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Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance Limited, its affiliates and subsidiaries and their respective officers, employees or agents are,
individually and collectively, referred to in this clause as "LRQA". LRQA assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable to any person
for any loss, damage or expense caused by reliance on the information or advice in this document or howsoever provided, unless that
person has signed a contract with the relevant LRQA entity for the provision of this information or advice and in that case any
responsibility or liability is exclusively on the terms and conditions set out in that contract.
Assessment outcome:
The purpose of this assessment was to assess the ongoing conformance of the management system to
ISO14001:2004, to assess progress made in respect of non-conformities outstanding from the previous
assessment visit and to plan for the forthcoming certificate renewal assessment.
All non-conformities from the previous assessment were closed and only one new minor non-conformity
was raised. Based on the evidence sampled, Tullow Ghana Ltd demonstrated that it has maintained an
environmental management system in conformance with ISO14001:2004.
Continual improvement:
Various examples of continual improvement and good practice were noted including:
• High standard of housekeeping in Takoradi shore base and on FPSO.
• Improved internal communication of environmental performance information within TGL.
• Survey of ozone-depleting/ greenhouse gas refrigerants completed and a phase out plan developed.
• Improved tracking of how waste is treated so that recycling/recovery/disposal rates can be measured.
• Changes to storage tank pressure and tank filling procedure to reduce vent vapour release.
• Installation of self-cleaning oil in water analysers at 3 stages in the produced water treatment
process.
• Extensive community engagement in relation to oil spill response.
Areas for senior management attention:
Ensure that sufficient EHS resources are provided in order so that key activities (e.g. legal compliance
checks, internal audits and EMS document reviews) are conducted in accordance with planned
timescales.
In view of the organisation’s environmental policy commitment to preventing pollution, consider how air
emissions from flaring and venting could be further reduced.
All elements of the visit programme were completed and there were no adverse findings unless otherwise
detailed below.
The main purpose of this assessment was to assess the ongoing conformance of the management system
to ISO14001:2004, to assess progress made in respect of non-conformities outstanding from the previous
assessment visit and to plan for the forthcoming certificate renewal assessment.
Opening and closing meetings were held in accordance with LRQA procedures at the Accra office with the
following attendees:
Audit opening
meeting - Attendanc
Audit closing
meeting attendance
The current EHS policy was signed by the TGL General Manager and conforms to ISO14001
requirements.
The annual management review for 2013 was attended by top management and covered all required
elements. The annual review for 2014 will be conducted soon.
A new environmental aspects evaluation process and record had been established which rectifies the non-
conformance identified during the previous LRQA assessment.
SMART environmental objectives had been set for 2014 with clearly defined actions and responsibilities.
There was an improved focus improvements relating to significant environmental aspects although some
objectives related to compliance and did not therefore contribute to continual improvement. Objectives for
2015 have not yet been established for 2015 but this is reasonable as the new EHS Manager only started
work this week.
It was evident that compliance with key legal requirements is being checked periodically (e.g. Jubilee
operating permit compliance was checked during a recent EHS audit.) However compliance with other
legal requirements identified in the environmental legal register had not been checked recently.
Areas for attention:
Minor NC 1501BLR01 (legal compliance evaluation) – new
Requires correction:
The environmental legal register should be updated to include document control information such as a
record of the revision date.
Three ISO14001 assessments have been conducted in the last 2 years. Only six minor non-conformities
were raised during these assessments and there is no evidence that similar findings have recurred.
Preview
The scope of the EMS is not likely to be expanded to include the TEN field until production operations are
well established so the certificate renewal assessment will cover activities relating to the Jubilee field only.
Current EMS documentation will be reviewed and simplified during 2015. The current operating permit for
the FPSO is due to expire in May 2015 and a renewal application will require several key documents to be
reviewed and updated (including the environmental management plan, environmental monitoring plan,
waste management plan and oil spill response plan.)
Five additional wells are being planned for the Jubilee phase 1A addendum development and the EIA has
already been completed.
Various changes are being planned regarding the management of production operations including a new
OMS, revised MOC process, significant changes to the planned maintenance schedules and maintenance
deferral process.
