In our increasingly interconnected world, responsible business operation has become a normal, critical part of doing business for virtually all industries. Consumers, investors, and other company stakeholders are demanding businesses take responsibility for their current and future impacts on people and the environment. When assessing the role corporations play in a more sustainable future, many will turn their focus to ESG factors that help define and measure sustainable business.
Given the wide variety of topics encompassed in ESG, companies often identify which are material, or prioritised by company stakeholders. Quantitative and qualitative information for material ESG topics is often reported using a standard or framework such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures; Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures; Sustainability Accounting Standards Board; the Global Reporting Initiative and CDP, along with other region-specific standards.
One challenge of reporting includes extending ESG strategies and data collection to a company’s value chain. By including ESG-related requirements into service contracts or pre-qualification metrics, expectations can be clearly communicated and data aggregation simpler. Engaging with vendors on the importance of material topics and providing educational tools and opportunities is necessary for accurate data collection. Benchmarking companies against their peers allows organisations to make informed decisions to continue or halt business relationships. Every company’s approach to ESG will look different, but protecting the business’s reputation and customer expectations is critical to continuous operations.
Outcomes
• Understanding different components of ESG
• Recognition the types of reporting disclosure frameworks
• Best practices with contractors and suppliers

The current legislative framework in Australia requires titleholders to remove all infrastructure brought into the title area, once not in use, unless an equal or better safety and environmental outcome demonstrated. There are 161 individual pipelines with an overall length of 5,629 km situated in Australian waters which will reach their end-of-life over the next few decades. Pipelines contribute approximately 33% of the cumulative Australian Decommissioning Liability which represents a possible recovery spend of some USD 13.4 Billion.
While assessing options for subsea pipelines decommissioning it is important to consider that the pipelines have been in contact with potentially hazardous fluids subject to aggressive internal and external environments during operational life. Questions such as recyclability of the recovered materials, decontamination, and evaluation of environmental risks associated with LIS decommissioning of plastics, steel, concrete, Norms and Mercury need to be completely assessed.
A holistic approach in identifying and quantifying contaminants in subsea pipelines is required to make a well-informed decision and prove that selected decommissioning options can demonstrate the environmental ALARP requirements. In the early stages of decommissioning planning, sampling and laboratory testing is required to identify plastic coating type, degradation mechanism and its associated constituents released to the environment, types and mechanisms related to Mercury / Norm material and its chemical stability and potential environmental impact due to material realise.
Decommissioning program selection should be based on well-identified outcomes, environmental and/or socio-economic impacts. This poster will describe the pathway leading towards understanding the decommissioning process for pipelines by identifying and quantifying related risks, the importance of quality assurance in the sampling and testing process and discussing the challenges around data reliability in assessing these impacts and the way tools can be developed to support the decision-making process.

INPEX and McDermott have teamed up to implement an impactful mental health campaign, part of a “5-star HSSE” program, in Batam, Indonesia, a project site work location. Anchored as one of its five key pillars, the mental health element of program is being championed by senior leadership across both organizations.
While mental health awareness is already prevalent at the project’s headquarters in Australia, the program’s primary focus has been at the project fabrication site – McDermott’s Batam Fabrication Yard – where major fabrication of INPEX Booster Compression Module is taking place. The program aims to support the mental wellbeing of all yard employees, taking into consideration that statistically construction workers tend to be more susceptible to mental stress. The program has been designed in a careful step-by-step approach:
Step-1: Awareness (Jun-July 2023)
Step-2: Mental Health Survey (Aug-Sep 2023)
Step-3: Analysis of survey results and development of training program (Oct-Nov 2023)
Step-4: Implementation of training programs (Q4 2023 till Q2 2024)
This program builds on the existing Employee Assistant Program (EAP) McDermott offers to all its employees via a competent local EAP provider, fluent in the local language, and that provides valuable support to the entire workforce.
Our paper will address an important element of employee wellbeing. It will provide an insight and analysis of the mental health journey within a respected world-class fabrication facility in the energy sector, covering some of the challenges faced by construction workers and the approaches taken to support them.

Ammonia (NH3) is one of the most widely produced chemicals for industrial and agricultural uses. NH3 has gained attention as a potential hydrogen and energy carrier and low carbon substitute fuel for rail and maritime transport. The potential of NH3 for new use cases may lead to an increased footprint of potential environmental impacts. The physical and chemical properties of NH3 offer significant benefits for transportation and storage, but challenges remain due to its highly toxic nature and uses outside of dedicated industrial precincts.
NH3 is typically liquified to increase density for ready storage and transportation. Unplanned releases of liquid NH3 will result in immediate environmental impacts. Unplanned releases may adversely affect receptor species in receiving aquatic and terrestrial environments, human health, as well as the reputation of the responsible organisation. Dispersion of NH3 into the environment depends on factors that include mixture density, temperature, humidity, wind and wave action, and release mode and direction. Understanding the fate of NH3 is fundamental to adoption of effective mitigation measures. Consequently, it is necessary to understand the behaviour of NH3 in the environment, how unplanned releases can be minimised, and how they can be combatted, in order to appraise its suitability as a low carbon liquid transport fuel.
This paper assesses the risks posed by NH3 spills, its fate in aquatic environments, and the applicability of available spill models. It also addresses management measures for the prevention and mitigation of spills noting the highly soluble and toxic nature of the chemical.

The number of safety related incidents in the oil and gas industry has steadily declined over the past 20 years. However, the frequency of well control incidents has not followed the same trend.
The Norwegian regulator (PSA) has recently documented this finding as related to the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Globally, IOGP report 637 and recent data from Wild Well Control also support this conclusion – in fact, Wild Well Control data shows that the frequency of well control incidents may be increasing.
The loss of experienced personnel due to reduced activity during the Covid-19 pandemic may have contributed to this. Now that activity is increasing again, the industry faces a challenge in recruiting skilled personnel.
Current well control courses predominantly cover the well construction process, with minor emphasis on the whole life cycle of the well. However, a significant number (in some areas close to half) of well control incidents occur after the well construction process is completed.
Based on analysis of the main contributory factors to well control incidents, IOGP has recently updated report 476 ‘recommendations for enhancements to well control training, examination and certification’.
This paper reviews the changes to report 476 and discusses how IWCF can contribute to reduce the well control incident rate with focus on the Well Control in Design and Lifecycle Management course.

Australia’s decommissioning portfolio is forecasted to increase substantially over the next 50 years amounting to USD 4.5 billion nationally, with 90% of decommissioning by 2060. High costs, the complexity of our infrastructure geography and ensuring circular economy and carbon efficient principles, will be challenges the industry will need to collaborate through.
But Australia has a skilled workforce, a strong sustainability commitment, a mindset of partnership and collaboration as well as a tradition for innovation, and these strategic advantages will enable setting up new industries early to be a regional player in decommissioning.
As the assets are decommissioned offshore, travel to the beach, transported to identified waste providers and go through final end-of-life cycle management including recycling and repurposing, strategic linkages of the value chain will be key for a successful decommissioning industry set up.
Understanding the O&G decommissioning industries needs, opportunities and challenges early will strategically enable Australia to pave the way for building decommissioning expertise, critical infrastructure and sustainable practices. This includes understanding where Ports should intersect with waste storage, processing, recycling and disposal capabilities, as we have an opportunity to think differently about turning waste into new resources. And most importantly, how do we ensure availability of a skilled workforce in an already resource-crunched market.
As we analyse the port to disposal value chain, it is important to overlay the carbon footprint, regulation, and socio-economic lenses on the journey to support the industry and to ensure long-term viability to minimise conflict with other competing industries or activities.