Our priorities are providing affordable, reliable energy while protecting the environment and being part of the solution to tackling climate change.

We will help meet increasing global energy demands in affordable, reliable ways while also reducing emissions. Natural gas is critical to tackling climate change as developing countries move away from coal and expand access to electricity for hundreds of millions of people, and as all countries deploy intermittent, renewable energy resources. In the U.S., increased use of clean, abundant natural gas has been the primary factor in reducing CO2 emissions from the power sector to the lowest levels in a generation.

We identify and manage potential risks and opportunities related to climate change as part of our ongoing enterprise risk management and business planning processes, which are overseen by senior management and our board of directors. The full board receives regular updates on climate change-related issues, including risk management and greenhouse gas emissions management and performance.

In our annual Sustainability Report, we include a section on the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Analysis. It describes how we have expanded our disclosures and aligned them to TCFD’s recommendations. This section also provides information on climate change-related governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets.

In 2020, we linked environment, social and governance (ESG) performance to compensation for our employees. This builds on our previous moves to tie EHS performance-related items to compensation incentives for senior managers and executives.

We are also collaborating with industry, government and nongovernmental partners to encourage others in our industry to reduce emissions and to develop more effective technologies to do so. We are a charter member of the ONE Future Coalition, a group of companies that met its goal of reducing methane losses to less than 1% of total methane production across the natural gas value chain. We have also joined the American Petroleum Institute’s Environmental Partnership, a group of U.S. oil and gas companies working together to address environmental challenges and further improve environmental performance in our industry. In 2023, we joined the U.N. Environment Programme’s Oil & Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0), the only comprehensive, measurement-based international methane reporting framework for the oil and gas sector.