Plan
A certificate renewal assessment plan has been developed based on the above review and preview. Refer
to section 7 of this report for details.
Areas for attention:
N/a
The contract with the existing waste contractor (Zeal) has been extended until end of this year and a
specialist provider had conducted a gap analysis on this contractor and a new contractor (Zoil) in order to
assist both contractors to improve. It was evident that the last annual audit of Zeal had been thorough and
Zeal had provided honest feedback and progress with corrective actions. These annual audits are
supplemented by frequent inspections of Zeal facilities by the Tullow EHS team in Takoradi.
Areas for attention:
Minor NC 1310MMA02 (contractor monitoring) - closed
Assessment of: Internal audits, incident Auditee(s): Emmanuel Arthur, Stephen Sesi
investigation and corrective
action
Audit trails and sources of evidence:
• Internal audits: Internal audit schedule 2014, Zeal EHS audit report 22-23/4/14 and associated
corrective action register, environmental management system status review report by Cares
(26/11/14), Cirrus EHS audit report 7/5/14, FPSO EHS compliance audit 30/9-2/10/14, Accra office
EHS audit 27-28/10/14, Takoradi action tracker, EHS inspection report Takoradi port chemical storage
facility 17/10/14
• Incidents: environmental incident initial notification and incident investigation report for incident 3026
(West Leo loss of containment 8/8/14)
Evaluation and conclusions:
EHS audit records sampled showed that the audits had been thorough and had identified some significant
non-conformities relating to environmental management of operational activities by contractors. It was
evident that corrective actions identified had been tracked using a combination of action trackers (e.g.
Takoradi action tracker) and individual corrective action plans for each audit. Actions from the last LRQA
audit had been tracked using ATMS.
Records showed that the environmental incident on the West Leo in August 2014 had been notified to the
regulator. The investigation had identified root causes and corrective action had been initiated.
Areas for attention:
Opportunities for improvement:
• Consider using ATMS to record and track corrective actions from internal audits.
• It would be good practice if the internal audit programme included periodic (not necessarily annual)
audits of key functional teams whose activities can have significant indirect/direct environmental
impacts (e.g. contracts and procurement, HR, well engineering.)
1. Grading of the finding * 2. New, Open, Closed 3. Description of the LRQA finding 4. Review by LRQA 5. Process, aspect, department or theme
6. Date of the finding 7. YYMM<Initials>seq.# 8. Clause of the applicable standard
* Major NC = Major nonconformity Minor NC = Minor nonconformity
1. Grading of the finding * 2. New, Open, Closed 3. Description of the LRQA finding 4. Review by LRQA 5. Process, aspect, department or theme
6. Date of the finding 7. YYMM<Initials>seq.# 8. Clause of the applicable standard
* Major NC = Major nonconformity Minor NC = Minor nonconformity
Requirement:
The standard requires that the “organisation shall establish,
implement and maintain a procedure(s) for periodically
evaluating compliance with applicable legal requirements. The
organisation shall keep records of the results of the periodic
evaluations.”
Root cause(s):
It appears that EHS resource constraints have contributed to
this finding.
1. Grading of the finding * 2. New, Open, Closed 3. Description of the LRQA finding 4. Review by LRQA 5. Process, aspect, department or theme
6. Date of the finding 7. YYMM<Initials>seq.# 8. Clause of the applicable standard
* Major NC = Major nonconformity Minor NC = Minor nonconformity
Scope
Exclusion
Theme(s) for
N/a
Next Visit
5
Audit days (+ 2 Due date Oct 2015 Visit start / end dates 28/9/15-2/10/15
travel)
Standard(s) /
ISO 14001:2004
Scheme(s)
Visit start time (approximate) 09.00 Visit end time 17.00 The exact start and finish times for the visit
(approximate) will be agreed at the pre-visit contact with the
assessor and recorded in the report
introduction.
Objective of the next visit ( including where applicable the theme selected)
Re-assess whether all elements of the organisation’s management system continue to conform to all requirements of
the standard.
Scope Activities including and associated with the production of oil and gas from the Jubilee field
Exclusion N/a
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