Life Cycle Assessment of Activities, Products and Services is a Priority for Achieving Sustainable Oil and Gas Company

Abstract

Oil and gas business is a strategic activity that has the potential impact to the environment. Life cycle assessment (LCA) should be carried out to save the environment. The LCA analysis therefore includes the entire life cycle of the product, process or activity. It also allows for the extraction and processing of raw materials, production, transport and distribution, use, maintenance, and end of life.
The discussion of the importance of conducting LCA of the activities, products and services of the organization as indicated in ISO standards on Environmental Management System ISO 14001: 2015 and Occupational Health & Safety Management System ISO 45001: 2018.
Stages of oil and gas activities from upstream to downstream will be conducted LCA in order to achieve intended outcome that enhanced environmental performance and fulfillment of compliance obligations in implementation of both ISO Standard above.
In order to achieve expected the outcome, the integration of ISO 14001: 2015 and ISO 45001: 2018 into Operational Excellence Management System (OEMS), by using ISO high level structures (context the organization, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation and improvement) is expected to be achieved reliability operation of oil and gas sustainably.
In the implementation of OEMS must be supported by facilities improvement, reliable management system based on risk assessment and human behavior based on human characteristic and culture.
The important factor in implementation of Operational Excellence Management System are corporate-wide commitment with a high level of management involvement and ownership, direction is "top-down" and detailed implementation, execution, and improvement is "bottom-up".
The Environmental, Occupational Safety and Health Policy should reflect the commitment of Top Management supported by all the workers involved. Manual, standard operation procedure and work permit forms are integrated between operational procedures and environmental, occupational safety and health procedures.
How operational excellence management system can work effectively, it can be done with five steps, namely: 1) Identify what we are doing (to determine scope & objective); 2) Identify who does what (Accountable resources); 3) Identify how it is done (Procedures, guides, checklist); 4) Determine how well we are doing it (Verification & Measurement); and 5) Improve with experience (Feedback Mechanism).
By applying operational excellence management system, is expected to be achieved towards environmentally sound oil and gas activities. LCA of activities, products and services is a priority for achieving sustainable oil and gas company.