO’
- International Labour Organization
- ‘IPIECA’
- International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association
- ‘ISO 14001’
- International Standard for Environmental Management
- ‘km’
- Kilometres
- ‘KPIs’
- Key performance indicators
- ‘KPO’
- Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V.
- ‘LBG’
- London Benchmarking Group
- ‘LNG’
- Liquefied Natural Gas
- ‘LTIF’
- Lost Time Injury Frequency, expressed as injury frequency per million hours worked
- ‘mg/l’
- Milligram per litre – measure of concentration of oil in water
- ‘mmboe’
- Million barrels of oil equivalent
- ‘mtpa’
- Million tonnes per annum
- ‘MW’
- Megawatt
- ‘MWhrs’
- Megawatt hours
- ‘NGO’
- Non-governmental organisation
- ‘NGV’
- Natural gas vehicle
- ‘OGP’
- International Association of Oil and Gas Producers
- ‘ORIF’
- Occupational Related Illness Frequency, expressed as illness frequency per million hours worked
- ‘Particulate’
- Minute matter such as dust produced by combustion engines
- ‘Process water’
- Water resulting from the production or use of any raw material, intermediate product, by-product or waste product
- ‘PSC’
- Production Sharing Contract
- ‘Sour gas’
- Gas mixture which contains significant amounts of hydrogen sulphide (H2S)
- ‘SRI’
- Socially Responsible Investment
- ‘Stakeholder’
- Anyone with a share or legitimate interest in the Group, or who may be affected by the business activities of the Group
- ‘Sustainable Development’
- Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs
- ‘t’
- Tonnes (metric)
- ‘T&D’
- Transmission and Distribution
- ‘TRCF’
- Total Recordable Case Frequency, expressed as injury frequency per million hours worked
- ‘UN’
- United Nations
- ‘UNGC’
- United Nations Global Compact
- ‘Venting’
- Intentional, passive release of gas to the atmosphere
- ‘VOCs’
- Volatile organic compounds
- ‘Voluntary Principles’
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights developed by US and UK Governments, mining and energy companies and human rights organisations