CALGARY, ALBERTA — (Marketwired) — 11/05/13 — The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) today released its 2013 Responsible Canadian Energy progress report, highlighting industry performance improvements and challenges in the key areas of people, air, land and water.
The 2013 Responsible Canadian Energy (RCE) report, compiled with 2012 data, provides industry performance information and analysis from a national perspective and regionally for Western Canada, the oil sands and the Atlantic Canada offshore, supported by data from CAPP members and from governments.
The RCE program, of which the report is a part, both reports on industry performance in key areas and is intended to promote and enable industry performance improvement over time.
“Annual industry-wide performance reporting is an opportunity to demonstrate the value and benefits a robust oil and gas industry provides, discuss our safety record, and our environmental advancements and challenges,with a view to assessing how we are doing and identifying areas where the industry needs to improve its performance,” said CAPP president Dave Collyer. “As we seek to diversify markets and grow production of crude oil and natural gas for the benefit of all Canadians, it is important that we also be transparent about our challenges and open the door to collaborative solutions.”
2013 RCE Report Highlights
Overall, the 2013 RCE report shows ongoing improvements in the Canadian oil and gas industry–s safety performance, its economic benefits to Canadians, and environmentally as the industry produced fewer nitrogen oxide (NOx) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions. In 2012, performance challenges became more evident in other areas, such as greenhouse gas emissions and a larger land footprint. The total volume of fresh water consumed by our industry in development and production continues to increase with production growth, although the amount of fresh water withdrawn per barrel of production continues to decline.
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“Canada–s oil and gas industry is proud of the energy and economic benefits we deliver to Canadians each and every day,” said Dave Collyer. “We recognize the need to reduce the intensity of our water use and GHG emissions while maintaining production growth,” said Dave Collyer. “In particular, we must leverage investments in technology to reduce GHG emissions from Canada–s oil sands, with the goal of being as good or better than competing supplies in North American markets.”
RCE Advisory Group
CAPP–s RCE Advisory Group advises and challenges industry to manage its risks effectively and to continuously improve its performance.
The advisory group, which consists of independent safety, environmental, labour, Aboriginal, academic, private, finance and investment communities, reviewed the 2013 RCE report and noted improvements in both performance and reporting. It also encouraged CAPP to continue efforts to develop more robust metrics and performance comparators, and to focus to the extent possible on safe transportation of oil and gas products.
In its report, the advisory group said: “We call for CAPP members to be aggressive and specific about performance ambitions and to report progress toward those ambitions …. RCE reports should be used by the public to assess the Canadian oil and gas industry–s performance and significance at all scales – regional, national and global …. A broad perspective is required, recognizing the industry–s contribution to Canada and the world, as well as the impacts of its operations and products throughout their full supply chain and lifecycle.”
RCE performance data are in the attached tables. The full 2013 RCE report is available at .
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) represents companies, large and small, that explore for, develop and produce natural gas and crude oil throughout Canada. CAPP–s member companies produce about 90 per cent of Canada–s natural gas and crude oil. CAPP–s associate members provide a wide range of services that support the upstream crude oil and natural gas industry. Together CAPP–s members and associate members are an important part of a national industry with revenues of about $100 billion a year. CAPP–s mission is to enhance the economic sustainability of the Canadian upstream petroleum industry in a safe and environmentally and socially responsible manner, through constructive engagement and communication with governments, the public and stakeholders in the communities in which we operate.
PERFORMANCE DATA
Contacts:
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
Markus Ermisch
403-776-1401