Chinese Energy Companies Showing Leadership in Sustainability

September 25th, 2008

While I was in Asia last week, I met with the CIO of PetroChina and China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) and learned of his desire to expand on our great success consolidating all applications in the Environmental Health and Safety arena into one platform for efficiency and centralized reporting. I was really impressed when he told me they have more than 70,000 users.

This has to be the largest EHS sustainability platform ever deployed. He also told me it was the first and “only” software within PetroChina and CNPC that has been deployed across the entire company. We want to enhance our value to their business users by providing tools like role-based Key Performance Indicators to help them improve performance within their specific business units.

I also met with the CIO of China Light and Power (CLP) in Hong Kong. This is meaningful because CLP is followed and benchmarked as best of breed throughout Asia for its best practices in using information technology to enhance business value. He gave me a tour of the company’s technology center, which was quite impressive, and we spent a good deal of time talking about translating technology investments like ESS software into real business value.

These CIOs are true thought leaders and our plan with them in the area of GHG emissions management and corporate responsibility reporting will set the standard not only in Asia but across the world. For those of us who think our companies are in the vanguard of sustainability, here’s a word of caution: Look out. You may just find yourself following leaders from Asia.

Tags: asia china light power clp cnpc ehs environmental health safety ess ghg emissions petrochina sustainability

Entry Filed under: Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility, EHS/HSE Technology, Oil & Gas Industry, Utility Industry